Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Felten and Leo M. Lambert, "Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 64
During Leo Lambert’s 19-year tenure as president at Elon University, the institution moved from a regional college to becoming one of the U.S.’s top …
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Bryan Alexander, "Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 151
In Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during a…
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Karin Chenoweth, "Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 196
In Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement (Harvard Education Press, 2021), long-time education write…
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The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
Episode 41
How are hiring and admissions decisions made in the hard sciences if not by merit? What are the risks of allowing science to be politicized? Professo…
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The Capitulation of MIT: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot
Season 1 Episode 39
Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invi…
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Do You Have Imposter Syndrome?
Episode 146
Why do so many students and academics worry that they are imposters? Is it normal to experience this kind of self-doubt? This episode explores:
The d…3 years, 1 month ago
Parenting and Mindfulness
Episode 45
Today I sat down with Nadia Davis to discuss parenting and mindfulness. Nadia is the author of Home Is Within You: A Memoir of Recovery and Redemptio…
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Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga
Season 1 Episode 28
Why is education so important in a democracy? Are democracies capable of producing the citizens they need? What do John Locke and Alexis de Tocquevil…
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Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
Episode 131
State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: …
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Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 187
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in…
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