The EdUp Experience

It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Dr. Chuck Lloyd, Chancellor, Community College System of New Hampshire 

This episode, President Series #503, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ - Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

This episode is sponsored by the InsightsEDU 2027 Conference - focused on attracting & retaining the modern learner - where we will be podcasting live from February 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ! Use code EDUP & save $100! Early-bird pricing ends December 15, 2026!

This episode is also sponsored by 2026 Arizona Community College Administrators Conference where we will be podcasting live from October 7-9 on the campus of Yavapai College!

This episode is brought to you by Beyond Survival: Reporting from the Front Lines of Higher Education’s War for Relevance is a documentary account from the front lines of the most consequential upheaval in higher ed in generations!

YOUR host is ⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

• Why did New Hampshire abandon the 1 college merger idea, & what replaced it?
• If the college going rate sits near 60%, is moving it 3 points a better play than fighting the demographic cliff?
• What does $17 million a year for 5 years buy when your state is 2,000 nurses short?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Dr. Justin Schwartz, Chancellor, University of Colorado Boulder

This episode, President Series #502, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ -Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

This episode is sponsored by the InsightsEDU 2027 Conference - focused on attracting & retaining the modern learner - where we will be podcasting live from February 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ! Use code EDUP & save $100! Early-bird pricing ends December 15, 2026!

This episode is also sponsored by 2026 Arizona Community College Administrators Conference where we will be podcasting live from October 7-9 on the campus of Yavapai College!

This episode is brought to you by Beyond Survival: Reporting from the Front Lines of Higher Education’s War for Relevance is a documentary account from the front lines of the most consequential upheaval in higher ed in generations!

YOUR host is ⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

• Why does a flagship chancellor say the public trust numbers measure media coverage of 3.5% of students, not higher ed?
• What is the difference between affordability & accessibility, & why can a 4% admit rate never solve the second one?
• If companies stop hiring entry level workers because of AI, where do their next line managers come from?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with ⁠David A. Armstrong, President, St. Thomas University

This episode, President Series #501, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ -Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

This episode is sponsored by the InsightsEDU 2027 Conference - focused on attracting & retaining the modern learner - where we will be podcasting live from February 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ! Use code EDUP & save $100! Early-bird pricing ends December 15, 2026!

This episode is also sponsored by 2026 Arizona Community College Administrators Conference where we will be podcasting live from October 7-9 on the campus of Yavapai College!

This episode is brought to you by Beyond Survival: Reporting from the Front Lines of Higher Education’s War for Relevance is a documentary account from the front lines of the most consequential upheaval in higher ed in generations!

YOUR cohost is Greg Clayton, President of Enrollment Management Services, EducationDynamics

YOUR host is ⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

• How does a turnaround president take an institution on life support & make it thrive by knowing every person on campus & what they actually do, not what their job description says?
• Why does teaching students how to think instead of what to think matter more now when we're living in a moment where people want to be told what to think?
• What makes seven standards for the ethical use of AI the way to avoid making the same mistake we made with social media when AI should enhance thinking, not be the thinker for you?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with ⁠Scott Pulsipher⁠, President, ⁠Western Governors University

This episode, President Series #500, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ -Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

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This episode is also sponsored by 2026 Arizona Community College Administrators Conference where we will be podcasting live from October 7-9 on the campus of Yavapai College!

YOUR cohost is Hunter Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Sophia Learning

YOUR host is ⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

• How does a president who was President series #1 come back for President series #500 saying we can't evolve into AI, we have to leapfrog because evolving won't be fast enough?
• Why is higher ed stuck in a replication trap where changing the modality doesn't mean rethinking the entire experience?
• What makes the GPS model for learning mean Hunter got what he needed, Joe got what he needed & Scott got what he needed but all 3 end at the same destination?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with ⁠Dr. Jennifer King, President, U.S. Operations, & Dr. Saib Othman, Provost, Schiller International University

This episode is sponsored by the InsightsEDU 2027 Conference - focused on attracting & retaining the modern learner - where we will be podcasting live from February 23-25 in Phoenix, AZ! Use code EDUP & save $100! Early-bird pricing ends December 15, 2026!

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This episode is brought to you by Beyond Survival: Reporting from the Front Lines of Higher Education’s War for Relevance is a documentary account from the front lines of the most consequential upheaval in higher ed in generations!

YOUR cohost is Dr. David Hatami, Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, EduPolicy.ai

YOUR host is ⁠Elvin Freytes

• How does campus mobility let students start in Tampa & pick up their curriculum in Madrid, Paris or Heidelberg?
• Why is Schiller embedding AI across the entire curriculum instead of making it just an elective?
• What makes cultural agility the skill that gets graduates hired in banking, diplomacy & hospitality across the I-4 corridor?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

American higher ed is fighting for its survival, & most people don't know the war has already begun.

Beyond Survival: Reporting from the Front Lines of Higher Education’s War for Relevance is a documentary account from the front lines of the most consequential upheaval in higher ed in generations.

Built on 247 candid interviews with 240 sitting & former college & university presidents, it delivers a field report unlike anything else written about the future of higher ed, captured in real time, in the words of the leaders living it.

This is not a consultant's framework or an academic study. It is war correspondence. The closures, the impossible decisions, the bold bets, & the hard-won victories happening on campuses across America right now.

You'll discover

• Why colleges & universities are closing at an accelerating rate, & the warning signs leaders keep missing
• How artificial intelligence upended teaching, assessment, & the value of a college degree almost overnight
• What the collapse of public trust in higher ed really means for enrollment, funding, & survival
• How the most resilient university presidents are rebuilding the college value proposition around affordability, outcomes, & relevance
• The leadership strategies separating the institutions that adapt from the ones that disappear

From community colleges & regional universities to HBCUs, tribal colleges, online institutions, & flagship research universities, Beyond Survival maps the full landscape of American higher ed leadership & the fight for relevance that will define the next decade.

Essential reading for college & university presidents, provosts, deans, trustees, & board members; higher ed administrators & academic leaders; enrollment, marketing, & student success professionals; policymakers; & anyone who believes higher ed still matters.

The war for relevance is here. Beyond Survival is the intelligence you need to understand it, & the case for why higher ed's best days can still be ahead.

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Dr. Beth Ross, President, Emmanuel College

This episode, President Series #499, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ -Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

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YOUR cohost is ⁠Jamie Ceman, Senior Executive VP of Reputation Services, EducationDynamics

YOUR host is ⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠

• Could AI be the catalyst that finally proves the value of the liberal arts?
• How does a work study student who walked into the wrong office become a college president?
• Why does Emmanuel require every student, philosophy or biology, to complete an internship?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Dr. Keith Curry, President, Compton College

This episode, President Series #498, is powered by ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠ -Higher Ed's AI-Enriched Platform!

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YOUR cohost is ⁠Laura Ipsen​⁠, President & CEO, ⁠​Ellucian⁠

YOUR host is ⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠

• Why is one of higher ed's leading basic needs champions now attaching conditions to student support?
• How do you move students stuck at 90 plus units toward completion before they lose their financial aid?
• What does it take to open the first on campus housing at any LA County community college?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with ⁠Mark Byrnes, Provost, Middle Tennessee State University

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YOUR cohost is Robert Graham, CEO, Poll Everywhere

YOUR host is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio

• Why is Middle Tennessee defying the demographic cliff?
• How do you protect the faculty student bond in the age of AI?
• What drove MTSU's 8 point graduation gain?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp with ⁠Montserrat Gomendio, Former Chancellor/Rectora, Universidad Nebrija

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YOUR host is Dr. Jodi Blinco

• How can the gap between the highest & lowest performing countries equal 7 full years of schooling for the same 15 year old?
• Why does a former Spanish Secretary of State say Western education systems are not failing, they are just stuck?
• What happens when a country hands out more university degrees than ever, but the skills behind them match a secondary school student elsewhere?

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