What the Closure of California College of the Arts and Vanderbilt Expansion Mean for the Bay Area
We dig into the deal and talk about what the demise of the 120 year-old CCA and expansion of a new university means for the Bay Area, arts in our region, and higher education overall.
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Show Notes
California College of the Arts’ announcement last week that it would close by the end of the next academic year stunned many in the Bay Area arts community. Nashville-based Vanderbilt University plans to open a satellite location in CCA’s San Francisco campus and also bought a shuttered site in Oakland. We dig into the deal and talk about what the demise of the 120 year-old CCA and expansion of a new university means for the Bay Area, arts in our region, and higher education overall.
Guests:
Laura Waxmann, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
Sarah Hotchkiss, senior associate editor, KQED Arts and Culture
Jeff Selingo, author, "Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions," "There is Life After College" and "College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students"
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