#48 Love What You Do: An Interview with Joselyn Cousins
In our interview with Joselyn Cousins, first generation college student and community development practitioner, you'll learn about Joselyn's...
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Does College Matter?
With soaring student debt, innovative technology, and new-fashioned careers—we wanted to ask the question: does college still matter? The second season of “Does College Matter?” will bring y...
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20 of 49 episodes#47 Reimagining High School for a High Tech World: The Phoenix Coding Academy
Reimagining High School for a High Tech World: The Phoenix Coding Academy Description: We visit a new kind of high school that's blurring th...
#46 Redefining Education: An Interview with Nikhil Goyal
In our interview with Nikhil Goyal (journalist, activist, and author of Schools on Trial ), you'll learn about what makes him an extreme lea...
#45 Don't Be Afraid to Not Know: An Interview with Alivia Blount
In our conversation with Alivia Blount, a Code2040 fellow, Data Analytics intern at Intuit, Winner of the 2015 USC "Hack the Gender Gap" , a...
#44 The Future of Work & Learning : An Interview with Parminder Jassal
In our interview with Parminder Jassal (Learn & Work Futures Group Director at Institute for the Future), you'll learn about why she thinks...
#43 How Gaming Can Make You a Better Problem Solver: An Interview with Jane McGonigal
In our interview with Jane McGonigal (Chief Creative Officer, SuperBetter Labs and Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future), you'll l...
#42 Imagining Possibilities for the Future: An Interview with Marina Gorbis
In our interview with Marina Gorbis, Executive Director for the Institute for the Future, you'll learn about how IFTF helps people imagine t...
#41 Your Financial Well-Being: An Interview with Jason Young
In our conversation with Jason Young, the founder of Mindblown Labs, you'll learn about how gamification can help millennials make better fi...
#40 There Are No Throwaway People: An Interview with Kenyatta Leal
In our conversation with Kenyatta Leal, you'll learn about his transformative journey from former convict to management, how education turne...
#39 Learn to Code with Her: An Interview with Laurence Bradford
In our conversation with Laurence Bradford, the creator of Learn to Code with Me , you ' ll hear about Laurence's own transformation from no...
#38 Welcome to Change: An Interview with Dr. Teri Delane
In our conversation with Dr. Teri Delane, the founding principal of Life Learning Academy Charter School, you'll learn about Teri's own jour...
#37 Special Episode: Exploring the Power of Texting with Up Next
Believe it: 10 text over the summer can increase college enrollment by 10%. A joint effort between digital creative agency Huge, non-profit...
#36 Special Episode: Overcoming the Odds with Reach Higher
The Reach Higher initiative is the First Lady's effort to inspire every student in America to take charge of their future by completing thei...
#35 Reflecting on Education & This Season: Conversations with Mary Daly and Our Team
In our final episode of Season 2, we talk to Mary Daly, "the people's economist," about what roles economic mobility and economic inequality...
#34 The Truth About Higher Ed Debt: An Interview with Isabel Sawhill & Beth Akers
In our interview with Isabel Sawhill and Beth Akers, two Research Fellows from the Brookings Institution, we talk about college affordabilit...
#33 Demystifying Student Debt: An Interview with Susan Dynarski
In our interview with Susan Dynarski, a professor at the University of Michigan and writer for the New York Times' Upshot column, she dispel...
#32 The Well-Educated Barista: An Interview with Jaison Abel
In our conversation with economist Jaison Abel, he talks about the "well-educated barista" and how new grads fare in the job market.
#31 The Art of Smart Apparel: An Interview with Maddy Maxey
In our conversation with Maddy Maxey, the Co-Founder and President of The Crated, she talks about how she came up with her company's name, h...
Taking a Break This Week
We're taking a quick break from "Does College Matter?" this week. We'll be back next week with the founder of The Crated, Maddy Maxey.
#30 The Power of Storytelling: An Interview with Matt Lieber ft. Vanessa Ishii
In this interview, guest-host Vanessa Ishii (from Stitcher Radio) and Matt Lieber (co-founder of Gimlet Media) explore the world of storytel...