PODCAST · education
The Mortarboard
by Daniel Barwick
The administrator's source for solutions in higher education.
Episodes
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Why Student-Parents Feel Unwelcome on Campus
The majority of college students now meet one or more of the characteristics of a nontraditional student, and yet the college experience is still built around the traditional student. Nicole Lynn Lewis of Generation Hope describes the specific challenges that face the millions of college students...
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Is Higher Ed Worse Than Enron?
Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Brennan explains why, in his view, higher education is systematically corrupt in nearly every aspect of its...
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Why Do Colleges Offer Remedial Courses Despite Better Options?
Remedial college coursework has survived evidence of ineffectiveness, charges of racial inequity, and legislation that effectively abolishes it. Host Daniel Barwick interviews one of the country's leading experts on remediation, Dr. Katie Hern of the California Acceleration Project.
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Has the Pandemic Changed Students for the Worse?
"The End of Burnout" author Jonathan Malesic explains how the pandemic has worsened the habits students need to find success in school.
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To Grade or Not To Grade? "Ungrading" in higher education
Literature professor Elisabeth Gruner and science professor Heather Miceli describe their practice of "ungrading," a feedback tool that has drawn attention and increasing support.
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The Increased Targeting of Scholars
Researcher Komi Frey of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explains why the last five years have seen a dramatic increase in attempts to censor and punish scholars for expressing their views.
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Is Tech-Ed Fulfilling Its Promise?
Is tech-ed the future, or a dystopia? Host Daniel Barwick interviews "Ted-Ed's Cassandra" and Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters.
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The End of Preferential Treatment for Elite Colleges?
New York Times Opinion writer Peter Coy explains to host Daniel Barwick why congress gave elite colleges an anti-trust exemption, and the class-action lawsuit that has emerged as a result.
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Why Are College Completion Rates So Low?
Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva, CEO of Complete College America, explains to Daniel Barwick how the organization is working to improve startlingly low college completion rates.
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Is Your Campus "Student-Ready"? | Helping students navigate a life, not just a classroom
Kallie Clark of Temple University's Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice describes research that encourages students to use more of the tools for success that a college offers them.
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The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure
UNC-Chapel Hill professor Molly Worthen explains to host Daniel Barwick that the resistance to tenure is really a battle over more fundamental forces in higher education.
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How the Pandemic Hit Female Academics the Hardest
Liz McMillen, longtime editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, explains how a substantial body of evidence suggests that female academics, who were already disproportionately burdened, have been hit especially hard by the pandemic.
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Why Are More Colleges Closing?
Host Daniel Barwick interviews Inside Higher Ed's founder and editor Doug Lederman, who explains new data that shows the acceleration in college closings and why that's not always a bad thing.
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The Two Biggest Scams in Higher Education
Kevin Carey explains to host Daniel Barwick why some graduate degrees from prestigious universities are among the biggest scams in higher education.
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Should Public College Administrators Be Personally Liable for Their Decisions?
Teresa Manning, Policy Director for the National Association of Scholars, argues that the qualified immunity that public college administrators enjoy when making decisions about student constitutional freedoms has resulted in a culture that lacks accountability and has caused taxpayers needless...
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Is The University of California Broke?
Host Daniel Barwick interviews authors Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen, who argue that California has made decisions about UC that have impoverished campuses in a number of ways, limited access, and created segregation.
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Is Tenure an Illusion? Interview with John Warner
Inside Higher Ed and Chicago Times columnist and author John Warner explains why tenure is at best a sort of guild, and at worst is an illusion.
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Season 4 Begins: Free Community College + Tenure Threatened
The 4th season of the Mortarboard begins with a bang...Dr. Daniel Barwick discusses the recent proposals for free community college, and examines a never-before-used threat to tenure at John Carroll University, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed faculty reporter Colleen Flaherty.
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Is State Funding for Higher Ed Increasing?
Emma Whitford from Inside Higher Ed describes to host Daniel Barwick how specific states are approaching their higher ed funding for the upcoming year.
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How Colleges are Rushing to Digital Recruiting
Join Higher Ed Dive's Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, as he explains how the pandemic and enrollment drops have accelerated college digital recruiting strategies.
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Higher Ed Spends $50B/Year On...Empty Space??
According to Lumina Foundation, with enrollment dropping steadily and the majority of costs fixed, colleges and universities are currently spending $50B a year on space, services, and personnel they don't need, says Lumina CFO Brad Kelsheimer.
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Public Colleges and Private Contractors - Interview with Jon Marcus
The Hechinger Report researcher Jon Marcus discusses the full extent of the transfer of public money to private contractors in American higher education.
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Student Services in a Post-Pandemic World
Student services expert Eric Stoller explains that the way colleges serve students has changed quickly during the pandemic and why those changes are just the beginning.
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"An unfortunate trendsetter" in COVID Management
UNC-Chapel Hill's history professor Jay Smith talks to host Daniel Barwick about how the university mismanaged its original COVID planning, and then mismanaged its responses to the resulting outbreaks.
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Where Does Online Education Go From Here?
Online education expert Joe Sallustio explains to host Daniel Barwick that the pandemic will only accelerate the demolition of the theoretical, psychological, and practical barriers to online education.
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The Real Purpose of American College
Professor and game designer Ian Bogost explains to host Daniel Barwick that worries about the fate of higher ed are misguided, because prominent critics mistake college's secondary purpose, education, for its primary one, collegiate life.
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Who Gets Into College? Interview with Jeff Selingo
In this two-guest episode, Dan talks to Nancy Reasland of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, about how the college has been so successful fighting the spread of Covid-19, and Jeff Selingo explains how the college admissions process is built to serve the needs of colleges, not students.
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Assessing College Student Challenges During the Pandemic
Eddy Conroy of Temple University's Hope Center explains how the Center collects data about the plight of students both prior to and during the pandemic, and offers next steps for helping students meet the challenges they face.
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Should Higher Ed Blame Students for Covid Results? Interview with a Specialist
Higher education requires students to sign COVID-19 waivers, behavior codes, and pledges, and then expels them when they break the rules. Behavioral specialist Jennifer Howell of the University of California - Merced explains why the push to blame students ignores context and best practices.
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The Cannibalization of College: Interview with Dr. Mitch Lingo
Researcher Dr. Mitch Lingo explains to host Dr. Daniel Barwick how colleges, college towns, and even students are all cannibalizing themselves in responding to the coronavirus.
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Can College Sports Recover? Interview with Two Top Coaches
What are the long-term effects of the pandemic on collegiate sports? Daniel Barwick interviews Doshia Woods, Heach Coach of the University of Denver's women's basketball team, and Kiyoshi Harris, of Netflix's "Last Chance U" fame and Head Coach of the Independence Community College football team.
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College and Covid: What Do Students Think?
Host Dr. Daniel Barwick interviews five college students about their experiences and frustrations so far, and their expectations and hopes for the fall semester.
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Is Harvard's Approach the Best COVID Compromise?
Harvard University Student Body President James Mathew explains to Daniel Barwick why he believes Harvard's fall plan hits the sweet spot between safety and campus experience.
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Professors Unite: No In-Person Fall Classes
Can a thousand teachers at a single school be wrong? Penn State professors Esther Prins and John Champagne explain to host Daniel Barwick why the faculty oppose in-person teaching for the fall.
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A Deep Dive into Free College
Professor, author, and journal editor Claire Potter defends her New York Times op-ed that national free college tuition would cure many ills both inside and outside of academia.
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Do Endowments Protect Colleges, or the Other Way Around?
University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos describes to Daniel Barwick how the rapid rise in endowment value has reversed the relationship between universities and their foundations.
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Is Donor Money Buying Course Content?
Award-winning journalist Eleanor Bader of Kingsborough Community College tells Dr. Barwick about her research into the course-content demands that wealthy donors attach to their gifts.
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Is Public Higher Education Still Public?
Inside Higher Ed reporter Emma Whitford reveals the long-term truth: public funding for higher education has decreased substantially over the last three decades. She shares with Dr. Barwick that if the pattern holds, the coming coronavirus recession will create further reductions that will never…
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A Plan for the Pandemic and Beyond: Interview with John Warner
Dr. Barwick interviews teacher, author, and columnist John Warner, who describes his view that higher education is at a crossroads: the pandemic is either the latest blow in higher education funding, or an opportunity to fix the system.
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What Will College Look Like in the Fall?
One of the nation's top education reporters, Chris Quintana of USA Today, tells listeners what he's seeing on the front lines of his work on the coronavirus and higher ed, and makes his predictions to Dr. Barwick about what the fall semester holds.
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Virtual Class Reality: Mastering the Transition
What does it look like for a college to transition to online instruction in two weeks? Dr. Barwick interviews two veteran teachers on the front lines of the transition.
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National Free College? Interview with Matthew Chingos
Matthew M. Chingos is vice president for education data and policy at the Urban Institute. Dr. Barwick discusses Dr. Chingos's advocacy for a nationally-coordinated approach to free college.
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Special Edition: Interview with the CDC
In this special edition of The Mortarboard, Dr. Barwick interviews Medical Epidemiologist Dr. Kristina Angelo of the CDC. Dr. Angelo is a specialist on student medical issues and study abroad policies. CDC Guidance for higher ed administrators:...
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Is College Still Worth It?
Federal Reserve Bank Analyst Ana Kent explains how her research suggests that college and postgraduate education may be failing some recent graduates as a financial investment. You can read her study here.
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Can Higher Education Learn from Charter Schools? Interview with Andy Smarick
Andy Smarick, former President of the Maryland State Board of Education and former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S.Department of Education, discusses why he thinks the K-12 charter school model might provide a useful enhancement for U.S. higher education.
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Rapport at Risk: Interview with Dean Matt Reed
Matt Reed, blogger for InsideHigherEd.com and CAO at Brookdale Community College, explains what happens to the student and employee cultures as traditional courses are replaced by online courses.
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Slack, Icebreakers, and Extra Credit: Creating Community with Sean Gerrity
Hostos Community College assistant professor of English Sean Gerrity shares his strategies for creating a sense of community among students, at a school where everyone is a commuter.
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The Declining Trust in Higher Education
The data is clear: an increasing number of students and taxpayers say that college isn't worth it. Critics say that higher education is too expensive, too ideological, doesn't lead to employment for many, and is too slow to respond to workforce needs. Dr. Daniel Barwick gives his take on the...
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Creating the Best Internships for Entrepreneurship Programs
Most entrepreneurship program internships are indistinguishable from business program internships. How can colleges gain a competitive advantage by distinguishing their entrepreneurship programs using impactful internships? Dr. Daniel Barwick discusses the research and a flexible approach.
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The Challenge of the Small College Library, Part 1
There are forces that act on small college libraries that prevent them from changing to meet student needs, and some of the changes that do happen just seem to muddy the mission of the library. Dr. Daniel Barwick describes the problem and offers Part 1 of a series of solutions.
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