William Bennett, Franklin Ford, Ernestine Friedl, and Samuel Williamson address questions concerning undergraduate education in the United States in the 1980s. What are the aims of education at that level and the quality of that education? What are students’ expectations regarding undergraduate education? Where do students expect their education to lead them?
At the time of this conversation, Bennett was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ford, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1983-84), was professor of history at Harvard University where he was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1962 to 1970. Friedl was dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University. Williamson, a Fellow at the Center (1982-83), was dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
