Topics Discussed in this Episode:

  • Higher ed is dying and being dismantled while the same people doing the dismantling are also guarding and maintaining it.
  • Traditional markers of higher ed -- 15-week semesters, discipline-based departments, seat time, competition, and tenure -- do not work for most faculty or students.
  • The significance of reframing education through the lens of human development.
  • How difficult university policies make the disability accommodation process for staff and faculty.
  • The possibility of doing the work we care about outside of our institutions or job descriptions.
  • The need for the walls of higher education to be more permeable.
  • Universities as systems and institutions that become forces against critique or dissent.
  • The tension between changing a system while also maintaining the system.
  • Doing radical work in the academy and fighting for equity and justice has risks.
  • The way institutions fail their students by failing to create infrastructure for their social and emotional well-being.
  • The importance of recognizing that higher education is more than classroom teaching.
  • Our guests are the people who keep making change, keep fighting in spite of the challenges they encounter.
  • This season was also about the power of friendship, connection, and collaboration.
  • Our guests for next season are Chris Newfield, Yves Salomon-Fernández, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ashley Gray, Ravynn Stringfield, Lavelle Porter, Katina Rogers, and Maria Maisto.
  • We welcome recommendations for guests for Season 3.

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