Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction: Mark lets the listeners know about a new feature they can expect in the month of December and moving forward on Thursdays episodes. Mark discusses the largest labor union strike in Higher Ed history that is happening on the 10 University of California campuses right now Mark [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (25:40) : Mark and Julia discuss a Hechinger article by Liz Willen entitled, “Why some in Higher Education are freaking out about new affirmative action showdown. The article appeared in January 22, 2022. Julia and Mark discuss affirmative action. Why is it so misunderstood? What [...]

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction: Mark reveals one more must-have reference book and he takes a look at where are we with Student Loan forgiveness in light of the announcement on November 10th. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Arlene Cash. Part 1 : Arlene gives her [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (17:18) :Mark and Vince discuss an opinion piece that was written by current Stanford Student, Sophie Callcott. The column appeared in the New York Times. The name of the guest column is, “There is still one big trick for getting into an elite college” Mark [...]

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction: Mark shares why the admission profession is in crisis right now. Mark shares three reference books he recommends every family have in their college admissions library. Mark shares one pet peeve he has in the vocabulary that so many people use. Mark does a Preview of the [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (30:18) : Mark and Susan discuss a Sara Harberson article entitled, “10 Things to know if you want to major in business” The February 10th, 2022 article appeared in her blog: https://www.saraharberson.com/blog/things-to-know-major-in-business (Length 26 minutes) This week’s question (56:04) Mark and Lisa discuss how students [...]

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction: Mark answers two questions he has been asked 12-15 times in the month of October. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Dr. Martha Saunders-Part 2/2 Preview Part 2 Saunders shares a time she had to sunset or get rid of some programs [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (11:00) : Mark and Dave discuss a Town and Country article entitled, Why Are More Northern Kids Heading South For College by Nicole Laporte. The article was written on 10/2/2022. The article looks at why so many students are not looking to New York, Boston [...]

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction : Mark goes into more depth about the four recommended resources that he touched on in Episode 267 last Thursday (see below). Mark shares a second thing that is grinding his gears. Mark does a Preview of the content of his interview with Dr. Martha Saunders. Preview [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (27:22) : Mark and Julia discuss an August 17th, 2022 article in Bloomberg by Claire Ballentine and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou entitled, “College students face costlier rent and food, even as tuition soars”. Julia and Mark get personal, as Julia shares her own struggles when she was [...]

In this week's episode you will hear Introduction: Mark shares two announcements and then Mark and Lynda Doepker discuss something that is grinding both of their gears. This is followed by the final part of the interview with the Dean of Global Education at Elon University: Dr. Nick Gozik. The topic is, What you need [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (25:24) : Mark and Vince discuss an article by Sami Edge that appeared on August 31, 2022 in Oregonian entitled: “Record number of 1st year students withdraw from the University of Portland, contributing to 13.4 million shortfall. Vince and Mark discuss how could this happen [...]