On this next to last day of 2022, here’s what you might have missed on Future U., Next, and the Next Office Hour this past year. 

Happy New Year and see you later next week with thoughts for the new year. In the meantime, meet me on Instagram, where I’m sharing short videos about admissions—with a series over the next several weeks focused on college majors.

Future U. 

• The Three Decade University President: Something we might never see again—a president leading an institution for more than 30 years, as we visit with Freeman Hrabowski at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. (1/10/22) Listen here.
  
• 100th Episode—A Look Back and Forward: What has shaped higher ed over the past five years and we hear predictions from 3 college presidents who were guests in earlier seasons. (4/19/22) Listen here.
• The Future of Access, the Student Experience, and the Campus Workforce: Stop #2 on the Future U. Campus Tour where we talk with leaders at UCLA about the post-pandemic university and word of the year in higher ed: optionality. (5/17/22) Listen here.
• The Great Realignment and Student-Athlete Wellbeing: As the Big 10 expands yet again, we look at why college athletics has such a stranglehold on higher ed with a sports historian and a writer. (9/20/22) Listen here.
• Will the Kids Be OK? The “Covid kids” will be a thing until the next decade as once-remote learners during the pandemic head off to college. Author and former NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz tells us what the ripple effects will be. (5/3/22) Listen here.

Next

• When Universities Can’t Back Up the Moving Van: Colleges and universities are often described as anchor institutions because of the central role they play in their communities. But that anchor also forces them to remain in place even when they might want to leave. (3/11/22) Read more here.

• Buy Now, Pay Later: It’s been more than two years since nearly 37 million borrowers with federal student loans have been required to make payments. The pause in payments combined with all the talk of forgiveness has created what some are calling a moral hazard. (5/19/22) Read more here.

• When Podunk U. Ranked No. 1: Few of us would buy magazine rankings that didn’t rank the Ivy League at the top, nor would we buy rankings that remain the same every year. That’s the so-called face validity of rankings.(9/16/22) Read more here.

• Higher Ed’s Hollywood Problem: What is the Intellectual Property of a college or university? Is it the professors? Is it the curriculum? Is it the residential experience? Or is it some combination of those and more? (10/18/22) Read more here.

• Taylor Swift on Tour, Early Admissions, and the Supreme Court: The ticketing process process for concerts these days is like the rules surrounding early admissions at selective colleges. (11/7/22) Read more here.

Next Office Hour

• Building Equitable Education Pathways to Good Jobs: Black and Hispanic students are disproportionately concentrated in majors with lower earnings, and that contributes to their higher likelihood of being underemployed after graduation. (1/27/22 | Sponsored by Workday; registration required) Watch here.
• Sustaining Innovation in the Post-Pandemic College: The burst of innovation in teaching and learning ushered in by remote education during the pandemic now requires institutions to think how they will leverage digital technology and hybrid education to thrive in the decade ahead. (3/15/22 | Sponsored by Cengage; registration required) Watch here. 

• Toward the Financially Sustainable Campus: As higher education plans for this post-pandemic future, colleges and universities everywhere must pay greater attention to real differentiation in the market instead of staking their future on tweaking the edges of what they’re already doing. (8/24/22 | Sponsored by Workday; registration required) Watch here.

• Serving the Needs of the Flexible Learner of the Future: How colleges can better serve the learners of the next decade, who want more control over how, when, and where they learn. (9/28/22 | Sponsored by Charles Koch Foundation; registration required) Watch here.

• New Models for Teaching, Learning, and Outcomes: What are faculty and institutions doing to apply the scholarship of teaching and learning to the classroom, promote more effective teaching, and ultimately better outcomes.(11/07/22 | Sponsored by Charles Koch Foundation; registration required) Watch here.