Welcome to Episode 6 of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

This interview features a conversation with Dr. Morna Foy, president of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS). Foy discusses the current challenges facing the state’s 54 two-year college campuses and its various stakeholders, most importantly its 308,000+ students. 

Background music (“Not A Thing To Be Grasped” by user JohnStuart on SoundHound).

Welcome to Episode 5 of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

This interview features a conversation with Dr. Noel Radomski, managing director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). Radomski joins us to talk about his consulting work for University of Nizwa, an institution in Oman, which is in its nascent stages and has carried out many themes illustrated in the Wisconsin Idea.

Background music: “Not A Thing To Be Grasped” by user JohnStuart on SoundHound

Welcome to Episode 4 of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

This interview features a conversation with Leslie Orrantia, Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She discusses the exciting developments related to her role, which centers on developing and sustaining meaninful partnerships and collaborations with various entitites both within the UW-Madison campus and the community more broadly. Orrantia celebrates her second anniversary in this position in August 2018.

Background music from http://www.bensound.com (track “Happiness”).

Welcome to Episode 3 of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

This interview features a conversation with Dr. Clifton F. Conrad, Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Director of WISCAPE. He discusses the opportunities of collaborative learning and value-added learning, among other approaches, that center students' academic experiences.

Background music from http://www.bensound.com (track “Happiness”).

Welcome to our second episode of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

This interview features a conversation with So Hee Hyun, Doctoral Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is here to discuss her dissertation work on immigrant transfer students' experiences in higher education.

Background music from http://www.bensound.com (track “Happiness”).

Welcome to our inaugural episode of WISCAPE Now in Higher Ed, hosted by Brett Ranon Nachman. This podcast addresses the latest issues in postsecondary education. Each episode includes a featured guest, such as a faculty member, graduate student, staff member, or other individual whose career is embedded in the world of higher education.

In our first episode we have a conversation with Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is here to discuss a recently-published journal article from the Journal of College Student Development that she co-authored with Dorian L. McCoy and Courtney L. Luedke, entitled "Encouraged or Weeded Out: Perspectives of Students of Color in the STEM Disciplines on Faculty Interactions."

Background music from http://www.bensound.com (track “Happiness”).