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Karen Shepard
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Oct 6, 2026
Flusterclux Quarterlife: Getting Creative with Professor Karen Shepard
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4:26Karen ShepardGUEST
So one thing I should say is that if we're using William students as the group that we're talking about, we're already talking about a very select group of people.
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4:37Karen ShepardGUEST
So these are privileged kids who have had a lot of advantages, not all of them, obviously, but they've And they've known well enough.
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4:51Karen ShepardGUEST
So but one of the things I tell them a lot is that as Williams students, as people who are at an elite college, professors and students.
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5:02Karen ShepardGUEST
One of the things we'll always believe about ourselves is that we've gotten we've grasped things well enough.
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8:10BracketHOST
Do you have any sense of, you saw that first shift and you said it was coupled with the anxiety going up and the culture wars heating up, but why did that hit kids going to college in the way it did? What does that cocktail do in a classroom setting that you saw with, are they looking around thinking, like, can you tell that they're nervous to speak or can you tell that they've come in with a more sort of black and white approach?