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Top of Mind - Where’s the Middle Ground on Affirmative Action?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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The US Supreme Court is again considering whether universities can make an applicant’s race part of the decision to admit or reject.

Bought by KMXT, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Social Justice in Digital Humanities
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Roopika Risam
We're joined by the co-editors of Reviews in Digital Humanities, Dr. Roopika Risam and Dr. Jennifer Guiliano. Dr. Risam is the Chair of Secondary a...

Bought by KNCT FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization? New Vitality in Education & Legislation
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 14: A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization? New Vitality in Education & Legislation
In “A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization,” The Purple Principle takes on these questions with four special guests well versed in civics, kicking off...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 39:53
Going Medieval with Twitterstorians
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Eels!
We're joined by Dr. Shannon McSheffrey, a medieval historian at Concordia University in Montreal. Professor McSheffrey's research interests center ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Modernizing Army Training in Software and Tech
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Army Futures Command (AFC) is partnering with Austin Community College (ACC) in Texas to create a new Software Factory, which will be a software de...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:53
Renee Hobbs on the role of trust and empathy in media literacy
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how some tenets of media literacy can be co-opted by conspiracy theorists, and how to approach media literacy education...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Conspiracy Theories & Media Literacy with Renee Hobbs
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Renee Hobbs, Ed.D
In this episode, we explore the allure and growing influence of conspiracy theories, and how they are both combated by and influenced by Media Lite...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Navigating Allyship
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Screenshot from NIC Allyship podcast
In this episode, we explore allyship - How to support black people and other people of color in the fight for equity, protection from police brutal...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
The Tales of Two Pandemics: with Dr. Nancy Bristow
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Fat Phobia, Video Recording Apps and the Law, Autopsy of a Wrongful Conviction
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: The racial origins of fat phobia. Topic 2: iPhone shortcut allows your phone to start recording when pulled over by police. Topic 3: Autop...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 50:02
  • Purchases: 1
Zika Virus -- Groks Science Show 2016-03-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Brenda Wilson discusses the origin of the Zika virus, its connection to microcephaly, and what is being done to stop its spread.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WYAP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 5
How You Can Lose Weight Living A Diet Free Life
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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Author and CEO of A Diet Free Life, Robert Ferguson provides information on how you can maintain your three meals a day and still lose weight.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 15:46
Politics and Profits of Academia
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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Even if universities are not for profit, budgets loom large in higher education--and global markets hold revenue potential. In this episode, we loo...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
Education: The Local Up Against the Global
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm offers selections from two previous shows on the state of public education in Indiana and the nation.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:11
Derek Bok: The View from the Top
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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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 KVSC and KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 2
The Age of Ivory -- Groks Science Show 2013-07-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Kevin Uno discusses carbon, ecology, elephants, and conservation.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 3
Down and Dirty Justice
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
ATC Charter Coda: Much ado about... nothing?
From: nancy udell
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We thought we finished our series on the ATC Charter Story, but...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 21:34
ATC Charter (Part II): Hell hath no fury...?
From: nancy udell
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On this show we hear Russell Caldwell, Davidson & Co. banker who put the ATC financing together, Jim Ford, an independent education and strategic p...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 19:36
ATC Charter (Part I): Leaving Home
From: nancy udell
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This story is about ATC, the Academy of Technology and the Classics charter school which decided to leave the building that many thought would be i...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 20:39
Peter Escher on the MBA Oath
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Can MBAs be held to "do no harm" standards similar to those of MDs? The MBA Oath was created by a group of Class of 2009 Graduates of Harvard Busin...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2011
  • Length: 26:40
  • Purchases: 1
Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today on a very special Culture Clique we cover a topic that some people approach timidly: Race Manners. We visit with Bruce A. Jacobs, author of R...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 39:24
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Landscape -- Groks Science Show 2010-10-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Sam Harris discussed the Moral Landscape

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 2
SUNY and Lurie Gardens
From: Smart City Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
SUNY and Lurie Gardens

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLRN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Future of Cities
From: Smart City Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week on Smart City, we'll find out how Echoing Green brings venture capital strategies to funding social entrepreneurs. And Katherine Von Jan...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Yellowstone Public Radio, WFSU, Spokane Public Radio, WLRN and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 6