The Crush

Episode 44: Ron Lieber on the Price of College

Ron Lieber recently completed writing a book called “The Price You Pay for College,” and if you’re interested enough in this stuff such that you’re listening to this, the

Episode 43: Prof. Marlene Daut on “Becoming Full Professor While Black”

In the United States, just 6% of college faculty members are Black. It’s a really tough career pathway for anyone, but as we’ll learn from my guest today, there are so ma

Episode 42: Celeste Suris Rosselli and DJ Meehan on College Access in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is subject to a number of unique barriers to accessing college whether they leave the island or stay. These barriers simply don’t exist for any other US state

Episode 41: Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School

The coronavirus has forced some wildly unprecedented anxieties into an already extremely anxious space. Mindy Rose and Mark Moody of Shanghai American School have had to

Episode 40! Oregon State University’s Jon Boeckenstedt

Jon Boeckenstedt is as fearless as he is smart as he is dedicated to Doing The Right Thing as a leader in the realm of college enrollment management. He’s one of these pe

Episode 39: Dr. Philip Walsh on the Value of Philosophy

The humanities are in a tough spot these days, and the discipline of philosophy often ends up in the crosshairs as an exemplar of Undergrad Majors That Will Waste Your Ti

Episode 38: Sam Schreiber and I Review “Admission”

It’s fall! Which means this is the time of year when legions of college admissions counselors traverse the globe to find those eager minds to fill the seats in their clas

Episode 37: Dr. Andrew Moe on College Access for Rural Students

Dr. Andrew Moe is the Director of Admission at Swarthmore College and has been leading a national effort to focus the eyes of his colleagues more on students coming from

Episode 36: Marie Bigham of ACCEPT

In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group emerged to quickly become the primary space in which professionals on all sides of college admissions would gather to discuss the

Episode 35: Dr. Susan Matt on the History of Homesickness in America

Soon children everywhere will be saying goodbye to their parents and to their communities and the times and the places that made them into the adults they’re on their way

Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education

If you pay attention to the world of college admissions, then you not only know this guy, chances are he’s helped you form your understanding of what goes on in said worl

Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman

Professor Marybeth Gasman is the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and a professor of education. Soon she’s moving herself and her center to R

Episode 32 ***🚨EMERGENCY AUNT BECKY SCANDAL PODCAST With Eric Hoover🚨***

This week it became known via a federal indictment that rich people used their wealth to break the law in a variety of appalling ways, all with a mind to skip the line an

Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber!

Temple University Economics Professor Doug Webber does some fascinating research on the impact of our academic choices in college. In a world plagued by a lust for presti

Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike”

Nike and Oregon – the state as well as its flagship university – go way back, and their relationship became a template for underfunded state universities all over the cou

Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS

Emmi Harward is the Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), and it’s her job to keep her finger on the pulse of the co

Episode 28: Annie Reznik on the Coalition Application

The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success emerged 3 years ago to provide an alternative application platform for, at first, 32 colleges, and now over 150 of th

Episode 27: Eric Waldo of Reach Higher

Reach Higher is former First Lady Michelle Obama’s college access initiative, operating under the leadership of my guest this episode, Eric Waldo.  He’s hard at work coun

Episode 26: Bart Grachan on Community Colleges

6 million people attend community colleges in this country, and yet we somehow don’t tend to consider it as “college.” Bart Grachan earns his keep doing everything he can

Episode 25: Alexander Clark, CEO and Founder of Technolutions/Slate

It’s a company with a loyal following to rival almost any brand, and everyone in college admissions is buying it. Slate is the technology of choice that admissions office