The EdUp Experience

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Traci Snowden, CEO & Founder, Apto Global, and your sponsor is the EvoLLLUtion!  Traci founded Apto Global to facilitate a better cultural experience for international students.  Apto Global is a social learning platform for guiding those who need to cross-culturally interact, travel, or relocate, so they can feel at home no matter where they are or who they’re with.  Through social learning interaction, Traci discusses that Apto also puts the power to teach, share and learn just about anything, through the lens of authentic culture and language, back into the hands of the local people. This means content can be real-time, relevant, hyper-local, and empower equity.  Want to give your international students (any students!) a better experience?  Improve recruitment, retention, and graduation with APTO! Apto Global was founded in late 2015, by CEO, Traci Snowden, who provided concierge services to expat families relocating to the United States. These families needed to adapt across not only the traditional barriers of language but also cultural differences in hyper-local communities, workplace and academic environments. Traci started Apto because she and her clients knew exactly what they needed – a platform where users could share and learn local culture and language via authentic, immersive video…yet no one had built it.  Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on Apple Podcasts! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience, President Series Episode #95! In this episode your guest is Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz, President, University of California, Merced, and your sponsor is MDT Marketing!  Juan talks about turning the idea of “Hispanic Serving“ to “Hispanic Thriving”.  He discuss the the necessity of expanding pell grant eligibility in order to serve diverse students and why providing robust and just in time resources for students is always a struggle. Listen to how his institution is planning for possible fall 2021 covid disruptions, and he offers tips for latinx leaders in higher ed! Dr. Muñoz joined UC Merced as the school’s 4th Chancellor from the University of Houston Downtown (UHD), where he served as president and within his first year launched the university’s largest capital campaign and led the institution’s recovery efforts after Hurricane Harvey. Prior to UHD, Dr. Muñoz served as senior vice president and vice provost at Texas Tech University. He is the author of book chapters, academic articles, essays, refereed and invited conference presentations and professor in the Department of Sociology. In 2010, Chancellor Muñoz was among the contributing editors of the seminal compilation, the Handbook of Latinos and Education.  Another awesome episode with your sponsor MDT Marketing! Get your free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time!   Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on Apple Podcasts! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this special EdUp Embedded episode, your guest is John Fees, Co-founder, & Managing Director, GradGuard, and your sponsor is UnMudl!  John talks to Joe about the Benefits of tuition insurance. What are qualifying events? Do universities and colleges need to have tuition insurance?  The benefits go week beyond just protection of tuition dollars including retention, brand strength, lifelong learning, and social good.  Especially given CV-19 of late, tuition insurance has never been more important! John Fees co-founded, GradGuard™, an authority at designing and implementing student benefit programs that help more than 400 colleges and universities to attract and retain students. Since 2008, GradGuard’s tuition and renters insurance programs have helped more than 750,000 students protect their investment in a higher education.  Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on Apple Podcasts! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Miriam Feldblum, Executive Director of The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.   In this important episode of EdUp, we talk with Miriam about the state of international student relations today as we've recently transitioned from one administration to another.  Find out why every single college president and administrator needs to understand what is happening around immigration policy, even if they think they didn't need to know.  How can we be better higher education leaders on our campuses?  Find out in this episode! Miriam Feldblum is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Previously, she served as Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Professor of Politics at Pomona College, and as Special Assistant to the President and Faculty Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is also a Nonresident Fellow at MPI.  Her teaching and research areas are the politics and policies of immigration and citizenship, and immigration and higher education. Dr. Feldblum is the author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY Press, 1999). Another episode sponsored by our great friends at MDT Marketing! Get your free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on Apple Podcasts! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation, we welcome Dr. Jamal Scott, Vice President, Strategy & Community Development, Waubonsee Community College.   Listen in to hear Jamal talk with Joe & Liz about his very unique title and why he believes everybody is a prospective student.  Another episode sponsored by our great friends at the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation! Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, sponsored by UnMudl, we bring back Bernie Weiss, President of iHeart Media New York, who previously appeared on episode #6! Bernie's new book Ace It - How Sales Champions Win New Business delves into what makes a good sales person and provides resources for the beginner to the advances sales professional.   Among critical skills for salespeople are storytelling and committing to a process.  The book is battle tested and can be applied easily; it includes scripts, stories, analogies and more.  We ask Bernie how sales is applied in higher education - we discuss social selling, use of technology, and old sales tactics that still work.  Finally, we discuss why there is a negative stigma around the word “salesperson”! Bernie Weiss is President of iHeartMedia New York. Starting out selling radio advertising for a New York-based Hip Hop station, he rose quickly through the sales and sales management ranks of iHeartMedia, America’s #1 audio company, and is now overseeing some of the most prestigious radio station brands in the world. Over the course of twenty years, Bernie coached hundreds of salespeople—rookies and veterans—many of whom went on to become sales superstars and rose to leadership positions themselves.  Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this EdUp Embedded episode, sponsored by the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation, we welcome Dr. Kevin David, Portfolio Director at CampusWorks.  Liz and Kevin talk one-on-one about the process of strategic planning and how divergent ideas can converge into a defined plan with the right support.  Support often takes on the form of a consultancy to look at the process from an outside perspective.  Kevin also discusses DEI, and why communication should be intentionally transparent and inclusive. Dr. Kevin David joined CampusWorks in 2018, bringing with him over 15 years of higher education experience both in the classroom and in administrative leadership roles. Prior to joining CampusWorks, Kevin spent seven years at Tulsa Community College, most recently as provost and associate vice president for institutional effectiveness. Kevin earned a BA in Psychology from SUNY Cortland and both an MS and PhD in Developmental Psychology from University of Oklahoma. Another episode sponsored by our great friends at the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation!  Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this episode of The EdUp Experience Podcast, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Andrew Magliozzi, Co-Founder & CEO, Mainstay. Listen in as Joe & Liz talk with Andrew about how the company got started (why the name change) and how the power of text messaging can help increase enrollment, retention, persistence, and graduation rates.  Andrew Magliozzi has dedicated his career to developing technology to help students learn and succeed. Before founding Mainstay (Formally AdmitHub) in 2014, he founded Signet Education (2005) and KarmaNotes.org (2010). Andrew has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College '05 in History and Literature and also graduated from Hack Reactor, a coding bootcamp, in 2013. Another episode sponsored by our great friends at MDT Marketing! Get your free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this episode of The EdUp Experience Podcast, sponsored by UnMudl, we welcome Dr. Walter G. Bumphus, President & CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges! Dr. Bumphus, joins us to discuss community colleges and their critical role in the higher ed ecosystem.  Given his unique and important role at AACC, he’s able to drop serious knowledge about the impact and challenges for community colleges today.  We discuss confidence, enrollment declines, student engagement, DEI, and many other topics.  Tune in and don’t miss it! Dr. Walter G. Bumphus is President and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges. From 2007 to January 1, 2011, Dr. Bumphus served as a professor in the Community College Leadership Program and as chair of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. He also held the A. M. Aikin Regents Endowed Chair in Junior and Community College Education Leadership. He previously served as president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) from 2001 to 2007.  LCTCS later conferred upon him the title of President Emeritus of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. From November 2000 to September 2001 he was chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC). Prior to joining BRCC, Dr. Bumphus worked in the corporate world serving as President of the Higher Education Division of Voyager Expanded Learning. Six years prior, he served as president of Brookhaven College in Dallas County Community College District. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #93 & #94.  In this episode, sponsored by the Alliance for Innovation & Transformation (AFIT), we welcome Dr. Leah Bornstein, President at Aims Community College, and Dr. Christine Sobek, President at Waubonsee Community College.  These amazing leaders discuss the changes in talent development on by covid, where talent development sits in their priority list, and what the necessary skills are for leaders today.  The need for amazing talent is becoming more and more important in the 21st century. Dr. Leah L. Bornstein has dedicated more than 30 years to higher education in a variety of leadership and management roles.  Dr. Bornstein, with degrees from Bradford College, the University of Vermont, a doctorate from the University of Denver, and an honorary doctorate from Northern Arizona University, is a prominent advocate for student success, quality instruction, increased access to education, and strong strategic and tactical planning. Dr. Christine J. Sobek became the fourth president of Waubonsee Community College on July 1, 2001. In this role, she is responsible for the overall leadership of the college - which serves more than 14,000 credit students each year. More than 1,100 employees provide educational programs and services at a network of four permanent campuses located across the 624-square-mile college district and through extensive virtual and online classes and services. Dr. Sobek has more than 40 years of community college administrative experience. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode!  Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!