Cathy Davidson is an author, professor at Duke University, and co-founder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) who is well known for her studies about technology, collaboration, cognition, and learning. (In July 2014, she will be joining the faculty of the Graduate Center, City University of New York.) We...

David Conley is a policy analyst and professor of educational policy and leadership at the University of Oregon. We interviewed David in October 2013, asking him what it means to be college ready today. We also discussed how he thinks students can acquire the research skills they will need to succeed in college and in their careers.

Char Booth is an inspirational academic librarian at Claremont Colleges (CA), who integrates design, Web 2.0 learning technologies, and pedagogy and produces stand-up-and-take-notice results. For these reasons, and many more, PIL selected Char as our annual librarian Smart Talk interviewee for 2013. We asked her about generating ideas for using new...

Howie Schneider developed and teaches the nation's first course on New Literacy at the Journalism School at Stony Brook University, where he is also the founding dean. We interviewed Howie in May 2013 to discuss what it takes to be news-literate in today's mercurial media landscape and what works for teaching the next generation of college graduates...

Ken Bain is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia and a Professor of History and Urban Education. He is an acclaimed educator who has lectured at over 300 universities and founded and directed four major teaching and learning centers. In this PIL interview, we talked to Ken about his latest...

Barbara Fister ia a Professor and Academic Librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small liberal arts college near Minneapolis. In this PIL interview, we talked to Barbara about why the research paper is a flawed pedagogical practice but continues to be assigned and what rethinking research as "play" may mean to teaching today's college students.