Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEthan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 175
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, …
3 years, 10 months ago
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
Episode 174
Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging an…
3 years, 10 months ago
Classroom as a Sacred Space and Presence as Radical Respect
Episode 18
In this episode we speak to EWP PhD graduate and EWP and ITP adjunct faculty Holly Adler from her classroom in Oakland, CA. As a teacher of underpriv…
3 years, 10 months ago
Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan, "Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 76
Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Humility and the Academic Administrator
Episode 9
This episode of How To Be Wrong explores questions of leadership and humility with Dr. Bill Tsutsui, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa Un…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
Episode 10
Welcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t …
3 years, 11 months ago
Anthony 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago