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 education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 200 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The Key with Inside Higher Ed, a education show with 200 episodes published.

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  Episode #216

  Ep. 214: Voices of Student Success: When Nontraditional Students Become the Norm

  Sep 24, 202627 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed's podcast series exploring what really shapes students' experiences, Bryan Ashton, chief strategy and growth officer at Trellis and head of Trellis Strategies, joins IHE student success reporter Joshua Bay. Adult learners, working students, student parents, transfer students and first-generation students are often grouped under the broad umbrella of “nontraditional” students. While their experiences differ, they also highlight the various ways higher education is, or isn’t, designed around the realities of students’ lives. Many of these students are navigating similar pressures: balancing college with work and family responsibilities, managing financial challenges and figuring out systems that weren’t necessarily built with them in mind. And as these experiences become increasingly common across higher education, they raise a bigger question: If so-called nontraditional students reflect the reality of today’s college population, does it still make sense to call them nontraditional?

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  Ep. 213: WASC's Maria Toyoda on Accreditation's Uncertain Future

  Sep 17, 202640 min

  The Department of Education in August released its accreditation reform for public comment. If finalized, the new rules could expand accreditors’ responsibilities to include policing First Amendment compliance and research misconduct. They could also force many agencies to set more specific standards for student achievement and hiring and to rethink their decades-old peer-review model. In this episode, Inside Higher Ed editor in chief Sara Custer speaks with Maria Toyoda, president and CEO of the WASC Senior College and University Commission, about the details of the department’s proposal, how WASC is preparing for the changes and what the new rules signal for the relationship between the federal government, states and accreditors.

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  Ep: 212: Voices of Student Success: The Hidden Curriculum First-Gen Students Face

  Sep 10, 202636 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed's podcast series exploring what really shapes students' experiences, Hope Pacheco, associate dean of students and executive director of the Gator Resource Center at the University of Houston–Downtown, joins IHE student success reporter Joshua Bay. Being the first in your family to attend college can mean entering an unfamiliar system without the same knowledge or networks some of your peers may have—from knowing where to turn for help to navigating financial aid, academics and the unwritten rules of college. But first-generation students also bring their own experiences, strengths and support systems with them. So what do colleges still misunderstand about first-gen students—and what actually helps them feel like they belong and ultimately earn a degree? They unpack what first-generation students experience when they arrive on campus, who they turn to when they need help and what colleges can do to make sure students don’t have to figure it all out on their own.

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  Episode #213

  Ep. 211: Paul LeBlanc’s Optimistic Vision for Higher Ed in an AI World

  Sep 3, 20261h 3m

  Paul LeBlanc is an innovative change maker in higher ed who led Southern New Hampshire University’s transformation from a small regional institution with a couple thousand students to one of the largest nonprofit providers of online higher education in the country. In his latest book Reclaiming Purpose: The University in an AI World he presents a vision of higher education that shifts from knowledge transfer to teaching students how to develop the human skills that will set them apart from artificial intelligence. In this conversation with Inside Higher Ed editor in chief Sara Custer, LeBlanc explains what his prediction could mean for faculty and institutional leaders and encourages higher ed to take a leading role in ethical AI design.

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  Episode #212

  Ep. 210: Voices of Student Success: Transfer Isn't Suppose to Be This Hard

  Aug 27, 202644 min

  In this episode of Voices of Student Success, Inside Higher Ed's podcast series exploring what really shapes students' experiences, Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, and John Fink, senior research associate and program lead at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, joins IHE student success reporter Joshua Bay. Millions of students begin their education at community colleges with plans to eventually earn a bachelor’s degree, but moving from one institution to another can mean navigating confusing requirements, losing credits and figuring out systems that don’t always work together. So why is transfer still so difficult despite years of reform efforts, and what would it take to make the process truly seamless for students? They unpack where transfer students encounter the biggest barriers and what institutions can do to create avenues that help more community college students earn a bachelor’s degree.

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