An interview with Howard Gardner

An interview with Jonathan Zimmerman

In this episode you’ll hear about the limits and the breadth of the first amendment, what to do when your free speech rights are violated, why having “free speech zones” on campus doesn’t work, and what you can do when someone else’s free speech is hurtful or offensive...

An interview with Roger Patulny

In this episode you’ll hear about being an imbedded journalist, the senior years of kids in LA, the importance of mentors and college counselors at school, some challenges and obstacles of getting to college...

An interview with Roger Patulny

Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...

Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....

We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and Wisconsin...

What happens when graduate school doesn’t go as you’d planned, and what happens to your degree and your career if you leave school before you complete your PhD.

Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education...

What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse?

Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Meet the hosts of "The Academic Life."

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...

Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about...

Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,

Carlo approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has,,,

Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book.

Harris and his team describe, and present results from, their classroom-based pilots of this new and highly innovative approach to neuroscience and STEM education...

Young surveyed over 1,100 then-current law students, 250 alumni, and conducted detailed interviews with law students about their experiences in law school and concerns about pedagogy, other students, law professors, and hopes and fears about school and their future careers...

Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...