Academic Innovation for the Public Good
The 2022 series of author interviews
In 2022, Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College organized 10 monthly book conversations via Zoom with authors of recently published books that explore how colleges and universities can innovate to improve the public good. The scholars were interviewed by experts in their books' subjects, addressing what can be done to improve equity and access in higher education and how to enhance teaching and learning. Watch the video to see excerpts from the 2022 discussions.
View the Academic Innovation for the Public Good ’22 compilation video
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The new book selections address the topics of belonging and knowledge sharing.
Recordings of our 2022 conversations
Author Davarian Baldwin
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Author Ronald Daniels
What Universities Owe Democracy
Author Sekile Nzinga
Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity
Author Emily Levine
Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
Author Sarah Stein Greenberg
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
Author William Kirby
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
Author Ethan Ris
Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Author Marybeth Gasman
Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
Author Van Ton-Quinlivan
WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times
Authors Tia Brown McNair and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education
Stanford Digital Education and Trinity jointly organized the series in collaboration with Bentley University, Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke Learning Innovation, Georgetown University Center for Design in Learning and Scholarship, Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Davidson College, Johns Hopkins University, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton, Minerva, North Dakota State University Graduate School, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northwestern University Women's Center, Notre Dame Learning, University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation, University of Missouri Online, University of Pennsylvania Online Learning Initiative, Stanford Humanities Center’s Recovering the University as a Public Good initiative and the Stanford Pathways Lab.
