This week we’re on the road again, so you’ll be getting a handful of podcasts from the 2014 NACAS Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada. Ranging from housing and dining, to bookstores and campus card systems, NACAS is the largest auxiliary services support organization serving higher education. People representing institutions and auxiliary service companies will be with…
In the student affairs world, dealing with parents is something we do almost as much as dealing with the students. In this episode, we spoke with the interim Vice President for Student Affairs at Auburn University, Lady Cox about dealing with parents. She told us some funny stories about some experiences she’s had and gave some great…
Dr. Nancy Uscher, president of Cornish College of the Arts, in Seattle, Washington, sat down to talk with us about how her roles as a president and a musician have some key similarities. Dr. Uscher became president of Cornish in August 2011, becoming the 1st female president of the College since its founding in 1914.…
Camille Barkley is the Executive Director of the Office of Communications and Marketing at Auburn University. She sat down with us to talk about what marketing an institution in the higher education and housing worlds looks like and what strategies they are using at Auburn. Ms. Barkley has more than 25 years of marketing experience, having worked in…
Dr. Peggy Williams began her career as a social worker, and upon entering the field of higher education she held various faculty and administrative positions within the Vermont State College system and at Trinity College in Burlington, VT. She served as president of Lyndon State College for eight years prior to being named the seventh—and…
Back for day two at the NACUBO Annual Conference. If you missed yesterday, make sure and check it out HERE. And if you see us walking around doing interviews, make sure and say hello!
This week on the “Student Housing Matters” podcast, we packed up our microphones and headed to the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, to talk to some of the leaders and big thinkers in the higher ed community. Throughout this week we’ll be posting a few short interviews…
The Student Housing Matters blog and podcast exist to provide a place where topics relevant to on-campus student housing can have the spotlight. One such issue is the very important topic of mental health. All across the country there are rising numbers of students on college campuses dealing with serious mental health problems that are seeking…
Chatting with us again today is Nick Morgan. We enjoyed having Nick on our podcast in March of this year and invited him back to talk about his latest book, Power Cues, published by Harvard Business Review Press. We talked about how your body language affects communication with the people around you, as well as,…
In this podcast episode Edward Burger, President of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, joined us for a second time. Dr. Burger originally spoke with us, prior to becoming a University president, in September of 2012 to talk about his book “The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking.” In February of 2013 he became the 15th president of…
Chatting with us today is Dennis J. Shields, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He spoke with us about his experiences living in a dorm room as the VP of Student Affairs and about his successes in building a great foundation for student community on his campus. Dennis became Chancellor in 2010, after having served as…
A few podcast episodes earlier, we interviewed Lyndon State College President, Joe Bertolino for a second time. Dr. Bertolino mentioned the Lyndon State meteorology program and how Joe D’Aleo was a member of the faculty of Lyndon State and became involved in the beginning stages of the Weather Channel. So we reached out to Mr. D’Aleo…
