Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- The role of teaching intensive universities in the future of higher ed.
- Off campus as a space for making change happen.
- Preparing PhD candidates from R1 institutions to teach at teaching-intensive institutions.
- Things that you don't learn in a Ph.D. program: community colleges, collective bargaining contracts, undergraduate research.
- The value of doing work on a larger stage.
- Bringing the public humanities together with higher ed.
- Working outside the box that people try to put you in as a path to a rich career.
- The alliance model of bringing together institutions and nonprofits across a region.
- Limitations of the individual mindset of the traditional humanities.
- Digital humanities as a space of teamwork where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
- The difference between making change happen at an institutional level vs. at a national level.
- The influence and convening power of scholarly associations.
- The power of new tools and new contexts to create new approaches: podcasts and Twitter.
- Helping people succeed in ways they never thought were options and exposing them to new possibilities and paths to success.
- Mergers and consortia as a space for hope for a different future of higher ed.
- Digital humanities as a space of hope for a different future of higher ed.
- The role of digital humanities in rethinking race, class, and accessibility.
- Making humanities more accessible to students of color, first generation students and pell grant recipients.
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Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.
