Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Jonna Perrillo, "Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 1238
Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands (U Chicago Press, 2022) begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists …
3 years, 11 months ago
Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson, "Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices" (U West Indies Press, 2021)
Episode 71
Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) offers a unique…
3 years, 11 months ago
Penny Jane Burke et al., "Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 302
Why does gender matter in our troubled global times? In Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies (Bloomsbury, 2…
3 years, 11 months ago
Mergers in Higher Education
Episode 51
This episode is the latest in the series of cases we’ve profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President …
3 years, 11 months ago