Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 5 months ago
Your PhD Survival Guide: Succeeding in Your Final Year
Episode 84
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hidden curriculum of the final year of the PhD program Writing your dissertation…4 years, 5 months ago
Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?
Episode 46
Hear Dr. Rosina Lippi-Green talk about some of her shocking findings on language discrimination and bias on campus. Lippi-Green and Avi discuss her b…
4 years, 5 months ago
Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 154
If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as…
4 years, 5 months ago
Pandemic, Disruption and Adjustment in Higher Education
Episode 59
The pandemic has rapidly changed the world, making it one rife with online activity and information abundance. Education systems must be modified to …
4 years, 5 months ago