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Back to SearchLeading from the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places
Episode 212
Today’s book is: Leading From the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), by Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, which is a gu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 451
What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige (Policy Press, 2023), Dr …
2 years ago
Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 73
The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power an…
2 years ago
Brooke Larson, "The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 214
Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous E…
2 years ago
Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 72
When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people af…
2 years ago
Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak, "Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 51
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despi…
2 years ago
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 41
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, …
2 years ago
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 150
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health o…
2 years, 1 month ago
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education
Episode 207
Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay col…
2 years, 1 month ago
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Episode 67
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner…
2 years, 1 month ago