ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
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Darryl Uy
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
05/15/20 • 52 min
Ken chats with Darryl Uy, director of admission at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. \In the episode Darryl illustrates the joys and advantages of being the director instead of the VP or dean, and how majoring in theater is the perfect prep for being an admission director.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Don't Give Up on Me by Andy Grammer and Broken & Beautiful by Kelly Clarkson
- Best recent read: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- Eager to read next: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Making room for his husband to make the best chicken and eggplant parmigiana in the world.
- What he uses to take and keep notes: If I'm out and about, Notes app on my phone, otherwise Google Docs. And there's a fountain pen he got from his parents for graduation that needs an ink refill.
- Memorable bit of advice: "Be proud of who you are. Be proud of where you came from. And always give people the respect they deserve by learning how to pronounce their name correctly."
- Bucket list: See every movie that has been nominated or has won the Oscar for Best Picture. He's done everything from the present back to 1989.
- Bonus rapid descent items (movie recommendations): Saving Face and The Half of It by Alice Wu

May 1, Then and Now
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
05/01/20 • 7 min
Ken chats with—well—himself. No the quarantine isn't going that badly for him, but it seems like May 1 is a good day to pause and reflect on our previous expectations for—and now the new reality of—The Big Day.
Shameless cross-promotion: Why Do We Do This? an article I published almost a year ago about the challenges and the gifts that come with the work of college admission counseling.

Patrick O'Connor
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
04/24/20 • 55 min
Ken chats with Patrick O'Connor, associate dean of college counseling at Cranbrook Schools and author of College Is Yours 2.0: Preparing, Applying, and Paying For Colleges Perfect For You. A frequent publisher of articles in the Huffington Post and elsewhere, Patrick is a strong advocate for college access (he's the chair of the Michigan College Access Network) with a long record of working with legislators to support college counseling.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J.S. Bach
- Best recent read: The Anatomists of Melancholy, by Spencer Lee-Lenfield (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2020)
- Eager to read next: The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Ina Garten's Avocado and Grapefruit Salad and Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs.
- What he uses to take and keep notes: "I don't take notes." The thoughts just spring from his head and into the computer.
- Memorable bit of advice: Remember when you're frustrated with your superiors' decisions, the advice Patrick's dad gave to Patrick's frustrated 16-year-old brother, "It's his hot dog stand. If he wants to serve them with peanut butter, that's his decision." It helps you step back and see why folks might make decisions differently from the ones you'd make.
- Bucket list: Learn to play the drums. Also, to be Sam Seaborn (from The West Wing) for a year or two, writing policy speeches that shape the future of the country.

Jennifer Delahunty
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
04/03/20 • 48 min
Ken chats with Jennifer Delahunty, a self-described "accidental admissions officer, a humanoid and admissions gig worker. The former enrollment chief at Kenyon College and a perpetually gifted writer, Jennifer shares her views on how we can make the admissions world for students better than it is right now, and how our current disruption may be the perfect opportunity for nimble, creative, and humble leaders to bring all hands on deck to do so.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: It's the End of the World as We Know It by R.E.M. and You Get What You Give by New Radicals.
- Best recent read: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Eager to read next: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (which she describes as a great argument for the liberal arts)
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: After making Ken blush by implying a different way that question can be answered, she reveals that it's tamales with her daughters, which can sometimes resemble a crime scene
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Any kind of tablet "I'm analog; I need to hold a pen in my hand," and that pen is a fine Sharpie.
- Memorable bit of advice: Treat everyone well on the way up, as you may meet them on the way down.
- Bucket list: "Nice" answer: play all the Bach unaccompanied cello suites from beginning to end. "Not so nice" answer: "I want to take the mad emperor and all of his sycophants out of office."

Mary Beth Petrie
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
03/27/20 • 63 min
Ken chats with Mary Beth Petrie, Dean of Admissions at Lawrence University (who works just two doors down from Ken). Beth reminds Ken what snowstorms can teach admissions folks about coping with pandemics, how to keep a team healthy in the midst of chaos, and, in an unusual twist, switches the typical ending of the ALP, much to Ken's surprise.
Many thanks to Rick Bailey and Sam Waterson of RHB for sharing their advice during this episode about how we can "imagine voraciously" during this time of uncertainty.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Independent Women by Destiny's Child and Into the Unknown (because she's watched Frozen II like 6 times).
- Best recent read: Dare to Lead by Brene Brown.
- Eager to read next: This is Chance! The Shaking of an All-American City; A Voice That Held it Together by Jon Mooallem
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Apple pie
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Blueline Notepro and a Pilot VBall pen.
- Memorable bit of advice: You don't have to seize the day." from Glennon Doyle's Don't Carpe Diem | Momastery
- Bucket list: Travel to Turkey

Tony Sarda
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
03/20/20 • 45 min
Ken chats with Tony Sarda, Director of Recruitment for Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Some are called to serve with a whisper, others with a boom of thunder... in the case of Tony, it was both. Learn about the importance of being open to grace, and giving grace... and why it's really hard to be whay you cannot see.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda (from the best scene in Kill Bill Vol. 1) and Lose Yourself by Eminem.
- Best recent read: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum.
- Eager to read next: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Ropa Vieja for Christmas Eve.
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Whatever's around
- Memorable bit of advice: From Beverly Wheeler to Tony, who said to her, "I want to be like you when I grow up." Her response: "You're going to fail. You don't need to be like me. You need to be the best version of you."
- Bucket list: Run a half marathon. (Ken recommends Hal Higdon's training program).

Jon Boeckenstedt
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
02/18/20 • 59 min
Ken chats with Jon Boeckenstedt, vice provost for enrollment at Oregon State University, and the mind behind Higher Ed Data Stories, a treasure trove of data-driven (and data-visualized) observations about the state of higher ed. Jon shares some views about his recent career move as well as surprises about his reading and writing habits, as well as the unusual upside of the imposter syndrome.
Shout-outs & Links
- A couple of other places to get your Boeckenfix: jonboeckenstedt.net and Out Here In Oregon.
- The Test and The Art of Thinking a documentary about standardized tests, their role in college admission, and how they do (and don't) predict academic success.
- Jon's early influences that inform his wonderment about the absurdity of life: Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions (Vol. 1-3); The Stranger by Albert Camus; and Monty Python.
- 500px and Flickr, two collections of Jon's photography
- An investigative report on whether Alex Bello is, in fact, Marlon Jackson's
- Episode sponsored by InitialView and their latest development, Elevator Pitch.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
- Best recent read: A Wikipedia entry about Norman Borlaug, which inspired him to name March 25 (Borlaug's birthday) National Test-Optional Day.
- Eager to read next: The Years that Matter Most by Paul Tough ("Apparently I'm in it...")
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Semi-homemade killer chili: Hormel chili + extra sharp cheddar + Frank's Red Hot + bacon bits.
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Not much of a notetaker, but Jon loves a good fountain pen. Though he owns a Montblanc, he prefers his Sheaffer (for writing in black) and Lamy (for writing in blue).
- Memorable bit of advice: "Everybody is an imposter."
- Bucket list: "I do not and never have had a bucket list."

Carmen Lopez
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
02/06/20 • 57 min
Ken learns why "leadership is motion" with Carmen Lopez, Executive Director of College Horizons, a national educational non-profit serving American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Hawaiian Native students in their transition to college and graduate school.
Shout-outs & Links
- Claudio Sanchez's NPR story on College Horizons recorded at Lawrence University: How Native Students Can Succeed in College: "Be As Tough As the Land That Made You"
- Shout-outs to:
- Whitney Laughlin (founder of College Horizons) and Christine Suina, College Horizons program coordinator
- Dr. Robert Binswanger of Dartmouth, an early mentor
- Dr. Adrienne Keene, author of Native Appropriations and co-host of All My Relations with Matika Wilbur.
- Also: Candace Jimmerson, Bryan Brayboy, Jonathan Burdick, Joanie Brotman, Ralph Figueroa, DeAngela Burns-Wallace, and Regis Pecos (Cochiti Pueblo)
Rapid Descent
- Walkout songs (it's a playlist): I Love Rock'n'Roll (Joan Jett); Nasty (Janet Jackson); Kickstart My Heart (Mötley Crüe); Cult of Personality (Living Colour); Sabotage (Beastie Boys); Sisters (A Tribe Called Red); Kiss Me Deadly (Lita Ford); Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz); Pynk (Janelle Monae); Get Ur Freak On (Missy Elliott)... all of which have been added to the ALP playlists on Apple Music and Spotify.
- Best recent reads: Navajo Coyote Stories and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (both of which she has read with her kids); The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in an Age of Information Overload (Daniel Levitin); The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Charles Mackesy)... all of which have been added to the ALP Goodies List.
- Eager to read next: The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Blue Corn Mash for the kids; Pinto Beans and Ham Hocks (with a LOT of cumin)
- For taking and keeping notes: One Note, a couple of Mead notebooks for brain dumps and... well, she warns you to keep an eye on your best pen
- Memorable bit of advice: From one of the elders who led the opening circle at a College Horizons college program: "Don't forget that while we might have generational trauma, we also have generational stamina."
- Bucket list: Even though she doesn't have a bucket list, she still needs to see two concerts: Buddy Guy and Def Leppard.

Akil Bello
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
01/24/20 • 55 min
Ken chats with Akil Bello, founder of Bell Curves, who shares his views on higher ed and some news about a new professional adventure that fits perfectly with his leadership in matters around standardized testing. (And if you haven't read his writings on his website, Bellowings, you should give it a go.)
Shout-outs & Links
- Akil's presentation on entrepreneurship at the Harlem Business Alliance.
- An investigative report on whether Alex Bello is, in fact, Marlon Jackson's son, as referenced/joked about in the Netflix show, John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch.
- A blog post and full slide deck from Akil's Illinois ACAC keynote.
- Cross promotional shout out to the Crush podcast
- Episode sponsored by InitialView and their latest development, Elevator Pitch.
Rapid Descent
- Akil's walkout song: My Philosophy by KRS One
- Best thing he's read lately: Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Toni Adeyemi
- What he's eager to read next: The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Whiskey sour.
- What he uses to take and keep notes: "Far too many things..."
- Memorable bit of advice: From his father: "Until you have a business plan, it's a hobby."
- Bucket list: Going to the Gálapagos.

Maria Furtado
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast
05/22/20 • 48 min
Ken chats with Maria Furtado, Executive Director of Colleges That Change Lives, which is dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process. Maria shares the origin story of Admissions Aerobics (it's real and it's magic), as well as lessons she's learned along the way as a former director of admission herself.
Special shout-out to Marty O'Connell and Virginia Buege two of the big brains behind the birth of Colleges That Change Lives.
Rapid Descent
- Walkout song: Flowers are Red by Harry Chapin
- Best recent read: The Unwind Dystology Series by Tom Rachman
- Eager to read next: Half Broke: A Memoir by Ginger Gaffney
- Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: "Drinks."
- What he uses to take and keep notes: Paper and pen, especially one with a nice wide tip; not one of those sharp pointy ones.
- Memorable bit of advice: "Make a decision. It may be good; it may be bad. But make a decision. The best one you can at the time."
- Bucket list: Go to Fiji.
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How many episodes does ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast have?
ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast currently has 69 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Higher Education, Leadership, Podcasts, Education, Business and Careers.
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The episode title 'Darryl Uy' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast is 47 minutes.
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Episodes of ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
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The first episode of ALP: The Admissions Leadership Podcast was released on Aug 18, 2019.
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