EP 174. Serving communities by engaged teaching and research.
Verity Firth as Chair of Engagement Australia and Vice-President of Societal Impact, Equity and Engagement at UNSW joins with guest host Alphia Possamai-Inesedy PVC of Student Success of WSU. They discuss the challenges universities face in maintaining or seeking to regain social licence and to serve community needs. They explore how the Accord considered this issue and how the new ATEC will be a circuit breaker in measuring research impact and creating mission based compacts. It gives a comprehensive policy-informed overview and insight into the landscape of community engagement in Australia ahead of the exciting next conference of Engagement Australia hosted at The University of Queensland on July 22-23.
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EP 173. How do UK and Australian Tertiary Education compare?
An episode from a HEDx study tour of the UK and from the foyer of the HEPI Conference in London. Sally Curtain of Bendigo Kangan Institute, Andrea Burrows of OES and Caroline Dunne are among the HEDx tour party and Tash Stoeckel one of the hosts along with Tim Dunne of Surrey and Lisa Brodie of TEDI London. The episode gives insights into the plight of tertiary education in the two countries and how AI, online education, tertiary harmonisation, regulation and the skills agenda are viewed in the two systems. The one common feature is the need for change, now.
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EP 172. Student success is everybody's business
John Burdick, Marni Passer Vassallo and Holly Halmo, EdD, form the core of an outstanding student success team at New York University bringing human student support to serve the needs of some of the highest achieving and highest paying students. They offer a view from the inside of one of the most diverse of R1 research powerhouses imaginable. With a world class business school and a pioneering medical school, here is a classic elite US private university with 62k students and comprehensive research at scale. It has so many parallels to Ivy League, Russell Group and Go8 institutions around the world, and the many that seek to emulate them. We explore the impact of AI on student success support.
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EP 171. Hyper-agility for radically affordable college
Sasha Thackaberry is Founder and President of the newly launched Newstate university. As a competency-based, stackable, subscription price-model, online university, all of its courses are about AI. And it extensively uses AI in curation and delivery of content and the support of its first cohort of students that is commencing on July 1st. Demonstrating the values of agility that overcome the barriers of incumbency, this is disruptive innovation in action.
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EP 170. Teaching focussed leaders
Kelly Matthews of UQ takes control of the mic as a guest host joined by Tim Fawns of Monash and Stephen George-Williams of the University of Sydney. They pose the questions to two giants of Australian student centred thinking who are both teaching focused leaders. Kylie Readman of UTS and Liz Johnson of Deakin have pioneered how to put students first way before it became so fashionable. They share lessons of leadership that are invaluable for those making their way in academic life in this area of great staff opportunity.
HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global higher education innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times.
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