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Davin Sweeney
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04/30/17 • -1 min
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New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo recently championed and passed the nation’s first plan to offer free college tuition to state residents attending state public colleges called “The Excelsior Scholarship.” Free always sounds good, but does it make for good policy? Professor Doug Webber, a labor economist at Temple University who has contributed to fivethirtyeight.com, Fortune, and has testified before congress on matters of higher education, helps us understand what about this plan is good, and what about this plan might actually be really bad policy. We use NY Times columnist David Brooks’ scathing 8-point critique (“The Cuomo College Fiasco” NYT 4/14/17) as a frame for this discussion. Here are some links for further reading on the subject:
By my guest, Prof. Doug Webber:
“This U.S. State’s Free College Plan Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be.” (Fortune)
“To Ease the Student Debt Crisis, Hold Colleges Accountable” (fivethirtyeight.com)
“Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition is Skyrocketing” fivethirtyeight.com)
More coverage on the Excelsior Scholarship:
“Mr. Cuomo’s Free* College Plan” (NY Times)
“Cuomo Adopts Middle Class Mantra” (NY Times)
“Free College, but With Caveats” (NY Times)
“Why Governor Cuomo’s Free Tuition Plan Won’t Help NY’s State of Mind.” (Heschinger Report)
“6 Reasons You May Not Graduate on Time (and What to Do About It)” (NY Times)
BONUS: Check out Governor Cuomo changing one lucky voter’s tire!
Gov Cuomo helping a stranded driver along the Sprain Parkway pic.twitter.com/XgKy3aMscq
— Melissa DeRosa (@melissadderosa) February 9, 2017
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02/02/17 • -1 min
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Right now, college applicants are anxiously waiting to hear back from the colleges they applied to, while legions of admissions counselors read their applications and those of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of their fellow applicants. That’s a lot of decisions to make. How are they made? What influences that process? What can research tell us about how to do it better so that we can be fair to students and their circumstances, while also being fair to the admissions counselors and their (physical, mental, emotional, marital) health? University of Michigan School of Education Professor Dr. Michael Bastedo has done research on exactly these questions, and I caught him at the NACAC conference in Columbus OH this fall to ask him about his research.
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07/22/16 • -1 min
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Rick Weissbourd and Lloyd Thacker are new partners trying to solve an entrenched problem: How can college admissions change to better encourage healthier student outcomes and to promote ethical engagement in their communities? Their “Turning the Tide” report is their best and latest stab at it.
Lots of people refer to the college admissions system as “broken.” Admissions offices at selective schools have turned more into “denial” offices with historic rates of selectivity...kids are applying to a million colleges and packing their high school schedules with a million AP courses...the extracurricular activities list is a reflection of things kids did to get into college more than it is a reflection of the lives they’re naturally inclined to live in spite of the process...the essays are boring or narcissistic...SAT scores create too much stress and don’t actually tell us anything meaningful about the student.
But what’s to be done?
Over a hundred colleges have signed on to endorse the recommendations laid out in the report titled, in full, “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and and the Common Good Through College Admissions.” Lloyd and Rick talk to me about the climate that gave rise to this report, why these recommendations are the right ones to create change, and the challenges inherent in these recommendations actually generating the social change they’re seeking.
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06/21/16 • -1 min
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Dr. Denise Pope is a professor of education at Stanford and a founder of “Challenge Success,” an organization that “partners with schools and families to provide kids with the academic, social, and emotional skills needed to succeed now and in the future.” She’s out to reduce stress among teenagers through a variety of methods including a reduction in homework and more sleep. These were two of my favorite concepts when I was in high school, but for some strange reason even the students are pushing back.
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Visit www.challengesuccess.org for more information on her organization and their efforts, and visit http://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/collegeadmissions to read the “Turning the Tide” report on reforming college admissions.
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05/25/16 • -1 min
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Jon Burdick is the VP of Enrollment and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Rochester. He was also my admissions counselor when I went to USC, and now he’s my boss. He’s also one of the more articulate (and relatively fearless) thinkers and speakers on all things college, so I put the money questions to him. It took up almost two hours, so I’ve split it into two parts.
This is part 1! Follow Jon on Twitter @deanburdick
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05/17/16 • -1 min
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As a full-time anthropologist at Intel (recruited at a bar in Palo Alto off the faculty at Stanford), Genevieve Bell has a job that makes a lot of us go, “Wow...what’s that?” She sits at the intersection between anthropology and computer science, and as such, a big part of what she does is to help her company – and by extension us – understand the future to come, and our place as humans in an increasingly technological and data-driven world. Relative to the mission of this podcast, I was really interested to learn about the intersection between seemingly disparate disciplines in creating a job that earned her a place among Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” and placed her ideas into publications like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, and more.
She also has one of the top 10 laughs of all my 9 interview subjects thus far. In fact, I might place her at a tie for the top spot with Siva Kumari.
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03/29/16 • -1 min
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The International Baccalaureate, or IB, is the hardest and most thorough preparation for college out there today. Not only is it out there, but it’s really out there as a global curriculum in almost 150 countries, and it’s growing. Dr. Siva Kumari is the leader of this complex and fascinating entity, and she is also an utter delight. She spoke to me via Skype from The Hague...which is not a bad place to have an office.
Here is the study I reference in this episode, demonstrating that the IB is doing great work in low-income communities.
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03/10/16 • -1 min
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Tests suck and they suck real bad. I know because I cried the day I got my SAT scores in the mail. BUT- we need them in our lives in the college admissions world...or do we? Adam Ingersoll, is the co-founder of the west coast’s leading test prep company, Compass Education Group, and he helps us think about the value of these tests, their present and future, and whether grownups like me should take the new SAT. And then cry about it for old time’s sake.
So, as referenced in the interview, here’s a fun look at what an already-smart person can do when it’s also this already-smart person’s job to take the SAT.
Behold: Adam’s recent score history, and the tragedy that is a nearly-perfect SAT score on multiple exam sittings, but...never quite getting there.
Let’s all weep.
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03/01/16 • -1 min
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Bob DeMars lived the dream of kids in streets and backyards everywhere when he played college football for the University of Southern California. He paid a heavy price, and entered into a fraternity he didn’t see coming. With the release of his new documentary “The Business of Amateurs,” which has been met with wide-ranging acclaim, which includes being used in John Oliver’s absolute The People’s Elbow-ing of the NCAA on “Last Week Tonight,” Bob hopes to spread the word to kids before they make the decisions he and the film’s subjects did.
Here’s the speech that Junior Seau’s daughter, Sydney Seau, would have delivered had the NFL Hall of Fame had the guts to let a daughter honor her father, the first Polynesian to make it into the Hall of Fame.
Here’s some data direct from the NCAA about the probability of making it pro after college (consider playing Powerball instead...?)
(Click photos to enlarge...especially the one where Bobby has someone’s brains in his hands)
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09/13/17 • -1 min
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Akil Bello is a friend of mine who is also one of these odd sorts who concerns himself in life with all things Standardized Test. Following up from Episode 4 where I pledge to take the SAT, I finally sit down to register to do it, which in itself can take up to an hour. Naturally, I thought this would make for gripping radio. We document this epic experience of simply registering for the exam and attempt to read the minds – and fine print rivaling the iTunes terms of service – of the College Boarders who’ve put this experience together.
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The Crush currently has 46 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Harvard, Ncaa, University, Board, College, Courses, Podcasts and Education.
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