Stories and Voices from a Community In Pursuit

In Pursuit Podcast Series

  • An Ocean Away and Right Where They Belong

    NICK ROBERTS, HEAD MEN’S SOCCER COACH, AND TOM WOODWARD, STUDENT, FORWARD

    March 5, 2026

    In this conversation, Head Men’s Soccer Coach Nick Roberts and Sophomore Tom Woodward talk about crossing an ocean to pursue the game they love, what it takes to build something from the ground up and why the people around them have mattered more than anything else along the way.

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  • Political Science & History Roundtable

    Featuring Faculty Joseph Griffith, Ph.D., Cara Rogers Stevens, Ph.D., Adam M. Carrington, Ph.D., Jeffrey Delbert, Ph.D. and Anne Strouth, M.S.

    Ashland faculty from the Political Science & History pathway reflect on what it means to study the ideas, documents and decisions that have shaped the world and what four years in these programs builds in the students who go through them.

  • Religion & Ministry Roundtable

    Featuring Faculty Josh Sumpter, D.Min. and Jayne L. Wilcox, Th.D.

    In this roundtable conversation, Ashland faculty from the Religion & Ministry pathway explore what it means to be equipped for a calling that goes far beyond the classroom and into every place a student is sent next.

  • Communication and Fine Arts Pathway Roundtable

    Featuring Faculty Jeffrey Delbert, Ph.D., Olga Monacell, Ph.D., Cynthia Petry, MFA, and Dan McDonald, MFA

    Ashland faculty from the Political Science & History pathway reflect on what it means to study the ideas, documents and decisions that have shaped the world and what four years in these programs builds in the students who go through them.

  • What Does Music Have to do with Politics?

    JOSEPH GRIFFITH, PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

    What does music have to do with politics? Joe Griffith draws on Aristotle’s analogy of major and minor keys to explore how political communities are arranged and what kind of society fosters human flourishing.

  • An Ocean Away and Right Where They Belong

    NICK ROBERTS, HEAD MEN’S SOCCER COACH, AND TOM WOODWARD, STUDENT, FORWARD

    In this conversation, Head Men’s Soccer Coach Nick Roberts and Sophomore Tom Woodward talk about crossing an ocean to pursue the game they love, what it takes to build something from the ground up and why the people around them have mattered more than anything else along the way.

  • The Culture that Outlasts the Scoreboard

    DOUG GEISER, HEAD FOOTBALL COACH, AND JACK TALKINGTON, STUDENT, LINE BACKER

    In this conversation, Doug Geiser and Jack Talkington discuss the chain of people who believed in them, the standard set by those who came before and the pursuit of a legacy that outlasts any season.

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