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

Antwon Foreman on How Entrepreneurship Enables Student Success

June 16, 2026 • 25 mins
How can higher education institutions expand the definition – and impact! – of entrepreneurship beyond the startup to maximize student success? What skills and relationships can students build and how can they apply them whether they start a company or a non-profit or work within a larger business as someone who know how to actually get things done, by creating, communicating, and solving problems? How can colleges...
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Ellucian Live Presentation and Panel Discussion on Workforce Development

June 8, 2026 • 38 mins
How can institutions bridge the gap between traditional academic programs and dynamic labor market needs? How can you move from one-off internships and class projects to build true partnerships? What role can data, technology, and systems play? What strategies can you use to combat organizational silos and institutional risk-aversion? In this special episode from a session at the Ellucian Live Conference, Elliot Felix presents the...
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Jeff Doyle, Suzanne Rivera, and James Vasquez on Belonging [Webinar]

June 3, 2026 • 50 mins
How can institutions define and measure belonging? What are inspirational examples of programs, spaces, and support services that foster it? How is student belonging changing, and how can folks adapt? In a LinkedIn Live Webinar, Elliot Felix talked through these questions with Suzanne Rivera the President at Macalester College, Jeff Doyle the Executive Director of Student Support at UT Austin, and James Vasquez the Associate Dean o...
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Chrysoula Malogianni on Digital Transformation for Student Success

May 27, 2026 • 28 mins
How do we define student success holistically across the full end-to-end experience? How can institutions use digital transformation to catalyze improvements rather than just overlaying new technologies? How do leaders effectively manage adoption, operations, and process redesign to continuously adapt? We talk through these with Chrysoula Malogianni, the Chief Digital Experience Officer at Old Dominion University. Together, we expl...
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Scott Carlson and Ned Laff on Hacking Colleges vs. Connecting Them

May 13, 2026 • 41 mins
Should we *hack* colleges so students link their courses, clubs, and careers on their own? Or should we *connect* colleges with strategy that breaks down silos so that students succeed? What role do culture, policies, and technology play in how easy or hard they are to navigate? When you want to make progress, where do you start – is it top-down or bottom up? In this special episode, Elliot discusses this with Scott Carl...
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Francesca Schuler on Building EQ Habits for Student Success

May 4, 2026 • 31 mins
How can you build the skills and habits around empathy and emotional intelligence to elevate students' EQ so that they can be effective, inspiring leaders and people who can just get stuff done and move things forward? What are the habits and norms from phones and social media that we all have to unlearn to do this? How does this help students show up differently in school, work, and life? We talk through these questions with Franc...
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Courtney Brown on Perception vs. Reality on the Value of Higher Ed

April 28, 2026 • 28 mins
How wide is the gap between what the media says about the value of a degree and what students are actually experiencing? In this episode, Elliot talks through this with Courtney Brown, Vice President of Strategic Impact at the Lumina Foundation, to deconstruct their recent "Reality Check" research conducted with Gallup. By comparing hard data against public perception for three pillars of the student experience – belongi...
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Susan McCahan on Integrating Experiential Learning Opportunities

April 21, 2026 • 30 mins
How can you make a variety of experiential learning opportunities accessible to all students? How might student projects make an impact internally with the institution as client and externally for companies and community groups? What barriers might you (and students) encounter and how can you get over, around, or through them? We talk through these with Susan McCahan, Vice Provost for Innovations in Undergraduate Education at the U...
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Mike Nietzel and Chuck Ambrose on Votes of No Confidence

April 13, 2026 • 31 mins
What causes the tensions that lead to votes of No Confidence? What are the impacts of these disconnects on student success? What can institutions do to proactively avoid these through orientation, education, communication, org design, and more? We discuss these questions with Mike Nietzel and Chuck Ambrose, authors of No Confidence: When College Faculty Turn Against Their Presidents. Available here on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iKrGH...
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Amanda Figueroa and Bonnie Becker on Community–Based Assessment

April 7, 2026 • 32 mins
How can you tackle student success challenges with a bias toward action and practical solutions? How can you do this collaboratively as a community of practice? Along the way, how do you build a continuous improvement culture and sustain your initiatives and innovations in the long term?We discuss these questions with two inspirational leaders from the University of Washington Tacoma: Bonnie Becker, the Associate Vice Chancellor fo...
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Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich on AI as a Practice to Enable Student Success

April 1, 2026 • 36 mins
How can you make AI a practice in your institution so that it's not just something you use but something you are? How can you embed it in your curriculum, culture, and operations? How does doing this enable responsiveness, personalization, standardization, scalability, and more. We discuss these questions and more with Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich, Co-Founder and President of Newstate University.
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Maggie Lewis on Integrating Career Development Into the First Year Experience

March 24, 2026 • 28 mins
How can you embed career discovery and development into your first year experience? How can you get advisors, faculty and employers engaged in experiential learning activities? How is AI changing the curriculum and career development and placement? We talk through these with Maggie Lewis, Vice Dean for Student Success at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication and Interim AVP for Enrollment Management for...
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Champlain College Retreat Interview with Provost Monique Taylor

March 17, 2026 • 57 mins
What does it look like for an institution to be truly connected? How can design thinking help us define problems and create solutions together during times of seismic change? How can leadership move from managing risk to green-lighting progress to create a transformative campus experience? We dive into these questions in a special bonus episode where Champlain College Provost Monique Taylor interviews Elliot Felix at their annual c...
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Jeremy Anderson on the Metrics that Matter in Mergers & Acquisitions

March 10, 2026 • 33 mins
What are the best metrics to measure the student journey? How can you use these to structure mergers and acquisitions, consolidations, and partnerships among institutions? How can you manage the change process to create a positive impact on the student journey? We dive into these questions as Jeremy Anderson shares his personal experience with assessment, technology, and M&A and in higher ed.
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Mark Milliron and Angela Baldasare on Student Success for “ANDers”

March 3, 2026 • 35 mins
How can you support and develop students who lead complicated lives because they are students AND parents, students AND employees, or students AND deployed? What changes do you need to make to your programs, processes, practices, and partnerships to make this happen? We talk through student success for ANDers with Mark Milliron (President) and Angela Baldasare (SVP Research, Strategy, and Planning) at National University
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Catherine Wehlberg on Master Planning Your Academic Programs

February 24, 2026 • 33 mins
How can you create a long-term plan for your academic programs as you would your campus? How can you differentiate your programs and better communicate their value? How can you prioritize among them as you gather feedback and adapt? We dive into these questions with Catherine Wehlberg, President of Athens State University and author of the book Academic Master Planning: Guiding Strategic Innovation for Academic Leadership
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Michael Baston on Partnering for Wraparound Support

February 17, 2026 • 34 mins
How can colleges and universities work with corporate and community partners to provide the kind of wraparound support like transportation, childcare, and housing that enables student success? How can programs go beyond the credential to create real economic opportunity? We answer these and along the way, we dive into how to make the case and fundraise, communications, governing boards, and measuring success with Michael Baston, Pr...
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Brian Rosenberg on Overcoming Resistance to Experiential Learning

February 4, 2026 • 33 mins
How can you make experiential learning not just something your college does but part of who you are? As you move from doing it ad hoc to integrating at scale, how can you overcome resistance to change? What's the right mix of communications, incentives, and training? On a special 100th episode, we dive into these questions with Brian Rosenberg, author of "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It", Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate Schoo...
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Dr. Christopher Holstege on How Mental Health is More than Counseling

January 27, 2026 • 23 mins
What if instead of hearing "mental health crisis" and defaulting to "more counseling" we also thought about sleep, nutrition, music, exercise, time outdoors, and time with friends? What if every student learned time management to make this possible? What can we do to make these opportunities and support services more accessible? We dive into this with Dr. Christopher Holstege, Senior Associate Vice President of Student Health &...
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Lisa Leander on Community as the Curriculum for Student Success

January 20, 2026 • 32 mins
What if building community is as important as the curriculum? What is the toolkit for getting beyond the "Ick" of networking to create real communities where students, faculty, and staff belong? We dive into this with Lisa Leander, founder of the WIBE Network (Where Imagination Builds Excellence). We talk through the ingredients in her secret sauce and what this means for folks that focused on community and belonging to enable stud...
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