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  • Lisa Leander on Community as the Curriculum for Student Success

    Lisa Leander on Community as the Curriculum for Student Success
    Jan 20 2026
     What if building community is as important as the curriculum? What is the toolkit for getting beyond the "Ick" of networking to create real communities where students, faculty, and staff belong? We dive into this with Lisa Leander, founder of the WIBE Network (Where Imagination Builds Excellence). We talk through the ingredients in her secret sauce and what this means for folks that focused on community and belonging to enable student success.
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    32 Min.
  • Brandee Popaden-Smith on Integrating Working and Learning Experiences

    Brandee Popaden-Smith on Integrating Working and Learning Experiences
    Dec 16 2025
    How can you continuously increase and communicate the value of higher education by integrating work experience within it? We dive into this question with Brandee Popaden-Smith, Senior Director at Arizona State University's University College. We talk through their two answers: integrating experiential learning with corporate and community partners in the curriculum at scale and redesigning student employment to provide real structure, skills, and supervision.
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    32 Min.
  • Lora Strigens on Connecting Campus Spaces to Institutional Strategy

    Lora Strigens on Connecting Campus Spaces to Institutional Strategy
    Nov 18 2025
     How can campus spaces advance institutional strategy? How can better data and better stakeholder engagement help you make better decisions about where, how, and when to invest in campus facilities and their operations? How can your campus create more meaningful, memorable experiences? We discuss these questions with Lora Strigens, Vice President for Planning and Strategy at Marquette University who brings a unique perspective leading both capital planning and strategic planning.
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    27 Min.
  • Peggy McCready on How Tech Data Enables Student Success

    Peggy McCready on How Tech Data Enables Student Success
    Nov 11 2025
    How can technology not only help students create, collaborate, and communicate but also provide valuable data about what they need? How can institutions curb the digital sprawl, redundant systems, and siloed data that stem from their decentralized structures? How can your strategy help you prioritize and combine communications, training, and support.? We dive into this with Peggy McCready, an AVP for Information Technology at Colorado State University.
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    31 Min.
  • Ben Wildavsky on What Skills and Relationships Lead to Career Success

    Ben Wildavsky on What Skills and Relationships Lead to Career Success
    Nov 4 2025
    How can broad education + targeted skills + social capital lead to success in college and beyond? How can students combine getting an education and getting a job, especially in the age of AI? How can students play the short game (i.e., targeted skills) and the long game (i.e., broad education) as they think about the careers they want to have and the lives they want to lead? We discuss these questions and more with Ben Wildavsky, Author of The Career Arts.
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    30 Min.
  • Dana Stephenson on How to Integrate Work into Learning

    Dana Stephenson on How to Integrate Work into Learning
    Oct 28 2025
    How can you solve the "need a job to get experience but need experience to get a job" conundrum? How can you help students find their purpose so they are more motivated, engaged, and resilient learners? Can you do this all in a way that levels the playing field for students and employers alike? We dive into these questions with Dana Stephenson, Co-founder and CEO of Riipen, an experiential learning marketplace that connects colleges and universities to companies through projects that build students' skills and relationships and help companies find talent, get ideas, and make progress.
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    28 Min.
  • Kevin McClure on How a Caring University Enables Student Success

    Kevin McClure on How a Caring University Enables Student Success
    Oct 14 2025
    How can colleges and universities improve the employee experience and in turn increase student success? What do institutions need to do differently in terms of strategic planning, professional growth, and leadership development? How can institutions take on the tough decisions and conversations that come with cuts and consolidations? We dive into these questions with Kevin McClure, author of The Caring University as well as a faculty member and department head at UNC Wilmington.
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    35 Min.
  • James Vasquez on Using Technology to Make Connections

    James Vasquez on Using Technology to Make Connections
    Oct 10 2025
    What's the role of technology in student success? How are online and hybrid learning and ubiquitous connectivity changing experiences? How do you make decisions about what's in the enterprise tech stack while leveraging personal devices? How can you use data to connect coursework, co-curriculars, and more to a career path? We dive into these questions with James Vasquez Associate Dean for Strategy and Operations at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism.
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    31 Min.