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MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

MICROCOLLEGE is an exploration of the crisis in higher education and the innovative projects and thinkers working to address it, with a special focus on the human-scaled, place-based, meaning-oriented learning communities we call "microcolleges."The podcast is hosted by Jacob Hundt, Founder of Thoreau College, a micro college rooted in the Driftless Region of rural southwestern Wisconsin, inspired by the model of Deep Springs College, Waldorf education, and Henry David Thoreau. This podcast is for thoughtful, motivated teenagers and young adults who are disappointed by the options available to them in post-secondary education, as well as their teachers, parents, counselors...

Antón Barba-Kay - Microcollege Education Against Digital Dehumanization

60 hours 5 mins; March 27, 2026

Troy Vine - Masters in Transformative Learning, Ruskin Mill Centre, United Kingdom

56 mins; March 24, 2026

A Public Affair w/ Douglas Haynes on 89.9 WORT FM -- The State of the Microcollege Movement

57 mins; March 18, 2026

Matt Voz & Shawn Lavoie - Youth Initiative High School

53 mins; February 27, 2026

Esther Crotser, Livian Roth-Amodt - Education for Solidarity and Resilience

49 mins; February 10, 2026

Kristen Case - The Monson Seminar and Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar

52 mins; February 04, 2026

L. Jackson Newell - Lucien L. Nunn, Deep Springs College History, History and Philosophy of Experiemental Higher Education

54 mins; January 23, 2026

Melanie Lenehan - Fircroft College, Birmingham, England

58 mins; January 13, 2026

Mette and Lars Højland - Human First!, Menneske Først, LifeDialogues, Danish Folk High Schools

68 hours 27 mins; January 04, 2026

Kayleigh Johnson, Julia Machlin - Lamplight Program, Guntersville, Alabama

55 mins; November 25, 2025

Libby Sanders - Camphill Academy, Camphill Research Network

67 hours 40 mins; November 18, 2025

Ivey Patton - Gap Year Launchpad

52 mins; November 07, 2025

Ezra Fradkin, Liz Jordan - Kroka Expeditions, Adventure Education, Wilderness and Consciousness

60 hours 46 mins; October 27, 2025

Jennifer DeCoste - LifeSchoolHouse, Folk School Networks, Community Development

59 mins; October 16, 2025

Chris Higgins - Philosophy of Formative Education

68 hours 42 mins; October 09, 2025

Episode #67: Ezra Sullivan - Threefold Educational Foundation Youth Co-Lab

59 mins; August 16, 2025

Episode #66: Julia Buskirk, Benjamin Bernard-Herman - Thoreau College Residencies

59 mins; July 31, 2025

Episode #65: Stanton Davis - The Living Voice, Breath, Vitality, Theater, Viroqua Shakespeare Festival

66 hours 12 mins; June 21, 2025

Episode #64: Craig Holdredge, Ryan Shea - Goethean Science, Nature Institute, Ghent, NY

67 hours 29 mins; November 05, 2024

Episode #63: Grace Greenwald - Pedagogies to Address the Meaning Crisis

57 mins; November 01, 2024

Episode #62 - Drs. Rutger Engels, Ginie Servant-Miklos - Bildung Climate School, Rotterdam, NL

69 hours 24 mins; October 30, 2024

Episode #61: Felipe Medina, Jakob Seidler - Suna Barichara, Colombia

54 mins; October 08, 2024

Episode #60: Hannah Schwartz - Riverflow Community, Monkton, VT

48 mins; October 01, 2024

Episode #59: Patrick Doyle - Wendell Berry, Metamorphosis, Theater

54 mins; September 11, 2024

Episode #58: Megan Durney, Kim Vaughan - Threefold Community Farm, Chestnut Ridge, NY

61 hours 19 mins; August 06, 2024

Episode #57: Dr. Dan McKanan: Camphills, Intentional Communities, and the Spiritual Roots of Radical Change

66 hours 56 mins; July 17, 2024

Episode #56: Dr. Richard Kyte - Finding Your Third Place

66 hours 2 mins; June 18, 2024

Episode #55: Eric Schwarz - College for Social Innovation, Boston, MA

62 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2024

Episode #54: Andrea de la Cruz, Nathaniel Williams - The Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland

62 hours 27 mins; May 27, 2024

Episode #54 - Brendan W. Case - The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University

61 hours 39 mins; April 23, 2024

Episode #53: Blake Boles - Unschool Adventures

57 mins; April 16, 2024

Episode #52: Christine Deck - Deck Family Farm, Willamette Valley, Oregon

45 mins; April 09, 2024

Episode #51: Philip Francis - Seguinland Institute, The Good Life Gap Year, Maine

70 hours 31 mins; April 02, 2024

Episode #50: Lene Rachel Andersen - The Nordic Secret for Cultivating Beauty, Freedom, Democracy, and Prosperity

72 hours 49 mins; January 04, 2024

Episode #49: Jill Nephew - Inquiry, Education, Artificial Vs. Natural Intelligence

72 hours 57 mins; November 14, 2023

Episode #48: Liz Rog, Amy Arnold - Community Singing

56 mins; November 07, 2023

Episode #47: Philippe Mesly, Julia Henderson - Great Lakes Institute, Canada

65 hours 23 mins; October 24, 2023

Episode #46: Chris Barlow - High Mountain Institute, Leadville, Colorado

54 mins; October 17, 2023

Episode #45: Keri McWilliams - Gap Year Association

59 mins; October 10, 2023

Episode #44: Dev Carey - High Desert Center, Paonia, Colorado

62 hours 37 mins; October 03, 2023

Episode #43: Ben Samuels, Max Feigelson - Deep Springs College Student Reflections, League of Nunnian Schools

55 mins; September 26, 2023

Episode #42: Jennifer Jensen, Gordon Jones - Mt. Liberty College, Murray, Utah, Liberty Through Virtue

58 mins; September 19, 2023

Episode #41: Dawn Breeze - PlaceCorps and the Kingston Fellowship, Kingston, NY

48 mins; September 12, 2023

Episode #40: Dr. Jenny Finn - Sourced Design at Springhouse Community School, Floyd, Virginia

53 mins; September 05, 2023

Episode #39: Dr. Evan Edwards - Food, Philosophy, and Myth

69 hours 4 mins; August 29, 2023

Episode #38: Ethan Kobayashi-Hsieh - Theater Arts & Wisdom Cultivation

74 hours 23 mins; August 22, 2023

Episode #37: Ahmed Yehia, Muhammad Bassyouny - Bedouin Immersion at Nour Holistic Education, St. Catherine, Egypt

72 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2023

Episode #36: Ana Keilson, Justin Reynolds - Gull Island Institute, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

64 hours 53 mins; August 01, 2023

Episode #35: Brandon Ipiña, Maurielle McGarvey - Thoreau College Alumni Reflections

62 hours 36 mins; July 25, 2023

Episode #34: Pavel Cenkl - Dartington Trust and Schumacher College in Devon, UK

50 mins; May 22, 2023

Episode #33: Dawn Murphy on Folk Education in North America

57 mins; May 02, 2023

Episode #32: Linda Conroy - Education for Herbalists

59 mins; April 04, 2023

Episode #31: Zak Stein - Education In a Time Between Worlds

57 mins; March 28, 2023

Episode #30: Miles Iton - Lo-Fi Language Learning Microcollege

48 mins; March 21, 2023

Episode #29: Rick Thomas - Sterling College, Wendell Berry Farming Program

58 mins; March 14, 2023

Episode #28: Kotaro Aoki - Expanded Liberal Arts At Kotowari School, Aizu, Japan

64 hours 23 mins; March 08, 2023

Episode #27: Mike Haasl - SKIP: Skills to Inherit Property

55 mins; February 21, 2023

Episode #26: Reinoud Meijer, Noam Hitsch - The International Youth Initiative Program

55 mins; February 08, 2023

Episode #25: Eddy Nix, Rose Bruce on Reading Shakespeare for 148 Hours Straight

54 mins; January 21, 2023

Episode #24: Chris Knapp - The Maine Local Living School

62 hours 9 mins; January 17, 2023

Episode #23: Laura Marcus - The Glacier Bay Year at Tidelines Institute, Gustavus, Alaska

61 hours 38 mins; January 10, 2023

Episode #22: Vilhelm Skoglund - Effective Altruism and the Future Academy

64 hours 14 mins; December 20, 2022

Episode #21: Dr. Ilana Redstone - Thinking Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes, The Mill Institute at UATX

59 mins; December 13, 2022

Episode #20: Marcus Ford - Flagstaff College

47 mins; December 06, 2022

Episode #19: Dave Puig, Justys Grenier - Outward Bound and Expeditionary Learning

60 hours 2 mins; November 29, 2022

Episode #18: Eric Anglada, Brenna Cussen Anglada - The Catholic Worker Movement, Nuns and Nones

51 mins; November 22, 2022

Episode #17: Lene Rachel Andersen - The Nordic Secret and Global Bildung

62 hours 53 mins; November 15, 2022

Episode #16: Frank Eccher, Emily Drukman - Outer Coast College, Sitka, Alaska

56 mins; November 08, 2022

Episode #15: John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis and Cultivating an Ecology of Practices

58 mins; October 25, 2022

Announcements!

1 min; October 21, 2022

Episode #14: Jonas Søvik - Bildung and the Danish Folk High School Experience

60 hours 37 mins; October 18, 2022

Episode #13: Willie E. Jones III on Shakespeare, The Classics, and Theatre Education

56 mins; October 11, 2022

Episode #12: Bridget O'Brien, Dr. Charlie Brennan - Permaculture, Praxis, and Play

59 mins; September 27, 2022

Episode #11: David W. Orr - Ecological Literacy in Higher Education

55 mins; September 20, 2022

Episode #10: Steve Lawless on Service Learning and Adventure Education

54 mins; September 13, 2022

Episode #9: Nathaniel Williams, Stefan Ambrose - The MC Richards Program at Free Columbia

64 hours 27 mins; September 06, 2022

Episode #8: Austin Smith - Leaving Stanford, Coming Home

64 hours 10 mins; August 30, 2022

Episode #7: Julie Tomaro, Nicholas WazeeGale - Folk Schools, Skills, and Knowledge

57 mins; August 23, 2022

Episode #6: Ciarán Willis - Rethinking Remote Learning at A Place Beyond

60 hours 44 mins; August 16, 2022

Episode #5: Sue Darlington - Deep Springs College and The Edge of Academia

56 mins; August 09, 2022

Episode #4: Lucien Dante Lazar - Art and Anthroposophy as a Pedagogy for Self-Development

64 hours 19 mins; August 02, 2022

Episode #3: Dr. Julie Shackelford and the International People’s College

54 mins; July 26, 2022

Episode #2: Jacob Rowland, Liam McGilligan - Thoreau College Alumni Reflections

58 mins; July 19, 2022

Episode #1: Jacob Hundt - An Introduction to Microcolleges and Thoreau College

53 mins; July 12, 2022

MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

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