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FAQs about The Mortarboard:How many episodes does The Mortarboard have?The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.
October 01, 2021The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About TenureUNC-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....more38minPlay
September 07, 2021How the Pandemic Hit Female Academics the HardestLiz 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....more17minPlay
August 24, 2021Why Are More Colleges Closing?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....more36minPlay
August 10, 2021The Two Biggest Scams in Higher EducationKevin Carey explains to host Daniel Barwick why some graduate degrees from prestigious universities are among the biggest scams in higher education....more33minPlay
July 27, 2021Should Public College Administrators Be Personally Liable for Their Decisions?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....more33minPlay
June 22, 2021Is The University of California Broke?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....more47minPlay
June 01, 2021Is Tenure an Illusion? Interview with John WarnerInside 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....more33minPlay
May 11, 2021Season 4 Begins: Free Community College + Tenure ThreatenedThe 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....more38minPlay
March 02, 2021Is State Funding for Higher Ed Increasing?Emma Whitford from Inside Higher Ed describes to host Daniel Barwick how specific states are approaching their higher ed funding for the upcoming year....more16minPlay
February 16, 2021How Colleges are Rushing to Digital RecruitingJoin Higher Ed Dive's Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, as he explains how the pandemic and enrollment drops have accelerated college digital recruiting strategies....more25minPlay
FAQs about The Mortarboard:How many episodes does The Mortarboard have?The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.