The Key with Inside Higher Ed

Mar 05 2025 146 ep. 31 mins 216

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Hear candid conversations with higher-ed newsmakers -- with a special focus on equity and lower-income students. Hosted by Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed is the leading source for the latest news, analysis, and services for the entire US higher education community.

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Ep. 145: Voices of Student Success: Putting Mental Health Counselors Where Students Are

Mar 05 2025 39 mins

Mental health is one of the greatest threats to student persistence and retention in higher education, but providing large-scale preventative and responsive mental health care is a looming challenge for colleges and universities. In addition to having sufficient clinicians and trained professionals to support students in need, finding ways to deliver wellness support to students b

Ep. 144: The Policies, People and Surprises of Trump's First 30 Days

Feb 26 2025 37 mins

In this episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, editor in chief Sara Custer speaks with IHE’s news editor Katherine Knott about the policies, people and surprises from the first 30 days of the second Trump administration. They discuss the executive orders and actions that could have the most impact on higher ed and what pushback they’ve seen from the

Ep. 143: Voices of Student Success: A Day Without Classes, Packed with Career

Feb 18 2025 24 mins

Having successful career outcomes is important for colleges and also for students, but getting students to engage in career services can feel like an uphill battle. Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania leaders decided to bring careers to students with an event called LVC Success Expo. During this day, LVC cancels classes so students can engage in an all-day career fair or meet wi

Ep. 142: An L.A. Community College Begins to Heal

Feb 13 2025 26 mins

At the beginning of February, the deadly L.A. wildfires were fully contained after burning for nearly a month. A few weeks ago we spoke with colleges in the city whose communities were upturned by the fires. Hundreds of students and staff had lost their homes and thousands more were displaced from evacuation zones. Now that the embers have died out, we wanted to check back in with

Ep. 141: Voices of Student Success: Expanding Access to Study Abroad

Feb 04 2025 24 mins

Study abroad is tied to personal and professional growth for college students, but crossing the border can be an enormous hurdle for some learners or feel unattainable. A new initiative at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania seeks to empower and support first-generation and low-income students who are interested in experiential learning and study away through workshops, financial

Ep. 140: What IHE's newsroom will be tracking in the first days of the new Trump administration

Jan 15 2025 23 mins

In the run up to the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, Inside Higher Ed’s editor-in-chief Sara Custer and news editor Katherine Knott discuss what we know and what we don’t know about president-elect Trump’s policy agenda and how it could affect universities and colleges. Katherine and Sara discuss what sources are telling IHE reporters about incoming education secretary

Ep. 139: Enrollment Management's AI Future

Dec 23 2024 55 mins

Highly customized admissions information and processes. Credit transfer evaluations that take minutes, not days or weeks. Precision tuition discounting estimates. Student success interventions informed by data gathered about students before they ever even applied to their institution. These are some of the ways that artificial intelligence is or may soon be improving the enrollment

Ep. 138: Doug Lederman Says Farewell to Inside Higher Ed

Dec 18 2024 54 mins

In his final days in the newsroom, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed and host of The Key, Doug Lederman, sits down with editor-in-chief Sara Custer to discuss his nearly 40-year career in higher education and what he plans to do next. Doug talks about his work as a journalist over four decades, including leading Inside Higher Ed for the past 20 years. Doug shares what kept

Ep. 137: How to Lead With Purpose in Higher Ed

Dec 13 2024 38 mins

College presidents don’t work in a bubble and there are a multitude of competing priorities jostling for their time and attention on a daily basis. It can be an overwhelming job, but having a guiding purpose behind every decision a president makes, the teams they form and the long-term strategies they develop can help keep leaders on the right track. How do they know which areas

Ep. 136: Voices of Student Success: GenAI in Teaching and Learning

Dec 10 2024 31 mins

Over the past two years, generative AI has blazed its way on to college campuses, first in the students’ hands and increasingly in the hands of administrators and instructors to improve campus operations and enrollment management, as well as teaching and learning. One of the greatest challenges of using generative AI in teaching is providing students with skills without interrupt