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What's College Without A Campus? Plus Ziwe Makes Things Awkward

What's College Without A Campus? Plus Ziwe Makes Things Awkward

It's Been a Minute vor 6 Jahren

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Colleges and universities are getting ready for a new year, but
like everything else, coronavirus is complicating everything. Some
are closing campus and moving online, others plan to bring students
back with social distancing. Sam checks in with Tressie McMillan
Cottom, associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of Lower
Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,
about the state of higher education and why not all colleges are
created equal when it comes to prioritizing health over business.
Then he chats with comedian and Desus and Mero writer Ziwe Fumudoh,
whose recent interviews with white celebrities like Alison Roman
and Rose McGowan have generated a lot of social media buzz for her
frank questions about race. They talk about the art of the
interview and her comfort with discomfort.

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