New Books in Higher Education
Episodes
Misrepresentation on Campus: A Conversation with Michelle Cyca
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When a professor is not who they say they are, what does it take to get them to resign? This episode explores: How an anonymous twitter account and a...
Mergers in Higher Education: A Discussion with Beth Hillman
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Hillman discusses the recent merger between Mills College and Northeastern University. Hillman, who served as President of Mills from 2016-22, de...
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree. In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generat...
Robert Houghton, "Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact" (de Gruyter, 2022)
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable...
Burleigh Hendrickson, "Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar (Cornell UP, 2022) explores how activists in 1968 transformed university...
When Your Professor Asks You to Cheat: A Conversation with Dr. Joel Heng Hartse
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that academic integrity matters. But do we all agree on what academic integrity really is? Somewhere beyond the nuances and gray areas is ...
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russell McCutcheon shares his views on the academic study of religion, and the path ahead for religion graduates and the field itself. McCutcheon is ...
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be...
Scholar Skills: Unraveling Faculty Burnout
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m burned out” is a familiar phrase in higher ed these days. This episode explores: What burnout is and is not. One scholar’s personal exp...
Publishing Activism & Alternative Forms of Collaborative Scholarship
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alterna...
Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern University, 1996-2006
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is rare to see colleges and universities achieve major and rapid changes in their national rankings. Richard Freeland, the president emeritus of No...
Where Does Research Really Begin?
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (U Chicago Press, 2022) by Thomas S. Mull...
Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. An organizer of the Seven College Conferen...
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by Dr. Andrew Fiss tel...
Mental Health In Academia 7: Bullying in Academia
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to welcome you at All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One fo...
Making the Most of Academic Conferences: Insights and Tips from Dr. Thomas Tobin
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re going to an academic conference—and maybe even presenting a project! Whether you are going virtually or in person, for the first time or th...
Night of the Living Rez
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does identity and experience inform your writing? This episode explores: Professor Talty’s journey from community college student to college pr...
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are few thinkers who engender as much debate about their legacy as Leo Strauss (1899 –1973). His critics and biographers often don’t even ag...
Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Richard Reeves about his important new book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do ab...
Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
College football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billion...
Barbara W. Sarnecka, "The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia" (2019)
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Barbara Sarnecka, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for Social Sciences,...
Scholar Skills: Managing and Re-Envisioning the Academic Mid-Career
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever felt uncertain about how to manage the academic mid-career stage? This episode explores: Why the mid-career stage is so important to mid-career ...
Far From Home: A Conversation About Academic Relocation with Clare Griffin
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: What inspired Clare Griffin to move far from home. The hidden curriculum of acade...
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX. “No...
SOAS’ Yoga Studies Online
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacqui Hargreaves & Ruth Westoby about SOAS’ exciting new online learning platform: Yoga Studies Online. Raj Balkaran is a...
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the Biden Administration's student loan relief coming down the pike, Annika sits down with Dr. Beth Akers, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterp...
Scholar Skills: Communicating Through your Online Presence
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a strategy to communicating your research online? This episode explores: What an academic communications strategist does. Why having a stra...
Assholes, Humility, and Surfing: A Conversation with Philosopher Aaron James
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode of How To Be Wrong welcomes back cohost John Kaag after a brief hiatus from the podcast and explores questions of assholery and humi...
Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona. Incarnations and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Professors Kirsti Niska...
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences ...
College Baseball in the Offseason: Meet the Savannah Bananas
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The hard work of balancing academics and sports when you attend college on an athl...
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do some scholars sacrifice truth and logic to political ideology and peer acceptance? With courage and intellectual integrity, queer scholar-activ...
Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, "Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins: Choosi...
Hope for the Humanities PhD
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why a humanities degree actually opens many career paths. The importance of curio...
Finding Your Purpose
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the edited version of a live event held on June 17 2022 to celebrate the launch of Finding Your Purpose: a Higher Calling Workbook fo...
Nathan Long on Growth Strategies for Small Private Universities
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Long shares insights from his career leading successful growth strategies for two small private universities. Saybrook University was formed in...
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act, a bill purportedly meant to revive U.S. dominance in research and devel...
The Two Keys to Student Retention: A Discussion with Aaron Basko
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why Aaron Basko thinks we are looking at student success backwards. How asking al...
Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities (U Chicago Press, 2022) a college education ...
Opening Up the University for Displaced Students
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) operating out of Central European University....
Brian Cafarella, "Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future" (CRC Press, 2022)
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Community College Mathematics: Past, Present, and Future (CRC Press, 2022), Brian Cafarella addresses the key questions: How can we build a futur...
The Journal of Higher Education in Prison
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: How both of today’s guests became involved in higher education in prison. Why t...
The Colonial Lens: Analyzing Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Colonialism in Academia
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything r...
Ann Garcia, "How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education" (Harriman House, 2022)
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Providing your children with a good education is one of the best gifts you can give. But it’s not straightforward. Education costs and student loan...
Tarez Samra Graban and Wendy Hayden, "Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Archives are much more than silent repositories of historical material. They are rich sites for teaching and learning, for collaboration and for creat...
Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Thompson, "Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors" (Routledge, 2018)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview with Jo Mackiewicz, professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, and with Isabelle Thompson...
Nicholas Rowe, "The Realities of Completing a PhD: How to Plan for Success" (Routledge, 2021)
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Nicholas Rowe, researcher and educator based in Finland. We talk his book The Realities of Completing a PhD: How to Plan...
Covering Higher Ed: A Chat with Sara Custer of Times Higher Education
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A special opportunity to hear from Sara Custer, editor of The Campus (Times Higher Education), about the role of journalism and reporting in higher...
Paul A. Djupe et al. "The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2022)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explo...
Victoria Reyes, "Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope" (Stanford UP, 2022)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences...
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inference...
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E...
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging an...
Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan, "Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities" (Routledge, 2022)
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assis...
The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Humility and the Academic Administrator
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of How To Be Wrong explores questions of leadership and humility with Dr. Bill Tsutsui, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa Uni...
Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
John Waterbury, "Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Waterbury's book Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (American U in Cairo Press, 2020) is a rigorous exam...
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting ...
Koch Block My Campus: How Big Money Corrupts Academia
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing pro...
University Press
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Colesworthy talks about the university press and how its workings should be demystified, what authors should keep in mind when they pitch thei...
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
The Cornell Sweatshirt Tweet
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Ruby Tapia’s viral Cornell sweatshirt tweet. How witnessing domestic violen...
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t" (MIT Press, 2022)
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Mergers in Higher Education
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
J. S. Antony et al., "The College President Handbook: A Sustainable and Practical Guide for Emerging Leaders" (Harvard Education Press, 2022)
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An indispensable manual for the most demanding position in higher education, The College President Handbook: A Sustainable and Practical Guide for Em...
Combating Fraud and Plagiarism in the Publication of Academic Research
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Prevost, coordinating Chair of the Publication Ethics Committee, and Senior Acquisitions Editor at Brill joins Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic La...
An Inside Look at the American Association of University Professors
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why the AAUP was formed. Their role in supporting academic freedom. Why the thre...
Bianca C. Williams et al., "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2021) provides a multidi...
David M. Greer, "Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Good leadership in medicine is crucial, but unfortunately, often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership...
The Great Resignation: In, Out, and Around Higher Education
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Our guest Eric Frans’ career path into, out of, and around higher education Key...
Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly...
A Discussion with Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges & Universities
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, the President of the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&...
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the Un...
On Teaching Religious Studies in College
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chris Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts from Oklahoma Baptist University, a Master of Theology from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and a P...
Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding ...
Amplifying Academics and Supporting Public Education
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why Dr. Marshall Poe left a tenured professorship to create the New Books Network ...
Julia Molinari, "What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Julia Molinari, lecturer in professional academic communication at The Open University (UK) and independent researcher. We...
Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major steppi...
The Path to a New Learning Paradigm: A Conversation with Sophie Adelman
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Adelman is the co-founder of Multiverse and The Garden, two companies that are innovating the way people learn and enhance their personal s...
Ilana M. Horwitz, "God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success" (Oxford UP, 2022)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success (Oxford University Press, 2022), Ilana M. Horwitz offers a revealin...
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is an excavation of a...
How to Start a Successful Academic Podcast: A Discussion with Sean Guillory
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Sean Guillory. Sean did something pretty remarkable (and hard): He started a successful academic podcast. It's called the SRB Podc...
The American Historical Association: A Discussion with Jim Grossman and James Sweet
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the American Historical Association provides leadership ...
Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Am...
Dave Harris, "Literature Review and Research Design: A Guide to Effective Research Practice" (Routledge, 2019)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Dave Harris, a writing coach who uses principles from design to help authors develop writing practices. We talk about his ...
Higher Education and the Humble Brag: A Discussion with Adrien Lenardic
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Adrian Lenardic, who is a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Scie...
A Conversation with Mark Nordenberg: Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh (Part 2 of 2)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our discussion with Mark Nordenberg, who shares lessons from his successful 19 year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh a...
The American Association of Geographers: A Discussion with Emily Yeh
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and imp...
Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor, "A Guide to Academic Podcasting" (Amplify Podcast Network, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Guide to Academic Podcasting is a practical guidebook introducing scholars to the multiverse of podcasting. It’s an open-source publication made ...
Morteza Mahmoudi, "A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying" (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Targets of bullying are often the most vulnerable members of the scientific workforce-they may be low-paid graduate students or postdocs, living in a ...
Kenny Xu, "An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy" (Diversion Book, 2021)
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's te...
Katherine Dugan, "Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool" (Oxford UP, 2019)
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role ...
Mental Health in Academia 6: Mental, Physical, and Social Determinants of Wellbeing
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All t...
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public i...
A Conversation with Mark Nordenberg: Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh (Part 1)
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Nordenberg is part of a vanishing breed within higher education – a leader who has spent almost his entire career at a single university. In t...
William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Communication Became a Discipline (Lexington, 2021) argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1...