IlluminatED
129 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJoin us each week to hear from industry leaders, technology leaders in higher education, and most importantly, students, to chat on hot topics, share solutions, collaborate, and envision the future of higher education together. Let’s illuminate higher education once and for all.
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nSquared- No, You can't go back to the way things were before, with John Katzman, Founder and CEO of Noodle Inc
April 20, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBJohn Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to getting it right, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed. Katzman is the co-author of five books, and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the National Alliance...
Finding the right college at the right price with Vielka Hoy, CEO and Founder of Bridge to College
April 17, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBVielka Hoy is a twenty-year public, private and collegiate career educator turned college consultant. She has guided thousands of students in identifying “best fit” collegiate institutions to match their strengths and needs. After perfecting her formula, Hoy wanted to make her process available to students and educational institutions across the country. From 1999 to 2017, Vielka held teaching positions at UCLA and Berkeley, as well as department chairs and dean roles at public and private ...
nSquared- National Student Clearinghouse Keynote with President and CEO Rick Torres
April 13, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 24.2 MBAs the President & CEO of the National Student Clearinghouse, Rick Torres believes that we can begin to aggressively address our nation's education-to-workforce challenges with reliable, verified data and information in today's ever evolving digitalized education and technical environments. The Clearinghouse provides trusted and private access to comprehensive academic data and other learning records that empower education leaders, employers, learners, and researchers to achieve their goals ...
College graduate? How to get the financial freedom and career? with Gene Rice, Co-Founder & Chairman at Rice Cohen International
April 10, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 36.2 MBRags-to-riches author and CEO Gene Rice and his high school English teacher daughter Courtney Bejgrowicz, share critical information alongside professional and personal successes and failures to demystify adulthood. They are the co-authors of the book “Grad to Grown-Up” which teaches everything you didn’t learn in school but all you need to know to launch your personal and professional life. The five sections—life, job search, career, personal finance, and health and relationships—provide re...
nSquared- Life Experiences and Experiential Learning with Dr. Emad Rahim
April 06, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBDr. Emad Rahim is a dynamic educator, higher education administrator, and business leader, with an outstanding talent for making rapid business assessments of diverse situational challenges, and developing and leading the resulting action plan. A proactive leader that is skilled in developing strategic business partnerships and securing sponsorships. Dr. Rahim earned an AACSB Bridge Post-Doctorate Diploma in Marketing (Tulane University), a Post-Doctorate Certificate in Higher Education Ad...
nSquared- Firesdie Chat with Dr.Jordan Shapiro
April 03, 2022 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBFor the past two years, the pandemic has disrupted our kids' classrooms, as well as our homes, offices, and professional workspaces. Our general lives have been upended in innumerable ways—some obvious and others subtle. What does it take to be a parent or an educator now? What does child-rearing require in such an uncertain climate? What does it mean to raise kids well? In this ‘fireside chat’ session, Dr. Jordan Shapiro will answer some of these questions, while sharing his thoughts on the...
nSquared- Imagining a Connected Smart Campus
March 30, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBOne of the best-known chatbots deployed by universities is IBM Watson. IBM Watson uses a technology referred to as Watson Conversation Service. Universities can use it for expediting student responses, downloading and providing documents, and answering subject-specific questions. An AI chatbot can provide immediate answers to library requested as well as signing up for new classes or getting students to the admissions department in the blink of an eye, making self-serving more streamline...
Is Higher Education Ready for Disruptive Innovation with Jennifer Wilde, Managing Director and Dan McClure, System Innovation Architect of Innovation Ecosystem
March 27, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBJennifer draws on over 15 years of hands-on experience as a senior manager in humanitarian response. She has developed strategies for fostering innovation during emergency response, in challenging volatile contexts, always with complex challenges. Jenny has pioneered initiatives that break from conventional innovation models and enable global scale. She excels in bringing together diverse groups from local innovators to international organizations to collaborate on "messy" problems and big o...
nSquared- Reinventing Learning and Student Success
March 23, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 29.8 MB63% of students unable to pay for classes/educational expenses due to pandemic-related changes to income canceled all classes. Over 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states canceled in-person classes during the pandemic. Spring 2021 undergraduate enrollment is down 5.9% compared to Spring 2020. How did our understanding of student success, student learning, and student engagement changes over the course of the pandemic? What are some of the innovations your organization is spearh...
Overcoming Inertia and Enabling Innovation ft. Dr. Jayson Boyers
March 20, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes - 28.4 MBDr. Boyers is a nationally regarded expert in the field of higher education and has been published in The Huffington Post, Diverse Magazine, Wall Street Journal Market Watch, Crain’s Business, and Forbes. He has also been covered nationally for his education strategies in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher ED. Prior to joining the Rosemont College community, Dr. Boyers was the President of Cleary University in Howell, Michigan, a position he held from 2015 to 2020. Befor...
Overcoming Inertia and Enabling Innovation with Dr. Jayson Boyers, President of Rosemont College
March 20, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes - 28.4 MBDr. Boyers is a nationally regarded expert in the field of higher education and has been published in The Huffington Post, Diverse Magazine, Wall Street Journal Market Watch, Crain’s Business, and Forbes. He has also been covered nationally for his education strategies in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher ED. Prior to joining the Rosemont College community, Dr. Boyers was the President of Cleary University in Howell, Michigan, a position he held from 2015 to 2020. Befor...
nSquared –Unstacking Student Data and Campus Infrastructure
March 16, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBAccording to a recent survey, 39% of higher education apps run in the cloud today, and that number is expected to increase to 62% by 2021. Most deployments will likely use a combination of a public cloud and a private environment that remain distinct entities but are bound together, an approach known as a hybrid cloud. Most experts agree that the hybrid cloud will be the new normal. According to a March 2020 report, more than 90% of global enterprises will rely on the hybrid cloud by 2022 ...
Everyone Deserves Education, but not at the College of Their Choice with Dr. Shirag Shemmassian, Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting
March 13, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Shirag Shemmassian, Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting Dr. Shemmassian is the Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting and one of the world’s foremost experts on medical school admissions, college admissions, and graduate school admissions. For nearly 20 years, he and his team have helped thousands of students get into medical school and top colleges using his systematic and prop...
nSquared – Reinvesting in Human Capital Management
March 06, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBAccording to the latest figures that came out earliest this year, the report showed that 4.5 million people voluntarily left their positions in November – an “all-time high,” according to the agency responsible for collecting the data. Many are giving up the traditional 9-to-5 structure entirely; 20% of Americans say they are considering a switch to full-time freelance work, according to recent Upwork research. How has the rise of the gig economy and the tidal wave of great resignations ch...
How to Normalize Diversity in Higher Education with Dr. Hilary Link, President at Allegheny College
February 20, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Hilary Link, President at Allegheny College. Dr. Hilary Link is the first woman to be named as President of Allegheny College, one of the nation's oldest and most innovative academic institutions. Dr. Link has been promoting the importance of new perspectives and multidisciplinary learning to help prepare Gen Z students for satisfying lives in a complex global world. Educational inequality is a...
Say YES, and Upgrade Your Campus with Ryan Palmer, Principal at Kennedy & Company Education Strategies
February 13, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ryan Palmer, Principal at Kennedy & Company Education Strategies. Ryan has appeared in numerous theater and screen productions and holds an MFA in acting from the theater school at DePaul University. On transitioning to a career in higher education, he found that his training and work in theater have helped positively inform his everyday work and education. Specifically, Ryan found that his extens...
How to Keep Students Engaged During Learning with Shaunak Roy
February 06, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Shaunak Roy, Founder and CEO at Yellowdig. Yellowdig are doing something amazing, which is increasing learner engagement in K-12. They've experienced a whopping 200% increase in learner engagement across universities and community colleges. And that’s despite the problems that learning institutions face around student engagement, which are exacerbated by this hybrid world we're living in, largely du...
How to Keep Students Engaged During Learning of Shaunak Roy, Founder and CEO of Yellowdig
February 06, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Shaunak Roy, Founder and CEO at Yellowdig. Yellowdig are doing something amazing, which is increasing learner engagement in K-12. They've experienced a whopping 200% increase in learner engagement across universities and community colleges. And that’s despite the problems that learning institutions face around student engagement, which are exacerbated by this hybrid world we're living in, largely du...
How To Learn and PIVOT From Life Experiences with Ravi Hutheesing
January 30, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ravi Hutheesing, Education and Cultural Futurist at Ravi Unites, Inc., and a Global Keynote Speaker. Ravi Unites is a large network of international K-12 schools, whose classes participate in peer-to-peer learning with real-time audio and video interaction. This empowers the students of today to succeed in an unpredictable tomorrow. It's incredible to see Ravi's journey pivot from a musician, to an...
The Toxicity of Achievement Culture with Dr. Jeannine Jannot, Founder and CEO of The Balanced Student
January 09, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Jeannine Jannot, founder and CEO of The Balanced Student. Dr. Jannot had been teaching preschool after being home with her kids for years and years. From there, she eventually moved into elementary schools, then started teaching college after that. Because of her experience in teaching at multiple levels, she has an unbelievable bird's eye view of what education looks like for kids across the de...
Introducing Fusion Spaces to College Campuses with Mr. Kona Gray, Principal at EDSA
December 22, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Mr. Kona Gray, Principal at EDSA. Mr. Gray helps universities realize that they must innovate and take a leap of faith to try new designs to keep their campuses safe and ahead of the curve. There has been a resurgence in highlighting the great outdoors. People have finally remembered the importance of nature and the importance of getting back to the essentials that support us all. While Covid did...
Creating Flexible Learning Environments with Kyle Shea, Executive Vice President of Partnership Development at All Campus
December 19, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Kyle Shea, Executive Vice President of Partnership Development at All Campus. All Campus is a leading online program management services provider that helps universities evolve their academic programs and exceed the ever-evolving expectations of students. Many universities have learned the hard way that they need to create a good online program. There are still bottlenecks for many universities n...
Children's Education That Will Last a Lifetime with Komal Shah, Educational Consultant
December 12, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with educational consultant, Komal Shah. Komal leverages her passion for education along with her business expertise and her personal conscious living practices. Her plan is to shift outdated educational paradigms and transform the education system for the betterment of all children. Why? So that preventative measures to common issues can be more normalized during their educational journeys. In the we...
How To Protect Yourself Against Misinformation with Richard Guarasci, Principal at Presidential Partners LLC
December 05, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Richard Guarasci, principal at Presidential Partners LLC and former president at Wagner College. The goal for an institution like Wagner College is for their higher education to link work and democracy together in some way. This is a connection that's not always understood in the United States. It means not only helping people develop careers in the service industries, but also adding a civic compon...
Understanding Internet Dependency with Roger Sands, CEO at Wyebot
November 28, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Roger Sands, CEO at Wyebot. Wyebot keeps WiFi systems up and running, automatically detecting WiFi issues and providing AI-driven solutions. IT departments can now receive the aid they need while also saving them time. This technology can improve the learning experience for teachers and students in a dramatic way. Even the smallest WiFi issue can become a massive headache for some of the most crit...
Retaining What You Study in School with Ben Nelson, Founder and Chancellor at Minerva University
November 21, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ben Nelson, founder and chancellor at Minerva University. Ben is a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education through methods of learning that help students better retain the information they take in. The educational learning structure should be divided into three separate areas: the acquisition of information, experiential learning, and application in real world contexts. The way that...
Why Humans and AI are Better Together, with Dr. Mike Bills, President at AtlasRTX
November 14, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Mike Bills, President at AtlasRTX. AtlasRTX's industry-leading chatbots engage customers automatically 24/7, allowing staff to focus on high-value tasks, effective interactions, desirable outcomes, and improving brand affinity. The AtlasRTX approach to chatbots is that humans and AI are better together. Bots are very smart, but they're not human beings, they shouldn't be there to completely sup...
The Pre-Covid Pandemic Still Plaguing Higher Education with Michael London, CEO at Uwill
November 07, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Michael London, CEO of Uwill. Uwill’s mission is to expand mental health access and services to colleges by building on technology-enabled models that have been validated in recent years. Unfortunately, since most colleges have a very traditional structure, mental health, in particular, isn't where a lot of tech resources get allocated to. What Michael found was that when you have technology-driven...
The Blueprint for a Smart Campus with Dr. Narine Hall, CEO at InSpace Proximity
October 31, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services’ CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Narine Hall, co-founder and CEO at InSpace Proximity. When Dr. Hall initially began teaching virtually, the biggest problem was feeling like she wasn't a part of the learning experience. For example, when students would split into separate Zoom rooms, she lost the overall awareness of what was happening among the students. She asked herself, "How do we build an environment where learning happ...
Accessible Education for Everyone with Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder & CEO at OpenClassrooms
October 24, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder and CEO at OpenClassrooms. Pierre Dubuc's mission with OpenClassrooms is to make education more accessible to all. And he’s making big strides with the massive amount of open, online courses (aka MOOC courses) now available. They're a challenge to traditional higher education and an avenue for life-long learning in general. On top of that, we have a growing need to learn mo...
Lifelong Learning, Reimagined with Ryan Stowers, Charles Koch Foundation's Executive Director
October 17, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ryan Stowers, Charles Koch Foundation's Executive Director. Ryan kicks things off by outlining a core issue in our higher education system, which is that it's severely outdated. As it stands, only one-third of students at four-year institutions believe that they'll graduate with the skills and knowledge to be successful in the workplace. This illustrates an obvious area of opportunity, which can sta...
The Urgent Need for a New Higher Ed System with Keil Dumsch, Writer, Editor, and Education Reformer
October 10, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Keil Dumsch, online content writer, editor, and committed education reformer. Interestingly, Keil doesn't come from an education background. He felt compelled to jump off the sidelines as a concerned citizen back in 2009, because he felt the situation with student debt had reached a critical mass. Getting familiar with the structure of our education system led him to believe that there is a combina...
Remote Learning That Matters with Jason Black, Program Director at Black River Innovation Campus
October 03, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Black River Innovation Campus's Program Director, Jason Black. Jason has a unique mix of skills as a teacher in the classroom, a subject matter expert on early stage tech entrepreneurship, and an author. Both of his parents were educators working in colleges as well, so moving into that industry was organic for him. In his words, he "eats, breathes, and sleeps'' anything involving higher education. ...
The Future of Workplace Development with Steve Lee of SkillUp
September 26, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Executive Director of SkillUp Coalition, Steve Lee. SkillUp was launched in July 2020 as a reaction to the pandemic and unemployment crisis. It’s an upskilling, non-profit coalition built to help America’s laid-off and furloughed workers gain access to the training and employment opportunities they need to secure a place in the economy of the future. Rather than push workers back into jobs just like...
The Evolution of Modern Education Feat. Ed Powers and Christina Inge of Husky Communications
September 19, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO, Kiran Kodithala, sits down with Ed Powers and Christina Inge. Together, Ed and Christina launched Husky Communications in collaboration with Northwestern University. It’s a student-run agency, designed to connect students with real-life organizations by bringing the real-world tasks and experiences of running an agency into the classroom. By overlapping the academic world with the world of business, the result is better prepa...
Transforming Workforce Development through Community Colleges, feat. Julian L. Alssid, Chief Marketplace Engagement Officer, Unmudl
September 12, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBJulian L. Alssid, Chief Marketplace Engagement Officer at Unmudl, joins podcast host Kiran Kodithala on this episode of the Illuminate Higher Education podcast. They discuss the evolution of the community college experience and how new innovations are driving better alignment with workforce demands. Julian explains how community colleges have several challenges to overcome. First, they must move away from the supply-side approach to academic programming. Instead, curricula should be designe...
Leading and Learning With Empathy and Grit Featuring Dr. Emad Rahim
August 22, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, Kiran Kodithala, CEO of N2N Services, conducts a fascinating conversation with Dr. Emad Rahim, genocide survivor and refugee, about educating with empathy and grit, and what that entails, including technology for a hands-on approach. The end goal: Creating a more meaningful and rich learning experience. Dr. Emad Rahim is one to talk! Not only is he an award-winning author, educator, and entrepreneur who serves at Biola University and the Jack...
The Transformative Impact of Studying Abroad feat. Scott Marshall, President and CEO, Institute for Shipboard Education & Semester at Sea
August 08, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBScott Marshall, President and CEO of the Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE), joins podcast host Kiran Kodithala on this episode of Illuminate Higher Education. ISE is the nonprofit organization that administers the Semester at Sea program. Scott has visited, worked, and taught in more than 80 countries during his extensive career in education. Scott outlines three primary benefits of study abroad: it is a highly engaging, high-impact learning experience; it encourages student retention...
Course Materials Strategies: A Path to Improved Student Outcomes feat. Raj Kaji, CEO, Akademos Inc.
August 01, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBRaj Kaji, CEO at Akademos, Inc., joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about changing the way students obtain and interact with textbooks and resources during their higher education journeys. Akademos provides colleges and universities with a full-service online bookstore and course materials platform. Raj talks about how course materials are a significant expense for students already facing high tuition costs. He also explains how few colleges and universities have dedi...
From Pre-K to Ph.D.: Exploring the Black Educational Experience feat. Dr. Ramon Goings, University of Maryland Baltimore County
July 18, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBDr. Ramon Goings, assistant professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture interdisciplinary doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to discuss his research and publications on the academic and social experiences of high-achieving Black men, from pre-K through Ph.D. Ramon begins by discussing the unique challenges doctoral students face in completing the dissertation process. He shares how his own experiences led ...
Innovative Approaches to Advancing Academic Integrity feat. Eric Gibbs – President, Americas, Ouriginal
July 11, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBEric Gibbs, President, Americas of Ouriginal, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about how his company supports students, instructors, and educational institutions to maintain academic integrity and create original, innovative content through text-matching and writing style analysis. Eric begins by offering a brief history of plagiarism-detection software, but notes that “plagiarism detection” is a misnomer. Ouriginal goes beyond looking for “copied and pasted” phrase...
Transforming Education for the Connected Generation feat. Jordan Shapiro, Ph.D., Author and Thought Leader
July 04, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBJordan Shapiro, a globally celebrated thought leader, brings his expertise in education and parenting to this episode of the Illuminate Higher Education podcast. Jordan is the author of The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World and the upcoming book Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad. In this episode, Jordan and Kiran take a deep dive into several topics from Jordan’s publications. Regarding education, Jordan believes that learning is the process of building a shar...
Enhancing Student Experiences through Technology feat. Karthik Venkatesh, CIO, Walden University
June 27, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBKarthik Venkatesh, CIO at Walden University, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about his commitment to creating technological ecosystems of learning and support to enhance the student experience. Walden University is a leader in online education, having specialized in distance learning for more than 50 years. As CIO, Karthik is responsible for managing technologies as they relate to the student experience, faculty efficiency, and administrative processes. His focus a...
Uncovering the True Cost of a College Education feat. Mark Salisbury, Co-Founder and CEO, TuitionFit
June 20, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBMark Salisbury, Co-Founder and CEO of TuitionFit, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to discuss rising tuition costs for higher education. TuitionFit’s mission is to educate the public on the real price of college based on open, transparent data. Mark begins by sharing a brief history of the college tuition system. He shares how substantial marketing efforts helped cultivate a sense of exclusivity or prestige, which could then artificially inflate the sticker price. He explor...
Emotional Learning: Lessons from the Chessboard feat. Gabrielle Kristofich, Account Executive at Technology Integration Group
June 13, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBGabrielle Kristofich, Account Executive for Technology Integration Group, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about how emotional safety in elementary education can build a foundation for resilience and growth throughout a student’s life. Learning is an emotional process; even young students who struggle with certain subjects may start to believe that they are “bad” at them. Gabrielle shares how she teaches the concept of growth vs. fixed mindsets to build psychologica...
Helping Students Achieve Their Dreams by Preparing Colleges Better feat. Laurie Heacock, Senior Advisor, Achieving the Dream
May 30, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBLaurie Heacock, Senior Advisor at Achieving the Dream (ATD), joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about how Achieving the Dream, a nonprofit organization, helps community colleges serve diverse student populations and achieve equitable student outcomes at scale. Laurie’s work with ATD focuses on community colleges with highly diverse student populations. In this episode, she discusses how they work with institutions to build equity-minded policies and procedures that en...
The Future of Enrollment Management in the Next Generation
May 23, 2021 04:02 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, your host and CEO at N2N Services, Kiran Kodithala, interviews Mary Beth Marks, Vice President for Admissions and Enrollment Services at The University of New Orleans. In her senior position within enrollment management — and one of the leading voices in higher education — we wanted to know her thoughts around some of the leading trends for admissions from a student and parent perspective, and the future of enrollment and admission management....
Leading and Learning With Empathy and Grit
May 16, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIn this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, Kiran Kodithala, CEO of N2N Services, conducts a fascinating conversation with Dr. Emad Rahim, genocide survivor and refugee, about educating with empathy and grit, and what that entails, including technology for a hands-on approach. The end goal: Creating a more meaningful and rich learning experience. Dr. Emad Rahim is one to talk! Not only is he an award-winning author, educator, and entrepreneur who serves at Biola University and the Jack...
Transforming Education through Innovative Technological Infrastructure with Brent Ramdin, President at Lockstep Technology Group and Lockstep Education
May 09, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode, Brent explains why he believes technology companies will be at the forefront of educational transformation, especially as we look ahead to a post-pandemic world. This shift goes beyond the adoption of new learning platforms. Colleges and universities are investing in their IT departments to better leverage technology throughout the institution. Brent also discusses educational trends that have emerged since Covid, the rebirth of experiential learning, increased collaboratio...
Enabling Contactless Campus feat. Adam McDonald, President, TouchNet, A Global Payments Company
May 02, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode, Adam discusses the growing demand for a “contactless campus.” Many of TouchNet’s clients are actively looking to implement contactless systems, and they have devised a three-step strategic approach to going contactless: (1) widespread implementation of NFC technologies; (2) more reliable access to information on mobile devices; and (3) moving business processes and platforms to the cloud. You’ll also learn about higher education’s growing interest in using data to inform de...