Interview 281: Barbara Kalmus-How using the wrong language can impact mental health
• Barbara Kalmus gives her backstory • Barbara talks about student mental health • Barbara talks about the impact of the language that we use when classifying colleges and how students hear something very different than what we think they hear • Barbara talks about how things have changed since the 1990's • [...]
Interview 280: San Diego State University-Interview
• Lauren and Sophie share what they feel are the best things about San Diego State University • Sophie and Lauren share what they got involved in while at SDSU • Lauren and Sophie share what they would change if they were in power • Lauren and Sophie share what are the things [...]
Interview 279: Standard Strong Roundtable
Susan Tree, Carter Delloro, and Mark Stucker discuss what a Standard Strong student is. They discuss what a Standard Strong student can do to stand out in competitive applicant pools. Hilary Dickman joins the conversation for a 20-minute segment to share her insights on this topic. The roundtable has very straight forward practical [...]
Interview 278: Heath Einstein-Advice About College Resumes
Heath introduces himself, and he gives us updates on 4 key takeaways from TCU’s new strategic plan, and I ask Heath a few follow-up questions Heath shares some of the new college majors that TCU is offering We introduce the topic we will be covering for the next few weeks, and Heath explains [...]
Interview 277: Jennifer Gershberg – How to excel while in college
Jennifer Gershberg: How to excel while in college-Internet Content Lisa gives an overview of Jennifer’s background Jennifer talks about the circuitous path she took in her career Jennifer talks about why so many students are not preparedforcollege Jennifer explains the value of writing handwritten notes, the value of reading paperback or hard copies [...]
Interview 276: Tips for Athletes who want to play in college
Katie Anderson gives us the history of the Student-Athlete Advisors, and she shares her bio, and she shares her soccer background Joe Slater gives his bio, and he shares his baseball background Amy Bryant gives her bio, and she gives her tennis and soccer background Reid Meyer gives his background, and he shares [...]
Interview 275: Grace Robertson-Lloyd – Understanding Grinnell College
Grace talks about her experience as a student at Grinnell College Grace talks about the Open Curriculum at Grinnell, and she explains why it is more appropriately understood not only as an Open Curriculum but also as an individually advised curriculum Grace explains the benefits of an Open curriculum, and she explains how, [...]
Interview 274: Grace Robertson-Lloyd – The Role of the Regional Admission officer
Grace gives her backstory, including her time as a student atGrinnell Grace talks about her first 10 years working for Grinnell inIowa, DC, andGrinnell, Iowa Grace explains how the role of a Regional is similar anddifferent from the role of a home-based admission officer who livesclose to the college Grace explains the trade-offs [...]
Interview 273: Kelly Walter – Boston University Part 1
Kelly and Susan share how they met Kelly shares the various roles in admissions she has had and she shares why she has done admissions for 5 decades Kelly shares how Boston University’s Methodist roots and its history as a Bible institute originally impacts BU to this day Kelly explains many areas where [...]
Interview 272: Elena Hicks on “Understanding SMU”
Elena gives her backstory of how she started at TCU as a student and leader of the tour guide program to doing K-12 admissions, to working in admissions at Mid-Atlantic University before coming back to Texas Elena gives us an overview of SMU Elena answers the question, "How would you explain SMU to [...]
Interview 271: Susan Brisson on “Understanding Olin University”
Susan gives her backstory Susan gives us the basics about Olin Susan explains why you will see the name Olin on so many different colleges Susan explains what makes Olin different from other engineering-oriented colleges Susan explains the first-year curriculum at Olin Susan talks about the size of Olin and what the advantages [...]
Interview 270: Peter Pitts on “The Case for Small Colleges”
Peter Pitts gives his backstory Peter shares why he didn’t like being a Director of Admissions Peter talks about what he loved about being a Regional admissions officer, and we just have a good conversation about being a regional admissions officer Peter explains where his passion for admissions work comes from Peter walks [...]
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