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Near The Water
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Hydrologist Dr. Karletta Chief of the Navajo Nation talks with Jess about the unique scientific problems facing indigenous communities in the Unite...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The End of Student Debt: Free College and Debt Strikes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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44 million Americans hold over 1.6 trillion dollars of student debt and the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket. This unpayable debt ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WMMT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
QPM? S2 EP 5: La importancia of education for Latinos
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Getting a degree is not easy for a lot of immigrants, first generation graduates and for low income families. First, navigating through the system ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 10:35
How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending August 18, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over "Discriminat...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Title IX, Part 2
From: Victoria Davis
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Today’s episode, part 2 of 2, explores some of the other arguments in Title IX funding’s impact on higher education.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:53
Title IX Part 1
From: Victoria Davis
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Today’s episode is part one of two, exploring the impact of federal Title Nine funding on sexual assault and harassment cases in higher education.

  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Eternal Coddling
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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This episode traces the history of debate about the threat of coddled students.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
April 25th, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Congratulations to the Bring It On staff on their award from the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists! Joining Cornelius Wright and Amrita ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 57:52
Life of the Mind: Lorraine Pangle
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Professor Lorraine Pangle examines what a "liberal education" means. Pangle is the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center and Core Texts and Ideas...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 31:07
Life of the Mind: Janet Davis
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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Professor Davis discusses how working outside academia made her a better teacher, whether technology in the classroom hinders learning, and her com...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
Life of the Mind: H.W. Brands
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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UT professor and author H.W. Brands discusses how he fell in love with history while traveling across the Intermountain West as a salesman, whether...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
Public Higher Education in America
From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
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Dr. Richard K. Lieberman, Director of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, discusses the history of the G.I. Bill and public higher education in Amer...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Drink Local (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, KEDT, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Great Expectations
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Making the transition from teenager to independent adult is hard enough… but without family support, it’s especially tricky. Lilia Fuquen reports ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
Grandparents Who Parent (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raisin...

Bought by WCNY, WCPN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Grandparents Who Parent (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raisin...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KRDP, WKCC, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Future of Higher Education (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The decision by Harvard and MIT to begin providing free courses to anyone, anywhere sparked an intense debate about the future of a bricks and mort...

Bought by WJCT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 5
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The decision by Harvard and MIT to begin providing free courses to anyone, anywhere sparked an intense debate about the future of a bricks and mort...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KKRN, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Pathway to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Summer Melt and the Z Degree (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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One of the largest community colleges in the nation has launched an innovative program that takes thousands of Latino high school students all the ...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Summer Melt and the Z Degree (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Texting may help stop "summer melt," which is when students who graduate from high school intending to go to college in the fall never show up. And...

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Accessible Media Inc., Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Derek Bok: The View from the Top (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Cooper and Marianne Leone on "Chasing the Dream: Arts School" (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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For the perspective of experience and solid accomplishment, we're asking two pros in the middle of enviable careers what they learned in and out of...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1