Higher Education and Social Change

As the Navigating the Global South Conference gets underway at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Friday Center, host Frank Stasio speaks with some of the more creative participants about the role the state’s institutions of higher learning can play in effecting social change. Guests include William Ferris, professor of history and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South; John Burness, senior vice president for Public Affairs and Government Relations at Duke University; Jesse White, director of the Office of Economic and Business Development at UNC-Chapel Hill and former co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission; and Dr. Kathy Drumm, executive vice president Central Piedmont Community College. Listener Call-In. (59:00)

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