📅 Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
🕒 Start Time: 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
👥 Who: Free | Open to the public
Our weekly Friday colloquia showcase current research by distinguished visiting scholars alongside our own faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education. All are welcome!
A brief reception follows each talk to keep the conversation going.
About The Talk
How to Create and Sustain a Podcast in Higher Education: Panel Discussion with Parenting Musically Collaborators
Participants
- Lisa Huisman Koops (CWRU), Moderator
- Davey Berris (CWRU MediaVision)
- George Blake (CWRU)
- Kathryn Clusman (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
- Jessica Gallagher-Steuver (CWRU, Baldwin Wallace University, and The Music Settlement)
- Christopher Clark (CWRU)
Podcasts are a quickly growing form of communication for content creators from many spheres of our society, including the academy. A group of 11 scholars penned the opinion piece “It’s Time for Academe to Take Podcasting Seriously” in 2021 for Inside Higher Ed, stating:
As a form of public scholarship, high-quality podcast creation reinforces the connection between the university and society at large. It offers a rare opportunity to make scholarship accessible to a far greater audience than written materials could ever reach. Podcasts also create archives of knowledge otherwise lost to the public, since much of academic life takes place in formats easily recorded but impossible to print. (Adams et al., 2021)
The authors also recommended that podcasting be considered a form of academic research and included in promotion, tenure, and annual review evaluation. The accessibility of podcasts (often free to the public) and the importance of incorporating translational language when referring to research on a podcast mean this vehicle has the potential to bridge the research to practice gap.
In this panel discussion, we will consider the podcast Parenting Musically as an example of podcasting in higher education, inviting listeners to consider how being a guest on a podcast, co-hosting an episode or season, or creating their own podcast could be a component of as well as catalyst for research or creative activity.. Supported by a CRWU ACES+ Advance Opportunity Grant and a College of Arts & Sciences EHI-D Grant, we have created and released over 51 episodes of Parenting Musically since 2021. Panel moderator Lisa Huisman Koops (CWRU) will describe the process of creating, launching, and sustaining Parenting Musically and how it has intersected and interacted with her other research projects. The panelists have all been involved in various aspects of Parenting Musically. Panelists include Davey Berris (CWRU MediaVision) on supporting faculty in podcast set-up and production; Kathryn Clusman (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) on institutional collaboration; Jessica Gallagher-Steuver (CWRU, Baldwin Wallace University, and The Music Settlement) on logistical and social media support; Christopher Clark (CWRU) on podcast guesting; and George Blake (CWRU) on grants and co-hosting Season 7.
Venue
Harkness Classroom, located inside Harkness Chapel, serves as both a lecture hall for large classes and a backstage area during events. It is also the meeting location for the CWRU Music Colloquium Series.
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