Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAn Introduction to "The Future of Higher Education" Podcast
Episode 9
Dr. David Finegold, the President of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and international expert on education and training systems and how they rel…
5 years ago
Cristina V. Groeger, "The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 101
Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to ec…
5 years ago
Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 14
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite ed…
5 years ago
Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Episode 16
Listen to this interview of Joan Turner, author of On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). We talk abou…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives from a University Administrator: A Discussion with James D. Breslin
Episode 38
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, 1 month ago
Jelani Favors, "Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism" (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Episode 235
Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Jela…
5 years, 1 month ago
Robert Samuels, "Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 15
Listen to this interview of Robert Samuels, author of Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (Routledge, 2021). We talk…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives: From a Vice President of Student Affairs
Episode 44
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, 1 month ago
Neriko Musha Doerr, "The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 15
The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020) volume investigates the "global educat…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Self-Care Stuff: Parenting and Personal Life in Academia
Episode 30
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, 1 month ago