The EdUp Experience

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Jeff Elliott, COO, UWorld, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing! Jeff talks about how UWorld makes the really hard stuff easy to understand. They reduce complexity in explanations and delivery to benefit students, specifically to help them succeed on their high-stakes exams. Their content experts are accomplished doctors, nurses, business professionals, and educators, and they believe it’s their duty to create the highest quality educational content on the market.  Jeff is amazing, so tune in! UWorld is an online tool that helps students prepare for their high stakes exams, med school, nursing school, Physician asst testing, MCATs, college prep MDT build their own algorithms move students through content track pass rates in all areas, getting students to understand WHY they need to know information Active learning is critical - the active process of learning something is the most powerful for memory and knowledge saturation Faculty learning platform. 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 time to EdUp! Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, President Series Episode #97! your guest is Dr. Jason Morrison, Chancellor at Southern Arkansas University Tech, & your sponsor is Glacier!   Jason comes on EdUp to discuss the role of Southern Arkansas University Tech in its (rural) area.  They are in the heart of the defense industry right around companies like Lockheed Martin & Aerotech, & he literally knows when they are testing rockets because the ground shakes.  Jason also talks about how he & his family moved into the dorms to help quell some of the student concerns - above all, he wants students to take pride in themselves & their community college education.  This is not an episode to miss, Jason is a PASSIONATE leader! Dr. Jason Morrison has been the Chancellor since January 3, 2017. Dr. Morrison has served on the LeFlore County Youth Service board, the LeFlore County Historical Society board, & is a member of Rotary International. Prior to his service in LeFlore County, Jason served in Leadership Columbus, Optimist International, as Altus Chamber Ambassador, & on the Committee of 100, a committee dedicated to efforts of creating a joint relationship with the Altus, Oklahoma community & Altus Air Force Base. Dr. Morrison is also a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission which is an accrediting body for higher education. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your time to EdUp! Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode your guest is Nicholas Svensson,  CEO, SMART Technologies, & your sponsor is Claremont Lincoln University!  Nicholas and Joe discuss how SMART Tech can enhance the learning experience for students particularly as hybrid learning emerges in popularity as a covid consequence.  What is SMART Tech, how have institutions implemented SMART boards, and why are SMART boards perfect for curricular enhancement?   Well, find out by listening in! Nicholas Svensson is the Chief Executive Officer of SMART Technologies. Since he joined SMART in 2009, Nicholas has led cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, technologists and scientists to develop and launch numerous SMART products. With a career in technology spanning over 30 years, Nicholas has gained valuable experience during his tenure at various companies, including leading telecom and space hardware providers. Nicholas holds a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Waterloo and an MSc in System Design and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your time to EdUp! 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 your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience!  In this episode, your guest is Adam Bragg, Co-Founder & President at The U Experience, & your sponsor is UnMudl!   Adam and Joe talk about The U Experience and why it's a viable, exciting, and necessary alternative to the traditional college experience.  Students are mobile which means they can take online classes from anywhere if a university is offering them.  Adam discusses how The U Experience offers something new - a community of peers from institutions across the globe to LIVE, LEARN, AND GROW. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your time to EdUp! 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 your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode your guest is Dr. Lynn Priddy, President & CEO, Claremont Lincoln University, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing!   In this episode, Lynn comes back to break the news about Claremont Lincoln University's implementation of a "tuition reset" for the August 2021 term.  After looking at CLUs market position, current tuition rate, consumer feedback, & long-term viability scenarios, the CLU Board & Lynn reset the tuition to better align the supply and demand balance!  How do to execute a tuition reset, & how should you do it?  Find out in this episode that will give you philosophical & tactical tips. Dr. Priddy counts more than 35 years of experience in higher education, holding positions of faculty, director of research and assessment, provost and chief academic officer, executive vice president of strategic planning and advancement, executive advisor to the board, and president and strategic advisor to the president. She previously spent 14 years in a variety of roles for The Higher Learning Commission, the largest US regional accreditor, including its vice president of accreditation services. While there, she co-led the development of alternative accrediting processes, redefined and directed the systems for institutional change and decision-making, and served as the creator and founding director of the Commission's Academies for Assessment of Student learning and Student Persistence and Completion. 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 time to EdUp! 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 your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, your guest is Kate Colbert, President at Silver Tree Communications, LLC, & your sponsor is MDT Marketing!  It‘s episode #300, can you believe it?  In this episode we make a major announcement that could change the face of higher Ed completely. We’ll introduce you to Kate Colbert, Co-author of the soon to be EdUp BOOK Experience.  Want to know what the future looks like for higher education? Want to understand the themes, issues, innovations, & critical conversations more in depth?  Stay tuned for book updates and welcome Kate! Kate Colbert, is a highly regarded marketing strategist with 20 years of communications leadership, inside & outside organizations. She's an accomplished marketer & professional writer who has spent her career telling brand stories that help individuals & corporations communicate their way to profitable growth. Her acclaimed new book, Think Like a Marketer: How a Shift in Mindset Can Change Everything for Your Business, was ranked in the top 1% of all business marketing books on Amazon & was heralded at Amazon's #11 "hot new release" in its category. 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 time to EdUp! Connect with your hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on your preferred listening platform! ● Join your EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank you for listening! We make education your business!

EdUp Exclusive with YOUR sponsor MDT Marketing!  Before you read about UMass acquiring Brandman University, The EdUp Experience was talking about it with Don Kilburn, CEO of UMass Online! Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this episode, President Series Episode #96, EdUp got the scoop on how and why UMass and Brandman went from exploring a partnership to birthing UMass Global.  UMass Global will serve online working adult students by offering them online programs with wraparound services for that particular market.  Through strategic positioning, UMass Global now has a coast-to-coast profile to expand its geographic footprint. Donald C. Kilburn is currently the CEO of UMass Online. He is a pioneer and expert in online education with nearly three decades of experience developing innovative education solutions and a track record of developing successful growth strategies for high impact organizations. Prior to this role, Mr. Kilburn served as the President of Pearson North America – the largest education company in the world – managing over $4 billion in sales and 15,000 employees.  He also served as CEO of Pearson Learning Solutions and Vice Chairman of Higher Education. From 1998 until 2008, he served as President of Pearson Custom Publishing with responsibility for overseeing its higher education services and solutions business. Before joining Pearson, Mr. Kilburn spent 12 years at Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing during which he served as editor-in-chief for six years, and then later as President of the business for six years. He also worked for the Xerox Corporation and served as a Director of Interactive Data Corporation. 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 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!