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.
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 who are also parents.
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 operations.
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.
"The End of Burnout" author Jonathan Malesic explains how the pandemic has worsened the habits students need to find success in school.
Literature professor Elisabeth Gruner and science professor Heather Miceli describe their practice of "ungrading," a feedback tool that has drawn attention and increasing support.
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.
Is tech-ed the future, or a dystopia? Host Daniel Barwick interviews "Ted-Ed's Cassandra" and Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters.
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.
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.
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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