PODCAST · education
DataU
by Steppingblocks
More than ever, people are questioning the value of higher education. Let's explore why they’re right, why they’re wrong and which institutions are rising to the challenge. Let's normalize data for student success, together.
Episodes
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Discover Your Major: Leveraging Steppingblocks at FIU
In this episode, we’re joined by Alexa Urra, Associate Director of Academic Support Services at Florida International University, who shares her in-depth experience integrating the Digital Career Counselor tool into FIU’s Discover Your Major course. Alexa walks us through her intentional,...
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Scaling Career Readiness Resources at the University of South Carolina
We had the privilege of speaking with Vicki Hamby and Helen Powers, two leaders dedicated to supporting student career readiness at the University of South Carolina. They shared insights into their successful rollout of the Digital Career Counselor on their campus and the strategies that...
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Marketing the Value of Higher Education: The Role of Data in Enrollment Marketing at NIU
For decades the role of enrollment marketing in Higher Education has been to demonstrate the unique value of their academic programs, promote their unique student experience, and tell the unique story of their institution. But with the rising costs of higher education, many prospective college...
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Building Connections through Data and Storytelling: the Role of Admissions & Marketing in Higher Education
Growing skepticism of higher education combined with an often overwhelming social media and technological landscape can make it challenging for college admissions and marketing professionals to cut through the noise and reach prospective students. In this episode, we sit down with Kyle Nolan,...
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Understanding Essential Skills
Most people have heard of “hard” or “technical” skills and their alleged opposite, “soft” skills. However, many career development practitioners and employers are shifting the focus to “essential” skills. In this age of rapidly evolving technology, employers want college graduates who have...
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Unlocking Academic Excellence: Navigating College Accreditation
Accreditation for a University is more than just a label.This vital process serves as a testament to a university’s commitment to delivering a high-quality education that equips students for success beyond graduation. The accreditation process is an ongoing process that requires the collaboration...
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Strengthening Employer Partnerships with Georgia Highlands College
Creating partnerships with external stakeholders provides many benefits for students as well as universities. With the job market becoming more and more competitive, it is imperative that universities build strong partnerships with top employers in order to support student success post…
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Investing in Alumni Relations
In our increasingly globalized world, people are more mobile than ever. While this is an exciting phenomenon, it can make it hard for a college or university to keep track of their alumni. We recently sat down with Sarah Robinson, Vice President of Advancement at Husson University, to talk about...
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Increasing Student Awareness of Success Resources
More than ever, colleges and universities are attempting to support student success through campus support resources. These resources have gained greater importance as students and families question the return on investment for a college degree and additional accountability metrics seek to hold...
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Beginning with the End in Mind: Empowering Transfer Students Across Institutions
Check out our conversation with Dr. Jason Dodge, director of the ADVANCE program at George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College. In this conversation, we discuss: The value of institutional partnerships in supporting transfer students The diversity of transfer student needs…
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Guides, Not Gatekeepers: Collaborating with Recruiters to Support Student Success
Join us as we sit down with Dr. Stephanie Hartkopf, Senior Campus Recruiter at RSM. We explore: Workforce trends and the strategies for skills development and career preparation. How universities can collaborate with recruiters to support career readiness. How students can maximize their...
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Hire a Mountaineer: How WVU Supports Student Career Success
Learn how West Virginia University leverages graduate outcomes data to support student success and career readiness.
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Making Herstory at TXST With Haleigh Blocker, Football Director of Ops
How did Haleigh Blocker break into the hyper-male field of football, and what career advice does she have for other women wanting to do the same? Hear her story from Texas State University and her rise from small town athlete to big time role model.
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Student Stories: GSU's Bronson Slattery Leads Panthers to Wall Street, the World
Ambition has a new voice. It's cultivating pathways from Georgia State University to Wall Street to the world. It's Gen-Z, and it's leading the workforce of the future. Hear Bronson Slattery's story from his senior year at Georgia State and through the lens of a Student Ambassador.
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Inside the Data: Our CTO's Biggest Surprises, Trends and Workforce Predictions
Our resident Data Scientist and Chief Technology Officer, Sébastien Arnaud, shares the most surprising insights he has found in our data, how we develop our university rankings and trends, plus, his predictions for shifts in our data as the workforce continues to change.
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March Madness: Why Your Odds of a Career in Basketball are Better Than 1 in 9.2 Quintillion
March Madness is packed with stats, so we pulled a few of our own to analyze career outcomes for the top 20 universities with the most players on 2021-22 NBA opening day rosters according to this list from the NCAA. We also investigated why Kinesiology and Physiology degrees are a great way to...
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Beyond Velcro and Tang: The Real Reason We Need Research Universities, With IRIS
For Jason Owen-Smith, Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS), it's about our future and the public good. Listen to his take on why research universities are a form of social insurance and valuable to our entire nation, beyond Velcro and Tang.
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The 2021 College Student Career Engagement Report
College students need a modern career center willing to shift and meet the needs of the modern student. So how are universities doing? We looked into our database of student users to find out exactly how engaged students were with career exploration and development in 2021. Here are our findings.
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DataU Live! Normalizing Data for Student-Centric Success in 2022
We took our podcast to the virtual streets to talk directly to our audience about what higher ed is up against in 2022 and how to solve new challenges with data, including the microcredential boom, the skills gap and the isolation of Career Services.
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UW Explains Why Street Cred, Branding Matter for Career Centers in 2022
Major doesn't equal career. Gail Cornelius, Engineering Career Center Director at the University of Washington, comes to higher ed from 17 years at Boeing. Her experience gives her street cred and the desire to give back to an industry she loves by putting homegrown talent into the system. She...
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How Data Drives Cultural Fluency, DEI at OU
Not everyone experiences university life the same. Storytelling through data allows different perspectives to come to life. Data tells the story of how to recruit, retain, progress and promote. The reality is that data also dictates dollars. Dr. Belinda Higgs Hyppolite, VP for Diversity and...
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3 Things Your Gen Z Students Wish You Knew
Universities aren't doing a good job communicating with their students. It's why students don't visit their career centers. It's why new grads don't have the right skills. It's why alumni giving is down and university leadership can't excite their audiences. Justin Nguyen, founder of Declassified...
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Data Culture: How Sustainable Is Your Institution's Biggest Asset?
As more low-cost degree programs, microcredentials and digital certifications emerge, the more choice learners have. Institutions must shift to an outcome-based strategy to meet the needs of the modern workforce. How? Build a sustainable culture of data at your institution. Dr. Adam Ross Nelson,...
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The Happiness Measurement: How Hospitality Defines, Evolves Success at FAU
Dr. Peter Ricci, Director of Hospitality and Tourism at Florida Atlantic University, measures the success of his students by asking: Where do you land and are you happy? He talks about the evolution of hospitality and the strength of the industry to adapt and survive.
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On the Border: Recognizing Intersecting Identities at NMSU
Dr. Patrick Turner, Associate Provost for Student Success at New Mexico State University, shares how their student success initiatives support traditional students with nontraditional responsibilities. He explains the danger of mistaking a sense of welcoming for a sense of belonging and why...
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Is Higher Ed Responsible for the Skills Gap?
The nature of work is changing. What is the impact, and who is responsible for the skills gap: students, educators or employers? Steppingblocks believes it is all three. Join us for a conversation with our founder and CEO, Carlo Martinez, as we talk about the skills gap and how higher ed is being...
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Making Career Services Mission Critical at Wake Forest University
Eight years after Andy Chan, Vice President of Innovation and Career Development at Wake Forest University, gave a TEDx Presentation titled "Career Services Must Die," he discusses the critical work that still needs to be done, how to educate the whole person and how to help students take…
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Higher Ed's Serious Need for Sustainable Reform With Dr. Dhanfu Elston
Dr. Dhanfu Elston, Chief of Staff and Senior VP for Strategy at Complete College America believes that higher education has a choice. Sustainable reform relies on participation from the classroom to the capitol and every system in between. Dr. Elston and CCA insist that equitable outcomes for...
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Making Education Work for All at CU Denver
Goal One of the 2030 Strategic Plan at the University of Colorado Denver is to become the nation's first equity-serving institution. Goal Two is to become known as a university for life. Both are working to catalyze social mobility and provide a diverse workforce for the future. We sat down with…
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How to Diagnosis Post-Graduation Health With Data
Paden Goldsmith, Assistant Director of Strategic Data Analysis at Florida International University, shares how FIU monitors the health of their graduates using outcomes data to illustrate employment, salary and outlook. On the flip side, Paden explains how they use the same tracking to uncover...
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Cybersecurity Outlook: Supercharge Your Skillset Like This Cyber Risk Consultant
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts cybersecurity jobs will grow 33 percent by 2029. On top of faster than average job growth, the median pay is higher than the national average making cybersecurity an extremely attractive field to break into. So what’s causing the shortage? We'll talk to...
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Closing the Analytics Talent Gap
Employers are facing a critical shortage of skilled data analysts, and universities are dealing with unforeseen challenges of providing learning through application for data science and analytics. Dr. Jennifer Priestley from Kennesaw State University demonstrates how to bridge the gap with…
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Top 10 Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Hispanic-Serving Institutions enroll two-thirds of all Latinx undergrads. Here are the top 10 making the biggest impact for their students and alumni based on career outcomes, diversity grade and overall student success.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
More than ever, people are questioning the value of higher education. Let's explore why they’re right, why they’re wrong and which institutions are rising to the challenge. Let's normalize data for student success, together.
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