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Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Episode 34
What is academic freedom for? What are the greatest threats to academic freedom today? Should Critical Race Theory be taught on college campuses? Wha…
3 years, 1 month ago
Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
Episode 129
Why read the Classics, and how to do it best? Louis Petrich teaches at St. John’s College, the third-oldest college and “the nation's most contrarian…
3 years, 1 month ago
James Hibbard, "The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 195
Interweaving a deeply personal narrative of elite-level cycling and mental health struggles with an evocative history of Western philosophy from Plat…
3 years, 2 months ago
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show beca…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions
Episode 156
What happens when jobs in academia are scarce, and few of the descriptions of jobs outside academia seem like a fit? How can graduates find the right…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Episode 63
Mentorship continues to loom large in stories about women's work and personal lives-- sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. If mentors c…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rachael Gabriel, "How Education Policy Shapes Literacy Instruction" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 193
Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress. This book,…
3 years, 2 months ago
Transforming the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)
Episode 62
We have an engaging discussion with Dr. Dan Greenstein, who in 2018 left the Gates Foundation, where he led the Post-Secondary program, to become the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 194
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal…
3 years, 2 months ago
Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)
Episode 84
African-Americans and women are increasingly visible in professional mathematical institutions, organizations, and literature, expanding our mental m…
3 years, 2 months ago