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The fastest and most significant shift in American higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. Historian A.J. Angulo tells Sam the sordid history of these 'diploma mills' and how they've targeted low-income students, while reaping in federal dollars.

Myra Strober, feminist economist, speaks to Sam about her powerful memoir on fighting sexism in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Good News/Bad News on Canada's educational outcomes, UBC's Board, for-profit colleges, and Palestinian/Israeli campus advocacy.

The Canadian federal government just released its 2016 budget. What does it mean for post-secondary education? We break it down with wonk king of Canadian education, Alex Usher. Good/news bad on sexual assault policy in BC, arbitration & community college, cancer research, and the bizarre new frontier of campus Israeli advocacy. Plus, Gordon goes off on student politicians.

This week's Good News/Bad News: the #FakeTenure controversy in Scott Walker's Wisconsin; new $$$ for Canadian researchers; a sting (!) on unrigorous education conferences; the new sexual assault policy covering Ontario schools; and, the secret double life of one British professor. Our research of the week is on eugenics. Finally, we look speak to public education advocate Carol Burris on President Obama's nominee for education secretary and what it means for secondary and post-secondary education.

This week's Good News/Bad News: British Prep schools; Bob Dylan's secret archive; charter schools; and, can you sue your school if you don't get a job? Our research of the week is on psychology's 'reproducibility crisis,' and our feature interview is about how cultural representations of brilliance (e.g. Sherlock Holmes, etc) usually seem to leave out women. Happy International Women's Day.

Trigger warning: this episode includes distasteful gun puns. Good News/Bad News: Something like free tuition in Ontario; what TrumpU can do for you; and advice from the ancients about how to drink (and not drink) on BC campuses. Research of the week is about high school teachers who struggle to teach a new kind of interpretative history. The feature interview is with Howard P. Chudacoff, on March Madness!

This week's good news/bad news: STEM v. Humanities, episode 2,420; student protests breaking out in Indian; exposing the colleges that are being bailed out, because they are too-big-to-fail; new ways to make your professors better teachers; and, finally, hug a corporation week. Plus, this week's research compare climate scientists with high school teachers. Our feature interview is with Jamie Brownlee, author of Academia, Inc. "I don't think that the interests of corporations and public universities can be really 'brought into balance.' I think that public universities are corporations are, in many respects, profoundly incompatible institutions. With very deeply contradictory goals and values--perhaps even irreconcilable. What I would call for? I think in certain areas, we need to see these institutions divorce themselves from one another."

Good news/bad news: 1) You may have a new student job this summer, thanks to the Canadian federal government; 2) the latest from the scandal at Mount Saint Mary's University; 3) the US Senate may actually have some legislation that will be good for low income students; 4) but the US House may have some legislation that will be bad for research; 5) Kanye weighs in on education policy--and he makes some good points! Plus, who will win the Republican nomination? That's our research of the week. Our feature interview is Adrianna Kezar of the Delphi Project, which looks at the increasing use of non-tenured faculty for teaching: “The best thing that could happen is that PhD program enrolments plummet. Because we need a crisis. If we had that crisis happening, we’d get more attention to the issue. I feel people need to be that enraged and people need to turn away.”

Good news/bad news: 1) the new Canadian federal government will be coming up with their budget soon (probably the third week of March)--what will it mean for higher education? 2) There's an embarrassing scandal at Mount Saint Mary's University, and it may have big implications for the future of student journalism. 3) You know what happened in Flint, but did you know the team of dogged researchers who figured the whole thing out? 4) Will coding start to count as a 'second language' for high school graduates and university applicants? Maybe in one state. Plus, we've got your update on Goat Watch 2016. Were there more campus protests today, or during the heyday of the 60s student movements? That's our research of the week. Our feature interview is with American Political Theorist Corey Robin, who has a problem with today's public intellectuals. "There's a notion that not only is this the way the world is, this is the way the world must be. This is the way the world will remain. And sometimes people will go, if you really push them, you know... it's good that it be that way. And I think right there, that's very counter to the idea of the public intellectual. Because if we think of all the heroic public intellectuals -- and this is not a left/right issue by the way, because right wing public intellectuals do the same exact thing -- public intellectuals have never been content to merely to describe the world as it is." By the way, sorry we were late this week!

This week's good news/bad news: Turkey, an Academia.edu Twitterstorm, BC post-secondary funding, a chocolate milk scandal, and the goat that got away. In the research paper of the week, we look at an article that might offer an explanation for why Gordon is so arrogant. Plus, Sam interviews Audrey Watters, watchdog of Silicon Valley's machinations for higher ed.

This weeks headlines: craziness (again) at UBC, a project that identifies the most-taught books, a professor who might kinda be into ISIS, and a new president at Brock. Plus, a new segment: research of the week. Our feature interview is with Susan Dynarski, an educational economist who answers the question ‘is college really worth it?’

In this episode (still in our loose format), we talk to restorative justice guru Howard Zehr, and he explains what restorative justice is and how it works. Plus, good news & bad news (i.e. headlines).

Update: We're back, sort of. We're trying to gear up to get more funding to make those big documentaries you like. But in the meantime, each week we'll do episodes that keep you up to date on the important news in higher education, and interesting research that catches our eyes. In this episode, we do headlines, learn what anthropologists mean by 'think description,' and talk to Robert Klitzman about his new book on the internal review boards that look at research, 'The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe.' "There is no required training to be an IRB member. Anyone -- you could be an IRB chair tomorrow! Nowhere does it say what the training is or should be. I was startled to learn that sometimes IRB members are volunteered. One women, when she got to her university, she was told everyone in the department is put on her committee, and her committee would be the IRB. And she said: what's an IRB?' So again you have, as one colleague put it, "well-meaning amateurs."

You've heard that scientists have a pretty strong consensus on the science of climate change. But did you know that social scientists have a pretty strong consensus on what to do about it? This week, we offer simple solutions to humanity's most overwhelming problem. More: http://citedpodcast.com/episode-7-the-other-climate-change-consensus

Video game developers are using experimental psychology and behavioural economics to make simple games that get you hooked. One professor used satire to fight back, but not everyone got the joke. More: http://citedpodcast.com/episode-6-the-secret-science-of-video-games/