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Join Emily Smith on The Weekly VineDown, a weekly video podcast dedicated to professionals in the higher education sector.
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How This Tech Journalist Would Actually Use AI on a College Campus | Casey Newton @ Platformer (opens the original)
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Casey Newton spends his week talking to the people building AI, and he brought a room full of higher education leaders an uncomfortable message. Inside those companies, student safety and mental health are treated as unfortunate edge cases, staffed so the CEO never has to think about them. What counts as high stakes is revenue and user growth. His conclusion, delivered live at The Vineyard: nobody is coming to protect your students, so you had better do it yourself. Newton founded Platformer and
Why Retention Is Nobody's Job Until It's Somebody's Job | David B. Johnson @ Indiana University (opens the original)
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By next summer, colleges have to prove it. Under the Department of Education's earnings accountability rule, undergraduate programs must show their graduates out-earn a typical high school diploma holder, or risk losing access to federal financial aid. David B. Johnson has done the math on which cohorts get caught first, and he is treating a compliance deadline as the forcing function his field needed. Johnson is Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at Indiana University Bloomington, where
Why This Harvard Professor Says Admissions Is Selecting for the Wrong Student | Jonathan Teubner @ Harvard (opens the original)
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Emily has spent years on this show saying out loud that faculty are the blockers: slow, allergic to innovation, standing in the way of anything operational. This week the other side sent a representative. Jonathan Teubner has taught and researched on three continents (Virginia, Melbourne, fellowships in Paris and Berlin, now Harvard) and has never once sat in an admissions office. He's also co-founder and CEO of FilterLabs.AI , which means he has hired the graduates this system produces and spen
How to Redesign a University Around the Students It Was Never Built For | Brian Reed @ University of Montana (opens the original)
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Most students who leave college don't fail out. They get worn down, routed through ten offices, chasing five signatures, navigating a financial aid maze a parent once called "harder than getting a bank loan." Brian Reed's uncomfortable claim: that friction isn't an accident. It's designed. Reed is Associate Vice President for Student Success at the University of Montana and a first-generation kid from an east Kentucky coal-mining town who arrived at college terrified he'd flunk out, told only to
How to Make Enrollment Management Cool Again | Reggie Hill @ UMSL (opens the original)
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Higher ed has never been this scared. Fewer students, political pressure, budgets under a microscope, and Reggie Hill thinks it's the most exciting moment of his career. For the first-ever live episode of The VineDown, Emily Smith brings back her favorite repeat guest in front of a room full of enrollment professionals. Reggie is Vice Chancellor for Strategic Enrollment Management at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and he's spent three years breaking a regional public "down to the studs":
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