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Ten with Ken (Video)
by Ken Steele
Ken Steele is Canada's most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, who co-founded the nation's leading market research firm and daily news service for colleges and universities. In this podcast, Ken will explore aspects of branding, marketing, media relations, pedagogy (teaching and learning), revenue generation and more -- as they relate to Canadian higher education in particular.
Episodes
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ep803 - Ten with Ken 2024 Holiday Special!
Join Ken Steele for a romp through the best moments from more than 100 higher ed holiday greeting videos from around the world, selected from almost 500 collected so far this month! Previous years' Holiday Special roundups appear in this Ten with Ken playlist:...
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Matthew Tsang: Becoming a JEDI Marketer!
Marketing and communications professionals working in higher education are more conscious than most that they serve incredibly diverse audiences and stakeholders, and of the vital importance of equity and inclusion. (Today's students can quickly become outspoken protestors in the face of what…
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Niagara Makes a Splash! (ep801)
In this episode of Ten with Ken, host Ken Steele sits down with Dorita Pentesco, Director of Marketing & Recruitment at Niagara College, and Carmen Serravalle, Vice-President Creative at STC Storytellers, to discuss the "refresh" launched this month of the 15-year-old Niagara College brand. NC's...
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2024 Back-to-School Special! (ep 800)
"Ten with Ken" returns for its 8th season with a special double episode distilling the best moments from literally hours of welcome back, orientation, move-in and kick-off videos, from more than 100 colleges and universities. Students overcome their anxieties and homesickness by celebrating,...
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String Quartets to Marching Bands! 2023 Holiday Special, Part 5
Once again, Ken Steele scoured the interwebs and collected more than 240 higher education holiday greeting videos (released as of December 21 2023). Setting aside the sermons, concerts, animated cards and talking heads, he shortlisted the best and presented them to a jury of marketing…
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Holiday Goodwill! 2023 Holiday Special, Part 4
Once again, Ken Steele scoured the interwebs and collected more than 240 higher education holiday greeting videos (released as of December 21 2023). Setting aside the sermons, concerts, animated cards and talking heads, he shortlisted the best and presented them to a jury of marketing…
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Presidents Home Alone! 2023 Holiday Special, Part 3
Once again, Ken Steele scoured the interwebs and collected more than 240 higher education holiday greeting videos (released as of December 21 2023). Setting aside the sermons, concerts, animated cards and talking heads, he shortlisted the best and presented them to a jury of marketing…
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Holiday Contests and Competitions! 2023 Holiday Special, Part 2
Once again, Ken Steele scoured the interwebs and collected more than 240 higher education holiday greeting videos (released as of December 21 2023). Setting aside the sermons, concerts, animated cards and talking heads, he shortlisted the best and presented them to a jury of marketing…
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Merry, Bright & Furry! 2023 Holiday Special, Part 1
Once again, Ken Steele scoured the interwebs and collected more than 240 higher education holiday greeting videos (released as of December 21 2023). Setting aside the sermons, concerts, animated cards and talking heads, he shortlisted the best and presented them to a jury of marketing…
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Third Spaces on Campus
Our 5-part series on Forward-Looking Facilities concludes with a look at the informal communal spaces on campus, in-between faculty offices and labs, or student dorms and classrooms. These so-called "Third Spaces" are home to some of the most valuable interactions between students, staff and...
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Active Learning
Our series on Forward-Looking Facilities continues with more detail on the ways that pedagogical change, and particularly the adoption of active learning, has transformed classroom time and classroom spaces on campuses. In Part 4, "Active Learning," Ken looks at the way thousand-year-old...
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Online & Blended Learning
Our series on Forward-Looking Facilities continues with a look at post-pandemic adoption of online and blended learning delivery, and what 600,000 students tell us about their preferences for learning modality. In Part 3, "Online & Blended Learning," Ken looks at the decade-long inevitability of...
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The Fluid Future of Work
Our series on Forward-Looking Facilities continues with a closer look at the new work experience of staff and faculty, and how that will reshape work-life balance and the nature of work – on campus and off - in what is going to be a very fluid future. In part 2, "The Fluid Future of Work," Ken...
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The Post-Pandemic Campus
Season 7 of Ten with Ken opens with a 5-part series looking at Forward-Looking Facilities, and the ways that campus design and architecture have responded to the lessons learned during the pandemic. In part 1, "The Post-Pandemic Campus," Ken reviews the turbulence and shifting context we've all...
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Ten with Ken - Season 7 now streaming!
Ten with Ken returns from its pandemic hiatus, with a 5-part series on trends in campus architecture, classroom and office design, and so-called "third spaces" for serendipitous interaction. Although eventually episodes will appear here too, they're already streaming NOW - exclusively on our free...
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Speaking Out about Mental Health
In pre-pandemic times, Ken Steele sits down on the Carleton University "Friendship Bench" with president and vice-chancellor (and neuropsychologist) Benoit-Antoine Bacon to talk frankly about his own journey to mental health, and his advice for students. Mental health has been a significant…
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HyFlex Learning
"Blended" approaches to teaching and learning (sometimes also called "hybrid") combine in-class discussion and activities with a substantial proportion of online course delivery. Done well, blended courses can combine the best of online and on-campus pedagogy, improve student learning outcomes,...
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Festive & Fuzzy!
The fifth annual Ten with Ken Holiday Special continues our review of highlights from more than 500 college and university greeting videos released around the world last December. In part 3, "Festive & Fuzzy," we turn to the cuddlier side of the season, with a look at campus mascots, puppy dogs,...
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Season's Eatings!
The "Ten with Ken" Holiday Special continues with part 2: Season's Eatings! Every year, baked goods and particularly gingerbread are prominent in higher ed holiday greeting videos. Often, we see students baking together, such as in a best-in-class vid from Wellesley College last year. More often...
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Midwinter Magic!
This year's "Ten with Ken" Holiday Special starts with part 1: Midwinter Magic! In last year's higher ed holiday videos, campus marketers were clearly anxious about doing a good job, such as at the Bryan School of Business & Economics at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Upper Iowa...
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Makerspaces as Learning Spaces
So-called "maker spaces" are proliferating in campus libraries, but truly effective ones require much more than a 3D printer and some shiny new toys. This week, Ken Steele chats with Kerry Harmer, the Maker Studio Specialist at Mount Royal University, about the potential connections between...
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A Library for the 21st Century
For decades, college and university libraries have been continuously renovating their space and replacing technology. But what would a 21st-century library look like if you could build it from scratch, with a $100 million budget? Two years ago, Calgary's Mount Royal University got the chance to…
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Bringing Science to Life
Children are natural born scientists, with an insatiable curiosity and desire to experiment – but studies have demonstrated that somehow, through years of formal education, most teenagers lose their enthusiasm for science. By the time they are applying to college, less than a quarter say they...
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Radical Ideas: RADIUS @ SFU
This week, Ken gets a "taste" of social innovation at Simon Fraser University's RADIUS incubator, speaking with co-director Shawn Smith and social entrepreneur Dylan Jones about their work. We learn how innovation requires bureaucratic flexibility, and Ken winds up at a loss for words with his...
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Employment Guaranteed!
Despite its significant sticker price, higher education doesn't often come with a guarantee. After all, what a student learns, and how they put their skills to work in the world, has more to do with their own effort than anything the institution can do. But in a world of labour market uncertainty...
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Invest in Your People
This week, Ken Steele chats with Maureen Adamson, president of Fleming College, about how higher ed leaders can sustain a culture of innovation on campus, particularly by investing in our people. "The most important thing" Maureen says, is to "give the gift of time" to front-line faculty and…
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Equity & Diversity on Campus
This week, Ken Steele's conversation continues with Maureen Adamson, president of Fleming College in Peterborough Ontario. Maureen was formerly Ontario's Deputy Minister responsible for the Status of Women, so this week Ken asks her thoughts on gender equity and increasing diversity in higher...
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Interdisciplinarity & Soft Skills for an Age of AI
This week, Ten with Ken visits Fleming College, in Peterborough Ontario, where Ken Steele and president Maureen Adamson discuss the labour market needs of the fourth industrial revolution, and the need to prepare college students with interdisciplinary programs and the so-called "soft skills" in...
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University vs College?
The distinction between 2-year colleges and 4-year universities is becoming increasingly blurred, with the rise of polytechnics, collaborative and dual enrolment programs, postgrad certificates at university and applied degrees at colleges. (Sheridan College has not been coy about its ambitions…
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Mental Health & Student Success
Colleges and universities are investing more and more resources into student retention and success initiatives, and student mental health has become an escalating crisis on many campuses. This week, Ken Steele sits down with Janet Morrison, president and vice-chancellor of Sheridan College, to...
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Cultivating Creativity
Sheridan College, in the suburbs of Toronto, is world renowned for its creative programs, such as top-ranked illustration and animation degrees – and it has built its entire institutional brand on the slogan "Get Creative." This week, Ken Steele sits down with Janet Morrison, Sheridan's president...
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Industry in our DNA!
This week, Ken Steele continues his conversation with Larry Rosia, the president and CEO of Saskatchewan Polytechnic, about the fourth industrial revolution, workforce changes, rising interdisciplinarity, and the strengths of polytechnic education – particularly, their close connections to...
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4 Ways to Go Global!
This week, Ken Steele "takes off" to Saskatoon to speak with Larry Rosia, the president and CEO of Saskatchewan Polytechnic, about his institution's four pillars of internationalization. They sit down in SP's pilot training flight simulator for a conversation. Internationalization has been a top...
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Ownership & Initiative: Nurturing a Culture of Innovation
Ken's conversation with Mark Frison, president of Assiniboine Community College in Brandon Manitoba, continues this week as they explore ways that higher ed leaders can empower and inspire their people to take ownership and take initiative, to propel innovation on campus. (If you missed the first...
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Immigration & Participation on the Prairies
Ken Steele visits Assiniboine Community College, in Brandon Manitoba, to talk with president Mark Frison about their beautiful new North Hill Campus, encouraging enrolment in a region with the lowest PSE participation rate in the country, serving Indigenous populations, aligning programs with...
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Let the Best Ideas Win!
From the high tech sector to higher education, one leadership challenge is similar: how do you nurture a culture of innovation in a hierarchical environment? It's probably tougher in the public sector, and especially in centuries-old academic institutions with bicameral, colleagial…
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Small College, Global Edge: LaSalle College Vancouver
In the face of mounting budgetary pressure, colleges and universities are finding new collaborative approaches to achieve efficiency and economies of scale. Public institutions are sharing campuses and facilities, forming regional marketing groups, and even signing agreements to share course...
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Moving Mountains: UniverCity @ SFU
Faced with tuition caps and declining government grants, public colleges and universities are becoming more entrepreneurial and seeking alternative revenue streams, often by selling off surplus campus lands to developers, or leasing campus space for retail or residential development. Simon Fraser...
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Higher Ed Holiday Video Countdown!
Ken Steele is back with his 4th annual Holiday Special, and this time he's counting down the top ten higher ed holiday videos from last December, based on a rubric including production quality, acting, music, creativity and emotional impact. The Holiday Top 10: #10 – Elon University "Holiday…
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100 Ways to Indigenize Your Campus
Last week, Ken Steele sat down with Vianne Timmons, president of the University of Regina, to discuss why Indigenization matters to higher ed. (ICYMI see it at https://youtu.be/iLe1mxiT4rM). This week, we turn from "why" to "how", and look at dozens of ways that colleges and universities can…
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Why Higher Ed Indigenization Matters
In the wake of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Canada's Truth & Reconciliation Commission findings, higher ed is realizing just how much work lies ahead if it is to reconcile itself with Indigenous peoples, and indigenize the curriculum. Saskatchewan, where some...
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Incentives for Innovation
This week, our conversation continues with Steve Robinson, interim President & Vice-Chancellor at Brandon University in Manitoba. We tackle one of the toughest questions for today's higher ed leaders: how to encourage a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Many academics, Steve...
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Indigenizing the Academy
This week, Ken Steele talks with Steve Robinson, interim President & Vice-Chancellor at Brandon University in Manitoba, about one of the most urgent changes facing higher ed in the next decade: indigenization. Every university in Canada, particularly those in Western Canada, is faced with the...
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The Higher Ed Innovation"Sandbox": Paula Burns at Lethbridge College
This week, Ken Steele concludes his conversation with Paula Burns, President & CEO of Lethbridge College. In part 1, Paula described 3 notable innovations at Lethbridge College, in competency-based learning, stackable modular credentials, and the use of VR technology (...
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5 Ways Higher Ed can Prepare for 2028: Paula Burns at Lethbridge College
This week, Ken Steele continues his conversation with Paula Burns, President & CEO of Lethbridge College, about 5 key ways higher education should be preparing for the decade ahead. (Last week, Paula described 3 notable innovations in competency-based learning, stackable modular credentials, and...
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Competencies, Modules & VR: Paula Burns at Lethbridge College
This week, Ken Steele talks with Paula Burns, President & CEO of Lethbridge College, about 3 notable innovations in programming, pedagogy and applied research at her institution: competency-based learning, stackable modular credentials, and the use of virtual reality technology. Don't let its...
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Building Communities at SFU
Simon Fraser University is committed to community engagement, so much so that its campus master plan and infrastructure is focused on building communities, in Vancouver, Surrey, and on Burnaby Mountain. SFU is literally setting its vision in stone! Last week 10K looked at how SFU's Engagement...
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Embracing Engagement at SFU: Beyond Branding
At BC's Simon Fraser University, "the Engaged University," the slogan is much more than mere marketing; it's the focus for the institution's planning framework. (Although yes, it also helps differentiate the university's brand.) SFU president Andrew Petter invited Ken Steele for a campus site…
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10 Recent One-Word Wonders in Higher Ed Branding
Ken Steele returns to the Brand Chemistry™ lab to round up 10 recent examples of colleges and universities that have focused their brands on a single word. It can be a real challenge to get campus-wide consensus, but there's a growing trend to quite literally "own a word" in the higher ed...
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Higher Ed Branding: The Bold & The Brave
College and university marketers have to work hard to gather research and build campus consensus around a new brand position. Although the goal is to develop a distinctive position, the reality is that many higher ed branding projects result in some awfully similar creative executions. Next week,...
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Ken Steele is Canada's most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, who co-founded the nation's leading market research firm and daily news service for colleges and universities. In this podcast, Ken will explore aspects of branding, marketing, media relations, pedagogy (teaching and learning), revenue generation and more -- as they relate to Canadian higher education in particular.
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