Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (20:10) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Arvind Ashok of the New York Times. The article is entitled, “The Persistent Grip of Social Class on College Admissions” ” The article looks at the research that was based on studying 60,000 [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (9:35) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Scot Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, “Where do Public Research Universities Recruit Students” The article looks at the research that was based on studying 15 universities websites that reveal [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (7:08) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Ron Lieber of The New York Times. The article is entitled, “High Schools Are Producing Their College Lists. Don’t be misled.” The article talks about how in some high schools, there is so [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (7:37) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Karen Fischer from the Chronicle Higher Education. The article is entitled, “The employer mismatch”. The article looks at study done in partnership with The Chronicle and America’s Public Media marketplace that looks at [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (7:02) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, “Test-optional admissions yields benefits.” The article looks at a paper on the topic was published in the American Educational Research Journal. The paper, [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (15:18) : In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report. The article entitled, “Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to micro credentials. The article looks at how organizations like Western Governor’s, edX and [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (13:24) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Brennan Barnard of Forbes. The article entitled, “College Admissions: Do you belong”. The article looks at the ways in which the pandemic is creating widespread problems like loneliness,anxiety and depression. Mark and Dave discuss the [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (12:10) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article looks at the ways in which former Temple business school dean, Moshe Porat, manipulated the data in order to help Temple climb up in the rankings. Mark [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (9:08) : In this week’s news segment, an article from New York Times “Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Payments to Student-Athletes”, by Adam Liptak. Justices across the ideological spectrum teamed up during Supreme Court oral arguments to voice skepticism about the N.C.A.A.’s position that [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (9:09) : In this week’s news segment, an article from College Transitions “Is There a Bias Against Asian College Applicants”. As an Asian teenager, or parent of one, you’ve likely heard that Asian students are at a disadvantage in the admissions process at elite American [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (15:25) : n this week’s news segment, an article from The Hechinger Report “Poll Nearly half of parents don’t want their kids to go straight to a four-year college”, by Jill Barshay. Fewer American parents are dreaming of sending their kids off to a four-year [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (10:01) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed “Do Top Colleges Favor Applicants Who Are Extremely Wealthy” by Scott Jaschik. Article reports that 29 percent of students at Brown and Dartmouth are from private high schools. Other Ivies are also [...]