There is so much of what he says that relates to the attitudes that we have towards life today and of our impressions of what life was like back in the 1950s and 1960s.
I recorded this informal interview in 1989. I was speaking with baby boomers about their early life experiences for a television series that I was making on the 1960s. I asked them to reflect back and remember what those times were like for each of them personally. I was producing my series with the focus of making sense of the 1960s for the children whose parents grew up at that time, folks who were then maybe 20 years old.
The speaker is Arthur Levine. He paints a clear picture of what it was like growing up in a working class family in the 1950s. He felt it was an easier time. He describes the idealism, the longhair, the rebellious feeling, the American dream, Robert Kennedy, and more about what he felt and other young people felt as baby boomers growing up at that time.
But what is special about this interview is how he describes his first week at college as a freshman (at 2:09) - wild and crazy and drug filled with rock 'n' roll and other strange behavior, at least to him.
Dr. Arthur Levine went on to become a scholar with New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, a senior fellow and president emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus of Columbia University’s Teachers College.
I asked each interviewee to describe their first experiences at college because my target audience for the series were of college age. Arthur Levine described it wonderfully. The picture he paints of being a freshman in college at that time sounds wild and crazy and it was surprising to me how many young college students had similar experiences.
Dr. Levine authored 12 books and dozens of articles and reviews on education, including a series of reports for the Education Schools Project on the preparation of school leaders, teachers and education researchers. He has received numerous honors, including Carnegie, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Fellowships as well as the American Council on Education’s Book of the Year Award. He holds 25 honorary degrees and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the author of an extraordinary book about changes in America's education system -
The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future.
As the president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Levine transformed it into a national leader in educator preparation and school improvement. Staying true to the Foundation’s mission of identifying and developing leaders and institutions to meet the nation’s critical challenges, Levine created a portfolio of new and innovative programs designed to improve educational opportunities, particularly for high-need communities.
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