Episode 44: Ron Lieber on the Price of College
Ron Lieber recently completed writing a book called “The Price You Pay for College,” and if you’re interested enough in th...
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20 of 47 episodesEpisode 43: Prof. Marlene Daut on “Becoming Full Professor While Black”
In the United States, just 6% of college faculty members are Black. It’s a really tough career pathway for anyone, but as we’ll learn from m...
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Episode 42: Celeste Suris Rosselli and DJ Meehan on College Access in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is subject to a number of unique barriers to accessing college whether they leave the island or stay. These barriers simply don’...
Episode 41: Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School
The coronavirus has forced some wildly unprecedented anxieties into an already extremely anxious space. Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shangha...
Episode 40! Oregon State University’s Jon Boeckenstedt
Jon Boeckenstedt is as fearless as he is smart as he is dedicated to Doing The Right Thing as a leader in the realm of college enrollment ma...
Episode 39: Dr. Philip Walsh on the Value of Philosophy
The humanities are in a tough spot these days, and the discipline of philosophy often ends up in the crosshairs as an exemplar of Undergrad...
Episode 38: Sam Schreiber and I Review “Admission”
It’s fall! Which means this is the time of year when legions of college admissions counselors traverse the globe to find those eager minds t...
Episode 37: Dr. Andrew Moe on College Access for Rural Students
Dr. Andrew Moe is the Director of Admission at Swarthmore College and has been leading a national effort to focus the eyes of his colleagues...
Episode 36: Marie Bigham of ACCEPT
In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group emerged to quickly become the primary space in which professionals on all sides of college admission...
Episode 35: Dr. Susan Matt on the History of Homesickness in America
Soon children everywhere will be saying goodbye to their parents and to their communities and the times and the places that made them into t...
Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education
If you pay attention to the world of college admissions, then you not only know this guy, chances are he’s helped you form your unders...
Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman
Professor Marybeth Gasman is the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and a professor of education. Soon she’...
Episode 32 ***🚨EMERGENCY AUNT BECKY SCANDAL PODCAST With Eric Hoover🚨***
This week it became known via a federal indictment that rich people used their wealth to break the law in a variety of appalling ways, all w...
Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber!
Temple University Economics Professor Doug Webber does some fascinating research on the impact of our academic choices in college. In a worl...
Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike”
Nike and Oregon – the state as well as its flagship university – go way back, and their relationship became a template for under...
Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS
Emmi Harward is the Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), and it’s her job to ke...
Episode 28: Annie Reznik on the Coalition Application
The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success emerged 3 years ago to provide an alternative application platform for, at first, 32 co...
Episode 27: Eric Waldo of Reach Higher
Reach Higher is former First Lady Michelle Obama’s college access initiative, operating under the leadership of my guest this episode,...
Episode 26: Bart Grachan on Community Colleges
6 million people attend community colleges in this country, and yet we somehow don’t tend to consider it as “college.” Bar...