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Back to SearchSarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 240
Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Gordon Gee: President, West Virginia University
Episode 28
Gordon Gee was named the Top University President in the U.S. by Time Magazine, and is the only higher education leader to have been a president 7 ti…
4 years, 9 months ago
Zachary M. Howlett, "Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 410
Every year millions of high school seniors in China take the gaokao, China’s standardized college entrance exam. Students, parents, and head teachers…
4 years, 10 months ago
Scott Miller: President, Virginia Wesleyan University
Episode 27
Scott Miller, who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and influential college presidents in the U.S., shares insights from his over 3 d…
4 years, 10 months ago
Rachel Steinig and Rodi Steinig, "Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education" (Natural Math, 2018)
Episode 65
Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education (Natural Math, 2018) couples two educational mem…
4 years, 10 months ago
Mentoring in the Academy: A Conversation with Dr. Claire Renzetti
Episode 64
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So, we reached across our mentor network to bri…
4 years, 10 months ago
AAAS Book Awards Part 4: Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"
Episode 6
This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian Amer…
4 years, 10 months ago
Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 109
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international poli…
4 years, 10 months ago
Jennifer Morton, "Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility" (Princeton UP. 2021)
Episode 22
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college…
4 years, 10 months ago
Derek Gladwin, "Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being" (Atrium, 2020)
Episode 194
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being (Atrium, 2020) harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of f…
4 years, 10 months ago