The EdUp Experience

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, your guest is Adam Bragg, Co-Founder & President at The U Experience, & your sponsor is UnMudl!  

Adam and Joe talk about The U Experience and why it's a viable, exciting, and necessary alternative to the traditional college experience.  Students are mobile which means they can take online classes from anywhere if a university is offering them.  Adam discusses how The U Experience offers something new - a community of peers from institutions across the globe to LIVE, LEARN, AND GROW.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode your guest is Dr. Lynn Priddy, President & CEO, Claremont Lincoln University, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing!  

In this episode, Lynn comes back to break the news about Claremont Lincoln University's implementation of a "tuition reset" for the August 2021 term.  After looking at CLUs market position, current tuition rate, consumer feedback, & long-term viability scenarios, the CLU Board & Lynn reset the tuition to better align the supply and demand balance!  How do to execute a tuition reset, & how should you do it?  Find out in this episode that will give you philosophical & tactical tips.

Dr. Priddy counts more than 35 years of experience in higher education, holding positions of faculty, director of research and assessment, provost and chief academic officer, executive vice president of strategic planning and advancement, executive advisor to the board, and president and strategic advisor to the president. She previously spent 14 years in a variety of roles for The Higher Learning Commission, the largest US regional accreditor, including its vice president of accreditation services. While there, she co-led the development of alternative accrediting processes, redefined and directed the systems for institutional change and decision-making, and served as the creator and founding director of the Commission's Academies for Assessment of Student learning and Student Persistence and Completion.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Kate Colbert, President at Silver Tree Communications, LLC, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing! 

It‘s episode #300, can you believe it?  In this episode we make a major announcement that could change the face of higher Ed completely. We’ll introduce you to Kate Colbert, Co-author of the soon to be EdUp BOOK Experience.  Want to know what the future looks like for higher education? Want to understand the themes, issues, innovations, & critical conversations more in depth?  Stay tuned for book updates and welcome Kate!

Kate Colbert, is a highly regarded marketing strategist with 20 years of communications leadership, inside & outside organizations. She's an accomplished marketer & professional writer who has spent her career telling brand stories that help individuals & corporations communicate their way to profitable growth. Her acclaimed new book, Think Like a Marketer: How a Shift in Mindset Can Change Everything for Your Business, was ranked in the top 1% of all business marketing books on Amazon & was heralded at Amazon's #11 "hot new release" in its category.

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EdUp Exclusive with YOUR sponsor MDT Marketing!  Before you read about UMass acquiring Brandman University, The EdUp Experience was talking about it with Don Kilburn, CEO of UMass Online!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this episode, President Series Episode #96, EdUp got the scoop on how and why UMass and Brandman went from exploring a partnership to birthing UMass Global.  UMass Global will serve online working adult students by offering them online programs with wraparound services for that particular market.  Through strategic positioning, UMass Global now has a coast-to-coast profile to expand its geographic footprint.

Donald C. Kilburn is currently the CEO of UMass Online. He is a pioneer and expert in online education with nearly three decades of experience developing innovative education solutions and a track record of developing successful growth strategies for high impact organizations. Prior to this role, Mr. Kilburn served as the President of Pearson North America – the largest education company in the world – managing over $4 billion in sales and 15,000 employees. 

He also served as CEO of Pearson Learning Solutions and Vice Chairman of Higher Education. From 1998 until 2008, he served as President of Pearson Custom Publishing with responsibility for overseeing its higher education services and solutions business. Before joining Pearson, Mr. Kilburn spent 12 years at Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing during which he served as editor-in-chief for six years, and then later as President of the business for six years. He also worked for the Xerox Corporation and served as a Director of Interactive Data Corporation.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Traci Snowden, CEO & Founder, Apto Global, and your sponsor is the EvoLLLUtion! 

Traci founded Apto Global to facilitate a better cultural experience for international students.  Apto Global is a social learning platform for guiding those who need to cross-culturally interact, travel, or relocate, so they can feel at home no matter where they are or who they’re with.  Through social learning interaction, Traci discusses that Apto also puts the power to teach, share and learn just about anything, through the lens of authentic culture and language, back into the hands of the local people. This means content can be real-time, relevant, hyper-local, and empower equity.  Want to give your international students (any students!) a better experience?  Improve recruitment, retention, and graduation with APTO!

Apto Global was founded in late 2015, by CEO, Traci Snowden, who provided concierge services to expat families relocating to the United States. These families needed to adapt across not only the traditional barriers of language but also cultural differences in hyper-local communities, workplace and academic environments. Traci started Apto because she and her clients knew exactly what they needed – a platform where users could share and learn local culture and language via authentic, immersive video…yet no one had built it. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience, President Series Episode #95! In this episode your guest is Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz, President, University of California, Merced, and your sponsor is MDT Marketing! 

Dr. Muñoz joined UC Merced as the school’s 4th Chancellor from the University of Houston Downtown (UHD), where he served as president and within his first year launched the university’s largest capital campaign and led the institution’s recovery efforts after Hurricane Harvey. Prior to UHD, Dr. Muñoz served as senior vice president and vice provost at Texas Tech University. He is the author of book chapters, academic articles, essays, refereed and invited conference presentations and professor in the Department of Sociology. In 2010, Chancellor Muñoz was among the contributing editors of the seminal compilation, the Handbook of Latinos and Education. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this special EdUp Embedded episode, your guest is John Fees, Co-founder, & Managing Director, GradGuard, and your sponsor is UnMudl! 

John talks to Joe about the Benefits of tuition insurance. What are qualifying events? Do universities and colleges need to have tuition insurance?  The benefits go week beyond just protection of tuition dollars including retention, brand strength, lifelong learning, and social good.  Especially given CV-19 of late, tuition insurance has never been more important!

John Fees co-founded, GradGuard™, an authority at designing and implementing student benefit programs that help more than 400 colleges and universities to attract and retain students. Since 2008, GradGuard’s tuition and renters insurance programs have helped more than 750,000 students protect their investment in a higher education. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Miriam Feldblum, Executive Director of The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.  

In this important episode of EdUp, we talk with Miriam about the state of international student relations today as we've recently transitioned from one administration to another.  Find out why every single college president and administrator needs to understand what is happening around immigration policy, even if they think they didn't need to know.  How can we be better higher education leaders on our campuses?  Find out in this episode!

Miriam Feldblum is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Previously, she served as Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Professor of Politics at Pomona College, and as Special Assistant to the President and Faculty Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is also a Nonresident Fellow at MPI.  Her teaching and research areas are the politics and policies of immigration and citizenship, and immigration and higher education. Dr. Feldblum is the author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY Press, 1999).

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation, we welcome Dr. Jamal Scott, Vice President, Strategy & Community Development, Waubonsee Community College.  

Listen in to hear Jamal talk with Joe & Liz about his very unique title and why he believes everybody is a prospective student. 

Another episode sponsored by our great friends at the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation!

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by UnMudl, we bring back Bernie Weiss, President of iHeart Media New York, who previously appeared on episode #6!

Bernie's new book Ace It - How Sales Champions Win New Business delves into what makes a good sales person and provides resources for the beginner to the advances sales professional.   Among critical skills for salespeople are storytelling and committing to a process.  The book is battle tested and can be applied easily; it includes scripts, stories, analogies and more.  We ask Bernie how sales is applied in higher education - we discuss social selling, use of technology, and old sales tactics that still work.  Finally, we discuss why there is a negative stigma around the word “salesperson”!

Bernie Weiss is President of iHeartMedia New York. Starting out selling radio advertising for a New York-based Hip Hop station, he rose quickly through the sales and sales management ranks of iHeartMedia, America’s #1 audio company, and is now overseeing some of the most prestigious radio station brands in the world. Over the course of twenty years, Bernie coached hundreds of salespeople—rookies and veterans—many of whom went on to become sales superstars and rose to leadership positions themselves. 

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