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Intentional Teachingđź”’ Public Scholarship with Leonard Cassuto (Bonus)Subscriber-only episodeQuestions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage.I recently talked with Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, about the problems and potential of doctoral education. I had a special guest interviewer, Emily Donahoe from the University of Mississippi. In these bonus clips, Len discusses the role of the 2008 recession in changing doctoral education, and Len and Emily compare notes on the value of public scholarship by academics.Podcast Links: Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.2025-01-0712 min
Intentional TeachingRethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard CassutoQuestions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message.Doctoral education in the United States works really well... when it works. Many doctoral students experience a significant mismatch between their career goals and the goals of their graduate programs, which is one reason completion rates for doctoral programs are so low. Why is doctoral education this broken? And what can higher education do about it? Today on the podcast, we hear some answers to those questions from Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and author of the book The New PhD...2025-01-0742 min
Education PerspectivesS3 EP 8 Discovering the Power of Audience-Centered Writing with Leonard CassutoS3 Ep8 Leonard Cassuto,        Professor, Fordham University Intro Guest BioLeonard Cassuto wears many hats. He's a professor of American literature at Fordham University, a well-known voice of reform in the graduate school world, and--encompassing all of these--he's a writer. He has written or edited ten books on subjects such as race and slavery, detective stories, and of course graduate education. As a scholar and journalist, Len has written about science, music, and even sports. In more than a decade as a columnist on graduate education for The Chronicle of Higher Education...2024-12-2739 min
The Vocal FriesFear and Loathing in Politics and AcademiaSend us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, about his class called "Literature and Psychology of Disgust," which explores how language evokes emotional responses, particularly disgust, and his book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, which was released in September. Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on2024-11-1254 min
Beat the Big GuysEven Higher Education, a Huge Institution, Can be Changed for the Better -- Leonard CassutoProfessor Leonard Cassuto (New York City) talks about his new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter. In higher education, research has gained the upper hand at the expense of educating students, and the professor explains how this can change.Video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/4yHT4W3NaqwPlease like, subscribe and rate this video.2024-10-3127 min
Happy Doc Student PodcastAcademic Writing as if Readers Matter with Dr. Len CassutoSend us a text - your number will not show, so if you want a response include an emailIn episode #136, I welcome back one of my favorite repeat guests, Dr. Leonard Cassuto.Len is a professor of English at Fordham University and the author of the "Graduate Adviser" column for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has written and number of books, including *The Graduate School Mess* (Harvard, 2015) and, with Robert Weisbuch, *The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education* and we are here today to talk about his hot off the...2024-10-1635 min
New Books in Higher EducationLeonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign of membership in an exclusive community of experts—many readers are left feeling utterly defeated. In his latest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton University Press, 2024), Fordham University Professor Leonard Cassuto prompts us to think more about the reader. For Cassuto, the key to better academic prose is to anticipate and respect the needs of the reader. Throughout the volume, Cassuto offers a range of advice on how to structure...2024-09-2955 min
Scholarly CommunicationLeonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign of membership in an exclusive community of experts—many readers are left feeling utterly defeated. In his latest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton University Press, 2024), Fordham University Professor Leonard Cassuto prompts us to think more about the reader. For Cassuto, the key to better academic prose is to anticipate and respect the needs of the reader. Throughout the volume, Cassuto offers a range of advice on how to structure...2024-09-2955 min
New Books in Literary StudiesLeonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign of membership in an exclusive community of experts—many readers are left feeling utterly defeated. In his latest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton University Press, 2024), Fordham University Professor Leonard Cassuto prompts us to think more about the reader. For Cassuto, the key to better academic prose is to anticipate and respect the needs of the reader. Throughout the volume, Cassuto offers a range of advice on how to structure...2024-09-2955 min
Princeton UP Ideas PodcastLeonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign of membership in an exclusive community of experts—many readers are left feeling utterly defeated. In his latest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton University Press, 2024), Fordham University Professor Leonard Cassuto prompts us to think more about the reader. For Cassuto, the key to better academic prose is to anticipate and respect the needs of the reader. Throughout the volume, Cassuto offers a range of advice on how to structure...2024-09-2955 min
New Books in CommunicationsLeonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign of membership in an exclusive community of experts—many readers are left feeling utterly defeated. In his latest book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton University Press, 2024), Fordham University Professor Leonard Cassuto prompts us to think more about the reader. For Cassuto, the key to better academic prose is to anticipate and respect the needs of the reader. Throughout the volume, Cassuto offers a range of advice on how to structure...2024-09-2955 min
Office Hours with John GardnerEpisode 131- Leonard Cassuto- Student-Centered Graduate EducationLeonard Cassuto wears many hats. He's a professor of American literature at Fordham University, a well-known voice of reform in the graduate school world, and--encompassing all of these--he's a writer. He has written or edited ten books on subjects such as race and slavery, detective stories, and of course graduate education. As a scholar and journalist, Len has written about science, music, and even sports. In more than a decade as a columnist on graduate education for The Chronicle of Higher Education ("The Graduate Adviser"), he has helped graduate schools think about how to change to meet the needs of...2024-09-2351 min
The Best Of Our KnowledgeAcademic writing and college presidentsLet’s face it, academic writing can be…boring.
We’ll speak with author Leonard Cassuto about his book, “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter.”
And we’ll catch up with a pair of college presidents.  2024-09-1828 minThe Best Of Our KnowledgeAcademic writing and college presidentsLet’s face it, academic writing can be…boring.
We’ll speak with author Leonard Cassuto about his book, “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter.”
And we’ll catch up with a pair of college presidents.  2024-09-1828 min
Syracuse University GradcastAcademic Writing as if Readers Matter: Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D.Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham and author of Academic Writing As If Readers Matter. He is a leader in innovative graduate education, and his book is essential reading for all writers, whether for academic audiences or otherwise.
He is visiting Syracuse On Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st, giving two talks:
How to Go Public: Writing for People Outside Your Specialty
September 30, 2024 at 2:15pm – 3:30pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Academic Writing: How to Do It Well and Why We Must
October 1, 2024 at 12:00pm – 1:45pm EDT
Schine Stu...2024-09-1736 minHappy Doc Student PodcastPhD Pause and Play: Navigating Life, Stopping, and Restarting the Academic Journey with Adam Baldry, MASend us a text - your number will not show, so if you want a response include an emailOn this show I chat with Adam Baldy. Adam holds an MA in East Asian Studies and is a PhD student at the University of Arizona. As a Senior IT Systems Analyst at Pima Community College, he blends his in-person and online teaching experience with ed tech management.Highlights·   Starting a doctoral program is a big decision (perhaps the biggest decision you will ever make). If at any time you feel pressured to s...2024-02-2827 min
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningWhy is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students? with Leonard CassutoIn this episode, we continue this season’s examination of graduate education, now looking into how institutions often overlook the need for preparing faculty to teach graduate students and graduate courses. We unpack the dead ideas that underlie this neglect with Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, and author of The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Why is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students?” (May 8, 2023). 2024-02-2231 min
New Books in EducationThe Connected PhD, Part OneWhy do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate students for the post-grad career path? This episode explores:
What a “Connected PhD” program is, and why it’s necessary.
The negative impact on students when they feel "less than" or as if they have failed when they can't land a tenure-track job.
How to change the PhD so students graduate with multiple career options.
Why faculty need to approach graduate programs differently.
How students can build their mentoring and support network outside of their program, and ou...2023-01-2654 minNew Books in Higher EducationThe Connected PhD, Part OneWhy do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate students for the post-grad career path? This episode explores:
What a “Connected PhD” program is, and why it’s necessary.
The negative impact on students when they feel "less than" or as if they have failed when they can't land a tenure-track job.
How to change the PhD so students graduate with multiple career options.
Why faculty need to approach graduate programs differently.
How students can build their mentoring and support network outside of their program, and ou...2023-01-2654 min
The Academic LifeThe Connected PhD, Part OneWhy do PhD programs assume students will become professors, when most people find careers outside academia? How can we better prepare graduate students for the post-grad career path? This episode explores:
What a “Connected PhD” program is, and why it’s necessary.
The negative impact on students when they feel "less than" or as if they have failed when they can't land a tenure-track job.
How to change the PhD so students graduate with multiple career options.
Why faculty need to approach graduate programs differently.
How students can build their mentoring and support network outside of their program, and ou...2023-01-2654 minHappy Doc Student PodcastCareer Diversity & The Doctorate with Dr. Leonard CassutoSend us a text - your number will not show, so if you want a response include an emailIn this episode, I continue the conversation with Dr. Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University.Be sure to listen to episode #53: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1547113/9484429Highlights:1.   Tenure-track jobs are diminishing, so if we teach doctoral students to want those jobs above all other jobs, we are teaching them to be unhappy. 2.   As a doctoral student you MUST be the CEO of your education (and where it lands you).3. ...2022-03-0941 minHappy Doc Student PodcastAre We Teaching Students To Be Unhappy? with Dr. Leonard CassutoSend us a text - your number will not show, so if you want a response include an emailAre we teaching students to be unhappy? In this episode, I chat with Dr. Leonard Cassuto. He is a professor of English at Fordham University. He writes the graduate advisor column for the Chronicle of Higher Education and has been on the graduate education frontline for years – publishing The Graduate School Mess – What Caused It and How We Can Fix It in 2015 and more recently co-authoring The New PhD: How to Build A Better Gradu...2021-11-1039 min
Syracuse University GradcastThe New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education by Leonard Cassuto and Robert WeisbuchGraduate school trains scholars to work at research universities, even though only a small fraction of them will ever gain a permanent position at one of these institutions. For most doctoral students in the humanities and allied fields, the jobs they are being trained for don’t exist. In their recent book, The New PhD, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch seek to overturn conventional wisdom in a clarion call for student-centered, career-diverse graduate education. I sat down with the authors, one of whom was an influential figure in my own doctoral program, to hear their take on how to fi...2021-09-0745 min
Doenças Tropicais22. DialĂ©tica do senhor e do escravo em Hegel, pt. 2: Fenomenologia do EspĂrito (1807)A cena mais famosa da filosofia de Hegel, em sua versĂŁo final: tratamos da Fenomenologia do EspĂrito (§§178-196), da influĂŞncia da Revolução Haitiana sobre europeus e americanos, o fortalecimento do movimento abolicionista em meados de 1800, racismo, revolta e mais Karl Marx.
ReferĂŞncias:
BUCK-MORSS, Susan. Hegel and Haiti. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 4. Summer, 2000, p. 821-865.
CASSUTO, Leonard. Frederick Douglass and the Work of Freedom: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic in the Fugitive Slave Narrative. Prospects, 21, 1996, p. 229-259.
HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phänomenologie des Geistes. In: Werke i...2021-05-2941 min
PhD Futures Now!Episode 3 | The New PhDIn this episode, host Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann talks to Dr. Leonard Cassuto and Dr. Robert Weisbuch about their book The New PhD (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) and ways of reforming graduate education in the United States. Len and Bob discuss the role faculty, senior university administrators and other entities within American higher education infrastructure can work toward meaningful actions and reform that can prepare PhD students for careers inside and outside the academy. Full audio transcript of this podcast is available on our website. 2021-05-2035 minPhD Futures Now!Bonus Episode: A Short History of Higher Education & Universities in the USIn Episode 2, host Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann talked to Dr. Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa) and Dr. Leonard Cassuto (Fordham University) about the diverse challenges facing higher education in the United States today. During the conversation Dr. Cassuto provided an articulate yet succinct history of the higher education institutions in the US and connections between the present problems in academia and that institutional history. In this short bonus episode (7 mins), we reproduce Dr. Cassuto's remarks in full.2021-05-1207 minNew Books in EducationLeonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch, "The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education" (John Hopkins UP, 2021)Whether and how to reform, indeed to transform graduate education has been a matter for debate, discussion and experimentation over the past 30 years – at least. In The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch look back at the many attempts, successes and failures to do so since the 1990s. They argue that graduate school has been preparing PhD students for jobs that don’t exist and encouraging students to want those jobs to the detriment of their career success and personal wellbeing. Cassuto and Weisbuch propose what they call a...2021-05-121h 13PhD Futures Now!Episode 2 | Is Higher Education in the United States in Crisis?In episode 2, host Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann talks to Dr. Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa) and Dr. Leonard Cassuto (Fordham University) about the diverse challenges and opportunities facing higher education in the United States today. Our guests discuss whether there is in fact a crisis in higher-ed and outline some possible pathways to reform. 2021-04-2737 min
Communication Matters: The NCA PodcastBook Highlight - The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate EducationHear from the authors recently released book, The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch, about the state of graduate school today and the possibilities for reforming graduate education.
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The #InVinoFab PodcastEpisode #69: Supporting Minds Online and Hearts Offline with @MDMillerPHDBack in April Laura was joined by Michelle Miller for a conversation for the #InVinoFab podcast to talk about how online teaching, learning, and life looks like. Much of this discussion has a great deal of relevance for where we are as we enter into the 2nd and maybe 3rd wave of COVID-19. We discuss how to deal with finding our productive selves, identifying feelings how our work life has changed, reflecting on going “online” + family/personal impacts, support/needs for moms, how to be less “remote” and the hobbies/reads that bring us joy.Ravelry community: connect with EmE...2020-11-2359 min
NBN SeminarLeonard Cassuto, “The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It” (Harvard UP, 2015)The discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture in the U.S. Indeed theirs is a sorry lot. They work very hard, earn very little, and have very poor prospects. Nearly all of them want to become professors, but most of them won’t. Indeed a disturbingly large minority of them won’t even finish their degrees. It’s little wonder graduate students are, as a group, somewhat depressed.
In his thought-provoking book The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard University Press, 2015), Leonard Cassuto tries to figure out why gr...2015-09-2247 min
The Harvard BriefLeonard Cassuto, “The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It” (Harvard UP, 2015)The discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture in the U.S. Indeed theirs is a sorry lot. They work very hard, earn very little, and have very poor prospects. Nearly all of them want to become professors, but most of them won’t. Indeed a disturbingly large minority of them won’t even finish their degrees. It’s little wonder graduate students are, as a group, somewhat depressed.In his thought-provoking book The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It (Harvard University Press, 2015), Leonard Cassuto tries to figure out why gr...2015-09-2247 min
Fordham ConversationsAmerica Freaks OutFor many of us, summer in New
York
means Coney Island…and for a lot of people, Coney
Island means the freak show. We speak with Fordham English
professor Leonard Cassuto about the history of the American freak show,
why we
liked it and why we stopped liking
it…and why Oliver Sacks might be a kinder, gentler PT Barnum.2008-04-0500 min
Fordham ConversationsAmerica Freaks OutFor many of us, summer in New
York
means Coney Island…and for a lot of people, Coney
Island means the freak show. We speak with Fordham English
professor Leonard Cassuto about the history of the American freak show,
why we
liked it and why we stopped liking
it…and why Oliver Sacks might be a kinder, gentler PT Barnum.2008-04-0530 minFordham ConversationsFreak ShowWe get our freak on with a post-halloween conversation about the
American Freak Show, with Fordham English professor Leonard Cassuto.2007-11-0330 minFordham ConversationsFreak ShowWe get our freak on with a post-halloween conversation about the
American Freak Show, with Fordham English professor Leonard Cassuto.2007-11-0300 minFordham ConversationsEducating AmericansWith back-to-school preparations beginning in earnest and parents
frantically buying extra-long sheets for their college students' dorm
beds, we talk with Fordham Professor Leonard Cassuto about the state of
the university today.2007-08-1800 minFordham ConversationsEducating AmericansWith back-to-school preparations beginning in earnest and parents
frantically buying extra-long sheets for their college students' dorm
beds, we talk with Fordham Professor Leonard Cassuto about the state of
the university today.2007-08-1830 min