Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- The adjunct crisis in higher ed.
- Kelly’s shift from religious studies work to higher ed journalism.
- Religions and higher ed as institutions and systems of power relations.
- Applying PhD training to a different field, viewing PhD training as training in thinking, and using of data to answer difficult questions.
- Why academia is not a cult and the role of agency.
- Kelly’s decision to rock the boat and write about controversial topics like being an adjunct, a woman, a mother, and a first gen college student.
- Moving from the Sexism Ed column at Chronicle Vitae to Sexism Ed the book.
- Using Women in Higher Ed as a platform to highlight the work of amazing women doing incredible things.
- The consequences of universities protecting men who were abusers and serial harrassers for decades.
- Paying sexual abuse and harrassment settlements without doing the hard work of changing campus culture.
- Hope for a better future in higher ed in student activists who are holding campuses accountable for racism, homophobia, and sexism.
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Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.
