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On Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Season 1 Episode 53
A veteran journalist, essayist, and award-winning education writer, Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age …
4 years, 2 months ago
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 163
This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and dereg…
4 years, 2 months ago
Mental Health in Academia 5: Harnessing the Power of Good Anxiety
Episode 165
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
4 years, 3 months ago
Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1170
During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. B…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tia Brown McNair, "From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2020)
Episode 96
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear:
Why it is so important to have the conversation about “Equity in Higher Education” and why…4 years, 3 months ago
Dana Mitra, "The Empowered Professor: Breaking the Unspoken Codes of Inequity in Academia" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
Episode 161
How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In The Empowered Professor: Breaking the Unspoken Codes of…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)
Episode 162
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effec…
4 years, 3 months ago
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 44
We speak with Richard Detweiler about his new book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment (MIT Press, 2021…
4 years, 3 months ago
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 112
What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with s…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 8
Today I talked to Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant about her book To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of D…
4 years, 3 months ago