Journalism, Teaching & Ojai with Nomi Morris

Ojai: Talk of the Town · May 31, 2020 · 1h 3m

This episode, Nomi Morris, who teaches writing and journalism at University of California at Santa Barbara, talks about her experiences closing out the semester at UCSB, the challenges of teaching in a pandemic and how this cohort of 2020 students is being shortchanged of the personal interactions that are critical to a well-rounded education. To that point, she says the young people of today don't think about the future in the same optimistic terms as in the past. No one talks about making something for the 22nd century the way people once talked about the 21st century, "and that says…