Higher Ed Now

American Council of Trustees and Alumni

Higher Ed Now is a production of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. It is a podcast concerning issues and policy in America's higher education system.

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Higher Ed Now

Episodes (100)

Mar 3rd Wagner, Colonialism, and K-Pop: How Language Learning Connects Us to Culture and History
Nov 13, 2025 David Eubanks: How Accreditation Does (And Does Not) Work
Oct 9, 2025 Thad Westbrook: Leading Higher Education Reform at the University of South Carolina

Higher Ed Now

Mar 3, 2026
48 minutes
109 MB

ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant is joined by Doctor Marie Kawthar Daouda, lecturer in French at the University of Oxford's Oriel College. Their conversation ranges from language's role in shaping national and cultural identity, to how language learning changes one's thinking and worldview, to the explosion in popularity of Korean in defiance of the sagging enrollment faced by other foreign language programs. Dr. Daouda was born and raised in Morocco and moved to France alone at 17 where she studied French, English, and Classics at Lycée Henri-IV and La Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the artistic re...

Higher Ed Now

Wagner, Colonialism, and K-Pop: How Language Learning Connects Us to Culture and History

American Council of Trustees and Alumni

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