The Key with Inside Higher Ed

Hear candid conversations with higher-ed newsmakers on how colleges and universities, with a special focus on equity and lower-income students.

The Key with Inside Higher Ed is a news podcast hosted by insidehighered, with 200 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #210

  Ep 208: Voices of Student Success: College Wasn’t Built for Student Parents

  Aug 13, 202628 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed’s podcast series exploring what really shapes students’ experiences, Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder and chief executive officer of Generation Hope, joins IHE’s student success reporter, Joshua Bay. From finding affordable childcare and stable housing to navigating time poverty, financial insecurity and questions of belonging, student parents face barriers that can shape their ability to persist and ultimately earn a degree. They discuss what colleges still misunderstand about student parents and the challenges they navigate both inside and outside the classroom.

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  Episode #209

  Ep. 207: AI for the Public Good with Venu Govindaraju

  Aug 6, 202655 min

  Venu Govindaraju is the senior vice president for research, innovation and economic development and a distinguished professor at the University at Buffalo. He's spent more than 30 years working in AI, building systems with real social impact — and he's also a poet, with a simple way of describing why the humanities still matter: AI finds the patterns. The humanities find the meaning behind them. Inside Higher Ed editor in chief Sara Custer talks with him about the place of universities in the age of AI, why scientists should fail on purpose and how New York's Empire AI consortium model could help counterbalance big tech's grip on AI development. Stay tuned until the end of the episode when Venu reads a poem from his new collection or poetry Discovery of Self.

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  Episode #208

  Ep 206: Voices of Student Success: It’s Never Too Late to Go Back to College

  Jul 31, 202631 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed’s podcast series exploring what really shapes students’ experiences, Terah Crews, chief executive officer of ReUp Education, joins IHE’s student success reporter, Joshua Bay. While many students stop out before earning a credential, often they plan to return. Yet reenrolling can prove just as challenging as enrolling in the first place. As colleges look to reenroll adults with some college but no credential, they are rethinking how they support students whose educational journeys aren’t linear. They discuss why students stop out, what motivates them to return, the barriers colleges still place in their way and what it will take to build institutions that truly serve today’s adult learners.

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  Episode #207

  Ep. 205: The American Apprenticeship

  Jul 23, 202658 min

  This episode features an Inside Higher Ed newsroom discussion about a five-part series on registered apprenticeships. Underwritten by Ascendium, the six-month project saw the team battling hailstorms in Missouri, visiting factories in upstate New York and embedding themselves with learners on the job in South Carolina. What emerged is a clear picture of the American apprenticeship, distinct from decades-old European models, and how higher ed institutions can play a greater role in these pathways to careers. Editor in chief Sara Custer is joined by Colleen Flaherty, senior editor for special content, senior report Sara Weissman, digital producer Justin Morrison, and Johanna Alonso IHE’s reporter for admissions and enrollment. Read the full series: Why and how higher education is leaning into apprenticeships How apprenticeships and apprentices themselves are changing A photo essay showing what apprenticeships really look like Where apprenticeships are benefiting rural learners and their communities What’s needed to scale apprenticeships?

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  Episode #206

  Ep. 204: Voices of Student Success: The Rise of the Nontraditional College Student

  Jul 16, 202620 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed’s podcast series exploring what really shapes students’ experiences, Sara Weissman, senior reporter at IHE, joins student success reporter, Joshua Bay. For generations, colleges were largely designed around the idea of an 18-year-old who enrolled straight out of high school, attended full time and followed a relatively linear path to graduation. But today’s students increasingly look different. In this episode, they explore who today’s college students really are, how higher education demographics have changed and why institutions are being challenged to rethink the traditional student model.

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