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Ron Lieber recently completed writing a book called “The Price You Pay for College,” and if you’re interested enough in this stuff such that you’re listening to this, then you should read this book. He was kind enough to check out this show and he says it was actually pretty helpful to him in terms of podcasts that taught him a thing or two.

You can buy Ron’s book from his local bookstore here and even choose a message for him to include! www.communitybookstore.net/lieber

Here’s some data on the pitiful value of a Pell Grant over time, and President Biden has committed to change it, albeit not by much. His budget proposal is clear about the kinds of good things it would do for higher ed, including the Pell increase, and a boost in funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.

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In the United States, just 6% of college faculty members are Black. It’s a really tough career pathway for anyone, but as we’ll learn from my guest today, there are so many additional hurdles to clear if you are Black. Marlene Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia, is the author of many books and articles about Haiti as well as a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education where she shares her own tenure-track truth called “Becoming Full Professor While Black.”

FURTHER READING

Becoming Full Professor While Black – Marlene Daut

Teaching Perspective: The Relation Between the Haitian and French Revolutions – Marlene Daut

The First and Last King of Haiti – TED.com – Marlene Daut

www.haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com

An Ivy League Professor on Why College Don’t Hire More Faculty of Color: “We Don’t Want Them” – Marybeth Gasman, Washington Post

US College Faculty and Student Diversity – Pew Research

National Center for Education Statistics – Faculty Diversity

https://diversitydata.virginia.edu/

For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’ – NY Times

We Built a Diverse Academic Department in 5 years. Here’s How – Harvard Business Review

Princeton Faculty Letter to President

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Puerto Rico is subject to a number of unique barriers to accessing college whether they leave the island or stay. These barriers simply don’t exist for any other US state or territory and are a direct result of its colonial relationship with the United States. It’s an issue close to my own heart and something that I’m really glad to try to emphasize in our national debate about college access along with my guests today, longtime college access professionals and current college counselors in Puerto Rico, Celeste Suris-Rosselli and DJ Meehan.

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If you want to join our brand-spankin’ new NACAC SIG dedicated to college access in Puerto Rico, here’s an interest form you can fill out. You don’t have to be a NACAC member to join the SIG.

Below are some articles and things mentioned in the episode that are worth reviewing to build a little context for this conversation.

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college (Hechinger Report)

Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico’s College Admissions Process (Roberto Jimenez)

Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló scandal timeline (CNN)

Bad Bunny on Jimmy Fallon

Julia Kelleher arrested for fraud (CBS News)

Julia Kelleher defends her tenure in Puerto Rico (Chalkbeat)

More on Julia Kelleher (Remezcla)

Only $4m of $80m allocated to UPR has been disbursed (Tweet by David Begnaud) 

And of course, all of this and more can be found at www.crushpodcast.com/puerto-rico

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The coronavirus has forced some wildly unprecedented anxieties into an already extremely anxious space. Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School have had to roll with the punches in a very unique college counseling community.

FURTHER READING

Open Doors Asia report

Open Doors China fact sheet

Shanghai American School College Counseling

SAS Pudong Campus Profile

 SAS Puxi Campus Profile

How Coronavirus is Affecting Admissions

IBO Online Learning, Teaching and Education Continuity Planning

Click to access online-learning-continuity-planning-en.pdf

What’s Worked for Us in Distance Learning (Moody and Rose)

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Jon Boeckenstedt is as fearless as he is smart as he is dedicated to Doing The Right Thing as a leader in the realm of college enrollment management. He’s one of these people that everyone in our field looks to first with questions that require evidence-based answers, and over the better part of the last decade, his voice has emerged as one of the strongest and clearest on the biggest questions related to the use of standardized tests in admissions.

FURTHER READING

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The humanities are in a tough spot these days, and the discipline of philosophy often ends up in the crosshairs as an exemplar of Undergrad Majors That Will Waste Your Time and Money. Good news though: it isn’t!

Dr. Phil Walsh is a lecturer at Fordham University in the Department of Philosophy and he has been hard at work to promote philosophy as a critical area of study, and used it as a means of explaining to his undergrads what the point of college is.

Here are a few of the people and resources mentioned in the episode:

The Humanities are in a Crisis (Atlantic)

Surfing With Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning – Aaron James

Assholes: A Theory – Aaron James

Infinite Baseball: Notes From a Philosopher at the Ballpark – Alva Noë

Hi Phi Nation podcast – Barry Lam 

Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neill

Humanities Indicators

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It’s fall! Which means this is the time of year when legions of college admissions counselors traverse the globe to find those eager minds to fill the seats in their classrooms. It is a whole hashtag life that thousands of people in this economy lead and in my case have lead. 

Well not long ago, a media representation with actual famous people! came out and showed the world what it’s really like in admissions. Or did it..? As my guest today former admissions counselor and current high school college counselor Sam Schreiber and I discuss. 

FURTHER READING

“Admission” Review (Rolling Stone)

Metacritic reviews

Ivy League Admission Isn’t as Boring as ‘Admission’ Made it Look (Atlantic)

“The College Admissions SCANDAL” (Lifetime)

Sage Grouse footage

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Dr. Andrew Moe is the Director of Admission at Swarthmore College and has been leading a national effort to focus the eyes of his colleagues more on students coming from rural communities.

Andrew has been organizing his efforts mainly via the National Association of College Admissions Counseling’s Special Interest Group designation as the co-leader (along with Peggy Jenkins of Palouse Pathways) of the Rural and Small Town SIG.

As you’ll hear, in the few short years they’ve been at it, there have been a ton of folks join up and dial into the resources the membership has been able to generate and provide.

There’s more information below for those who want to check it out for themselves, and don’t forget to follow Andrew on Twitter @andrewsmoe

Subscribe to this podcast on Apple podcast and other podcasting platforms!

Follow me on Twitter @crushpod!

Send me an email [email protected]!

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FURTHER READING

NACAC Rural and Small Town SIG Interest Form

Rural College Access Readings (via NACAC Rural and Small Town SIG)

Shrinking Rural Population

The Status of Rural Education (National Center for Education Statistics)

Recruiting in Rural America (Inside Higher Ed)

Place Matters: A Closer Look at Education Deserts (Hillman, thirdway.org

Those Left Behind: Gaps in College Attendance by Race and Geography (Center for American Progress)

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In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group emerged to quickly become the primary space in which professionals on all sides of college admissions would gather to discuss the challenges and potential solutions to some really hard problems.

For instance, how do we make the spaces that college admissions occupies, and with which it interacts and intersects fairer to and more representative of racial minorities and other marginalized groups? Especially given that it was set up and is still run in a lot of ways that keep them out? ACCEPT, as it is called, which stands for “Admissions Community Cultivating Equity and Peace Today” was led into existence by school, college and admissions counseling professionals Brandi Smith, Steve Frappier and my guest today Marie Bigham and it is now nearly 6,000 people strong. 

For the uninitiated and for those who didn’t read the Chronicle article yet,  here’s the official description of who ACCEPT is and what they do:

ACCEPT empowers college admissions professionals who seek to center anti-racism, equity, and justice in our work and communities. As educational gatekeepers, college admissions professionals hold the most responsibility in removing barriers to post-secondary education; everyone in this work has a role to play. ACCEPT will lead the college admissions profession in creating an equitable, just, and anti-racist path to post-secondary education.

FURTHER READING

The Admissions Activists Are Here to Make You Uncomfortable (Chronicle, Aug 2019)

The Admissions Activists Are Here to Make You Uncomfortable – The Chronicle of Higher Education (PDF)

https://www.acceptgroup.org/ 

NACAC Excellence in Education Award 

How to Be an Anti-Racist (Kendi, 2019)

Race and Intersectional Studies in Educational Equity

Where Do College Recruit? Wealthy and White High Schools (Inside Higher Ed, Apr 2019)

The Joyce Foundation

The Roddenberry Foundation

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Soon children everywhere will be saying goodbye to their parents and to their communities and the times and the places that made them into the adults they’re on their way to becoming in college. Dr. Susan Matt, Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University in Ogden, UT, wrote a book called “Homesickness: An American History.”

Some of them will do a bit better at handling the distance – both in terms of time and geography – than others. Well, they’re certainly not alone, and they aren’t alone throughout the history of this country when you consider the countless ways that giant groups of people that moved from the familiar to the unfamiliar. 

So where’d all this come from? And how does “nostalgia” play a role in it all? How is this an American phenomenon, or at least, what American things happened to contribute to homesickness and nostalgia being woven into our national fabric? What about the role of technology nowadays making it insanely easy to stay in touch? Or its ability to make one’s experiences seem outwardly perfect via Instagram and other social media tools?

FURTHER READING

Homesickness: An American History (Susan Matt, Oxford University Press, 2011)

The New Globalist is Homesick (Susan Matt, NY Times 2012)

Beware Social Nostalgia (Stephanie Coontz, NY Times 2013)

The Ethos of the Overinvolved Parents (The Atlantic, Laura McKenna, 2017)

Involved Parents Get Their Own College Guide (Chronicle of Higher Ed, Julia Piper 2019)

@supersnackstore on Instagram

Why Peter Thiel Fears Star Trek (New Yorker, Manu Saadia 2017)

A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction (New Yorker, Jill Lepore 2017)

Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid (Fernandez, Matt; Harvard University Press, 2019)

Don Quixote, College Choice and the Myth of Fit (Chronicle of Higher Ed, Moody 2011)

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