Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter L. Stiepleman, "An Imperfect Leader: Human-Centered Leadership in (after) Action" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 202
An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) tells the story of a superintendent from his first days to the pandemi…
2 years, 11 months ago
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Episode 121
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and pla…
3 years ago
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 201
Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel publi…
3 years ago
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023).
Few people question the importance of sci…
3 years ago
Myka Kennedy Stephens, "Integrated Library Planning: A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment" (ACRL, 2023)
Episode 8
Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do th…
3 years ago
Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari, "Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
Episode 296
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Open Book Publishers, 2023) consists of narratives of migrant academics from the…
3 years ago
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 124
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. Open access (OA) could one day put t…
3 years ago
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 152
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, …
3 years ago
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 200
Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocrati…
3 years ago
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 199
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipelin…
3 years ago