Podcast Episodes

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (9:10) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Forbes “Common App Will No Longer Ask About Discipline Records, by Elana Lyn Gross. The Common App is eliminating a question that asks college applicants to disclose if they have been subject to disciplinary action [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (7:43) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed “Did Students In College Housing Learn Better?”, by Greta Anderson. A new survey from American Campus Communities, one of the largest student housing developers and providers in the United States, found positive [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (5:35) : In this week’s news segment, an article from cnbc.com “COVID is making it harder to get into a top college”, by Jessica Dickler. The nation’s top schools saw a record number of early applications for fewer spots; while the rest of the country’s [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (8:08) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Politico.com “Supreme Court Will Hear NCAA Case on College Athlete Pay”, by Leah Nylen and Juan Perez, Jr. The Supreme Court will hear a landmark antitrust case against the NCAA that could upend the business [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (8:24) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed “Applications Tank in State That Require SAT or ACT”, by Scott Jaschik. Florida public schools have resisted the calls to go test optional and now many Florida schools are seeing a major [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (14:12) : In this week’s news segment, an article from The Wall Street Journal “The New M.B.A.: Flexible, Cheaper and Lifelong”, by Patrick Thomas Harvard’s and Columbia’s business schools are starting to add certificates and ‘lifelong learning’ to their programs, a shift that could transform [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (9:05) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Inside Higher Ed “How much will Biden be able to do?”, by Kery Murakami. Joe Biden will head to the White House with an ambitious agenda for higher education – that includes wanting to make [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (8:58) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Forbes “Colleges Woo Students with Bargain Tuition Rates”, by Emma Whitford. Out of fear of drastic enrollment drops because of the pandemic, colleges are taking measures to entice students to apply and enroll. From freezing [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (13:12) : In this week’s news segment, an article from Forbes “The big college expense you probably didn’t know about and save for: mandatory health insurance”, by Bruce Brumberg. Colleges mandate students to not only have health insurance, but also that their plan has to [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:12) : In this week’s news segment, an article from the Hechinger Report “When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds”, by Jill Barshay. A Swiss experiment involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups found that the gender composition of the [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:20) : In this week’s news segment, an article from the Hechinger Report “Another Problem with Shifting Education Online: Cheating”, by Derek Newton. When universities went online in response to COVID-19, so did the tests their students took. A person logged in at a well-known [...]

In this week's episode you will hear In the News (6:07): In this week’s news segment, an article from the Hechinger Report “Enrollment and Financial Crises Threaten Growing List of Academic Disciplines”. Small enrollments threaten the elimination of academic programs – deepening the impact of budget cuts due to the coronavirus. (Length 14 minutes) https://hechingerreport.org/enrollment-and-financial-crises-threaten-growing-list-of-academic-disciplines/ [...]