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Podcast: Human Restoration Project
Episode: 55: Experimental Higher Education w/ Goddard College (Bernard Bull and Kumari Patricia Younce)
Description: In this podcast, we're speaking with Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont with additional campuses in Port Townsend and Seattle, Washington. Goddard is a heavily progressive school with a variety of unique programs - from inventing “low residency” (students attend campus for around 2 weeks, then complete self-directed, purposeful projects) to never giving grades. It enrolls 700 students, 30% of whom are undergraduates. Founded in the spirit of experiential and democratic education, Goddard emphasizes self-directed higher education programs where learners submit their work via learning portfolios.We talk about the struggles, successes, and experiments of progressive universities, incl...