Season 1: #8 - Roopika Risam and Mary Churchill, Rocking the Academy

Topics Discussed in this Episode:Higher ed is dying and being dismantled while the same people doing the dismantling are also guarding and maintaining it.Traditional markers of higher ed -- 15-week semesters, discipline-based departments, seat time, competition, and tenure -- do not work for most faculty or students.The significance of reframing education through the lens of human development.How difficult university policies make the disability accommodation process for staff and faculty.The possibility of doing the work we care about outside of our institutions or job descriptions.The need for the walls of higher education to be more permeable.Universities as systems and institutions that become forces against critique or dissent.The tension between changing a system while also maintaining the system.Doing radical work in the academy and fighting for equity and justice has risks.The way institutions fail their students by failing to create infrastructure for their social and emotional well-being.The importance of recognizing that higher education is more than classroom teaching.Our guests are the people who keep making change, keep fighting in spite of the challenges they encounter.This season was also about the power of friendship, connection, and collaboration.Our guests for next season are Chris Newfield, Yves Salomon-Fernández, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ashley Gray, Ravynn Stringfield, Lavelle Porter, Katina Rogers, and Maria Maisto.We welcome recommendations for guests for Season 3.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human DevelopmentKatie Rose Guest PryalKatie Rose Guest Pryal, Life of the Mind, InterruptedPaula KrebsPaula Krebs, Teaching at Teaching Intensive InstitutionsSchuyler EspritSchuyler Esprit, Create CaribbeanAlex GilAlex Gil, Rikers Story BotKelly J. BakerKelly J. Baker, Sexism EdRoopika Risam, "Academic Generosity, Academic Insurgency"Katerina Gonzalez SeligmannRaj ChettyEthnic Studies RiseLorgia García-Peña#LorgiaFestLee Skallerup Bessette Bryan AlexanderBryan Alexander, Academia NextChris NewfieldYves Salomon-FernándezKathleen FitzpatrickKathleen Fitzpatrick, Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the UniversityAshley GrayAmerican Council on Education's Women's NetworkAmerican Council on Education's Moving the Needle InitiativeRavynn StringfieldBlack Girl Does Grad SchoolLavelle PorterLavelle Porter, The Blackademic LifeKatina RogersKatina Rogers, Putting the Humanities PhD to WorkMaria Maisto