American Campus Podcast
A history of American higher education hosted by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Podcasting since 2024 • 16 episodes
American Campus Podcast
Latest Episodes
Students for Fair Admissions (2023) and affirmative action with Mike Collins, Part II
This is Part II of an earlier discussion with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Lau (1974), Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out ...
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Bakke (1978) and affirmative action with Mike Collins, Part I
This is Part I of a two-part interview with Mike Collins about Supreme Court affirmative action cases affecting higher education, including Bakke (1978), Fisher (2016), and Students for Fair Admissions (2023). For more, check out Collin's recen...
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Iranian student activism during the Carter administration with Will Teague
Will Teague discusses the activism of Iranian international students who were studying in the US during the end of the 1970s.Will Teague. 2024.
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College movies of the '00s, millennials, and "The Abercrombie Age" with Myles Ethan Lascity
Abercrombie and Fitch is back, millennials and gen x-ers! Ethan Lascity takes us for a walk down memory lane in a discussion of Legally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts.My...
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The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan
In 1960, California experimented with tuition-free college for all public campuses in the state. As Andrew Higgins explains in Higher Education for All (UNC Press, 2023), the California Master Plan actually worked to make higher educat...
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