Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWilliam G. Tierney, "Get Real: 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education" (SUNY, 2020)
Episode 26
Listen to this interview of William Tierney, University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Un…
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Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine, "Campus Carry: Confronting a Loaded Issue in Higher Education" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
Episode 136
In Campus Carry: Confronting a Loaded Issue in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2020), editors Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine lead an e…
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Pandemic Perspective from a Dual MA Student and New Bride
Episode 52
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
Katina L. Rogers, "Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 135
In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020), Katina L. Rogers tackles three major issue…
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Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth, "Level Up Your Essays: How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades" (NewSouth, 2021)
Episode 134
I've had 18 years of formal education - why is writing so hard? Today's guests Dr Katherine Firth explains the disease's cure. The book Level Up Your…
4 years, 10 months ago
Jeffrey Benson, "Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL" (ACSD, 2021)
Episode 133
“Every bit of SEL”—or Social Emotional Learning, writes Jeffrey Benson—“you can integrate into your planning will not only begin to heal the wounds o…
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick, "Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 132
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her 'Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University'…
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David Galas: Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute
Episode 18
David Galas describes his unusual journey from Air Force brat to theoretical physicist to Systems Biologist in charge of the Human Genome Project for…
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Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 186
In 2014 and 2015, students at dozens of colleges and universities held protests demanding increased representation of Black and Latino students and c…
4 years, 10 months ago
Jamila Lyiscott, "Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom" (Routledge, 2019)
One year to the day after George Flloyd’s murder, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott discusses her book on racial justice in education: Black Appetite. White Food. …
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