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Scholarly Communication
August 5, 2022
Covering Higher Ed
A Chat with Sara Custer of Times Higher Education
Sara Custer
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Avi Staiman
A special opportunity to hear from Sara Custer, editor of The Campus (Times Higher Education), about the role of journalism and reporting in higher education. Avi and Sara cover topics …
The Future of Higher Education
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Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.
Economics
August 4, 2022
The Effect
An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Nick Huntington-Klein
Hosted by
Peter Lorentzen
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
Hosted by
Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
Anthropology
August 4, 2022
Academic Outsider
Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Victoria Reyes
Hosted by
Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Education
August 3, 2022
Other People's Colleges
The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Ethan W. Ris
Hosted by
Joao Souto-Maior
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges: The …
Education
August 3, 2022
Why They Hate Us
How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz
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Autumn Wilke
Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging and dangerous conditions for Students of Color in schools …
Scholarly Communication
August 2, 2022
Writing STEAM
Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities
Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan
Hosted by
Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assistant Professor of Communication and Coordinator of Technical and …
How to Be Wrong
July 29, 2022
Humility and the Academic Administrator
A Conversation with Ottawa University Chancellor William Tsutsui
William Tsutsui
Hosted by
John Traphagan
This episode of How To Be Wrong explores questions of leadership and humility with Dr. Bill Tsutsui, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa University, a private comprehensive university with …
Darts & Letters
July 29, 2022
The Science Wars
Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Welcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited …
Education
July 28, 2022
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
Hosted by
Joao Souto-Maior
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it …
Darts & Letters
July 27, 2022
Koch Block My Campus
How Big Money Corrupts Academia
James Turk
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Why is so much right-wing money being funnelled at such a furious pace into universities across the US? Libertarian-minded billionaires like the Kochs and their partners have funded scholars and …
Education
July 27, 2022
Missions Impossible
Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World
John Waterbury
Hosted by
Shu Cao Mo
John Waterbury's book Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (American U in Cairo Press, 2020) is a rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab world …
Education
July 27, 2022
Safe Enough Spaces
A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
Michael S. Roth
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out …
Darts & Letters
July 26, 2022
The Grift of Meritocracy
All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
Catherine Liu
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to get ahead or to …
Politics
July 25, 2022
It's Not Free Speech
Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
Hosted by
Catriona Gold
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have …
Scholarly Communication
July 25, 2022
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
A Discussion with Benjamin Todd of "80,000 Hours"
Benjamin Todd
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Benjamin Todd is the president and co-founder of …
The Future of Higher Education
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
Hosted by
Galina Limorenko
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …
Academic Life
July 21, 2022
The Cornell Sweatshirt Tweet
A Discussion with Ruby C. Tapia
Ruby C. Tapia
Hosted by
Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Ruby Tapia’s viral Cornell sweatshirt tweet. How witnessing domestic violence, and the aftermath of her father’s suicide, influenced …
Economics
July 21, 2022
Doing Economics
What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t
Marc F. Bellemare
Hosted by
Peter Lorentzen
Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past and the methods needed to do …
The Future of Higher Education
July 11, 2022
Mergers in Higher Education
A Discussion with Bryon Grigsby (President of Moravian University) and David Rowe (Interim President of Lancaster Theological Seminary)
Bryon Grigsby and David Rowe
Hosted by
David Finegold
This episode is the latest in the series of cases we’ve profiled focusing on mergers within higher education. We speak with Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University and David Rowe …
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