New York Times financial columnist and author Ron Lieber joins Future U. to continue the discussion on value and how colleges can better answer the question: Are they worth it?
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As college costs soar, is what you get from higher ed worth the pricetag? To help dissect the multifaceted question of value, Jeff and Michael sat down with Ed Smith-Lewis from the United Negro College Fund, and Karen Stout, from Achieving the Dream.
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Legendary University President Freeman Hrabowski takes Future U on a tour of University of Maryland Baltimore County as he prepares to turn over leadership of the institution. He leaves a strong legacy of student success for the university to build on.
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Authors Beth Akers and Josh Mitchell join the podcast to talk about what's next for student loans as the Covid-19 pause in payments is lifted in January.
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Mergers and acquisitions are common in the corporate world but not so much in higher ed. With so much talk about colleges going out of business as we come out of the pandemic, Jeff and Michael explore the idea of mergers and acquisitions with Jeff Senese, the president of Saint Leo University, which recently acquired a college thousands of miles away and wants to build a national network of Catholic colleges.
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Phil Hill joins Michael and Jeff to explain what an OPM is and why they're causing so much controversy in higher ed these days.
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New York Times economics writer Ben Casselman and Guild CEO and co-founder Rachel Romer Carlson join the Jeff and Michael to talk about why there are so many Help Wanted signs and how higher ed might fill the void for giving workers needed skills.
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Greg Fowler, a longtime leader in online education and president of the University of Maryland Global Campus, discusses how the pandemic might accelerate change in higher ed but probably not changed the trajectory of institutions.
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We often refer to the "higher ed system" in the U.S. But it's not really a system and it's mostly controlled by the states. On the latest reporters' roundtable, Jeff and Michael welcome higher ed reporters from California, Michigan, and Mississippi.
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David Thomas, president of Morehouse College, joins us to talk about the challenges of building on the legacy of a storied institution and stretching traditions in transformative ways.
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