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We welcome YOU to America’s leading higher education podcast! Hosted by Dr. Joe Sallustio, whose down-to-Earth approach & industry experience helps to make dry & complicated educational topics more fun & engaging to discuss. Elvin Freytes, Producer, brings YOU the most innovative leaders in higher education to the microphone. The EdUp Experience team brings over 40 years of experience in higher education - YOU will feel refreshed, upskilled, & reskilled after listening to this podcast. LEARN MORE: edupexperience.com We make education YOUR business!

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Ariana Keil, Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Canto

17 mins; April 02, 2026

Students Don't Want Your Technology, They Want Your Humanity - with Toby Brooks, Director of the Academy for Teaching & Learning, Baylor University

54 mins; April 01, 2026

Maybe Philosophy Professors Are More Important to AI Than Engineers - with Donald E. Hall, Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Binghamton University

47 mins; March 31, 2026

How Did a College President Become #1 on TikTok (& Why It Actually Matters)? - with Dr. Dan Myers, President, Misericordia University

53 mins; March 30, 2026

If Something Trending Today Is Obsolete Tomorrow, How Fast Must We Move? - with Dr. Yianni (John) Vassiliou, Chancellor, Miami Campus, Albizu University

53 mins; March 29, 2026

What If We Could Finally See Inside the Black Box of College Admissions? - with Braden Weissman⁠ & ⁠Cooper Weissman⁠, Co-founders, ⁠Nerd Apply⁠

43 mins; March 26, 2026

Catholic Universities Are Back & This Is Why Students Are Choosing Faith Over Everything - with Dr. Walter Iwanenko, President, Gannon University

46 mins; March 25, 2026

When Did Shared Services Become the Secret Weapon of Higher Ed? - with Bill Grau, Executive Director, SUNY SICAS Center

51 mins; March 24, 2026

If We're Not Here for Popularity, Why Are We Afraid to Make Decisions? - with Dr. Brian O. Hemphill, President, Old Dominion University

56 mins; March 23, 2026

40% Underrepresented. 1/3 First Gen. $1.1 Billion Impact. This is SUNY Albany - with Havidán Rodríguez, President, University at Albany

53 mins; March 22, 2026

LIVE from the InsightsEDU 2025 Conference - with Charlie Parker, CMO / Vice Chancellor of Enrollment, Keiser University

17 mins; March 19, 2026

They Called It High School With Cigarettes. Now It's Training America's Workforce - with Dr. Bonny Ball Copenhaver, President, New River Community & Technical College

52 mins; March 18, 2026

This University Ditched 'Admissions' From Their Website & Enrollment Soared - with Dr. Kathy Humphrey, President, Carlow University

48 mins; March 17, 2026

Don't Know What Job You'll Have in 10 Years? Congratulations, Get a Liberal Arts Degree! - with Andrea Talentino, President, Augustana College

48 mins; March 16, 2026

What Happens When You Require Career Readiness for Credit? - with Dr. Richanne Mankey, President, Defiance College

48 mins; March 15, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Mark Milliron⁠, President, ⁠National University⁠

17 mins; March 12, 2026

The Divot in the Stone: Why This University President Looks Down Before Leading Up - Dr. Chuck Seifert, President, Siena University

54 mins; March 11, 2026

How to Build Workforce Pathways That Actually Lead to Jobs - with Dr. Stephanie Fujii, President, Arapaho Community College

51 mins; March 10, 2026

If Strategic Plans Ignore Employee Health, Are They Even Strategic? - with Dr. Kyle Dalpe, President, Western Nevada College

52 mins; March 09, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Alex Minot, Client Partner, Snapchat

17 mins; March 08, 2026

Maybe We Should Stop Competing & Start Collaborating - with Deborah E. Preston, President, Mercer County Community College

51 mins; March 06, 2026

This Is What Happens When a College Actually Believes in Its Students - with Dr. Chris Domes, President, Neumann University

60 hours 58 mins; March 05, 2026

How to Improve Student Experience & Cut Costs at the Same Time - with Shadi Figuli, CEO & Co-Founder, & Aaron P

44 mins; March 04, 2026

Why Does This German University Stop Classes Every Term for Industry Week? - with Professor Dr. Ramon O’Callaghan, President, Gisma University of Applied Sciences

36 mins; March 03, 2026

From 11,000 to 32,000 Applicants: How a 256 Year Old University Tripled Demand - with Andrew Hsu, President, College of Charleston

39 mins; March 02, 2026

Talent Is Universal. Opportunity Is Not. (This College Fixes That) - with Madeline Pumariega, President, Miami Dade College

52 mins; March 01, 2026

Why Your Campus & Online Programs Are Dying Because They Don't Talk to Each Other - with Dr. Evan Kropp, Executive Director, College of Journalism & Communications, University of Florida

41 mins; February 23, 2026

This HBCU Teaches Students to CREATE Jobs, Not Find Them (Here's How) - with Dr. Aminta H. Breaux, President, Bowie State University

51 mins; February 22, 2026

LIVE from InsightsEDU 2026 - w/ Karolyn Pearson, Sr. Exec. VP, Operations, EducationDynamics, Matt Harris Sr. Dir. of Comms, & Scott Bacon, Sr. VP, External Affairs, Jacksonville University

22 mins; February 19, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with David A. Armstrong, President, St. Thomas University

21 mins; February 18, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - w/ Greg Clayton⁠, President, Enrollment Management Services, & ⁠Katie Tomlinson⁠, Senior Director of Analytics & Business Intelligence, ⁠EducationDynamics⁠

29 mins; February 18, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Brent Ramdin, CEO, EducationDynamics

18 mins; February 17, 2026

LIVE from the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference - with Tracy Kreikemeier, Chief Relationship Officer, & Bethany Moran, Senior Vice President, Partnerships, EducationDynamics

15 mins; February 17, 2026

What Does Pre-K to PhD Look Like at the Only Christian School to Offer It? - with Dr. Keith Newman, President, Southern Nazarene University

48 mins; February 15, 2026

If Students Won't Come to Counseling, How Do You Reach Them? - with Dr. Nichole Kang, Wellness Center Director, Montgomery County Community College

41 mins; February 11, 2026

What If Higher Ed Leaders Turned INTO the Wind Instead of Running From It? - Dr. Mark R. Ginsberg, President, Towson University

44 mins; February 10, 2026

Are You 12 Months Behind on AI Visibility & Don't Even Know It? - with Rhea Vitalis, Vice President of Marketing, Everspring

45 mins; February 09, 2026

How This Higher Ed Journalist Tracks Innovation (& What He's Watching Next) - with Paul Fain, Journalist & Analyst, Founder of Work Shift (newsletter: The Job)

32 mins; February 08, 2026

Should Higher Ed Redesign Degrees Around ROI Instead of Tradition? - with Dr. Frank Sanchez⁠, President, ⁠Manhattanville University

51 mins; February 04, 2026

What If Student Success Actually Means Nothing Unless You Define It? - with Dr. Bernard A. Polnariev, Vice President for Administrative Services, UCNJ

54 mins; February 03, 2026

This Is What Happens When a College Actually Believes in Its Students - with Dr. Chris Domes, President, Neumann University

57 mins; February 02, 2026

Why Are Companies Paying Students to Attend This Community College? - with Dr. Julius Sokenu, President, Moorpark College

55 mins; February 01, 2026

If Facts Tell & Stories Sell, Why Is Higher Ed Still Using Facts? - with Dr. DeRionne Pollard, President & CEO, American Association of Community Colleges

56 mins; January 29, 2026

What If Higher Ed Focused on Development Instead of Information Delivery? - with Dr. Stephen P. Johnson, Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Palm Beach Atlantic University

47 mins; January 28, 2026

Can You Really Increase Quality, Decrease Cost & Expand Reach at Once? - with Alvin F. Meredith III, President, & Rob Garrett, Chief of Staff, Brigham Young University–Idaho

50 mins; January 27, 2026

What If Training Costs Were Costless for Employers & Debt Free for Students? - with Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder & CEO, OpenClassrooms

43 mins; January 26, 2026

What If Your Data Had a Seat at the Cabinet Table? - with Dr. Madhavi Chandra, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Entrinsik

42 mins; January 25, 2026

How to Build the New Academy Through Creativity & Experimentation - with Dr. Joy Connolly, President, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

44 mins; January 22, 2026

How Can Evaluations Become Messages Instead of Judgments? - with Kristine Goodwin, Strategic Project Manager for the President, North Shore Community College

31 mins; January 21, 2026

AI, Burnout, & the New Healthcare Workforce: UMA’s Plan to Rebuild Talent Pipelines - with April Neumann, Executive Vice President of Workforce Transformation, Ultimate Medical Academy

44 mins; January 20, 2026

How Higher Ed Leaders Are Getting AI Policy Wrong (& How to Fix It) - with Dr. David Hatami, Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, EduPolicy.ai

38 mins; January 19, 2026

Why Pennsylvania's Newest College Might Outlive Its Oldest Ones - with Susan R. Snelick, President, Northern Pennsylvania Regional College

43 mins; January 18, 2026

Why Insurance Companies & Universities Need the Same Technology Now - with Shouvik Paul, COO, Copyleaks

47 mins; January 15, 2026

What 23 Years at 1 College Teaches About AI - with Dr. Robert Wilson, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cedar Crest College

28 mins; January 14, 2026

How Does Serving the "Top 100%" Challenge Everything Higher Ed Measures? - with Dr. Edward Bush, President, Cosumnes River College

53 mins; January 13, 2026

Student Centered, Innovation Driven - with Dr. Rick Muma, President of Wichita State University

53 mins; January 12, 2026

AI in Higher Ed: What Grammarly’s Rebrand Means for Students & Faculty - with Jenny Maxwell, Head of Education (GM), Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)

34 mins; January 11, 2026

What Happens When 60 Leaders Discover Traditional Workforce Prep Is Broken? - Kristen Fox, Chief Executive Officer, Business-Higher Education Forum

48 mins; January 08, 2026

AI in the Classroom: What Faculty Need to Know About Integrity, Engagement, & Student Success - with Dr. Rebecca I. Hopkins, Vice President of Learning, Western Technical College

37 mins; January 07, 2026

What If Higher Ed Stopped Selling Degrees & Started Unlocking Human Potential Instead? - with Dr. Suzy Siegle, President & CEO | Professor of Management, Walsh College

61 hours 27 mins; January 06, 2026

Why "Ignore the Noise & Follow Your Heart" Is This President's Leadership Philosophy - with Dr. Anne D'Alleva, President, Binghamton University

40 mins; January 05, 2026

What Happens When You Fire the Playbook & Rebuild Higher Ed from Scratch - with Dr. Nick Ladany, President, San Francisco Bay University

53 mins; January 04, 2026

When Students Are Also Parents, Employees & Caregivers: The 'ANDers' Revolution - with Mark Milliron, President & CEO, National University

51 mins; December 28, 2025

Is Your Multi Campus Strategy Creating Chaos or Consistency? - with Dr. Christian Vigé, Provost, Delta College

41 mins; December 23, 2025

Maybe Your University Needs This: Howard’s Partnership Strategy - with Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh, Provost, Howard University

39 mins; December 23, 2025

How To Control Your Institution's Narrative Before It Controls You - with Karla Jo (KJ) Helms, Founder & CEO, JOTO PR Disruptors

43 mins; December 23, 2025

What If College Students Stopped Interning for Google & Started Companies Instead? - with Chris Klaus, CEO, Fusen, & Co-Founder, Georgia Tech CREATE-X Startup Accelerator

54 mins; December 23, 2025

Are Practical Majors Just Better at Cultural Signaling Than Skill Building? - with Dr. Corey Moss-Pech, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida State University

44 mins; December 22, 2025

How 1 College Rewrote the Rules on Academic Integrity for the AI Era - Dr. Cathy R. Briggs, Dean, Student Success, & Gina Yanuzzi, Assistant Professor, Comp. & Lit., Rowan College at Burlington County

34 mins; December 22, 2025

When Academic Integrity Meets AI: IU's Playbook - with Dr. Anne Leftwich, Associate VP for Learning Technologies, & Dr. Justin Hodgson, Strategic Dir. of GenAI, Faculty Initiatives, Indiana University

41 mins; December 22, 2025

How This Professor Teaches Both High School & University in the Age of AI - with Casey Cuny, Professor, National University, & 2024 California Teacher of the Year

37 mins; December 22, 2025

What Happens When Budget Cuts Hit Day 1 & Why Listening Tours Might be Thing of the Past - with Dr. Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, President, Thomas College

53 mins; December 21, 2025

What Happens When 50,000 Students Get Free AI Literacy Training & Learn AI as a Copilot Not a Cheat Code - with Dr. Michael Webb, Director of Innovation, Capella University

26 mins; December 18, 2025

What Happens When Students Adopt AI Faster Than Faculty & Drive 150 Year Old Universities to Innovate? - Dr. Sarah Holtan, Assistant Provost, Carroll University, & Host, Get Down to College Business

42 mins; December 17, 2025

How Do You Lead 13,000 Students Where 48% Are First Generation? - with Fernando Delgado, President, Lehman College

45 mins; December 16, 2025

What Happens When a University Refuses Federal Funding & Freezes Tuition for 9 Years - with Dr. Eric Klein, Assistant Provost, Doctoral Research & Student Success, American College of Education

37 mins; December 15, 2025

How 1 College President Recruits Students Everywhere He Goes & Gives Away $500 Every Month - Mike Hobbs, President, Georgia Highlands College

53 mins; December 14, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Christian Benito⁠, 3rd Year Student, & ⁠Andre Krzyzanowski De Jesus⁠, 2nd Year Student, Berkley College

5 mins; December 14, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Richard W. E. Georges, President, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College

27 mins; December 12, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Rebecca Corbin⁠, President & CEO, ⁠National Association for Community College⁠ Entrepreneurship

26 mins; December 12, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Chuck Ambrose, Senior Education Consultant, Husch Blackwell Consulting

15 mins; December 12, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Dr. Havidán Rodríguez⁠, President of ⁠SUNY at Albany⁠

24 mins; December 12, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Annual Conference - Honar Issa, Secretary-General, Dilan Rostam, Dir., Higher Ed, & Boushra Rahal Alameh, President, Kurdistan Accrediting Association for Education

32 mins; December 11, 2025

LIVE from the 2025 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Kimberly Davenport⁠, Partner & Director of Corporate Responsibility at ⁠ScottMadden, Inc⁠.

13 mins; December 11, 2025

LIVE from the 2026 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Margery Kraus, Founder & Executive Chairman of ⁠APCO Worldwide⁠

26 mins; December 11, 2025

LIVE from the 2026 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - Christina Weber, ⁠ Biology Honors Student, & ⁠Jesse Jacondin⁠, Sr. Research Analyst, ⁠Brookdale Community College⁠

15 mins; December 11, 2025

LIVE from the 2026 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Jonathan Peri, ⁠ Commissioner ⁠Middle States Commission on Higher Education⁠⁠, & President of ⁠Manor College

22 mins; December 11, 2025

LIVE from the 2026 Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference - with Katherine Conway-Turner, Chair, & Heather Perfetti, President, Middle States Commission on Higher Education

23 mins; December 11, 2025

How AI Can Make Students Better Than the Machines They Use - with France Hoang, Founder & CEO, BoodleBox

42 mins; December 10, 2025

How AI Breaks Down Language Barriers (But Creates New Academic Integrity Problems) - with W. Ila Peterson, Professor of Mathematics & Director of Faculty Development, Arizona Western College

32 mins; December 09, 2025

Why Americans Are Frustrated with College BUT Still Send Their Kids - with Sophie Nguyen, Senior Policy Manager, Higher Education, New America

40 mins; December 08, 2025

The Accreditation Myth: Why Your University Has More Freedom Than You Think - with Dr. Maria Toyoda, President & CEO, WASC Senior College & University Commission

52 mins; December 07, 2025

From Wicked Problems to Ingenious Solutions: The Leadership Transformation - with Melissa Morriss-Olson, CEO, The American University of Greece Global Campus

43 mins; December 04, 2025

4 Nobel Prizes, 100+ Programs, 600K Alumni: Inside Berkeley's Innovation Machine - with Darren Cooke, Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley

46 mins; December 03, 2025

Half of America's Colleges Are Coin Tosses, Here's How to Beat the Odds - with Gary Stocker, Founder, College Viability

36 mins; December 02, 2025

How Is a 70 Year Old Testing Organization Reinventing Itself with AI & Why Should You Care? - with Joy Jones, CEO, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

50 mins; December 01, 2025

Is AI Destroying Learning or Saving It? 23 Years of Ed Tech Lessons from Studiosity's Founder - with Jack Goodman, Founder, Studiosity

42 mins; November 30, 2025

When Selling Your Campus Saves Your University: The NDNU Story - with Dr. Beth Martin, President, Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU)

39 mins; November 25, 2025

Why 88% of Faculty Voted to Blow Up the Liberal Arts Model (& How Your Institution Can Too) - with Dr. Arthur Levine, President, Brandeis University

49 mins; November 24, 2025

How Religious Mission Drives Innovation (Not Prevents It) - with Elder Gilbert, Commissioner of Education, Church Educational System

48 mins; November 23, 2025

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