Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this episode, Claire Burke and Claire Schnatterbeck investigate what makes a rural student. How do Columbia and Barnard define “rural”? Does the quintessential “rural student” actually exist? Schnatterbeck and Burke use their own rural backgrounds as a starting point and begin to explore what it means to be a rural student at an elite institution.

Credits:

• Script Edited by Sophia Cordoba and Caelan Bailey

• Produced by Claire Schatterbeck

• Music by Eva Scholz-Carlson

• Illustration by Julian Michaud 

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