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On the In Culture podcast, we go behind the scenes with artists, gamers, musicians, designers, athletes, and visionaries in their fields to share a real-world look at how they’re shaping culture. In our latest podcast series, Variations on a theme, we explore the life and legacy of Sol LeWitt. We’ll cover key themes in LeWitt’s work and explore how his approach still influences some of the creative pioneers shaping the 21st century. Variations on a theme is a companion to the Sol LeWitt App, ...
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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.…
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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.…
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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"The End of Burnout" author Jonathan Malesic explains how the pandemic has worsened the habits students need to find success in school.由Daniel Barwick
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Literature professor Elisabeth Gruner and science professor Heather Miceli describe their practice of "ungrading," a feedback tool that has drawn attention and increasing support.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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Is tech-ed the future, or a dystopia? Host Daniel Barwick interviews "Ted-Ed's Cassandra" and Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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Kevin Carey explains to host Daniel Barwick why some graduate degrees from prestigious universities are among the biggest scams in higher education.由Daniel Barwick
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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.…
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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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.由Daniel Barwick
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Emma Whitford from Inside Higher Ed describes to host Daniel Barwick how specific states are approaching their higher ed funding for the upcoming year.由Daniel Barwick
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Join Higher Ed Dive's Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, as he explains how the pandemic and enrollment drops have accelerated college digital recruiting strategies.由Daniel Barwick
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“I think as you grow as a craftsman, as an artist, your gestures become stronger. Your conviction becomes stronger. You can actually get to a place where you can make an impact with a very minimal thing,” says Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park in New York City. In this episode of Variations on a theme, host Dessane Lopez Cassell speaks to the accl…
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“We had to find what's that essential detail that really defines that garment as what it is and keep that, and all the other elements we were able to kind of strip away,” Jack McCollough says of the influence of Sol LeWitt’s approach to minimalism. In this episode of Variations on a theme, host Dessane Lopez Cassell speaks to the designer and his p…
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“So many things can influence how the songs will just shift a little bit in each place, and I found that really interesting when I read that about his philosophy behind his wall drawings,” Julianna Barwick says of the influence of Sol LeWitt’s artistic process. In this episode of Variations on a theme, host Dessane Lopez Cassell speaks to the compo…
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“A lot of people think that I was influenced to do conceptual art by looking at conceptual art, and that really wasn't the case. It was really a search for a certain sort of understanding of the self,” Charles Gaines says of his creative process. In this episode of Variations on a theme, host Dessane Lopez Cassell speaks to the pioneering visual ar…
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In a new podcast series, Variations on a theme, we explore the life and legacy of Sol LeWitt with host Dessane Lopez Cassell. Meet some of the creative pioneers channeling his influence and pushing it forward in their own work. For more information about Microsoft's In Culture podcast and to read the transcript, please visit: microsoft.com/incultur…
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According to Lumina Foundation, with enrollment dropping steadily and the majority of costs fixed, colleges and universities are currently spending $50B a year on space, services, and personnel they don't need, says Lumina CFO Brad Kelsheimer.由Daniel Barwick
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The Hechinger Report researcher Jon Marcus discusses the full extent of the transfer of public money to private contractors in American higher education.由Daniel Barwick
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Student services expert Eric Stoller explains that the way colleges serve students has changed quickly during the pandemic and why those changes are just the beginning.由Daniel Barwick
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UNC-Chapel Hill's history professor Jay Smith talks to host Daniel Barwick about how the university mismanaged its original COVID planning, and then mismanaged its responses to the resulting outbreaks.由Daniel Barwick
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Online education expert Joe Sallustio explains to host Daniel Barwick that the pandemic will only accelerate the demolition of the theoretical, psychological, and practical barriers to online education.由Daniel Barwick
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Professor and game designer Ian Bogost explains to host Daniel Barwick that worries about the fate of higher ed are misguided, because prominent critics mistake college’s secondary purpose, education, for its primary one, collegiate life.由Daniel Barwick
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In this two-guest episode, Dan talks to Nancy Reasland of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, about how the college has been so successful fighting the spread of Covid-19, and Jeff Selingo explains how the college admissions process is built to serve the needs of colleges, not students.由Daniel Barwick
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Eddy Conroy of Temple University's Hope Center explains how the Center collects data about the plight of students both prior to and during the pandemic, and offers next steps for helping students meet the challenges they face.由Daniel Barwick
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Higher education requires students to sign COVID-19 waivers, behavior codes, and pledges, and then expels them when they break the rules. Behavioral specialist Jennifer Howell of the University of California - Merced explains why the push to blame students ignores context and best practices.由Daniel Barwick
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Researcher Dr. Mitch Lingo explains to host Dr. Daniel Barwick how colleges, college towns, and even students are all cannibalizing themselves in responding to the coronavirus.由Daniel Barwick
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What are the long-term effects of the pandemic on collegiate sports? Daniel Barwick interviews Doshia Woods, Heach Coach of the University of Denver's women's basketball team, and Kiyoshi Harris, of Netflix's "Last Chance U" fame and Head Coach of the Independence Community College football team.由Daniel Barwick
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Host Dr. Daniel Barwick interviews five college students about their experiences and frustrations so far, and their expectations and hopes for the fall semester.由Daniel Barwick
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Harvard University Student Body President James Mathew explains to Daniel Barwick why he believes Harvard's fall plan hits the sweet spot between safety and campus experience.由Daniel Barwick
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Can a thousand teachers at a single school be wrong? Penn State professors Esther Prins and John Champagne explain to host Daniel Barwick why the faculty oppose in-person teaching for the fall.由Daniel Barwick
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Professor, author, and journal editor Claire Potter defends her New York Times op-ed that national free college tuition would cure many ills both inside and outside of academia.由Daniel Barwick
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University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos describes to Daniel Barwick how the rapid rise in endowment value has reversed the relationship between universities and their foundations.由Daniel Barwick
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Award-winning journalist Eleanor Bader of Kingsborough Community College tells Dr. Barwick about her research into the course-content demands that wealthy donors attach to their gifts.由Daniel Barwick
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Inside Higher Ed reporter Emma Whitford reveals the long-term truth: public funding for higher education has decreased substantially over the last three decades. She shares with Dr. Barwick that if the pattern holds, the coming coronavirus recession will create further reductions that will never be restored, and that in many states, the public is n…
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“This COVID pandemic closely resembles a diagnosis like ALS. When I choose to see the trial or adversity as an opportunity, I'm able to accept and acknowledge the reality of my situation rather than resist or deny reality,” says Steve Gleason. He’s fought tirelessly for policy changes that have transformed lives and made crucial technology accessib…
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“I think right now in this COVID-19 pandemic, people with cognitive and social disabilities are really being overlooked. Because it's a really easy time to overlook them. We're all in isolation,” Delaney Foster shares. Listen on, and learn more about how the Foster sisters are raising disability awareness and demonstrating that there’s not one-size…
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“For a lot of days of this quarantine, I forget that I'm visually impaired. It's so little of an issue because I'm able to do everything that I need to and want to because I'm so familiar with everything,” shares Casey Harris of the X-Ambassadors. He’s found that community and inclusion are more important than ever during times of social isolation.…
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Dr. Barwick interviews teacher, author, and columnist John Warner, who describes his view that higher education is at a crossroads: the pandemic is either the latest blow in higher education funding, or an opportunity to fix the system.由Daniel Barwick
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One of the nation's top education reporters, Chris Quintana of USA Today, tells listeners what he's seeing on the front lines of his work on the coronavirus and higher ed, and makes his predictions to Dr. Barwick about what the fall semester holds.由Daniel Barwick
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What does it look like for a college to transition to online instruction in two weeks? Dr. Barwick interviews two veteran teachers on the front lines of the transition.由Daniel Barwick
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Matthew M. Chingos is vice president for education data and policy at the Urban Institute. Dr. Barwick discusses Dr. Chingos's advocacy for a nationally-coordinated approach to free college.由Daniel Barwick
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