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Higher Education
Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.
November 23, 2024
Curricular Injustice
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet…
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
November 18, 2024
Higher Education for All
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…
November 9, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024)…
November 7, 2024
Why Not Be Kind?
Today’s book is: A Pedagogy of Kindness (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024), by Dr. Catherine Denial, which explores why academia is not, by and larg…
November 6, 2024
Celebrating University Press Week
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo…
October 27, 2024
The End of College Football
In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential c…
October 17, 2024
You Can't Teach That!
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented effo…
October 17, 2024
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens …
October 10, 2024
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin, is…
October 3, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roche…
September 29, 2024
Academic Writing as if Readers Matter
Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign o…
September 28, 2024
Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this …
September 26, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Why do we assume that computers always get it right? Today’s book is: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press, 20…
September 26, 2024
The Academic Trumpists
Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency spoke to …
September 25, 2024
Conducting Original Research for Your Library
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book hel…
September 24, 2024
Plato the Teacher
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, e…
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 14, 2024
Think Outside the Community!
Listen to this interview of Rick Rabiser, Professor for Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. We t…
September 12, 2024
Before and After the Book Deal
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask. Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Pub…