Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
The administrator's source for solutions in higher education.
Language:
English
Episodes
Why Student-Parents Feel Unwelcome on Campus
9/27/2022
The majority of college students now meet one or more of the characteristics of a nontraditional student, and yet the college experience is still built around the traditional student. Nicole Lynn Lewis of Generation Hope describes the specific challenges that face the millions of college students who are also parents.
Duration:00:26:50
Is Higher Ed Worse Than Enron?
8/30/2022
Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Brennan explains why, in his view, higher education is systematically corrupt in nearly every aspect of its operations.
Duration:00:52:54
Why Do Colleges Offer Remedial Courses Despite Better Options?
8/9/2022
Remedial college coursework has survived evidence of ineffectiveness, charges of racial inequity, and legislation that effectively abolishes it. Host Daniel Barwick interviews one of the country's leading experts on remediation, Dr. Katie Hern of the California Acceleration Project.
Duration:00:33:32
Has the Pandemic Changed Students for the Worse?
6/7/2022
"The End of Burnout" author Jonathan Malesic explains how the pandemic has worsened the habits students need to find success in school.
Duration:00:37:44
To Grade or Not To Grade? "Ungrading" in higher education
5/3/2022
Literature professor Elisabeth Gruner and science professor Heather Miceli describe their practice of "ungrading," a feedback tool that has drawn attention and increasing support.
Duration:00:45:07
The Increased Targeting of Scholars
4/5/2022
Researcher Komi Frey of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explains why the last five years have seen a dramatic increase in attempts to censor and punish scholars for expressing their views.
Duration:00:30:58
Is Tech-Ed Fulfilling Its Promise?
3/1/2022
Is tech-ed the future, or a dystopia? Host Daniel Barwick interviews "Ted-Ed's Cassandra" and Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters.
Duration:00:44:20
The End of Preferential Treatment for Elite Colleges?
1/27/2022
New York Times Opinion writer Peter Coy explains to host Daniel Barwick why congress gave elite colleges an anti-trust exemption, and the class-action lawsuit that has emerged as a result.
Duration:00:21:23
Why Are College Completion Rates So Low?
11/9/2021
Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva, CEO of Complete College America, explains to Daniel Barwick how the organization is working to improve startlingly low college completion rates.
Duration:00:29:44
Is Your Campus "Student-Ready"? | Helping students navigate a life, not just a classroom
10/19/2021
Kallie Clark of Temple University's Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice describes research that encourages students to use more of the tools for success that a college offers them.
Duration:00:32:14
The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure
10/1/2021
UNC-Chapel Hill professor Molly Worthen explains to host Daniel Barwick that the resistance to tenure is really a battle over more fundamental forces in higher education.
Duration:00:37:58
How the Pandemic Hit Female Academics the Hardest
9/7/2021
Liz McMillen, longtime editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, explains how a substantial body of evidence suggests that female academics, who were already disproportionately burdened, have been hit especially hard by the pandemic.
Duration:00:16:34
Why Are More Colleges Closing?
8/24/2021
Host Daniel Barwick interviews Inside Higher Ed's founder and editor Doug Lederman, who explains new data that shows the acceleration in college closings and why that's not always a bad thing.
Duration:00:35:20
The Two Biggest Scams in Higher Education
8/10/2021
Kevin Carey explains to host Daniel Barwick why some graduate degrees from prestigious universities are among the biggest scams in higher education.
Duration:00:32:03
Should Public College Administrators Be Personally Liable for Their Decisions?
7/27/2021
Teresa Manning, Policy Director for the National Association of Scholars, argues that the qualified immunity that public college administrators enjoy when making decisions about student constitutional freedoms has resulted in a culture that lacks accountability and has caused taxpayers needless expense.
Duration:00:32:53
Is The University of California Broke?
6/22/2021
Host Daniel Barwick interviews authors Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen, who argue that California has made decisions about UC that have impoverished campuses in a number of ways, limited access, and created segregation.
Duration:00:46:11
Is Tenure an Illusion? Interview with John Warner
6/1/2021
Inside Higher Ed and Chicago Times columnist and author John Warner explains why tenure is at best a sort of guild, and at worst is an illusion.
Duration:00:32:02
Season 4 Begins: Free Community College + Tenure Threatened
5/11/2021
The 4th season of the Mortarboard begins with a bang...Dr. Daniel Barwick discusses the recent proposals for free community college, and examines a never-before-used threat to tenure at John Carroll University, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed faculty reporter Colleen Flaherty.
Duration:00:37:07
Is State Funding for Higher Ed Increasing?
3/2/2021
Emma Whitford from Inside Higher Ed describes to host Daniel Barwick how specific states are approaching their higher ed funding for the upcoming year.
Duration:00:15:55
How Colleges are Rushing to Digital Recruiting
2/16/2021
Join Higher Ed Dive's Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, as he explains how the pandemic and enrollment drops have accelerated college digital recruiting strategies.
Duration:00:24:03