The Master's College from NYU Arts & Science on Vimeo
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Now not enough people know that the master's
degree is the most rapidly growing degree
in higher education.
We have something called Master's College
in which our wonderful students engage in
the wide range of human thought.
I created the Master's College because we
care about masters students.
And this was a way within the graduate school
to show how important masters students are
and to give them an enhanced sense of community
and intellectual adventure.
Each person in this room recognizes the other
as human.
How would selecting genetic traits affect
that recognition?
There are so many events and activities organized
by the Master's College program board.
This is a Master's College toast.
Throughout the year the master's program board
puts on different events and they invite students
from across disciplines to attend and it seems
like there's different currents of ideas that
kind of float around and that students can
get together and discuss and when they have
different perspectives on things it can really
enrich your own perspective.
You are a student.
You're putting your mind into action.
You're not just a number here.
You're a significant student that is part
of a wave of masters education, one of the
great reforming waves in higher education.
We need more different perspectives, different
experiences and we want talent wherever we
might find it.
Diversity creates a multiplicity of ideas,
but then how do you bring together diverse
populations?
One way is a common idea of identity as a
student.
We want to meet each other and work together
and to let masters students know every day
how important the master's degree is and how
important their ideas are and how original.
And they want to take their NYU arts and science
master's degree and go out and shape the world.