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LIVE from the 2026 Lumina Foundation State Policy Retreat - with Cindy Nava, Senator & Majority Whip, New Mexico State Senate, & Deborah Santiago, Co-founder & CEO, Excelencia in Education
LIVE from the 2026 Lumina Foundation State Policy Retreat - with Dr. Tristan Denley, Louisiana Board of Regents, & Dr. Zainab Okolo, The Jed Foundation (JED)
How Do You Triple Your University Going Rate in a High Poverty Rural District? - with Dr. Chris Nesmith, Superintendent, Elma School District
Why Can't You Succeed in Recruitment Unless Career Placement Data Is Stellar? - with W. Kent Barnds, Executive Vice President for Strategy & Innovation, Augustana College
Do Less With Less. This Is the New Normal - with Pat Pitney, Former President, University of Alaska
Why Are We Still Putting Students in Remedial Sequences That Don't Work? - Dr. Victoria Ballerini, Dir., Strong Start to Finish, & Dr. Amy Moreland, Vice Chancellor, Tennessee Board of Regents
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Dr. Bettina Celis, Vice President of Student Affairs, Chandler-Gilbert College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Daniel Corr, Vice Provost for Academic Alliances, Arizona State University
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with John Morgan, Executive Director of Workforce, Skilled Trades & Manufacturing, & Vince Redgrave, Executive Director for Industry Innovation, Yavapai College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Andrew Clegg, Academic Dean of Workforce Development & Skilled Trades, Central AZ College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Aimee Novak, Executive Director of Culinary Experience, Yavapai College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Ryan Gray, & Robyn Bryce, Executive Directors, Learning & Educational Innovation Executive Directors Technology, Engagement & Strategy, Yavapai College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Sandra DeLacy, Director, Arizona Community College Success Center
LIVE from ACCAC 2026: Extending Student Learning with Conversational AI - with James Morales, Faculty, HVAC, Yavapai College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Dr. Von Lawson, President, Northland Pioneer College
LIVE from ACCAC 2026 - with Dr. Doug Berry, Acting President, Yavapai College
What If Security Could Be Inclusive But Invisible at the Same Time? - with Ron Shaffer, Technology Industry Leader - K-12 & Higher Education, Salto
What Does It Mean to Control Technology Instead of Letting It Control You? - with Dr. Katia Passerini, President, Gonzaga University
People See Things in You Before You See Them in Yourself. That's College - with Dr. Charles (Chip) Edmonds, President, Lycoming College
96% Working in Fashion Within 6 Months. 3 Internships Before Graduation. That's LIM - with Scott Taylor, Senior Vice President of Enrollment Management & Student Success, LIM College
How Do 8 in 10 Families Discard a College Without Running the Numbers? - with Annat Shrabstein, Sr. Director, Consumer Insights & Brand Strategy, Sallie
How Do You Measure Time to Value for Every Degree Program? - with Harrison Keller, President, University of North Texas
The Blur: When Credit & Workforce Stop Being Separate - Dr. Marcia Conston, President, Tidewater Community College
How To Improve Graduation Rates, Salaries & Employment - with Sam Dreyfus, Executive Vice President, ECPI University
Why Does the President Still Advise Students & Give Campus Tours? - with Dr. Cory Homer, President, Sussex County Community College
Service With the Community, Not To the Community - with Dr. Bonnie Irwin, Chancellor, University of Hawai'i - Hilo
4.9 Million Students Nobody Talks About - with Dr. Peter O. Nwosu, President, State University of New York, Oswego
$321 Million & 20,000 Jobs: The Bet on West Virginia - with Michael T. Benson, President, West Virginia University
We Have a Moral Obligation, Not a Technology Problem - with Dr. Summer McGee, President, Lenoir-Rhyne University
No Wrong Door: The Bunker Hill Promise - with Pam Eddinger, President, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC)
I Want You to Want to Be There - with Dr. John Selmon, President, Muskegon Community College
Small Is the Strategy, Not the Apology - with Dr. Cynthia L. Pemberton, President, Lewis-Clark State College
The Stock Market for Education: Inside the New Accreditor Built for Workforce Pell - with Dr. Rebecca Busacca, President, The National Accreditation Commission
Reverse Engineering Degrees From Tomorrow's Jobs - with Dr. James Michael Burkett, President, U.S. Operations for Northbridge University
It Is a Demographic Hill, Not a Cliff - with Dr. Chuck Lloyd, Chancellor, Community College System of New Hampshire
If AI Takes the Entry Level, Who Is Your Farm Team? - with Dr. Justin Schwartz, Chancellor, University of Colorado Boulder
How Do You Take an Institution on Life Support & Make It Thrive? - with David A. Armstrong, President, St. Thomas University
President Series #500 - with Scott Pulsipher, President, Western Governors University
The Schiller Way: Campus Mobility Beyond Study Abroad - with Dr. Jennifer King, President, U.S. Operations, & Dr. Saib Othman, Provost, Schiller International University
Beyond Survival: Reporting From The Front Lines Of Higher Education's War For Relevance - with Dr. Joe Sallustio & Elvin Freytes
Why Every Student Must Intern - with Dr. Beth Ross, President, Emmanuel College
The 2035 Blueprint for a Community College - with Dr. Keith Curry, President, Compton College
How Did MTSU Lift Its Graduation Rate by 8 Points? - with Mark Byrnes, Provost, Middle Tennessee State University
What Singapore Knows That the West Refuses to Learn - with Montserrat Gomendio, Former Chancellor/Rectora, Universidad Nebrija
The Answer to Our Hopelessness Is Not Technology - with Matt Scogin, President, Hope College
How Do You Build an Organization Whose Goal Is to Become Obsolete? - with Jaime Hansen, CEO, Swipe Out Hunger
The Forklift Cannot Do Your Deadlifts - with Greg Domski, Associate Provost, Augustana College
Our Graduates Transform Your Businesses - Dr. Towuanna Porter Brannon, President, Virginia Peninsula Community College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Amy Beth Glass, University Registrar, & Evan Vasilakis, Professional Services Specialist, Stockton University
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - w/ Michael Nealon, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Chief Academic Officer, & Denise Piche, Project Manager, Henry Ford College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Allison Wrobel, Registrar, & Jailinette Torres, Director of Academic Planning & Scheduling, Holyoke Community College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Kay Ellett, Sherli Skinner, & Debbie Miller, Eastern Arizona College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Jessica Scarato, Registrar, Logan University
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Allan Lockett, Assistant Vice President, Academic Administration, York Technical College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Andrew Rosen, CEO, Coursedog
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - w/ Chris Sula, Assoc. Provost, Academic Affairs, Denise Mngo, Dir. Academic Assessment, & Luke Phillips, Registrar, Pratt Institute
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Dr. Meagan Mielczarek, Director of Assessment & Accreditation, East Stroudsburg University
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Elliot Felix, Student Success Author, Speaker & Consultant
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - w/ Dr. James H. Whitney III, Assoc. Provost, & Adelina Marini Thorpe, Asst. Dir. Academic Ops, Mercer County Community College
LIVE from the 2026 AcOps Conference powered by Coursedog - with Linda Jena, Pedagogy Resources Specialist, Parker University
If Faculty Are the Heart, Why Are They Burning Out? - Geoff Watson, CEO, NCFDD
Phenomenal Is the Answer - with Marva B. Johnson, President, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU)
What We Were Asking Students to Do Before AI Was Broken. AI Just Showed Us - w/ Edward J. Maloney, Executive Director , Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) Georgetown University
Why the AI Conversation on Campus Is Disconnected from the Real World - with Kiersten Barnet, Executive Director, New York Jobs CEO Council
Why 74% of Transformation Efforts Fail - with Dr. Monique Reeves, Executive Vice Chancellor for the Future, Austin Community College District
Maybe It's Time to “Skillify” the Curriculum - with Dr. Henry Mack, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, Department of Labor's Employment & Training Administration
Why the Department of Education Says Higher Ed Needs a Revolution, Not a Tune Up - with Nicholas Kent, Under Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education
Presidential Office Hours. No Set Agenda. Just Listen & Hear - with Dr. Sedgwick L. Harris, President, Bristol Community College
Student First, Employer Obsessed: Inside the WGU & CVS Pharmacy Partnership - with Dr. Ryan Gates, Executive Dean & Senior Vice President of the Leavitt School of Health, Western Governors University
If We Look Exactly the Same 3 Years From Now, Something Has Gone Wrong - with Bill Pink, President, Ferris State University
It's Not Courage. It's Trust. Trust the People to Do Good Things - with Dr. Bret Danilowicz, President, Radford University
How Do 90% of Your Graduates Come Back to Live & Work in the Same County? - with Dr. Rosalie Mince, President, Carroll Community College
Use AI to Make Learning Better, Use AI to Make Everything Else Cheaper - with John Katzman, Founder & CEO, Noodle
Why Does Nobody Else Dedicate 10% of Their Operating Budget to Financial Aid? - with Frederick W. Clark Jr., President, Bridgewater State University
How Do You Get Done in 1 Year What They've Been Trying to Do Since 2007? - with Dr. Nerita Hughes, President, Bay de Noc Community College
Why Does Every Student Need to Find Their Person Who Knows Them When They Walk In? - with Dr. Radha Pyati, Chancellor, Penn State Berks
Will a College Degree Be Relevant 5 Years From Now? We Have to Solve for That - with Adam Hasner, President, Florida Atlantic University
4 Presidents, 1 Stage: An Unprecedented Conversation on Higher Ed's Future - with Shane Reese, Elder Alvin F. Meredith III, Brian K. Ashton, & Dr. Bruce Kusch
34 Years in Higher Ed. She Still Loves It Every Day - with Dr. Leah A. Barrett, President, Northeast Community College
The Liberal Arts Are Not a Relic. They're Future Proofing - with Dr. Brooke Barnett, President, Rollins College
How Do You Move Persistence From 50% to Nearly 100%? - with Dr. Erika Kitzmiller, Research Associate Professor, University of Chicago
How Do You Train a Workforce for 100,000 New Jobs That Didn't Exist 14 Months Ago? - with Richard Nelson, President, Louisiana Community & Technical College System
Why Does the Counselor Know Why the Numbers Dropped But Can't Say It in the Meeting? - with Jerell Hill, Dean of Student Services, Los Angeles City College
If Students Need a Resume & a Diploma, Why Not Require Both? - with Dr. Sarah Coakley, Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Georgia Highlands College
How Do You Build the Ultimate Graduate That Every Employer Wants to Hire? - with Roger Hughes, President, Doane University
LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Dr. Quentin Young, President, University of the Cumberlands
LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Dr. Chris Domes, President, Neumann University
How Do You Have 3 Presidencies at the Same Institution Without Switching Schools? - with Rich Dunsworth, President, University of the Ozarks
LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - w/ Stacy Chiaramonte, SVP, Strategy & Ops, UPCEA, & Jeni McRay, Asst. Provost, Internationalization & Strategic Initiatives, Fort Hays State University
How Does a Community College Become the School of Choice Instead of the Starting Point? - with Dr. Jeremy L. Thomas, President, Black Hawk College
Every School Does It Differently. There's Plenty of Room for Adaptation - with Patty Alper, President, Teach to Work Foundation
Why Do People With Degrees Experience the Lowest Unemployment in Every Recession? - with Dr. Kathy Bakhit, Community College Faculty Fellow, University of La Verne
Why Is a $20 Million Scholarship Budget an Investment, Not a Discount Rate? - with Dr. Joe Parisi, President, Missouri Valley College
LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Charlie Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Employer-Funded Financial Aid (EFFA) Inc.
Tech CEOs Are Saying Study Liberal Arts. Here's Why - with Marsha Familaro Enright, President, Reliance College Fund
$18 Million Deficit. 4 Years to Close It. Here's How - with Dr. Jesse M. Bernal, President at Western Connecticut State University
How Do You Bring 12 Universities to 500,000 Residents Who Can't Drive the Beltway? - with Dr. Dale Nesbary, Interim Executive Director, University System of Maryland
And the HigherEd PodCon Awards finalists are...
Enriching Lives Through Learning - Dr. Shawn Powell, President, Eastern New Mexico University - Roswell
LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Kevin Halle, VP for Enrollment Management, Wayne State College