Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStudents for Fair Admissions (2023) with Mike Collins
This is Part II of an earlier discussion with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Lau (19…
1 year, 5 months ago
UC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike Collins
This is Part I of a two-part interview with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Bakke (19…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Carter administration's threats to deport Iranian students with Will Teague
The ICE disappearance of Columbia student protestor Mahmoud Khalil in March 2025 followed in the wake of Trump's promise to deport campus activists. …
1 year, 6 months ago
Legally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts with Myles Ethan Lascity
Abercrombie and Fitch is back, millennials and gen x-ers! Ethan Lascity takes us for a walk down memory lane in a discussion ofLegally Blonde, Drumli…
1 year, 6 months ago
The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan
In 1960, California experimented with tuition-free college for all public campuses in the state. As Andrew Higgins explains in Higher Education for A…
1 year, 7 months ago
The cancel culture panic with Adrian Daub
Adrian Daub explains the recent history of the cancel culture moral panic.
Adrian Daub. 2024. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went…1 year, 7 months ago
Why colleges have trustees with Asheesh Siddique
Asheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today.
Asheesh Siddique. …1 year, 7 months ago
Black Women, Ivory Tower with Jasmine L. Harris
Jasmine Harris discusses the historic experiences of Black women students and faculty at predominantly white colleges.
Jasmine L. Harris. 2024. Black …1 year, 7 months ago
McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker
On the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education.
Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Univ…1 year, 7 months ago
Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. Ehrlich
The story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s.
Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024.…1 year, 8 months ago