
99 episodes

Speaking of Simpson Brian Steffen
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4.6 • 7 Ratings
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A podcast of the people and events that make Simpson College one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation.
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134: Cassidy Daub & Kenneth Norris on Transgender Life at Simpson
With the state legislature passing a raft of laws to discriminate against transgender Iowans, Simpson students Cassidy Daub and Kenneth Norris come on the final podcast of the 2022-23 academic year to talk about their experiences in their hometowns, their families, on the Simpson campus and beyond.
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133: Seth Andersen on Simpson's Latest Voter-Turnout Honors
With up to 75% voting turnout among Simpson students, the college has been named one of America's Voter-Friendly Campuses by the Fair Elections Project and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Seth Andersen, director of the John C. Culver Public Policy Center at Simpson, is our guest this week to talk about the college's non-partisan efforts to turn out student voters regardless of party affiliation or ideology.
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132: Spencer Waugh on Winning (Yet Another) Debate National Championship
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131: Nora J.S. Reichardt on Coming Out as Transgender on Local TV News
With transgender rights front and center in Iowa political debates, We Are Iowa local journalist Nora J.S. Reichardt grabbed national headlines when she recently came out as transgender on the air. Nora visited with Multimedia Journalism and Foundations students about her transition and how Iowans have responded.
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130: Lexi Johnston on Bringing a Death Row Survivor to Simpson
Death row survivor Anthony Ray Hinton, author of The Sun Does Shine, will speak at Simpson on Tuesday, March 29. That's because student Lexi Johnson took the lead in booking him after she read his book. Johnston joins the podcast this week to talk about how Hinton's story inspired her as a criminal justice major, and why she went to work bringing him to speak at the college.
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129: Rebecca Livingstone on Debating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Simpson's history faculty don't simply lecture about history — they help students live it through the innovative Reacting to the Past method of teaching. Simpson history professor Rebecca Livingstone is out with a new co-authored book on learning history through role-playing, Monuments and Memory-Making: The Debate over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1982. She stops by the podcast this week to talk about the RTTP method of teaching and how she is using it in classwork at Simpson.