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Back to SearchHelen Sword, "Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Episode 19
Today I talked to Helen Sword about Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard UP, 2017). We talk about what not enough peop…
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Inside Look: Campus Mental Wellness Services
Episode 41
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…
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Jeff Docking, President of Adrian College: On Saving Liberal Arts Colleges
Episode 12
President Jeff Docking shares insights from his book, Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Liberal Arts Colleges in America (Michigan State Uni…
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Itay Snir, "Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy" (Springer, 2020)
Episode 126
Itay Snir's book Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy (Springer, 2020) draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition – Theodo…
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Dave Auckly, et al., "Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles" (AMS, 2019)
Episode 62
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence wi…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 239
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, I am interview…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Writing Center Today: An Interview with Gerd Bräuer
Episode 18
Listen to this interview of Gerd Bräuer, Head of the Schreibzentrum, the writing center, at Freiburg University of Education. We talk about the place…
5 years, 2 months ago
Pandemic Perspectives: Graduating, Job Searching, and Being a New Professional
Episode 42
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, 2 months ago
Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, "Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 114
Two very thoughtful oddfellows--a labor economist and a Russian literature scholar--take on the world's problems in their newest collaboration, Minds…
5 years, 2 months ago
Esther Barazzone (2): President Emerita of Chatham University
Episode 8
Esther Barazzone describes the latter part of the transformation she led at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. In a whirlwind of activity in 2007-…
5 years, 2 months ago