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Future U Podcast - The Pulse of Higher Ed — 235 episodes
Colleges Face New Pressures to Define Themselves
A Playbook for College Programs in Prisons
Season 9 Wrap-Up: Why Mission Matters More Than Ever
Athletics Departments Have Become ‘Shadow Universities’
Higher Ed 101: Inside the Process of Closing a College
The College Where Funding Follows Students’ Earnings, Not Enrollment
Cutting Degrees That Don’t Add Value
The University President Who Isn’t Afraid of Speaking Up
The Busts in Buildings, AI, and College Presidencies
The Sports Betting Madness on College Campuses
How AI Could Transform, or Replace, the LMS
Higher Ed 101: Tenure Explained
Will a Flood of Credentials Threaten the Four-Year Degree?
Inside the Role of College Trustees During Turbulent Times
Is Grade Inflation Deflating Trust in Schools?
Why Don’t More Colleges Run Co-Op Programs?
Resist or Reform? Vanderbilt’s Chancellor Speaks Out
Takeaways from 2025 and Predictions for Next Year
Rerun: Visiting Bowie State University: HBCUs, Employer Partnerships, and Student Engagement
Navigating a Merger as a College Trustee
Preparing Students for an AI-Infused Workforce
How States Can Meet the Moment In Higher Ed
Visiting Butler: Sparking a Culture of Innovation
The Impact of AI on Student Motivation
How AI Could Reshape Higher Ed
Why a University Proactively Sought a Merger
Reporters Roundtable: How Trump Is Shaking Up Higher Ed
Redefining the ‘Dream School’
No Relaxing Summer for Higher Ed
Rerun: Reclassifying Higher Ed: Will the New Carnegie Groupings Change the Race for Prestige?
Rerun: Learning from the Swiss Apprenticeship Model
Rerun: Chips and Higher Ed: What the Federal Investment Means for Colleges
AI in the Workplace: Michael Horn Hosts WGU's Future of Work Panel
Rerun: The New Student-Ready College
Rerun: Higher Ed 101: College Budgets Explained
Rerun - The Lost Boys of Higher Ed
Season 8 Wrap Up: Looking Back and Ahead
Former Governor Dishes on Connecting Work and College
Higher Ed on the Hill: Getting College Back on the Congressional Agenda
Live from Milken: Hurdles and Hopes in Higher Education
Live from Milken: One-on-One with Bill Ackman
Making Sense of the First 100 Days
Reporter’s Roundtable: A Quarter Century of Higher Ed Controversies
Building an Apprenticeship System in Indiana: How the Hoosier State is Adapting the Swiss Model
Reclassifying Higher Ed: Will the New Carnegie Groupings Change the Race for Prestige?
Higher Ed 101: College Budgets Explained
Learning from the Swiss Apprenticeship Model
Building an AI-Ready College
A Midwest Merger: How Two Ohio Colleges Are Coming Together
Accepted without Applying: The Growth of Direct Admissions
The Lost Boys of Higher Ed
A New Era for Higher Ed?
Making "Job Moves"
The Resiliency of Remedial Education
Chips and Higher Ed: What the Federal Investment Means for Colleges
Developing a Tech Mindset at the Leadership Table
How One Regional University Is Growing
The New Student-Ready College
Visiting Western Governors University: Growing and Evolving Pathways for Educating Teachers
Cutting College Costs, Board Tensions, & Consultant-mania
The Seismic Impact of College Athletics
AI Goes to College: In the Classroom and Beyond
Searching for Fit: The Impacts of AI in Higher Ed
So Long, Summer: We're Back
Rerun: The Wild West of Dual Enrollment: Its Growth, Benefits, and Drawbacks
What's Next for Skills-Based Hiring
Rerun: The Future of the Ph.D.
Rerun: How Small Schools Can Thrive As Higher Ed Changes
Rerun: The Role of Higher Ed in the American Dream
Rerun: Leveraging Apprenticeship to Bolster the Rural Talent Pipeline
Rerun: The Future of Online Ed
Season 7 Wrap Up
The Competency-Based Approach to Validating Learning in Higher Ed
On the Board: The Role of Trustees in Higher Ed
When College is About the Job
Measuring the True Value of Community Colleges
Fighting for Free Speech on Campus
The Wild West of Dual Enrollment: Its Growth, Benefits, and Drawbacks
Apprenticeship in America: Rethinking the Role of Community Colleges
The Simplified FAFSA’s Complicated Rollout
Testing, Athlete Labor & the FAFSA
The Future of the Ph.D.
“College Unbound” from the Traditional Model
Reporters Roundtable: Enrollment, Loan Forgiveness, & FAFSA Simplified
Student Success 2.0
How Small Schools Can Thrive As Higher Ed Changes
Season 7 Midterm Report
The Role of Higher Ed in the American Dream
Visiting Michigan: Balancing Local Impact with Global Reach
Leveraging Apprenticeships to Bolster the Rural Talent Pipeline: Part 2
Leveraging Apprenticeships to Bolster the Rural Talent Pipeline: Part 1
How Colleges Can Cultivate Relationships to Improve the Student Experience
Future of Online Ed
Deep into Data Analytics
Community Colleges, the Value of Degrees, and Changes in Admissions
Building Resilience in Students, Deliberately
Demise of Pac-12, Campus Spending, and DeSantis at Yale
Promoting Belonging in Diverse Classrooms
Season 6: Final Report
Visiting Marymount: Liberal Arts Education and What Really Prepares Students for the Future
Higher Ed 101: Accreditation Explained
Religion and Higher Education
Learner Mobility and Transfer in Higher Ed
Future U Live from NAIS
Do College Rankings Matter and is a Bachelor’s Degree Even Worth It?
A Look Back at Governor Jeb Bush’s Florida Higher Ed Policies
What We're Missing When It Comes to Colleges and AI
Acronyms Galore: TPS, OPM, and K12 ESAs
Higher Ed’s Role in Growing Rural Economies
The Affirmative Action Conversation Colleges Should Be Having
Will the Teens Be OK?
A Looming Wave of Mergers and Acquisitions
Short, Affordable Alternatives to College
Reporters Roundtable: Florida, Amenities U. and the Future of the BA.
Great Resignation in Higher Ed
Re-engaging Students after Covid
Solving the Problem of College Costs
The Expansion of Pell Grants
Rankings, Elite Online BA, and Future of the SAT
From the Archives: Misleading Financial Aid
Visiting Bowie State University: HBCUs, Employer Partnerships, and Student Engagement
What Students Think of Their College Experience
Leadership, Business and Athletics: Penn State University President Neeli Bendapudi
Rethinking College Athletics
Headlines in Review: NYU Prof, ACT Scores, Senate vs. College Prez
Talk of Disruption from the Top: Temple University President Jason Wingard
Immersed in the Latest Edtech Buzz
From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Students
The Great Realignment & Student-Athlete Wellbeing
A Normal Year Ahead? Campus Life, Sports, and Online Ed
Final Report
Visiting Atlanta: Georgia Tech and Emory Presidents on Student Wellness, Urban Campuses, and Research
Presidencies of Firsts
Visiting UCLA: The Future of Access, the Student Experience and the Campus Workforce
Will the Kids be OK?
100th Episode: A Look Back and Forward
Visiting Northeastern: When Technology Complements Human Interaction
Is Consolidation Coming?
A View from the Top
Higher Ed 101: The Credential Cluster
The Transparency of Higher Ed's Value
How to Define and Measure Higher Ed's Value
The Three Decade University President
The Continuing Debate Over Student Debt
Mergers, Acquisitions & Higher Ed
Explained: What's an OPM?
What's Going on with the Workforce?
Will the Pandemic Accelerate Change in Higher Ed?
The Reporters Roundtable
Transforming a Prestigious HBCU
Kickoff to Season 5
Farewell to a Remote Year
Reporters Roundtable On Vaccines and Visas
Eyewitness to University Leadership
What's Behind Enrollment Declines at Community Colleges?
Perceptions of Higher Ed One Year Into the Pandemic
The Secretaries of Education
The Post-Pandemic University
What’s Ahead for Congress
Good Jobs in Bad Times
Preparing For Jobs That Don’t Yet Exist
Behind the Headlines
Early To Go All Remote
The Debate Over Reopening Colleges
The Role of the Public Intellectual
Rethinking the Regional Public
The Hybrid University
Blurring the Lines of the University
Will Graduate Schools Face a Reckoning in 2020?
Who Gets In and Why
Reversing Course on the Fall
Kicking Off a Fall Like No Other
The End of a Crazy Year
Calculating the ROI of Higher Ed
A President and Provost on Plans for the Fall
Will COVID-19 Permanently Change Instruction and Costs In Higher Ed?
The Three Digital Waves of Higher Ed in a Pandemic
The Coming Enrollment Crunch
Leading a Liberal Arts College During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Keeping a University Financially Sustainable During the Coronavirus Crisis
Managing the Coronavirus Crisis: On the Front Lines with Northeastern University
Balancing the Tradeoffs in Admissions
The Quick Pivot to Remote Education
Managing Campuses During the Coronavirus
The Opportunities for Small Colleges
Reporters Roundtable
Higher Ed as a Strategic Priority for a State
The Controversy Behind Transparency
What’s Ahead for Higher Ed in 2020?
A Quick Update
Community College Innovation
The Real Story of Student Success
Game of Loans
A Governor Goes to College
Choosing College
Welcome Back!
Future U Mailbag
Will MOOCs Transform Higher Ed After All?
Credentials vs. Degrees: How Much Clout Does Each Have?
The Financial Aid Letters Mess
Live from ASU-GSV, Day 2
Live from ASU-GSV, Day 1
In the Wake of the Admissions Scandal, How Much Does the SAT Matter?
The College Admissions Scandal, a Week Later
Can a 100-year-old Organization Shape the Next Generation of Higher Ed?
High-quality Education Doesn’t Have to Mean Small and Selective
The Survival of Small Private Colleges
The Eroding Partnership Between Higher Education and the Public
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on the Future of Higher Ed and Lifelong Learning
Universities Wade Into Bootcamp Territory
What the Harvard Admissions Case Means for Higher Education
The Robots Are Coming
What Student Loan Default Rates Really Mean
The Future of Work and What It Means for Higher Ed
Online Education and the University
Welcome Back!
What Do People Think About Their College Experiences?
The Future of Small Colleges
Shifting Universities’ Mindsets Toward Innovation
Higher Ed’s Role in Shaping the U.S. Workforce
Tales from a Higher Ed Disruptor
Innovation in Continuing Education: The 60-Year Curriculum
A New Era of Collaboration in Higher Education
What is the “New Urban College” Model?
Is Innovation Cultural or Strategic?
Are There Unicorns in EdTech?
What Impact Does Helicopter Parenting Have on Student Success?
Higher Ed Innovation
Gordon Gee
Big Changes for For-Profits
Hot Topics, Joseph Aoun
Higher Ed Trends
Demographic Destiny?
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