An interview with Mich Yonah Nyawalo

So you are leaving academia. What now?

An interview with Barbara Dennis

An interview with Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady

An interview with Michael J. Sandel

In this episode you’ll hear about: navigating academia as a STEM student, getting pregnant and parenting while still a student, and difficult decisions about dropping out or staying in academia...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Strossen dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony...

"Critical Thinking." You hear a lot about it, but what is it?

Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...

Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...

Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....

Kim and Maloney document major transformations at colleges and universities that have been quietly taking place, even amidst noise about crisis and disruption...

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art...

Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...

What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?

Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...

The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...

The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...

Remember when Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were going to shake higher education to its foundations by giving courses from the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities away free to the world?

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, or might it be a “job-to-be-done?”

Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...

Rueda offers a history of student organizing against dictatorship in twentieth-century Nicaragua...

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...

Where do good ideas come from?

Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...

Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...

The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...