Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargie Meacham, "AI in Talent Development: Capitalize on the AI Revolution to Transform the Way You Work, Learn, and Live" (ASTD, 2020)
Episode 167
In AI in Talent Development: Capitalize on the AI Revolution to Transform the Way You Work, Learn, and Live (ASTD, 2020), Margie Meacham describes th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Skills for Scholars: How Can Mindfulness Help?
Episode 91
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The science that explains our busy minds What mindfulness is The difference between …3 years, 11 months ago
Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 167
Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepp…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ilana M. Horwitz, "God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 166
In God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success (Oxford University Press, 2022), Ilana M. Horwitz offers a revealing…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Path to a New Learning Paradigm: A Conversation with Sophie Adelman
Episode 93
Sophie Adelman is the co-founder of Multiverse and The Garden, two companies that are innovating the way people learn and enhance their personal skil…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 147
Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is an excavation of a …
3 years, 11 months ago
Shoko Yamada, "Dignity of Labour for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School" (Langaa RPCIG, 2018)
Episode 133
The Prince of Wales College, Achimota School, opened in 1927 north of Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana). Achimota was to be a ‘model’ school—but a mode…
3 years, 11 months ago
Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 298
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses …
3 years, 11 months ago
Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1204
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Amer…
3 years, 11 months ago
Roslyn Petelin, "How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 62
Listen to this interview of Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. We talk about her book How Writi…
3 years, 11 months ago