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Back to SearchAnthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 173
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 172
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting hi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Koch Block My Campus: How Big Money Corrupts Academia
Episode 8
Why is so much right-wing money being funnelled at such a furious pace into universities across the US? Libertarian-minded billionaires like the Koch…
3 years, 9 months ago
John Waterbury, "Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
Episode 171
John Waterbury's book Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (American U in Cairo Press, 2020) is a rigorous examin…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
Episode 7
Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to …
3 years, 9 months ago
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
Episode 73
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing probl…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 143
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life …
3 years, 9 months ago
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 52
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth int…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Cornell Sweatshirt Tweet
Episode 114
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Dr. Ruby Tapia’s viral Cornell sweatshirt tweet. How witnessing domestic violence, a…3 years, 9 months ago
Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Episode 170
Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (U Illinois Press, 2021) traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the fact…
3 years, 9 months ago