Rick Clark

Ken chats with Rick Clark (Twitter, LinkedIn), Director of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech and the voice behind the Georgia Tech Admission Blog. Learn about the power of a midnight run, what an English Premiere League soccer player has to do with a rising admission staffer, and where he and his team get their best ideas for staff engagement and renewal.

Links and lists

The Truth About College Admission by Rick Clark and Brennan Barnard (published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)Rick also mentioned a video they were working on that plays on the Delta pre-flight safety video. He was kind enough to share it with me so I can share it with you. (Spoiler: it’s genius.)

Rapid Descent

Rick's walkout song: We Ready by Archie EversoleBest thing he's read lately: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story by Donald MillerWhat he's eager to read next: The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne StabileWhat he uses to take and keep notes: voice records into his phone, also "a ton of flip paper"Memorable bit of advice: We don’t have to do this; we get to do this… The interruptions are your job—when the problems come, we should be excited about tackling them. They’re not a disruption.Bucket list: Hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro—he was on his way there to do it, but contracted malaria in Botswana

The ALP is supported by RHB. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment