Ep. 214: Voices of Student Success: When Nontraditional Students Become the Norm
Inside Higher Ed’s Voices of Student Success discusses what colleges need to rethink as “nontraditional” students increasingly reflect today’s college population.
In their new book, Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times (Duke University Press) Cathy Davidson, founder of the Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Jody Greene, founding director of the Teaching and Learning Center at UC Santa Cruz, call on faculty to get involved in the decisions shaping their institutions’ futures.
They join Inside Higher Ed Editor in Chief Sara Custer to talk about the book, which they describe as part love letter, part self-help guide. They dig into why faculty have lost ground in institutional leadership and how the rift between academics and administrators got so wide. Cathy and Jody share how faculty should respond to claims that they’re brainwashing students with leftist ideology and how to get informed about the challenges facing the sector. (Hint: Start with Inside Higher Ed every morning.)
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