
Higher Ed Now
Hosted by Michael Poliakoff and Veronica Bryant and Kyle Beltramini and Nick Down · American Council of Trustees and Alumni
4.1from 19 ratings
- 177
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 19
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Higher Ed Now
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.
- Publisher
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- Category
- education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Apr 2016
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 177 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Douglas Ginsburg: Renewing the Declaration's Promise

2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Emily Rounds: A Primer on Accreditation Reform

14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ryan Bangert: The Arc of Religious Liberty in American History
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Douglas Ginsburg: Renewing the Declaration's Promise
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] To pay for his debts. He lived luxuriously. Yes. At the expense of people who were enslaved. But then there were some extraordinarily... visionary people like John Dickinson, who at great financial loss of eight to 10,000 pounds sterling, I'm not even sure what monumental amount of money that would mean today, liberated, I believe around 40 enslaved people from the Maryland plantation. And Rufus King was again, a pretty firm opponent of slavery. There were those who could look into the future, or maybe I should say, really look into their hearts and their conscience and go beyond what was so common. […]
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- Douglas Ginsburg
- Emily Rounds
- Ryan Bangert
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
- HR McMaster
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 16 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100
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- Quality
- 39
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 84
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Michael Poliakoff and Veronica Bryant and Kyle Beltramini and Nick Down host the show. Published by American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
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