THE TEAGLE PODCAST Interviews with grantees and influential people in American higher education, recordings of talks, and audio essays.

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In addition to the following interviews, talks, and audio essays, we have a new podcast series, "The Amazing Adventures of Indigo Jones, Classical Archaeologist!" which is available here.

• Richard Hersh on the Collegiate Learning Assessment.
  Recorded on September 11, 2007.
  Mr. Hersh is a senior fellow at the Council for Aid to Education and serves as co-director of the Collegiate Learning Assessment.
  


• Charles Blaich on the Wabash National Study and the Teagle Assessment Scholars.
  Recorded on July 25, 2007.
  Mr. Blaich is the Director of Inquiries of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. He is the leader of the Teagle-funded project, "Leveraging Institutional Success to Strengthen Assessment at Liberal Arts Colleges."
  


• Steven Tepper on the creative campus.
  Recorded on May 25, 2007.
  Mr. Tepper is associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and assistant professor in the department of sociology at Vanderbilt University. He led the Teagle grant, "Creativity, the Arts, and Higher Education: Exploring How the Arts Stimulate Creativity, Engagement, and Learning on College Campuses."
  


• Catharine Bond Hill on college rankings.
  Recorded on May 8, 2007.
  Ms. Hill is the president of Vassar College. She is an economist and previously was provost at Williams College.
  


• George Kuh on the data behind the Teagle-funded American Council of Learned Societies' White Paper, "Student Learning and Faculty Research: Connecting Teaching and Scholarship."
  Recorded on July 25, 2007.
  Mr. Kuh is Chancellors' Professor of Higher Education at Indiana University. He was a member of the ACLS working group that produced the White Paper.
  


• Leslie Dunn on Vassar College's partnership with the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO).
  Recorded on May 2, 2007.
  Ms. Dunn is associate professor of English at Vassar College and is the leader of Vassar's Teagle-funded College-Community Connections project with SEO.
  


• Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen on the religious engagements of American undergraduates.
  Recorded on April 3, 2007.
  Mr. Calhoun is the president of the Social Science Research Council and Mr. VanAntwerpen is program officer for the Project on Religion and International Affairs and research fellow at SSRC. Mr. VanAntwerpen led the Teagle-supported SSRC Guide on The Religious Engagements of American Undergraduates.
  
  
• Judith Eaton on the state of accreditation.
  Recorded on May 3, 2007.
  Ms. Eaton is president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities. CHEA is the primary national voice for voluntary accreditation and quality assurance to the US Congress and the US Department of Education.
  


• Andrew Delbanco on the future of American undergraduate education.
  Recorded on April 18, 2007.
  Mr. Delbanco is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and director of the American Studies Program.
  


• Doug Lederman on the Spellings Commission.
  Recorded on March 28, 2007.
  Mr. Lederman is editor and one of the founders of Inside Higher Ed.
  


• Paul Sotherland on using CLA results.
  Recorded on February 7, 2007.
  Mr. Sotherland is professor of biology at Kalamazoo College and leader of the Teagle-funded Kalamazoo assessment collaborative.
  


• David Harris on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in college completion and achievement.
  Recorded on November 16, 2006.
  Mr. Harris is vice provost for social sciences and professor of sociology at Cornell University. He led the Teagle-funded Cornell working group on this issue.
  

• Richard Hersh, Going Naked.
  Recorded on September 6, 2007 at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
  Mr. Hersh is a senior fellow at the Council for Aid to Education and serves as co-director of the Collegiate Learning Assessment.
  


• W. Robert Connor, Teaching Classics to Sam Alito.
  Recorded on April 6, 2006 at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
  


• Teagle Forum on Classical Antiquity and American Popular Culture.
  Recorded on March 3, 2006 at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
  
  
  Danielle Allen, Living in the Movies and Learning in College.
  Ms. Allen is dean of the Humanities division and professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
  
  Daniel Mendelsohn, Teagle Forum Talk or Forget Gladiator, We Should be Talking about Survivor.
  An author and critic, Mr. Mendelsohn is also the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.
  
  Kirk Ormand, Comment on Allen and Mendelsohn.
  Mr. Ormand is chair and professor of Classics at Oberlin College.
  
  
  
• Derek Bok and Nicholas Kristof on student learning and undergraduate college education.
  Recorded on February 13, 2006 in New York City.
  Mr. Bok is president emeritus and Research Professor at Harvard University. Mr. Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times.
  


• W. Robert Connor, From Foxes to Hedgehogs: Taking Liberal Education ot the Next Level—Valuing our Values.
  Recorded on January 27, 2006 at the annual meeting of the Association of College Academic Deans, Washington, DC.
  

• W. Robert Connor, Advancing Student Learning: What We are Learning at the Teagle Foundation.
  


• W. Robert Connor, The Role of the Undergraduate Major in Advancing Liberal Learning.
  


• W. Robert Connor, At the Crossroads: The Prospect for Improving Student Learning.
  


• W. Robert Connor, Asking the Big Questions.
  


• W. Robert Connor, Getting There.
  


• Donna Heiland, The College-Community Connections Experience.