Pullias Centre for Higher Education USC

Prof. William Tierney University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast he discusses the role that higher education plays in democracy, telling us how they are inextricably linked. Listen to hear him unpack the ways that universities can play a vital role in advancing democracy, and his worries that individuals are too often on the side lines of this, consumed by their internal concerns. He discusses the way universities get funding, the way narratives are controlled, and all things freedom of speech. He draws on his newest book, Higher Education for Democracy, which includes research from India, Hong Kong and the United States.