Season 1: #1 - Paula Krebs, Modern Language Association

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.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Paula Krebs
• Modern Language Association
• Bridgewater State University
• Wheaton College
• Matt Reed
• Confession of a Community College Dean at Inside Higher Ed
• Teaching at Teaching Intensive Institutions
• Jenna Lay at Lehigh
• Council of Graduate Schools

Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.