Leave it to my alma mater to put together a stellar use of podcasting to keep alumni connected to the institution:

Stanford on iTunes

The site is composed of a public site for alumni that includes
lectures, music, sports, and news. The system also supports a private
site that contains course materials for registered students.

To download you start at a page that allows you to select from a variety of topics:

I immediately went to the faculty lectures and found a wonderful
collection of things that were recorded at the 2005 reunion. At the top
of my listening list:

Larry Diamond: Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
Ron Rebholz: Sex, Lies, and Theater: Shakespeare for Today
Multiple Authors: Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy

Now that this feed is in the podcast area of my iTunes, I can
browse through this material at my own pace and get immediate access on
my desktop to any new material as it is published.

This is a great application of podcasting for alumni. Now I hope
Stanford opens the channel up to alumni-created podcasts so that it can
truly be a model of Learning 2.0.

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