Knowledge Unbound

In this episode Clayton State University professor Dr. Leon Professor Prieto joins us to discuss how his journey from Trinidad to his education in Business at the undergraduate, Masters and PhD level informed his work and thinking on blackness and business. We discuss what this means for those of us finding deep meaning and historical relevance in our teaching practice. 

This week, Dr. Cully joins us to discuss her anthropological research, its connection to the broader discussion on social constructs of gender, and her own journey to exploring issues in accessibility. 

We are joined this week by Dr. Maha Bali of American University, Cairo. We talk teaching, AI, diversity, open, and other possibilities for transformative education in the Egyptian and international context. Thanks to Maha for hosting me and having this great conversation.

In this episode, Dr. Cavanagh reminds us that teaching the whole student includes deep considerations of their emotional and mental health. Using her own research and deploying her delightful narrative style, she helps us think about what this means for our teaching and general support of students.  

In today's episode Dr. Riddell shares her journey in higher education particularly as it led towards the writing of one her books 'Hope Circuits' and the concept of Hope University. We will explore a more expansive view of hope, necessary as higher education continues to chart paths into uncertain futures.AL

This week, longtime educator Kimberly Minors joins me to talk teaching, education and general social change in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Kimberly discusses her experience as a classroom teacher and as a consultant to the education system there, highlighting the reality that educating well is about knowing the whole person and the society education is meant to improve. 

This week I was joined by Dr. David Asai. David shared with me his journey, his father's journey, and how lessons from both tell us a lot about race, ethnicity and belonging in America. We discuss this rich personal history and muse on what it means for our collective responsibility to offer a rich, meaningful higher education experience. 

In this, the first episode of Season 2, I talk with Heather Beem, founder of the Practical Education Network, about serving others, your why, and her own journey to designing an organization that makes cool science available to all, regardless of resource level. Heather talks about her journey from MIT field trip to the reach that her organization has across the continent of Africa.

In this special bonus back-to-school episode, Roxanna Elden, former high school teacher and author of See me after class: Advice for teachers by teachers and Adequate Yearly Progress talks to us about unpacking all the tiny things about effective classrooms that perhaps we don't always want to discuss. We hope this witty conversation provides useful tips for you as we enter into this academic year together.

This week, in our final episode of Season 1, Dr. Mays Imad shared with us her journey from Baghdad, Iraq to Connecticut College and her internationally renowned work on trauma informed education. She implores us to think of education as opportunities for healing and growth, such that both our students and us can become more whole from the experience.

Executive Director of Exchange for Change joins us to discuss providing education to the incarcerated, education as a human right, and the ways in which her life experience impacted her desire to center humanism in education. Kathie was a journalist in Haiti for 30 years and shares with us lessons from that experience that informs her current work.

In this episode we discuss the formation of an incredible partnership around teaching and the ways in which that partnership led to classroom transformation, an acclaimed book on inclusive teaching, and professional development that continues to transform campuses nationwide. Our discussion helps explore the underbelly of what it really means to teach with students fully in mind.

Dr. Eatman talks with us in this episode about the Honors Living Learning community at Rutgers University, Newark. He describes the version that led to the vision, and the ways in which the LLC is reimagining what it means to be educated.

President Bush is the co-founder and President of College Unbound. His team has developed a remarkable approach to higher education that allows us to rethink and re-recognize college's social possibilities. He talks to us here about his personal journey and path to that vision. College Unbound is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

This week Dr. Vijai Bhola, critical care and infectious disease doctor discusses his journey to international medical work, and the ways in which that work has impacted the lives of others and his own. We discuss what it means to engage in medical practice in a mindset of 'beyond', and the behaviors that makes that sustainable.

In today's conversation Dr. Montgomery talks about her journey into the academy and what led to her work on inclusive mentoring. We discuss ways in which pivotal life moments taught lessons that have shaped her approach to her work. Dr. Montgomery is the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College and the author of the book 'Lessons from Plants'.