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Diversity in Media Education with Lee Pelton

Our guest Lee Pelton discusses the importance of media and entertainment students experiencing a diverse and inclusive educational environment.

The following interview is an excerpt from our video series, Production – In Conversation. To watch the full interview and see more video content, click here. Or you can listen to the Shift In Conversation podcast here.

Lee Pelton – President – Emerson College
Grace Amodeo – Marketing Manager – Shift Media

Grace:
Tell us about yourself, and about what makes Emerson College unique.

Lee:
I’ve been at Emerson as its President for nine years. The first thing is that we’re distinctive, so we’re not a traditional conservatory, nor are we

a traditional liberal arts school. We’ve taken elements of both and created something new. As opposed to a liberal arts college where you wait a couple of years before you enter your major, students apply to a major department when they come here. So we have these students who know what they want to do. They’re passionate about what they want to do and they’re really very good at it, even before they arrive. The work that we do here is very collaborative, and we are a creative force.

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