The Connected College Podcast with Elliot Felix

The Connected College Podcast with Elliot Felix

The Connected College Podcast provides leadership strategies for student success. Join Elliot Felix for insightful interviews with higher ed innovators along with the stories, stats, and strategies he's learned as a consultant to 100+ institutions. Let's create better connected colleges and universities where students find belonging, feel supported, and connect their courses to rewarding careers.

Episodes

Julia Allworth on the Secret Sauce for Experiential Learning

June 10, 2025 • 29 mins
How can you reimagine student employment as experiential learning? What projects can students work on to learn and grow while helping their university? What skills and relationships can they build along the way? We dive into these questions with Julia Allworth who founded and leads University of Toronto's Innovation Hub which trains students in design thinking and deploys them as consultants on projects improve the student experien...
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Josh Pierce on How Course Sharing Enables Access and Differentiation

June 3, 2025 • 30 mins
How can institutions collaborate to share courses? How does this enable focus and differentiation? What do you have to change from mindset to culture to operations to make it happen? We dive into these questions with Josh Pierce co-founder of course sharing platform Acadeum. Along the way, we use the analogy of travel to think about the student journey – and see what can be learned from the travel industry itself.
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Suzanne Rivera on a President's Role in Student Success

May 27, 2025 • 25 mins
How does an unconventional path to the presidency offer new perspectives? How can colleges and universities equip students to lead lives of meaning and purpose? How can leaders balance tradition and innovation to create living learning communities? How can students own their experiences and belong? We dive into these questions with Suzanne Rivera, President of Macalester College!
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Sarah Holtan on Honors Colleges as Living Learning Communities

May 12, 2025 • 31 mins
How can you create and operate an Honors College to make a big place feel small? How do you get the scale right to balance quantity and quality? How can you balance giving people what they want versus what's good for their growth and development? We dive into these questions with Sarah Holtan, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Carroll University and Host of The Get Down to College Business Podcast.
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The Connected College Audiobook Preview!

April 25, 2025 • 33 mins
Instead of silos and separations, we need colleges and universities where all students feel a sense of belonging, courses lead to rewarding careers, students have the support to succeed, and everyone works together to make this happen, To learn how, listen to the introduction to The Connected College in this free preview of the audiobook. It's an encouraging, evidenced-based playbook for busting silos so that students succeed.
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Bonus Episode: The Connected College Keynote

April 22, 2025 • 38 mins
What are the big ideas in The Connected College? What are the barriers to collaboration for student success and how do you get over or around them? I recently had the chance to give a keynote talk at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities where I answered these questions and more. I talked about strategy, structure, and culture as barriers and went through case studies on how to address each while responding to trends ...
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Shaun Carver on Bringing People Together for a Better World

April 15, 2025 • 31 mins
How can you bring people from different countries and cultures together to create a better world? What are the evidence-based practices to promote interaction, strengthen communities, and take risks? How can you improve empathy, understanding, and communication? We dive into these questions with Shaun Carver, Executive Director of International House at the University of California Berkeley.
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Joe Sallustio on Data and Analytics for Student Success

April 11, 2025 • 31 mins
How do you define student success? What role can technology play in student success? What data do you need to understand the student journey and make better decisions? What can colleges and universities learn from other industries? We discuss these questions and more with Joe Sallustio, VP of Industry Engagement at Ellucian and Host of the EdUp Experience podcast.
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Terry Brown on Redesigning Policies and Processes for Student Success

March 31, 2025 • 28 mins
Who are your students, what are their needs, and how are they changing? How can you redesign your policies and processes to increase students success at scale? We dive into these questions with Terry Brown, VP of Academic Innovation at AASCU, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
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Melissa Erazik on Listening to Students to Inform Decision-Making

March 24, 2025 • 26 mins
How can you capture students' voices? What are the success stories that spark change? How can you act on this information and inspiration? We discuss these questions with Melissa Ezarik, Editor at Inside Higher Ed leading their Student Voice surveys and Student Success News Hub.
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Drumm McNaughton on Boards Balancing Oversight, Insight & Foresight

March 10, 2025 • 29 mins
What are the forces changing how college and university boards work? What does good governance in higher education look like? How can boards effectively balance oversight, insight, and foresight? We dive into these questions with board governance consultant and host of the Changing Higher Ed Podcast, Drumm McNaughton, sharing insights and examples.
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Karen Weaver on Changes to College Athletics and Student Athlete Success

February 24, 2025 • 23 mins
What are the forces reshaping college athletics? How can institutions respond? How can they better support student athletes to enable their success? We discuss these questions and more with professor and podcast host Karen Weaver from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the "Trustees and Presidents: A Podcast for University Leaders On College Athletics."
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Tom Ellett on How Continuous Feedback Improves Student Experience

February 3, 2025 • 26 mins
How can you build a culture the that thrives on feedback? What advisory boards should you consider to regularly hear from students, parents, counselors, and employers? How can you move beyond listening to co-creating that builds ownership? We dive into these questions with Tom Ellett, Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Quinnipiac University.
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Sukhwant Jhaj on How Design Creates Hope and Inspires Change

January 27, 2025 • 35 mins
How can design inspire change? What are the tools and techiques of design that college and university leaders can use to increase student success? How can this help instiutions shift from an access mindset to a success mindset? We dive into these questions with Sukhwant Jhaj, VP of Academic Innovation and Dean, University, at Arizona State University.
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Nancy Felix on High Touch and High Tech Advancement

January 20, 2025 • 31 mins
How can advancement combine "high tech" and "high touch" to identify, engage, and partner with supporters? How can you create a culture of giving and what facilitates or inhibits that? We discuss these questions with Nancy Felix, Associate Dean for Advancement & Strategic Initiatives at Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science.
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Julia Lang on How Gen AI is Transforming Coursework and Careers

January 14, 2025 • 38 mins
How is generative AI transforming admissions, curriculum-development, and feedback and evaluation in higher education? How is it enhancing accessibility and inclusivity? What are the emerging AI skills and fluencies for students and faculty to learn? We delve into these questions and inspiring examples with Julia Lang, Professor of Practice at Tulane University.
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Bob Lasher on Advancement that Raises Awareness and Inspires Action

January 6, 2025 • 22 mins
What are the forces transforming advancement in higher education? How can colleges and universities adapt? Who can they partner with? How can they cultivate the next generation of donors as well as the next generation of advancement professionals? We dive into these questions with Bob Lasher, Senior Vice President of Advancement at Dartmouth College.
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Mary Ellen Gillespie on Giving Student-Athletes the Tools to Change the World

December 17, 2024 • 33 mins
How are changes like NIL, student-athlete employment status and unionization, the transfer portal, and conference realignment/collapse transforming college athletics? How can institutions adapt? How can they equip student athletes with the skills and tools to change the world? We dive into these questions with Mary Ellen Gillespie, Deputy Director at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
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Will Miller on Continuous Improvement through Institutional Research and Assessment

December 9, 2024 • 40 mins
How do create the culture, processes, and shared data you need to build a culture of continuous improvement? How can institutional research, assessment, and accreditation professionals lead the way in this? We discuss these questions with Will Miller, VP of Continuous Improvement and Institutional Performance at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Cedric Howard on Enrollment Management through Niche Recruitment and Retention

December 2, 2024 • 38 mins
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