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Podcast · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton · English · Official site

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 29, 2026

    FIRE's 2027 College Free Speech Rankings: What Actually Moves a School's Score (opens the original)

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    Texas A&M holds a green light rating for its speech policies and still fell from 47th to 192nd in this year's College Free Speech Rankings. Harvard climbed from 245th to 71st without changing a single policy, a sign that how leadership responds to speech controversies matters more than what is written in the handbook. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Sean Stevens , Chief Research Advisor at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Ex

  2. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    Washington Update: Title IV Risk, Neg Reg, and the Midterms (opens the original)

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    Student loan default and repayment rates have continued to be calculated through years of dormant collections, and some institutions could soon face single-year default rates high enough to threaten their Title IV eligibility. That risk is arriving alongside final OB3 rules, sweeping accreditation proposals from the AIM negotiated rulemaking, and midterm elections that will reshape every committee governing higher education. In this Washington Update episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast ,

  3. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    How Gies Gives Every Junior a Live Client Project (opens the original)

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    Most institutions measure access at admission and affordability, then ration the experiences that actually change student outcomes to whoever finds them. The experiential learning that employers say they want gets delivered to honors cohorts and groups of thirty while everyone else gets the catalog. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. W. Brooke Elliott , Dean of the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. The conversation cove

  4. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Workforce Readiness: Why Higher Ed Struggles to Use Employer Support (opens the original)

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    Workforce readiness is usually framed as a funding and program-design problem. In some states and at some institutions, the funding and the employer willingness already exist, and what is missing is a structure on the institution's side that can take the offer and act on it. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Brad Griffith , president of Buckeye Innovation , a central Ohio technology firm building custom software for nonprofits, local government

  5. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    Diversifying Revenue Without Diluting Mission: Inside Rollins College's Innovation Triangle (opens the original)

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    Private colleges under enrollment pressure get told to diversify revenue. The venture that follows usually either fails to earn or drags the institution away from the academic identity families were paying for. In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed® podcast , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Brooke Barnett, President of Rollins College . The conversation covers how a tuition-dependent private structures a diversified budget model without compromising the curriculum that gives its degree

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