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Are You 12 Months Behind on AI Visibility & Don't Even Know It? - with Rhea Vitalis, Vice President of Marketing, Everspring

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How This Higher Ed Journalist Tracks Innovation (& What He's Watching Next) - with Paul Fain, Journalist & Analyst, Founder of Work Shift (newsletter: The Job)

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Should Higher Ed Redesign Degrees Around ROI Instead of Tradition? - with Dr. Frank Sanchez⁠, President, ⁠Manhattanville University

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What If Student Success Actually Means Nothing Unless You Define It? - with Dr. Bernard A. Polnariev, Vice President for Administrative Services, UCNJ

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Why AI Might Help Us Be Human Again - with Dr. Dave Schippers, the Chief Academic Officer and Provost, Walsh College

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Why Are Companies Paying Students to Attend This Community College? - with Dr. Julius Sokenu, President, Moorpark College

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If Facts Tell & Stories Sell, Why Is Higher Ed Still Using Facts? - with Dr. DeRionne Pollard, President & CEO, American Association of Community Colleges

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What If Higher Ed Focused on Development Instead of Information Delivery? - with Dr. Stephen P. Johnson, Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Palm Beach Atlantic University

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Can You Really Increase Quality, Decrease Cost & Expand Reach at Once? - with Alvin F. Meredith III, President, & Rob Garrett, Chief of Staff, Brigham Young University–Idaho

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What If Training Costs Were Costless for Employers & Debt Free for Students? - with Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder & CEO, OpenClassrooms

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What If Your Data Had a Seat at the Cabinet Table? - with Dr. Madhavi Chandra, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Entrinsik

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How to Build the New Academy Through Creativity & Experimentation - with Dr. Joy Connolly, President, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

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How Can Evaluations Become Messages Instead of Judgments? - with Kristine Goodwin, Strategic Project Manager for the President, North Shore Community College

214

AI, Burnout, & the New Healthcare Workforce: UMA’s Plan to Rebuild Talent Pipelines - with April Neumann, Executive Vice President of Workforce Transformation, Ultimate Medical Academy

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How Higher Ed Leaders Are Getting AI Policy Wrong (& How to Fix It) - with Dr. David Hatami, Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, EduPolicy.ai

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Why Pennsylvania's Newest College Might Outlive Its Oldest Ones - with Susan R. Snelick, President, Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

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Why Insurance Companies & Universities Need the Same Technology Now - with Shouvik Paul, COO, Copyleaks

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What 23 Years at 1 College Teaches About AI - with Dr. Robert Wilson, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cedar Crest College

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How Does Serving the "Top 100%" Challenge Everything Higher Ed Measures? - with Dr. Edward Bush, President, Cosumnes River College

220

Student Centered, Innovation Driven - with Dr. Rick Muma, President of Wichita State University

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AI in Higher Ed: What Grammarly’s Rebrand Means for Students & Faculty - with Jenny Maxwell, Head of Education (GM), Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)

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What Happens When 60 Leaders Discover Traditional Workforce Prep Is Broken? - Kristen Fox, Chief Executive Officer, Business-Higher Education Forum

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AI in the Classroom: What Faculty Need to Know About Integrity, Engagement, & Student Success - with Dr. Rebecca I. Hopkins, Vice President of Learning, Western Technical College

224

What If Higher Ed Stopped Selling Degrees & Started Unlocking Human Potential Instead? - with Dr. Suzy Siegle, President & CEO | Professor of Management, Walsh College

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Why "Ignore the Noise & Follow Your Heart" Is This President's Leadership Philosophy - with Dr. Anne D'Alleva, President, Binghamton University

226

What Happens When You Fire the Playbook & Rebuild Higher Ed from Scratch - with Dr. Nick Ladany, President, San Francisco Bay University

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When Students Are Also Parents, Employees & Caregivers: The 'ANDers' Revolution - with Mark Milliron, President & CEO, National University

228

Is Your Multi Campus Strategy Creating Chaos or Consistency? - with Dr. Christian Vigé, Provost, Delta College

229

Maybe Your University Needs This: Howard’s Partnership Strategy - with Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh, Provost, Howard University

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How To Control Your Institution's Narrative Before It Controls You - with Karla Jo (KJ) Helms, Founder & CEO, JOTO PR Disruptors

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What If College Students Stopped Interning for Google & Started Companies Instead? - with Chris Klaus, CEO, Fusen, & Co-Founder, Georgia Tech CREATE-X Startup Accelerator

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Are Practical Majors Just Better at Cultural Signaling Than Skill Building? - with Dr. Corey Moss-Pech, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida State University

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How 1 College Rewrote the Rules on Academic Integrity for the AI Era - Dr. Cathy R. Briggs, Dean, Student Success, & Gina Yanuzzi, Assistant Professor, Comp. & Lit., Rowan College at Burlington County

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When Academic Integrity Meets AI: IU's Playbook - with Dr. Anne Leftwich, Associate VP for Learning Technologies, & Dr. Justin Hodgson, Strategic Dir. of GenAI, Faculty Initiatives, Indiana University

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How This Professor Teaches Both High School & University in the Age of AI - with Casey Cuny, Professor, National University, & 2024 California Teacher of the Year

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What Happens When Budget Cuts Hit Day 1 & Why Listening Tours Might be Thing of the Past - with Dr. Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, President, Thomas College

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What Happens When 50,000 Students Get Free AI Literacy Training & Learn AI as a Copilot Not a Cheat Code - with Dr. Michael Webb, Director of Innovation, Capella University

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What Happens When Students Adopt AI Faster Than Faculty & Drive 150 Year Old Universities to Innovate? - Dr. Sarah Holtan, Assistant Provost, Carroll University, & Host, Get Down to College Business

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How Do You Lead 13,000 Students Where 48% Are First Generation? - with Fernando Delgado, President, Lehman College

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What Happens When a University Refuses Federal Funding & Freezes Tuition for 9 Years - with Dr. Eric Klein, Assistant Provost, Doctoral Research & Student Success, American College of Education

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How 1 College President Recruits Students Everywhere He Goes & Gives Away $500 Every Month - Mike Hobbs, President, Georgia Highlands College

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Christian Benito⁠, 3rd Year Student, & ⁠Andre Krzyzanowski De Jesus⁠, 2nd Year Student, Berkley College

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Richard W. E. Georges, President, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Rebecca Corbin⁠, President & CEO, ⁠National Association for Community College⁠ Entrepreneurship

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Chuck Ambrose, Senior Education Consultant, Husch Blackwell Consulting

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Havidán Rodríguez⁠, President of ⁠SUNY at Albany⁠

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Annual Conference - Honar Issa, Secretary-General, Dilan Rostam, Dir., Higher Ed, & Boushra Rahal Alameh, President, Kurdistan Accrediting Association for Education

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Kimberly Davenport⁠, Partner & Director of Corporate Responsibility at ⁠ScottMadden, Inc⁠.

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Margery Kraus, Founder & Executive Chairman of ⁠APCO Worldwide⁠

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - Christina Weber, ⁠ Biology Honors Student, & ⁠Jesse Jacondin⁠, Sr. Research Analyst, ⁠Brookdale Community College⁠

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LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Jonathan Peri, ⁠ Commissioner ⁠Middle States Commission on Higher Education⁠⁠, & President of ⁠Manor College

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How AI Can Make Students Better Than the Machines They Use - with France Hoang, Founder & CEO, BoodleBox

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How AI Breaks Down Language Barriers (But Creates New Academic Integrity Problems) - with W. Ila Peterson, Professor of Mathematics & Director of Faculty Development, Arizona Western College

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Why Americans Are Frustrated with College BUT Still Send Their Kids - with Sophie Nguyen, Senior Policy Manager, Higher Education, New America

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The Accreditation Myth: Why Your University Has More Freedom Than You Think - with Dr. Maria Toyoda, President & CEO, WASC Senior College & University Commission

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From Wicked Problems to Ingenious Solutions: The Leadership Transformation - with Melissa Morriss-Olson, CEO, The American University of Greece Global Campus

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4 Nobel Prizes, 100+ Programs, 600K Alumni: Inside Berkeley's Innovation Machine - with Darren Cooke, Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley

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Half of America's Colleges Are Coin Tosses, Here's How to Beat the Odds - with Gary Stocker, Founder, College Viability

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How Is a 70 Year Old Testing Organization Reinventing Itself with AI & Why Should You Care? - with Joy Jones, CEO, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

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Is AI Destroying Learning or Saving It? 23 Years of Ed Tech Lessons from Studiosity's Founder - with Jack Goodman, Founder, Studiosity

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When Selling Your Campus Saves Your University: The NDNU Story - with Dr. Beth Martin, President, Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU)

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Why 88% of Faculty Voted to Blow Up the Liberal Arts Model (& How Your Institution Can Too) - with Dr. Arthur Levine, President, Brandeis University

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How Religious Mission Drives Innovation (Not Prevents It) - with Elder Gilbert, Commissioner of Education, Church Educational System

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Will Universal Design for Learning Save Higher Education? - with Dr. Melissa Beck Wells, Associate Professor, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development, Empire State University

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What Faculty Innovation Grants Reveal About the Future of AI in Education - w/ Patricia Salkin, Sr. VP-Academic Affairs, Provost-Graduate & Professional Divisions, & Professor of Law, Touro University

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What a 45 Minute AI Conversation Revealed About 19 Years of Leadership - with Dr. Randall VanWagoner, President, Mohawk Valley Community College

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How 1 Leader Plans to Transform 782 Institutions by Cutting Bureaucracy & Embracing Innovation - w/ Stephen Pruitt, President, Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Commission on Colleges-SACSCOC

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What Universities Can Learn from St. Edward's About Recognizing Prior Learning & Valuing Experience - with Dr. Montse Fuentes, President, Professor of Mathematics, St. Edward's University

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Why Higher Ed Needs More "Radical Cooperation" - with Dr. Michael Horowitz, Chancellor, The Community Solution Education System

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Why Asking "How Would You Feel If I Used AI?" Changes Everything About Academic Integrity - with Judson Curry, Dean, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Kishwaukee College

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There Are PLENTY of Students - Debunking Higher Ed's Biggest Myth - with Dr. John Comerford, President, Otterbein University

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What Global Health Leaders Know About Scaling Education - with Peter Bell, President, American University of Antigua

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The Signal vs. Noise Problem Every College President Faces (& How to Win) - with Brad Baca, President, Western Colorado University

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If You Use AI, You're Responsible for It: The New Academic Integrity Standard - w/ Kaela Lindquist & Amy S. Kelso, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Why This President Says 'Lead as if You'll Be There Forever' (Even if You Won't) - with Dr. Roger Parrot, President, Belhaven University

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From Firearms to Drones: Teaching Trades Without Classrooms - with Jarred McNeely, Chief Academic Officer, Sonoran Desert Institute

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What College Presidents Need to Know About Rankings, ROI & the Demographic Cliff - with Dr. LaMont Jones, Managing Editor for Education, U.S. News & World Report

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The University That Refused to Accept the Demographic Cliff - with Dr. Aondover Tarhule, President, Illinois State University

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How Colleges Can Double Enrollment with Varsity-Lite - with Brent Richard, CEO, IMG Academy

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How an English Professor Turned AI from "Cheating Tool" to Career Essential - with Dr. Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College

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Anticipatory Tiptoes - with Dr. Kimberly Beatty⁠, Chancellor, ⁠Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City⁠

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EdUp Extra: How 1M Test Takers Achieve 90% College Persistence Without Seat Time - with CT Turner, CEO, GED Testing Service

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What "Explore the Uncommon" Really Means at Linfield University - with Dr. Mark Blegen, President, Linfield University

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What 2U's Turnaround Reveals About Higher Ed's Future - Kees Bol, CEO, 2U

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What Every University President Should Know About AI Literacy Requirements - with Dr. Christina A. Clark, President, La Roche University

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EdUp Extra: If You're a University President, This 20-Minute Listen Could Change Everything - Justin Papadakis, Deputy CEO & Chief Real Estate Officer of the USL

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Why College-Ready Students Still Drop Out & How Paid Internships Fix It - with Dr. Donnell J. Butler, Founder & President, Prelude

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When Tutoring Becomes Cool - with Samyr Qureshi, Co-founder & CEO, Knack

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If Students Don't Exist, Are They Still Cheating? - Dr. Matthew J. Borcherding, Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, Minnesota State Community & Technical College

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What Happens When 7,000 Students Get Unlimited AI Access Overnight? with Dr. Rob McDole, Director for the Center of Teaching & Learning, Cedarville University

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What Happens When You Remove All the "Gunk" From Higher Education? - with Dr. Sasha Thackaberry, Founder & President, Newstate University

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Inside the Search for President #14 - with Romaine Seguin, Acting President, William Woods University

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What Happens When Universities Take Degrees to Students Instead of Waiting - with Dr. Kelly Damphousse, President, Texas State University

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Why We're Asking the Wrong Questions About Student Cheating - with Dr. Gregor Thuswaldner, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty, La Roche University, & Host of EdUp Provost

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What America's Original Community College Teaches About the Future - with Dr. Clyne Namuo, President, Joliet Junior College

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Should College Presidents Live on Campus? This One Does & Here's Why - with Dr. Kristen Miller, President, Southern Maine Community College

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What Happens When Workforce Pell Finally Arrives (& Why Colleges Aren't Ready) - with Dr. Lisa Avery, President, Linn-Benton Community College

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The Strategic Plan That 500,000 People Are Watching - with Dr. Brian Knetl, President, Waubonsee Community College

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What "Authentic Engagement" Actually Means in the Age of ChatGPT - Dr. Joseph Brown, Dir., Academic Integrity, & Dr. Sarah Gutierrez, Ast. Dir. for Student Conduct Services, Colorado State University

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Maybe We Should Stop Asking 'Are Students College Ready? - with Dr. Alberto J. Román, Chancellor, Los Angeles Community College District