Episode
David Rohrbacher: Inside New College's Curriculum Turnaround
- Podcast
- Higher Ed Now
- Published
- May 11, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2221
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://higher-ed-now.libsyn.com/david-rohrbacher-inside-new-colleges-curriculum-turnaround
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/higher-ed-now-175096/episodes/david-rohrbacher-inside-new-college-s-curriculum-turnaround/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/higher-ed-now-175096/david-rohrbacher-inside-new-college-s-curriculum-turnaround.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
ACTA's Veronica Bryant welcomes David Rohrbacher, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Classics at the New College of Florida. NCF made headlines after they skyrocketed from an "F" grade to a "B+" rating in ACTA's What Will They Learn? Project (WWTL), becoming this year's "most improved school." WWTL assigns letter grades based on the rigor of the core curriculum at over 1,100 American colleges and universities. This improvement was thanks to a total overhaul of their general education program in 2024. Professor Rohrbacher discusses how that change came about and the innovative academic reforms that engage NCF students in substantive, serious coursework.