Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInger 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…
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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…
5 years ago
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…
5 years ago
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…
5 years 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. …
5 years ago
Pandemic Perspectives from The Chronicle of Higher Education
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…
5 years ago
Frank Clooney on “The Scholar-Practitioner”
Episode 7
To what extent should scholarship foreground the beliefs and experiences of the scholar producing it? Where does the scholar-practitioners fit at the…
5 years ago
Michael Crow: President, Arizona State University
Episode 17
Michael Crow describes his 19-year tenure leading ASU’s transformation from a regional, “party school” to what has been recognized as the U.S.’s most…
5 years ago
How To: Create a Mentor Network
Episode 50
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…
5 years ago