What was it like to be involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the height of the civil rights movement? What was the philosophy of education for liberation advanced by SNCC at their first residential freedom school they launched in Chicago, and what lessons does it have for higher education today? How did … Read More
Author: Eli Kramer
NAB Podcast: Mickey Huff on Free Speech and Critical Media Literacy in Higher Education
If and how should online media companies exercise censorious power over people on their platforms? How do we support and protect critical and honest independent media? What is Project Censored, and how can it support the development of critical media literacy in college and university classrooms? In today’s podcast we talk with our guest Mickey … Read More
NAB Podcast: Kelly Hankin on Media Cultures of Study Abroad in Higher Education
What “gaze” does the US higher education study abroad industry want to cultivate amongst students? How does the lack of diversity in US study abroad programs affect the narratives told about it, and diverse student experiences of it? What role should study abroad and/or other cross-cultural experiences play in a liberal arts education? Despite it … Read More
NAB Podcast: John Kaag on Personal, Vulnerable Philosophy and Higher Learning
What should be the role of philosophy as a shared, personal, and vulnerable endeavor in today’s higher education system? As part of the authentic learning experience, how open should philosophy teachers be with their undergraduate students about their personal lives and challenges? Is there room in professional philosophy for personal and vulnerable philosophical teaching and … Read More
Thoughts on the Making and on the Prospects of Unmaking Market-Driven Higher Education
By James Anderson On a recent episode of the NAB Podcast, I mentioned a critique of markets leveled by Michael Albert, a market abolitionist and proponent of Participatory Economics. In an interview with Vincent Emanuele, Albert explained how market competition creates pressures within a business that work to undermine egalitarianism in the workplace by engendering … Read More
NAB Podcast: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese on Amazon and Higher Education
What can be learned from ethnographic interviews of Amazon’s last mile delivery workers in the greater LA area about the current global economy? How can undergraduate student researchers participate in this kind of labor research? Can academic and student research build opportunities for labor organizing, and resist the precarity that dominates the economy because of … Read More
NAB Podcast: Tommy Curry on Revolution and Pessimism in Black Male Studies and its Role in Higher Education
Is Fred Hampton-style coalition building a useful praxis for contesting anti-Blackness today, or are efforts at building a “Rainbow Coalition” inappropriate or ineffective in the current historical conjuncture? Does emphasis on emancipatory efforts for black persons, and especially men, in social-political theory, sometimes undercut the need to come to terms with deeper, perhaps insurmountable anti-black … Read More
NAB Podcast: Emma Pettit on Higher Education Journalism
What is distinctive about higher education journalism? What can we learn from people driven narratives in journalism, including telling the stories of “departmental drama” in higher education? What are some of the challenges in covering higher education – especially with respect to the faculty beat? Are there any blind spots in what higher education reporters … Read More
NAB Podcast: A Post-Election Reflection on Higher Education with Leonard Waks
What do the results of the US election mean for the future of US higher education? Even beyond electoral politics, what does it suggest about the current status of “little d” democracy, as well as about our national institutions? In light of this situation, can US higher education survive in its current form? On this … Read More
NAB Podcast: Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government and Higher Education
If and how does understanding our workplaces as “private governments”, especially how many of them are run on deeply undemocratic models of organization and decision making, apply to US colleges and universities in their function as employers? Should higher education in the US function on any market principles, or are other institutions and arrangements more … Read More