#34: Celebrating the Value of Liberal Arts Education: Ethics and Working in a Diverse World
Release Date: 01/05/2015
Wabash On My Mind
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info_outlineThe second panel in the Celebrating the Value of Liberal Arts Education series addresses the question: How did the liberal arts develop each panelist's deeper sense of ethics and the capacity to work effectively in a diverse world?
Panel Chair: Bob Grand '78, Managing Partner of Barnes Thornburg LLP
Panelists: Leon Botstein, President of Bard College; Bobby Schnadel, Dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University; David N. Shane '70, retired CEO of LDI, Ltd., LLC. (Episode 34)