Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStanley S. Litow and Tina Kelley, "Breaking Barriers: How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
Episode 143
What is the purpose of education? Folks outside the field are likely to think of a relatively clear or concrete answer—learning, citizenship, prepara…
4 years, 9 months ago
Aviva Legatt, "Get Real and Get In: How to Get Into the College of Your Dreams by Being Your Authentic Self" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2021)
Episode 68
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Aviva Legatt’s journey into and through college Why she became an Ivy League college…4 years, 9 months ago
A Discussion with Ben Nelson (Part 2): Founder of the Minerva Project and Minerva University
Episode 31
In Part II of our discussion with Ben Nelson, he shares information on the outcomes for the first Minerva graduates and how Minerva has diversified i…
4 years, 9 months ago
A Discussion with Ben Nelson (Part 1): Founder of the Minerva Project and Minerva University
Episode 30
In the first of two parts, we meet Ben Nelson, the charismatic founder of the Minerva Project and Minerva University. Ben shares the fascinating stor…
4 years, 9 months ago
Andy Hoffman, “Saving the World at Business School (Part 2)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 46
Saving the World at Business School (Part 2) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of …
4 years, 9 months ago
Andy Hoffman “Saving the World at Business School (Part 1)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 45
Saving the World at Business School (Part 1) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of …
4 years, 9 months ago
Ursula Hackett, "America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 542
Political Scientist Ursula Hackett’s new book, America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State (Cambridge UP, 2020), is the winner o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Episode 99
In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at Wes…
4 years, 9 months ago
An Interview with Sheldon Schuster and Jim Sterling about the Keck Graduate Institute
Episode 29
The third episode in our series on the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of Applied Life Sciences, the 7th of the Claremont Colleges founded in 1998, fea…
4 years, 9 months ago
Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 1064
Contrary to the claims of many of today’s advocates of computerized instruction and online learning, efforts to use technology to improve the educati…
4 years, 9 months ago