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TEDxPioneerValley - Lynn Pasquerella - Liberal Learning, Academic Access and Social Justice

1,400 views · Published 13 March 2012 · 12:56 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Education

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Headlines depict a higher education model that cannot be sustained. In today's context of rising tuition costs, increased loan burdens, and the much-critiqued gap between the academic experience and reality, what is the path to the future for institutions of higher learning? Drawing on her own experience as a community college transfer student and now president of an elite private institution, Lynn Pasquerella makes the case that the liberal arts must be integrated with an institutional and societal commitment to academic access. When liberal learning and access successfully combine, transformation is possible and higher education's purpose of education for democracy is fulfilled.

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