Goddard College

Getting started.

You might remember a previous episode where I talked about the time David Mamet came to talk about playwriting when I was at Goddard College, which was his alma mater.

I remember one student at the talk asked the question of how to get started.

He said that he had an idea for a play, but then he didn't know what the characters would say to each other.

but it was, you know, very straight world and, and, um, didn't have much room for things like downtown New York, downtown music scene was not included in that, you know, of course.

Uh, I started looking for alternate modes of education and a neighbor of mine went to Goddard college, uh, in like 2000, 2001, something like that as like an open program where you can like, you know, pick your own, um, classes kind of like make up your own it's almost it's almost more of like a phd but for like a bachelor's program so i started getting interested in this thing went and visited goddard college realized it wasn't really like the music the music department didn't really have like the resources that i was looking for i uh came back feeling a little bit okay maybe i'm not gonna do that and then somebody was like well another friend of ours is going to bennington college You should check that out.

And Milford Graves is there.

He's a drummer and he's got records on the Zodiac label.

In fact, this decrease in college enrollment is already causing a ton of schools to close down.

Goddard College had more than 1,900 students in the 1970s, but enrollment had fallen to approximately 220 when it announced that it was me closing down for good.

Penn State has also approved the closure of seven of its 19 branch campuses, which collectively enroll over 3,000 students.

And out of those seven schools, they only have about 3,000 students, guys.