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Back to SearchA Conversation with the Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative
Episode 86
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The Emerson College Prison Initiative The Bard Prison Initiative How students apply …4 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca S. Natow, "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
Episode 129
Rebecca S. Natow's book Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector (Teachers College Pre…
4 years, 2 months ago
A Guide to Administering Distance Learning
Episode 60
The Pandemic led to a massive shift in the course of education as the world was forced to switch to distance learning. And with a new model comes new…
4 years, 2 months ago
John Katzman: Founder and CEO of Noodle
Episode 43
John Katzman is one of the U.S.’s most innovative thinkers and successful educational entrepreneurs. He founded Princeton Review right after graduati…
4 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 156
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers fo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Pascal P. Matzler, "Mentoring and Co-Writing for Research Publication Purposes: Interaction and Text Development in Doctoral Supervision" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 48
Listen to this interview of Pascal Patrick Matzler, Associate Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. We talk about his boo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Robin G. Isserles, "The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 155
America’s community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time…
4 years, 2 months ago
Brian Cafarella, "Breaking Barriers: Student Success in Community College Mathematics" (A K Peters, 2021)
Episode 71
Students' success in mathematics at community colleges has been the subject of thorough quantitative research, which has reported poor overall result…
4 years, 3 months ago
Wim Van Petegem et al., "Evolving as a Digital Scholar: Teaching and Researching in a Digital World" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Episode 210
What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tom…
4 years, 3 months ago
R. David Lankes, "The New Librarianship Field Guide" (MIT Press, 2016)
Episode 67
Can libraries be radical positive change agents in their communities?
R. David Lenkes offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chan…
4 years, 3 months ago