Mike talks with historical anthropologist Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of UC Berkeley from 2013-2017, about his book City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University.
Topics Include:
- the public’s decline of faith in higher education
- if higher ed is focused on the right kind of diversity
- free speech as privileging dominant views
- what elite institutions are doing with their massive endowments
- rising education costs and administrative bloat at universities
- if public universities should take positions on political issues
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