Why do so many colleges end up serving their employees more than their students? @MelikPeter traces it to 1965, when access expanded but almost every college kept a model built for the selective few. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"We don't have the assessment infrastructure at all right now." @michaelbhorn thinks assessment may be the most interesting place in education for a philanthropy to put its money, and explains "repetitions to par." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International and graduate students are "not the gravy train, the cash cow that it was to paper over these challenges." @michaelbhorn: most colleges need a very different conversation. Where do we focus? Where are we excellent? futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

@MelikPeter's painful line about the college presidency: Year one, a listening tour. Year two, an inclusive strategic plan. Year three, a consulting job, and your successor resets the cycle. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Alabama wanted nurse apprenticeships. Licensure rules said you had to finish school before you could be hired. @michaelbhorn on the cascade of changes it took. Today: 30 institutions and more than 500 nurse apprentices. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"We've always done it that way." "That is tradition here." @jselingo and @michaelbhorn on the @MelikPeter line that stopped them both: "We all kind of just assumed that what was tradition was regulation." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Everyone says AI means we need to slow learning down. @michaelbhorn has a slightly different take: aim AI at the right level for each student and accelerate the foundations, so more arrive at college ready for the bigger questions. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Ten years ago @unityonsocial had about 700 students. Today it has more than 10,000. @jselingo and @michaelbhorn on a New England turnaround that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Six white papers, a year and a half of work, five priorities for states that want real career pathways. @michaelbhorn on Beyond Silos, and why he uses Chesterton's fence: know why a regulation is there before you tear it down. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"Not enough of them want to win. They just wanna wait it out." @jselingo on college presidents, the mergers nobody will start, and the missing bias to action. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"We all kind of just assumed that what was tradition was regulation." @MelikPeter of @unityonsocial on the slow realization that changed how he runs a college: "If you cannot be like them, you shouldn't act like them." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

First you explore, building the knowledge. Then you exploit it, on your own and with AI. @jselingo's question for higher ed: "How do we know when a student has gotten over that hump?" futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Ten years ago, @unityonsocial had about 700 students. Today it has more than 10,000. @MelikPeter on why too many colleges serve their employees more than their students, and taking Unity apart. New Future U with @jselingo and @michaelbhorn. 🎧 futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

MIT's former president Rafael Reif, to @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe: "Are we forgetting what basic research has done for our economy?" She says the administration is walking away from basic research and investing in applied and AI instead. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

When Yale announced a task force on the public's disillusionment with college, @michaelbhorn rolled his eyes. Then he read the report. On why judgment needs knowledge, and the last time university presidents reshaped K-12. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Jeff: there's endless negativity about higher ed, and yet everyone he meets is still clamoring to get into college. What are we missing? @jaycaspiankang of @NewYorker: the negativity IS the competition talking. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International enrollment, from both reporters: @hilarysburns: "It doesn't look great, especially at the graduate level." Undergrad holding steady so far. @jaycaspiankang: politics change, and students will fluctuate in and out. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Discernment. Problem solving in ambiguity. Networking. Negotiation. Getting things done. @jselingo on what employers want from new grads, and why @Cornell's new report read to him like an admission that colleges haven't been delivering it. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Employers to colleges: tell us what you need now, because long term nobody knows. @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe: "So let's think shorter term and quicker. Which is hard for higher ed. That's not in their DNA to move like that, but they need to." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International students. Federal research. Grad loans. The demographic cliff. All at once. @jselingo: "No governance structure in higher education is built for that. It's barely built to deal with one of these at one time." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…