Dr Jonathan J Sanford, president of the University of Dallas, joins Mary Margaret Olohan to discuss why he believes artificial intelligence can never replace a genuine liberal arts education, how the University of Dallas has produced 12 bishops and the US ambassador to the Holy See through its core curriculum and why he says the Catholic universities that broke from the Church in the 1960s Land O'Lakes movement traded away their excellence.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 What Catholic higher education should look like
2:29 AI, the liberal arts and the case against outsourced thinking
10:32 Gen Z, Covid and screens: are students already lost?
12:25 Building the premier Catholic university
14:31 Land O'Lakes and the excellence versus fidelity myth
17:49 Dobbs, marriages and what sets Dallas apart
24:58 No grade inflation, secular students and conversion stories
30:34 Culture wars, Christian anthropology and holding the line
37:31 Campus religious life, advice for parents and the next ten years

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In Conversation With | Episode #8

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
Guest: Dr Jonathan J Sanford
Film Crew: Cavern Collective
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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