"Whither the Looniversity?" is a series of videos and podcasts that constitute an ongoing discussion about the woke culture of the modern university and other challenges facing higher education. Hosted by Adam Ellwanger, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Houston - Downtown, the show features professors, administrators, and students who have unique ideas about how to restore intellectual culture -- whether inside institutional settings or out of them. Each episode focuses on the same 3 questions, asked of every guest (in addition to other questions): 1) How did the decline of the American university occur? 2) Can the American university be rehabilitated? 3) If it can be rehabilitated, how? If it cannot be rehabilitated, then what is to be done?
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Podcast Overview
"Whither the Looniversity?" is a series of videos and podcasts that constitute an ongoing discussion about the woke culture of the modern university and other challenges facing higher education. Hosted by Adam Ellwanger, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Houston - Downtown, the show features professors, administrators, and students who have unique ideas about how to restore intellectual culture -- whether inside institutional settings or out of them. Each episode focuses on the same 3 questions, asked of every guest (in addition to other questions): 1) How did the decline of the American university occur? 2) Can the American university be rehabilitated? 3) If it can be rehabilitated, how? If it cannot be rehabilitated, then what is to be done?
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