American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 3: Current Realities & Future Opportunities

A career-diverse academy must also be a public-facing academy.  But what should that look like?  In this session we will explore some of the many possibilities that higher education may contemplate when it looks outward for engagement with the society that it supports—and which supports it in turn.
 

• Naomi Oreskes, AAAS Talk, "The Scientist as Sentinel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBkyVZFHto (It's about 10 mins)

• Frontier of Young Minds journal for middle school students by middle school students. The articles are submitted by researchers and reviewed by K-12 students. This particular article was submitted by a graduate student and her faculty advisor in Neuroscience at Princeton (Patricia Hoyos and Sabine Kastner,  respectively).  Please browse the site, starting with that piece:  https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2022.734161

• Sean Campbell Staton of Princeton’s Ecology & Evolutionary Biology specializes in podcasts and tv shows. Please browse his site:  https://www.campbellstaton.com/scicomm 

• Carin Berkowitz and Matthew Gibson 's "Reframing the Public Humanities" (https://www.amacad.org/publication/reframing-public-humanities-tensions-challenges-potentials-more-expansive-endeavor). * Carin will be joining us.

• Browse the HumestricsHSS project (at https://humetricshss.org/).

American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort Description:

Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 

This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.