Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNYT discovers community colleges, UChicago discovers crypto losses with Marshall Steinbaum
The Chicago boys would have loved digital assets.
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Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025. The Typical Colleg…10 months, 3 weeks ago
A gender, queer, and trans history of the British university with Sam Rutherford
College, a nice time for nice ladies.
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Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise …10 months, 3 weeks ago
Before ChatGPT, there were MOOCs with Anne Trumbore
A human history of ed tech
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Anne Trumbore. 2025. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.…10 months, 3 weeks ago
Developmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-Stacer
On making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.
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Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025. Make Your Manuscript Work…11 months ago
The neuroscientists who fled Nazi Germany with Frank Stahnisch
And, do US academics face a similar situation today?
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Frank Stahnisch. 2025. Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migra…11 months ago
Revenge of Bob Jones U: Religious colleges and their tax exemptions with Adam Laats
We forgot to mention Bob Jones was the son of a Confederate veteran.
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Adam Laats’s websiteAdam Laats. April 28, 2025.…11 months, 1 week ago
Eugenics and the creation of statistics with Akira O’Connor and Erin Robbins
On the creation of the statistical tests we often use in human behavioral research, especially in the fields of psychology, education, economics, and…
11 months, 1 week ago
The “rise and fall” of prison education with Reiko Hillyer
From Johnson’s Great Society to Clinton’s crime bill, Reiko Hillyer discusses the “rise and fall” of higher education in US prisons. Plus, she shares…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Angola prison: a college with Piper Hutchinson
Louisiana State Penitentiary, a former plantation known simply as “Angola," is a site of higher education. Journalist Piper Hutchinson explains.
Refe…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
In 2025, 45 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in college debt. Ellie Shermer explains: “the story of skyrocketing college debt is not mer…
11 months, 3 weeks ago