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Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerThe CHLOE Report- What the Future of Online Education Means for Business SchoolsA new report, the CHLOE 10 Report, was just released, and its findings are a wake-up call for our higher education institutions. The report, which is a collaboration between Quality Matters, Eduventures, and EDUCAUSE, tracks 10 years of online learning growth and reveals a boom in short-term credentials and uneven progress on AI across higher education. The top-line finding is impossible to ignore - nearly 90% of colleges and universities plan to expand their online programs in the next three years. This isn't just a reaction to a trend; it's a strategic shift driven by soaring student demand. ...
2025-08-2204 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerNavigating Challenges and Planning for the Future at the University of RochesterI applaud the University of Rochester for their forward thinking, planning, and action. Navigating the chaos being created by the current administration is not going to be easy. However, I think working together as a united campus and community will make it a survivable situation. I hope this episode of the GME News Digest podcast offers valuable insights into the adaptive strategies of one of our leading institutions in these challenging times. For more discussions like this, stay tuned. Until next time, keep seeking knowledge and visit the GME News Digest website for additional resources. T...
2025-08-1206 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerOvercoming the Fear of Finance and Accounting in Executive MBA ProgramsWelcome to the GME News Digest podcast series—your source for insights, strategies, and inspiration in graduate program management. Whether you're an experienced program leader, part of an administrative team, or a dedicated academic faculty member, this is the space where I explore pressing challenges in GME and uncover actionable solutions. I'm Rodney Alsup, and in today's episode, we'll tackle a topic that resonates deeply across Executive MBA programs and all graduate business programs: helping learners overcome their fear of finance and accounting. #BusinessEducation #Simulations #ExperientialLearning #GMENEWSDigest
2025-07-0107 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerEmbracing Skills-Based Hiring in Graduate ProgramsWelcome back to the GME News Digest Podcast Series. Hi, I'm Rodney Alsup, your host for this episode, "Embracing Skills-Based Hiring in Graduate Programs." Ashley Mowreader's insightful Inside Higher Ed article inspired this episode. Her title, "What Skills-Based Hiring Means for Higher Ed" caught my attention, so I thought I would explore its significance for the graduate education community. Her article was among the twelve pieces of content I included in last week's curated selection for GME News Digest subscribers.
2024-11-1805 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerThe Importance of Understanding Your Graduate Program's Audience Who is your graduate program designed to serve? Or can you describe your program's target audience? Would your answers be the same or different for each question? Should they be the same or different? Or could they be the same or different? How would the major role players that support your graduate program respond to these questions? The question "Who is your graduate program designed to serve?" isn't just critical – it is a keystone of strategic planning for a graduate program. Click here to view the blog article: Who is your gr...
2024-09-2903 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerLooking at How Learners & Program Management See the Learner JourneyThe effectiveness of a graduate program depends on the understanding of individual learner journeys by program leaders and faculty, as well as the understanding of the program's learner journey by individual learners. I explored these understandings from two distinct perspectives of the learner journey in my two previous episodes. One perspective was that of the learner, and the other was that of the program's management. This episode's purpose is to show how aligning the two perspectives develops a framework for effectively managing graduate programs to the benefit of a diverse set of stakeholders, such as individual learners, faculty members, em...
2024-08-3105 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerFrom Lead Collection to Fan Creation - Guiding Learners Through Your Graduate Programs Learner Journey The Program Management ViewOnce learners realize a learning need, they usually start a journey to address it. Many times, the journey starts out as self-directed and, at some point, it transitions to a guided journey. When a graduate degree program is involved, much of the self-directed journey planning starts with a web browser and an internet search. And during any stage of their search, learners may evaluate multiple journeys, all created by competing graduate programs. The journey the learner ultimately selects is likely the one with the best guidance throughout each leg of the journey they are exploring. From a...
2024-07-2704 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerFrom First Encounters to Lifelong Advocacy: Navigating the Learner's Journey in a Graduate Program–The Learner ViewHave you ever thought about the path learners navigate when they go from realizing their need to learn to be a loyal program supporter? When both learners and program leaders really understand the path learners follow, it's like having a roadmap to success for both. A roadmap with interesting goals like identifying knowledge gaps, choosing a program, enrolling, and becoming a committed supporter. In the following episode, I describe six stages that most learners follow on their journey. Improving program effectiveness and reputation comes from understanding the learner journey and these stages. This episode is based on...
2024-06-0505 min
MBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesThe Future of Business Education - A Conversation with Dean Mauro F. Guillén, Cambridge Judge Business SchoolOur conversation focused on: • How the coming baby drought will affect the future of business education? • How generational behavior will affect the future of business education? • How changes in the behavior of the middle classes will affect the future of business education? • How gender shifts will affect the future of business education? • How urbanization will affect the future of business education? • How technological advances will affect the future of business education? • How a culture of sharing will affect the future of business education? • How changes in the medium of exchange will affect the futur...
2022-03-1456 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerThe Future of Business Education - A Conversation with Dean Mauro F. Guillén, Cambridge Judge Business SchoolOur conversation focused on: • How the coming baby drought will affect the future of business education? • How generational behavior will affect the future of business education? • How changes in the behavior of the middle classes will affect the future of business education? • How gender shifts will affect the future of business education? • How urbanization will affect the future of business education? • How technological advances will affect the future of business education? • How a culture of sharing will affect the future of business education? • How changes in the medium of exchange will affect the futur...
2022-03-1456 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesHow Graduate Program Leaders can Prepare their Programs for 2030 and BeyondWharton Professor Mauro Guillén, recently named dean of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything joined me to discuss how B-School deans and graduate program leaders can prepare their programs for 2030 and beyond.
2021-08-1359 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerHow Graduate Program Leaders can Prepare their Programs for 2030 and BeyondWharton Professor Mauro Guillén, recently named dean of Cambridge University's Judge Business School, and author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything joined me to discuss how B-School deans and graduate program leaders can prepare their programs for 2030 and beyond.
2021-08-1359 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerVirtual Reality - MBA Students at Temple University's Fox School of Business - Bora Ozkan InterviewDr. Bora Ozkan, assistant professor of finance at Temple University's Fox School of Business serves as the academic director for the school's Online MBA and Online BBA. The reason Bora is joining me today is he's responsible for the Fox School's first-ever Virtual Reality or VR course that's offered to their online MBA students. The course, "Fintech, Blockchain and Digital Disruption," is a seven-week course that started March 19, 2020 and ends the last week of March. Twenty students enrolled for the course. The course was designed by Bora, a team from the Fox School's Online and Digital Learning Department and G...
2020-05-1336 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesVirtual Reality - MBA Students at Temple University's Fox School of Business - Bora Ozkan InterviewDr. Bora Ozkan, assistant professor of finance at Temple University’s Fox School of Business serves as the academic director for the school’s Online MBA and Online BBA. The reason Bora is joining me today is he’s responsible for the Fox School’s first-ever Virtual Reality or VR course that's offered to their online MBA students. The course, "Fintech, Blockchain and Digital Disruption," is a seven-week course that started March 19, 2020 and ends the last week of March. Twenty students enrolled for the course. The course was designed by Bora, a team from the Fox School’s Online and Digital...
2020-05-1336 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerGeorgia State University's New MS-HRM Program - How They Made Program Management SimpleMaking graduate program management simple is almost never a consideration during the design phase of a new graduate program. Georgia State University's new MS in Human Resource Management program is an exception. In this episode, two program faculty members discuss how the new program's design makes program management simple. Join me as we discuss how the program uses rubrics to track overall skill development progress for individual students and for the program; how metrics guide program data collection and reporting; how the program can track meta level skills by student; how the program gathers faculty input about...
2020-04-2027 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesGeorgia State University's New MS-HRM Program - How They Made Program Management SimpleMaking graduate program management simple is almost never a consideration during the design phase of a new graduate program. Georgia State University's new MS in Human Resource Management program is an exception. In this episode, two program faculty members discuss how the new program's design makes program management simple. Join me as we discuss how the program uses rubrics to track overall skill development progress for individual students and for the program; how metrics guide program data collection and reporting; how the program can track meta level skills by student; how the program gathers faculty input about...
2020-04-2027 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesGeorgia State University's New MS-HRM Program - How They Did ItDuring 2019 graduate management education was criticized for not being relevant. At the end of January, I received a press release from GSU titled “Georgia State’s Master’s in H.R. Management Responds to Emerging Business Needs.” I thought, here’s a response to that criticism, I wonder how they did it? Two GSU faculty are here today to help us understand the how.
2020-03-1829 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerGeorgia State University's New MS-HRM Program - How They Did ItDuring 2019 graduate management education was criticized for not being relevant. At the end of January, I received a press release from GSU titled "Georgia State's Master's in H.R. Management Responds to Emerging Business Needs." I thought, here's a response to that criticism, I wonder how they did it? Two GSU faculty are here today to help us understand the how.
2020-03-1829 min
MBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesDriving Better Experiences & Outcomes in Industry-Engaged Experiential LearningDuring this podcast you will learn: • How to scope and evaluate industry projects to align with learning outcomes • How to identify mis-matched expectations and facilitate re-alignment • 5 Practical Lessons from 5+ years’ experience facilitating industry-engaged experiential learning to 5000+ students My guest for this webinar is Nikki James, VP of Learning & Experience, Practera, a company whose mission is to make it easy to design and deliver world-class experiential learning programs
2019-05-1156 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerDriving Better Experiences & Outcomes in Industry-Engaged Experiential LearningDuring this podcast you will learn: • How to scope and evaluate industry projects to align with learning outcomes • How to identify mis-matched expectations and facilitate re-alignment • 5 Practical Lessons from 5+ years' experience facilitating industry-engaged experiential learning to 5000+ students My guest for this webinar is Nikki James, VP of Learning & Experience, Practera, a company whose mission is to make it easy to design and deliver world-class experiential learning programs
2019-05-1156 min
MBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesSelecting Companies and Designing Engagements When Offering Project-Based Experiential Learning
2018-09-2554 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerSelecting Companies and Designing Engagements When Offering Project-Based Experiential Learning
2018-09-2554 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesEastern Kentucky University Used Extensive Research to Achieve What Many See as Impossible - A New MBA Program!
2018-08-0956 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerEastern Kentucky University Used Extensive Research to Achieve What Many See as Impossible - A New MBA Program!
2018-08-0956 minMBA News Digest Academy Podcast SeriesHow to Implement & Use Chatbots for Graduate Program Recruiting & Enrollment Webinar
2018-06-1539 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerHow to Implement & Use Chatbots for Graduate Program Recruiting & Enrollment Webinar
2018-06-1539 min2018-05-0934 minGraduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerMakini Allwood--Social Media Usage at Chicago Booth EMBA
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2018-03-1830 min
Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management SimplerJoe Fox Interview - Program Manager Succession Planning
2018-03-1830 min
Impact 360 InstituteWhy Creating A Culture of Development Is Essential For Leadership with Selma WilsonWhat is one thing every young leader should do? How important is it for a leader to be mentored? How important is it for leaders to invest in others? How does a leader create a development culture in your organization? In this episode of the Impact 360 Institute podcast Phil Alsup Interviews Selma Wilson, Vice President of Organizational Development at Life Way Resources.
Selma Wilson Selma Wilson serves as Vice President of LifeWay’s Organizational Development Division which includes human resources and leadership development. Prior to this appointment, Selma served four years as Vice President of B&H Pu...
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