Education
Join L+D's Carla Silver and guest Steve Solnick, Head of the Calhoun School in NYC, as we talk about the college admissions process and the college experience in 2020. Students this month are getting ready to hear from colleges and universities in the first round of college admissions. We talk about our national obsession (or is there one?) in a small, elite list of colleges and universities. Are we are really going to let a defunct magazine (US News and World Report) tell us which colleges are valuable? Maybe we don't. Steve brings a whole new perspective to the college madness.Steve Solnick is a season educational leader. He currently serves as Head of School at The Calhoun School, one of New York City’s oldest progressive schools. Calhoun is dedicated to fostering a love of learning and strong sense of community in students from nursery through high school through a curriculum that is experiential, project-based, and values-driven. From 2012 to 2017, Steve served as president of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., the only national liberal arts college that fully integrates work and service into its educational program. Before that, Steve spent a decade as the Ford Foundation Representative in Moscow and then New Delhi where he provided leadership to the Foundation’s work in the areas of human rights, higher education, arts and culture, sustainable agriculture and sexual and reproductive health. Before joining the Ford Foundation, he was associate professor of political science at Columbia University and served as coordinator for Russian Studies at the Harriman Institute. He is the author of Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He has been a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2001, has served as President of the Board of Governors of the American Embassy School of New Delhi, and has been a Trustee of Barnard College since 2014. Steve graduated from MIT as a Physics major, and then received a B.A. in Politics and Economics from Worcester College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.Support the show (https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001qgI9GeY_mqToEV7UgRCwMymNBYIpS6RTjG1bVZu6TbUnlLbp1lELhuI6gvjg-by6_5hpextPmSu4XcNmhRjAf82q6VB-9Ap9P4ImLXQDHML6j3yAzNine7Jo3AgOmu1G56v0xycE7vXu2fCY_V4wBKLkoMaol7LtcFHjF6iKPr9s48OanvbFjE0YzKADCOjN)