Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education

05/22/19 • -1 min

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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 world. Eric Hoover has been writing about admissions for about as long as current college freshmen have been alive. What has changed over that period of time? What are the constants? If I give him enough beers, will he tell me who the next big names are that will be going “test optional”???
Eric and I spend nearly 2 hours talking about all manner of admissions things over a few brewskis. We talk about how he came to this profession and this admissions beat. In the second half, we talk about his trip to Nepal to learn more about the students whose offers of admission were revoked at UT Tyler and the ensuing trip he made to Nepal to learn more about the environment they were coming from. We also discuss the matter of “financial aid verification” which is an under-reported phenomenon affecting poor families who require financial aid to go to college and the additional difficulties our government puts them through.

Here’s the collection of stories Eric did about Nepali students trying to get to college in the US.

Link to “The Verification Trap” about the pitfalls of applying for financial aid while poor in this country.

Link to the article that won Eric the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award called “The Arc of Her Survival.”

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Here’s the collection of stories Eric did about Nepali students trying to get to college in the US.

Link to “The Verification Trap” about the pitfalls of applying for financial aid while poor in this country.

Link to the article that won Eric the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award called “The Arc of Her Survival.”

Subscribe to the podcast!

Rate the show!

Follow me on Twitter @crushpod and check out the website at www.crushpodcast.com

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Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman

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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 Rutgers University in New Jersey.

In this country, there are over 700 2 and 4-year colleges and universities designated as Minority Serving Institutions which educate 26% of ALL college students and over 40% of college students of color. Almost 80% of their students receive Pell grants, and these schools include Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Asian American and Native Pacific Islander Serving Institutions.

Professor Marybeth Gasman has helped institutionalize and elevate the work of these critical American spaces, their staff, faculty, and students as the director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania and has learned a lot along the way.

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FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING

Five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color (Hechinger Report)
Why don’t colleges have more minority faculty? We Don’t Want Them (Washington Post)
Federal MSI guidelines
CollegeNet Social Mobility Index
The MSI Social Mobility Bump (Inside Higher Ed)
Raj Chetti’s poverty, inequality, social mobility research
Timeline of the history of Minority Serving Institutions
TM Landry and the Myth of Meritocracy in American Education (The Atlantic)
Atlantic article author Will Stancil
Landry students on Ellen
Strong and weak link thinking
“My Little Hundred Million” (Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History podcast)

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

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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 to becoming in college. Dr. Susan Matt, Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University in Ogden, UT, wrote a book called “Homesickness: An American History.”

Some of them will do a bit better at handling the distance – both in terms of time and geography – than others. Well, they’re certainly not alone, and they aren’t alone throughout the history of this country when you consider the countless ways that giant groups of people that moved from the familiar to the unfamiliar.

So where’d all this come from? And how does “nostalgia” play a role in it all? How is this an American phenomenon, or at least, what American things happened to contribute to homesickness and nostalgia being woven into our national fabric? What about the role of technology nowadays making it insanely easy to stay in touch? Or its ability to make one’s experiences seem outwardly perfect via Instagram and other social media tools?