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 Eversole
• Best thing he's read lately: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story by Donald Miller
• What he's eager to read next: The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
• What 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, a division of SIG. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment