Reckoning Higher Ed (RHE) is dedicated to investigating and understanding the forces impacting higher education. Moreover, RHE will explore these trends to prognosticate what higher education will look like in the coming years. If you are interested in the higher education, be it a professional in the field, or one that interacts with higher ed, or even if you just want to understand universities and colleges better, this podcast is for you!
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Tanya Barnett has had a unique and fascinating journey through higher education. As the Director of the Office of Career Strategy at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Tanya leverages the assets afforded to higher education to partner with industry to build Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready students. Her insights …
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In higher education, it's norm is that academics experience very few academic environments, typically through their work experience. Search firms who work with universities and colleges get deeply entrenched for a period before the search and through the search completion. Natalie Leonhard, a partner with Isaacson Miller, has been working in the ta…
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Of all the purposes institutions of higher education serve, what is the ultimate? The students. It behooves RHE to garner the student perspective. Today's episode is the first one that garners ideas from the student perspective. Our guest, Katherine Walsh, has established herself as a young thought leader. Ms. Walsh is an undergraduate student at M…
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Many colleges and universities have built themselves on the "mentor-learner" model. To make this work, research is a critical component of institutional mission. Forces of late have imposed challenges to the proliferation of empirical study. To explore this, Jim Montgomery, a researcher in the area of language comprehension in school-aged children,…
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Join RHE for an extensive discussion on how Dean Randy Leite, who served as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professions for Ohio University for over a decade, thinks about the role of the higher education in society. We discuss the challenges in the face of innovation, but also the many accomplishments and strengths of institutions o…
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In this episode of RHE, we take a close look at the tenure system in higher education and address questions like "what is tenure? Where did it come from? What does mean to have tenure?" We also take close look at some current news that indicate a different trend towards the reduction and/or elimination of tenure. In late January, the Kansas Board o…
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Welcome to the pilot episode of Reckoning Higher Ed. This fairly short episode will discuss the podcast and its intent. Reckoning Higher Ed is as new podcast that explores the issues facing higher education today. It is no secret that with enrollment changes, reduced support, frozen tuition, technological progress all wrapped in a COVID-19 package …
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