Mitch Daniels Talks Higher Ed

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Purdue University President and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels joins Sarah and Steve to talk about the state of higher education in America, wokeness on college campuses, and the national debt. Daniels explains Purdue’s new civics literacy test for all new students at the university, discusses his 2021 commencement speech and bringing back America’s “spirit of adventure,” and chats about riding into the ceremony on a motorized couch. Show Notes: -Purdue civics literacy test -Mitch Daniels’ 2021 commencement speech -FIRE study on college free speech -Mitch Daniels rides Couch to Commencement -Daniels op-ed regarding the national debt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast.
0:02.4	I'm Sarah Izger joined by Steve Hayes.
0:04.7	And this week we are talking to Mitch Damials.
0:08.3	He is the president of Purdue University,
0:11.3	the former governor of Indiana,
0:13.3	the former director of the Office of Management
0:15.4	and Budget under George W. Bush.
0:17.0	And he even worked in the Reagan administration,
0:19.6	the White House director of political
0:20.8	and intergovernmental affairs.
0:23.0	We have a lot to talk about,
0:24.7	but I think most importantly,
0:26.9	what's going on in higher ed days?
0:28.9	Let's dive in. Steve, first to disclosure.
0:47.1	Yeah, I have to start this podcast with the disclosure
0:50.6	because I owe a lifelong debt to Mitch Damials.
0:55.9	You may not remember this, but I certainly do.
0:59.6	The man who would go on to be the feared budget-cutting deficit
1:05.2	hawk in George W. Bush's Office of Management and Budget
1:10.0	is responsible for giving me or at least pushing others
1:14.1	to give me my first substantial raise in my professional life.
1:20.3	I was running something called the Institute
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