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    The Crush

    As a college admissions counselor, I think “The Crush” sums up the way most people feel about the college admissions process and the college experience itself. High school students fall into a deep infatuation with a potential future alma mater, maybe even many, and work themselves into ulcerous, sleepless fits trying to find a way to get noticed and give them a chance. And then there’s the other kind of crush….the physical weight of it all. The pressure of expectations for yourself, your parents, your peers, the weight of the finances you might be asked to conjure up in order to appease your hungry crush, and the crush of information in the form of mailings to your house, stories in the media, tweets, op-eds, rumors, gossip, and outright bull***. This podcast looks to explore these issues and more by talking to fascinating people who know more about it all than I do.

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    Episode 35: Dr. Susan Matt on the History of Homesickness in America Jul 01, 2019
    Show notes https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Susan-Matt.mp3

    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?

    FURTHER READING

    Homesickness: An American History (Susan Matt, Oxford University Press, 2011)

    The New Globalist is Homesick (Susan Matt, NY Times 2012)

    Beware Social Nostalgia (Stephanie Coontz, NY Times 2013)

    The Ethos of the Overinvolved Parents (The Atlantic, Laura McKenna, 2017)

    Involved Parents Get Their Own College Guide (Chronicle of Higher Ed, Julia Piper 2019)

    @supersnackstore on Instagram

    Why Peter Thiel Fears Star Trek (New Yorker, Manu Saadia 2017)

    A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction (New Yorker, Jill Lepore 2017)

    Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid (Fernandez, Matt; Harvard University Press, 2019)

    Don Quixote, College Choice and the Myth of Fit (Chronicle of Higher Ed, Moody 2011)

    The post Episode 35: Dr. Susan Matt on the History of Homesickness in America appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education May 22, 2019
    Show notes https://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Eric-Hoover..mp3

    Eric HooverIf 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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    The post Episode 34: Eric Hoover of the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman Apr 19, 2019
    Show notes http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marybeth-Gasman..mp3

    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.

    ***SUPPORT COLLEGE SIGNING DAY ON MAY 1st!***
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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)

    The post Episode 33: Professor Marybeth Gasman appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 32 ***🚨EMERGENCY AUNT BECKY SCANDAL PODCAST With Eric Hoover🚨*** Mar 15, 2019
    Show notes http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Eric-Hoover-Emergency-Podcast.mp3

    This week it became known via a federal indictment that rich people used their wealth to break the law in a variety of appalling ways, all with a mind to skip the line and receive guaranteed admission to famous/elite/highly-selective colleges. Nobody knows more about this world than Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Eric Hoover…let’s unpack #AuntBeckyGate emergency-style!

    So much more to read here:

    “Bribery Scandal Reveals ‘Weak Spots’ in the Admissions System. Don’t Look so Shocked.” (Hoover, Chronicle)

    “Admissions Officers Didn’t Create the Scandal. But They Helped Shape the Culture That Spawned it.” (Hoover, Chronicle)

    “They’re Already Rich. Why Were These Parents so Fixated on Elite Colleges?” (Becky Supiano, Chronicle)

    “Born on Third, Stealing Home, Paying off the Ump: The Unhinged Greed of College Cheats” (James Murphy, Vanity Fair)

    The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

    …And hey I was on Good Morning America, so that’s cool!

    Part 1

    Part 2

    The post Episode 32 ***🚨EMERGENCY AUNT BECKY SCANDAL PODCAST With Eric Hoover🚨*** appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber! Feb 10, 2019
    Show notes http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Doug-Webber-The-Sequel.mp3

    Temple University Economics Professor Doug Webber does some fascinating research on the impact of our academic choices in college. In a world plagued by a lust for prestige, how much does it really matter in terms of your ability to earn a good living?

    I’m thrilled to have Doug back as my first repeat guest! Make sure and take a listen to Episode 18 where we discuss the value of New York State’s “Excelsior Scholarship” which is meant to provide a free college education to a certain segment of New York’s households. Here we spend more time on the research that really occupies his time, which is the impact of college on the labor force. Are there good jobs for humanities majors? Will you, in fact, be doomed if you do not attend a Top 25 US News-ranked school? Are the robots coming for our jobs, and how soon? Professor Webber was kind enough to host me in his fancy corner office on campus at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

    Further listening/reading:

    “My Little Hundred Million” Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History

    “It Depends What you Study, Not Where” The Economist, 2015

    “Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates” Kelchen and Webber, 2018

    “Is College Worth it? Going Beyond Averages” Webber, Third Way, 2018

    The post Episode 31 – Doug Webber 2: The Return of Doug Webber! appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike” Jan 23, 2019
    Show notes
    http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Josh-Hunt.mp3

    Nike and Oregon – the state as well as its flagship university – go way back, and their relationship became a template for underfunded state universities all over the country. Josh Hunt takes a deep dive into this complicated and painful reality in his new book, “The University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education.”

    I grew up in Portland, Oregon alongside the growth of Nike from a hip local shoe company to a global empire. Michael Moore’s film “The Big One” came out in my junior year of high school, and first blasted Phil Knight and Nike’s lack of action to curb its exploitative labor practices into the national spotlight. We all saw the swooshes on the jerseys of athletes at Oregon, and also at Michigan, Florida State, and my alma mater USC. But I definitely never understood the depth and breadth of the bargain Oregon and its then-president, Dave Frohnmayer, made with Knight and Nike, and the grip its implications still has on our public systems of higher education. But then I read this book, and I encourage you all to read it too.

    Further Reading and Listening
    – www.viajoshhunt.com
    – https://twitter.com/viajoshhunt
    – Communications Director Out at UO (Eugene Weekly, 2018)
    – Oregon’s New “Football Performance Center” is a Decadent Monstrosity (Deadspin, 2013)
    – State Higher Education Finance Report (SHEEO, 2017)
    – “The Filthy Fifteen”
    – Twitter thread on the Sackler/Purdue Pharma/OxyContin court case
    – Aaron Sorkin Tells AOC to Keep Her Frisbee Off His Lawn
    – Grateful Dead. Eugene, OR June 17, 1994 setlist
    – Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone

    The post Episode 30! Josh Hunt on “The University of Nike” appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS Jan 12, 2019
    Show notes

    Emmi Harward is the Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), and it’s her job to keep her finger on the pulse of the college counseling profession so she can help her members do their best work helping kids apply to college.

    As they put it “ACCIS is a national membership organization providing support, shared knowledge, and professional development programming for college counselors based in independent (non-public) schools across the country and internationally. ACCIS counts nearly 600 schools as members, represented by over 1700 counselors and office assistants working to support the students in their care.” Emmi spends her time in airports, schools, and her home base of San Diego, California, and joined me in new york, and she and I talked in a conference room in the Collegewise New York City world headquarters at WeWork on 49th street in Manhattan.
    Further reading: NACAC State of College Admissions 2018

    The post Episode 29: Emmi Harward of ACCIS appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 28: Annie Reznik on the Coalition Application Nov 07, 2018
    Show notes

    http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Annie-Reznik.mp3

    The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success emerged 3 years ago to provide an alternative application platform for, at first, 32 colleges, and now over 150 of them. Executive Director Annie Reznik is helping this group of colleges execute a mission to improve the college attendance and graduation chances for more of the kinds of students who don’t go and don’t graduate.

    Further reading:

    List of Coalition Application member institutions

    Coalition Application Board of Directors

    Breakaway Group Seeks ‘Retro Common App’ (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2014)

    Coalition of the WIlling or the Wealthy? (Inside Higher Ed, 2015)

    The Common Application Has Been Accused of Running a ‘Collusive Cartel’ in the Admissions Industry (Daily Pennsylvanian, 2017)

    How Admissions Competition Brought New Rivalries, Strange Bedfellows, and ‘An Us-Versus-Us’ Lawsuit (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2018)

    Why One College Has Second Thoughts About Joining the Coalition – and Another Has High Hopes (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2018)

    The post Episode 28: Annie Reznik on the Coalition Application appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 27: Eric Waldo of Reach Higher Oct 07, 2018
    Show notes

    http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Eric-Waldo.mp3

    Reach Higher is former First Lady Michelle Obama’s college access initiative, operating under the leadership of my guest this episode, Eric Waldo.

    He’s hard at work countering the systematic efforts to dismantle the education policies of his old bosses, Barack Obama, Arne Duncan and John King. Reach Higher is responsible – and perhaps best known – for College Signing Day, but also for recognizing the School Counselor of the Year, for their Beating the Odds Summit to control “summer melt” and make sure students who enroll in college actually show up there in the fall, and UpNext, an innovative texting platform to deliver important college admissions information to students’ cell phones.

    Eric and I spoke from the annual NACAC conference in Salt Lake City, UT.

    Articles referenced at the end of this episode:

    College Scorecard Cuts the Context

    DeVos Ends Obama-Era Safeguards Aimed at Abuses by For-Profit Colleges

    8 Facts That Will Make You Think Twice Before Enrolling at For-Profit College

    The post Episode 27: Eric Waldo of Reach Higher appeared first on The Crush.

    Episode 26: Bart Grachan on Community Colleges Jul 16, 2018
    Show notes

    http://www.crushpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Bart-Grachan.mp3

    6 million people attend community colleges in this country, and yet we somehow don’t tend to consider it as “college.”

    Bart Grachan earns his keep doing everything he can to help students succeed at LaGuardia Community College, and also to helping us all change the conversation to include these students, their concerns as well as their successes.

    Community colleges disproportionately serve low-income and minority students and can act as a massive social mobility device, but we put a lot of roadblocks in the way of these students making the most of this experience, especially as pertains to transferring to a 4-year college and graduating on time. In addition to helping us understand the role of community colleges in our national system of higher ed, Bart talks about those roadblocks and the kinds of things that 4-year institutions could do to help these students on their road to success.

    You can learn more about community colleges here at the Community College Research Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

    The post Episode 26: Bart Grachan on Community Colleges appeared first on The Crush.

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