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AI for the Information Professional: A Critical Guide with Andrew Cox (Facet, 2026)
Is artificial intelligence (AI) a question answering machine, a helpful companion, a persuasive storyteller, a deceitful often hidden system, or a global industry?In AI for the Information Professional: A Critical Guide (Facet, 2026), Andrew Cox invites library and information pr ... Show More
41m 33s
Nov 5
Applied History in the US Department of State
I sat down with Lydia Sizer to chat about her experience developing applied history initiatives at the US Department of State’s Office of the Historian. We talked about what it’s like to collaborate with policymakers and what it means to negotiate productive tensions between poli ... Show More
49m 7s
Nov 4
University Press Week 2026 with President Stephanie Williams
Today I’m speaking with Stephanie Williams, Director of Wayne State University Press, and president of the Association of University Presses. Every year, NBN speaks with the president of AUPresses in anticipation of University Press Week. This year, press week will take place fro ... Show More
34m 44s
Mar 2025
"Hope Labour": The Reality of Sessional Academia
Academic careers have long been associated with stability, prestige, and a clear path from graduate school to tenure. But in today’s universities, an increasing number of scholars find themselves trapped in precarious, low-paid sessional contracts - far from the secure careers th ... Show More
39m 23s
Nov 2023
119. Higher Education Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?
47m 10s
Aug 2025
#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?
Sam Harris speaks with Michael Roth about the state of higher education in the U.S. They discuss whether concerns about wokeness were overblown, how colleges should handle campus protests, where universities should draw the line on extreme political views, DEI, why Jews should be ... Show More
23m 29s
May 2025
Understanding Educational Developers at Teaching and Learning Centers with Dr. Chris Hakala and Dr. Leslie Cramblet Alvarez
On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Chris Hakala and Dr. Leslie Cramblet Alvarez as we discuss the folks who work at teaching and learning centers. They wrote a tremendous new book called, "Understanding Educational Developers: Tales from the Center." In this book and in our co ... Show More
52m 4s
Jun 2020
The Future of Higher Education
The pandemic forced many American college campuses to close and move classes online. Some are now wondering whether the high cost of college tuition is worth it. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta talks with NYU Professor Scott Galloway about what Galloway believes may ... Show More
15m 20s
Oct 2020
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has. However, at a time when universities are optimizing structurally and str ... Show More
1h 20m
Dec 2024
E214: Karenna Malavanti: Understanding academia, valuing non-tenure track faculty, and advocacy
In this episode Eric interviews Karenna Malavanti from Baylor University in Waco, TX. Karenna discusses issues faced by non-tenure track faculty and her recent presentation with Melissa Maffeo on supporting teaching-focused faculty in higher education. This wide-ranging interview ... Show More
55m 25s
Aug 2024
The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)
1h 11m
Mar 2019
After the Academy
2h 29m
Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay collection co-edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene. It explores why in the United States more than three-quarters of the people teaching in colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. This “gig ... Show More
<p>Economist Michael D. Smith says universities are scrambling to protect a status quo that deserves to die. He tells Steve why the current system is unsustainable, and what’s at stake if nothing changes.</p><p> </p><p>RESOURCES:</p><ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3sK5t5r"><i>Th ... Show More
<p>America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, “<a href="https://freakonomics.com/freakonomics-radio-goes-back-to-school/"><i>Freakonomics Radio</i> Goes Back to School</a>.”)</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOUR ... Show More
<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="1btmr" data-offset-key="4s3tf-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4s3tf-0-0"> <p>In this special compilation episode, we ... Show More
