Enrollment Growth University: Higher Education

Dr. Richard Scheines, Dean of The Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, joined the podcast to discuss the community they’re hoping to build around learning engineering.

Dr. Aaron Brower, Executive Director at the University of Wisconsin Extended Campus and Sr. Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin System, joined the podcast to discuss the difference between thinking about instructional teams vs. catch-all individual instructors.

Dr. Mariale Hardiman, Professor and Director of the Neuro-Education Initiative and currently serving for the last five years as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, joined the podcast to discuss how higher ed should be better utilizing neuroscience and cognitive best practices to improve faculty engagement.

Dr. Victoria Brown, Associate Professor, Former Assistant Provost for eLearning at Florida Atlantic University, joined the podcast to talk about the missional and enrollment growth importance of upgrading student services for the online learner.

Peter Risse, Associate Dean of Extended Studies at Boise State University, joined the podcast to talk about how they’re following Netflix’s lead at Boise State with a subscription-based tuition model option.

Dr. Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, joined the podcast to talk about creative ways to soften the emotional blow from critical student evaluations through “summaries”.

Steven King, Associate Professor of Interactive and Multimedia at The University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism, joined the podcast to talk about why virtual reality has the opportunity to surpass the experiential benefits of the traditional campus tour.

Dr. David Peña-Guzman, Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, joined the podcast to talk about creating distraction-free zones on campus.

Dr. John Quelch, Vice Provost at the University of Miami and Dean at the Miami Business School, joined the podcast to talk about why students are moving away from the traditional MBA and toward specializations

Dr. Carolyn Speer, Manager of Instructional Design and Access at Wichita State University, joined the podcast to talk about why she’s doubling down on the power of the online discussion board to facilitate better student-to-student interactions.