Ways to College
After 20 years in product design and strategy, I've seen what happens when people make expensive decisions without understanding themselves or the landscape first. Families make that mistake with college all the time. On this show, you'll hear from higher ed leaders doing different things—rethinking curriculum, student support, career integration. You'll come away understanding what actually matters, asking smarter questions during the college search, and making a decision that's genuinely yours. Hosted by Ringae Nuek, a college admissions consultant and founder of Waysmith.
Episodes
Everyone obsesses over getting in. Harlan Cohen talk focuses on what comes after, because the secret ingredient was never the school. It's the student.
Harlan Cohen has spent 25+ years helping families navigate the transition into and through college. He's the author of The Naked Roommate, the bestselling book on college life, and Win or Learn, and he runs the Best First Year coaching program.
What we cover:
Harlan starts with his own...
Brian LeDuc is a design strategist who's spent 15+ years working at the intersection of higher ed, corporate learning, and service design. He runs a consulting practice, Learning Designed, where he works with universities to redesign how campuses support the student experience.
His thesis: higher ed was not designed around students. It can be — but most campuses are still set up like a mall, where each "store" (academic advising, re...
Tom Ellett meets with his freshman advisory board on Sunday nights. He runs four standing advisory boards at Quinnipiac, for first-years, upperclassmen, dining, and parents, and works with them to co-design their college experience.
Tom Ellett is the Chief Experience Officer at Quinnipiac University — a role that didn't exist before he stepped into it in 2020, and still an unusual one in higher ed. Before Quinnipiac, he spent 19 yea...
Most colleges say they do experiential learning. Alex Hernandez can tell you exactly what separates the ones that mean it.
Alex is president of Champlain College, a small career-focused school in Burlington, Vermont, where students start taking classes in their major on day one — not junior year. The model is built on a simple premise: experience is part of the education, not a bonus you might get around to.
Alex Hernandez has spent ...
A graduate with an internship doubles their odds of having a good job at graduation — and doubles their odds of being engaged in their work for the rest of their career. So why do only a third of U.S. college graduates leave school having had one?
Brandon Busteed has spent his career at the intersection of education and workforce outcomes — as founder of an ed-tech company, as the executive at Gallup who led the largest representati...
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