How to be a good mentor and mentee
Contributors from across the globe offer their advice on how to make these critical relationships work for everyone involved
This episode of the Campus podcast comes as record temperatures beat down through the northern hemisphere summer, with wildfires engulfing Greece and Spain and deadly floods in India. With the UK recently approving new oil and gas licenses, it’s easy to feel that reversing the climate crisis is a lost cause.
However, our guests each offer elements of hope despite the bleak outlook. Bryan Alexander is a senior scholar at Georgetown University and a futurist. His latest book, Universities on Fire, implores universities to wake up and realize that they can make a profound change in the climate crisis. And he is cautiously optimistic about their ability to do that.
Our second guest is Sebastian Pfautsch, an associate professor in urban planning and management in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University (WSU), with a background in tree physiology and, of all things, interior design. His multidisciplinary research is built around the complex issue of urban heat. He talks about some of the actions WSU, which has topped the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the past two years, has taken to meet the SDGs and what Australia’s experience of extreme heat can teach the rest of the world about cooling their cities.
Contributors from across the globe offer their advice on how to make these critical relationships work for everyone involved
Ngiare Brown is the first female and the first indigenous chancellor of James Cook University. Here she shares what she hopes to achieve during her tenure, including making higher education a place for indigenous students
Eve Riskin, dean of undergraduate education at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about the power of mentorship, diversity in excellence and what she, as an electrical engineer and computer scientist, thinks about the emergence of generative AI
AI expert Ashok Goel is back on the podcast to help us understand the implications of ChatGPT for higher education and what will happen next
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