Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael Horowitz: Founder and President of TCS Education System
Episode 33
Michael Horowitz discusses the origins and evolution of The Cooperative Solution (TCS) Education System, which was created in 2009 as a spinout from …
4 years, 8 months ago
Teaching College Students to Communicate: A Discussion with Elena Cotos
Episode 33
Listen to this interview of Elena Cotos, Director of the Center for Communication Excellence at the Graduate College (Iowa State University) and also…
4 years, 8 months ago
Cyndi Kernahan, "Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Episode 70
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why White professors need to teach about race and racism in their courses The gap be…4 years, 8 months ago
Sara Ahmed, "Complaint!" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 182
In Complaint! (Duke UP, 2021), Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and w…
4 years, 8 months ago
A Conversation with Judy McLaughlin: Senior Lecturer, Harvard GSE and Founder and Chair of the Harvard Seminars for New College Presidents and Experienced Presidents
Episode 32
Judy McLaughlin has helped prepare over 1000 college and university presidents to take on the varied responsibilities of their role since founding th…
4 years, 8 months ago
Kerry F. Crawford and Leah C. Windsor, "The PhD Parenthood Trap: Gender, Bias, and the Elusive Work-Family Balance in Academia" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
Episode 86
Academia has a big problem. For many parents—especially mothers—the idea of "work-life balance" is a work-life myth. Parents and caregivers work hard…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Marks, "Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 125
Do we really need universities and colleges anymore? Have they become too politicized? Many conservatives have started to write off American academia…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Role of “Failure” in Student Success
Episode 69
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
the importance of normalizing failure in college the emotional work involved with co…4 years, 9 months ago
Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Episode 144
This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened b…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 32
Listen to this interview of Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and …
4 years, 9 months ago