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 KrebsModern Language AssociationBridgewater State UniversityWheaton CollegeMatt ReedConfession of a Community College Dean at Inside Higher EdTeaching at Teaching Intensive InstitutionsJenna Lay at LehighCouncil of Graduate SchoolsMusic Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.