Built for Impact: A Brailsford and Dunlavey Podcast

As colleges and universities face aging infrastructure, evolving student expectations, and increasing operational complexity, institutional leaders can no longer afford to think reactively about campus growth. In today’s episode of Built for Impact: A Brailsford & Dunlavey Podcast, Dr. Lowell Davis, vice president for student affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington, joins B&D’s Dr. T.J. Logan to explore how institutions can leverage strategic planning, facilities investments, and student life operations to support long-term institutional growth. Together, they discuss leading through transformational change, aligning stakeholders across complex campus ecosystems, and why housing and the residential experience are increasingly becoming strategic infrastructure for student success and institutional competitiveness. 

With stagnant or shrinking resources and the imminent arrival of the enrollment cliff, colleges and universities need to maximize the impact of their student experience program now more than ever before. Whether it’s academic experience, campus life and student engagement, student support services, or housing and residential life, student affairs administrators must deliver. In today’s episode of Built for Impact: A Brailsford & Dunlavey Podcast, B&D’s Dr. Laura Kane is sitting down with Dr. Matt Goodwin, vice president of student development at Saint Louis University, to outline how institutions can leverage their student experience to make measurable impact. Because when students win, institutions win.