Episodes

  • Chase Williams on Digital Hubs to Advance Institutional Strategy

    Chase Williams on Digital Hubs to Advance Institutional Strategy
    Jul 15 2025
    How can you go from disparate technology systems and student services to a unified, personalized, and interactive digital hub to better support students? How can these bring together the services and information students need to drive engagement and retention while saving time and reducing costs? What is the role of AI in supporting students? We dive into these questions and the digital transformation needed to make it all happen with Chase Williams, CEO and co-founder of Pathify.
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    28 mins
  • Jeff Doyle on Unconventional Ways to Predict Student Success

    Jeff Doyle on Unconventional Ways to Predict Student Success
    Jul 1 2025
    How can you use the data you already have (but aren't looking at) to predict student success? How can you create incentives to drive the adoption of high-impact practices? How can you build caring, mentoring relationships that increase student success? We dive into these questions with Jeff Doyle, Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Southwestern University and prolific blogger/poster of "Deep Thoughts on Higher Ed."
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    29 mins
  • Melvin Hines on Combining AI and People to Support Students

    Melvin Hines on Combining AI and People to Support Students
    Jun 24 2025
    How can you combine people and an AI-powered virtual assistant to provide wraparound student support? How can you do this in way that makes things easier for the staff and faculty supporting students rather than adding more platforms and passwords? What are the right student success measures for institutions and how to you tie detailed data to the big picture? We dive into these and other questions with Melvin Hines, co-founder and CEO of Upswing.
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    34 mins
  • Brad Fuster on Redesigning Gen Ed by Embedding AI into Experiential Learning

    Brad Fuster on Redesigning Gen Ed by Embedding AI into Experiential Learning
    Jun 17 2025
    What are the competencies employers want and students need? How can you redesign your general education curriculum to deliver on those? As you do, how might you integrate AI, foster experiential learning, and engage with industry? We talk about all this and more (like a 90 credit hour degree!) with Brad Fuster, Provost at San Francisco Bay University where they are really reimagining what a university can and should be.
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    27 mins
  • Julia Allworth on the Secret Sauce for Experiential Learning

    Julia Allworth on the Secret Sauce for Experiential Learning
    Jun 10 2025
    How can you reimagine student employment as experiential learning? What projects can students work on to learn and grow while helping their university? What skills and relationships can they build along the way? We dive into these questions with Julia Allworth who founded and leads University of Toronto's Innovation Hub which trains students in design thinking and deploys them as consultants on projects improve the student experience.
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    29 mins
  • Josh Pierce on How Course Sharing Enables Access and Differentiation

    Josh Pierce on How Course Sharing Enables Access and Differentiation
    Jun 3 2025
    How can institutions collaborate to share courses? How does this enable focus and differentiation? What do you have to change from mindset to culture to operations to make it happen? We dive into these questions with Josh Pierce co-founder of course sharing platform Acadeum. Along the way, we use the analogy of travel to think about the student journey – and see what can be learned from the travel industry itself.
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    30 mins
  • Suzanne Rivera on a President's Role in Student Success

    Suzanne Rivera on a President's Role in Student Success
    May 27 2025
    How does an unconventional path to the presidency offer new perspectives? How can colleges and universities equip students to lead lives of meaning and purpose? How can leaders balance tradition and innovation to create living learning communities? How can students own their experiences and belong? We dive into these questions with Suzanne Rivera, President of Macalester College!
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    26 mins
  • Sarah Holtan on Honors Colleges as Living Learning Communities

    Sarah Holtan on Honors Colleges as Living Learning Communities
    May 13 2025
    How can you create and operate an Honors College to make a big place feel small? How do you get the scale right to balance quantity and quality? How can you balance giving people what they want versus what's good for their growth and development? We dive into these questions with Sarah Holtan, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Carroll University and Host of The Get Down to College Business Podcast.
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    32 mins