Podcast appearances and mentions of steve meredith

Aaron and Kimberly cover the BREAKING KY political news including the Governor's honorable (if not especially durable) Executive Order to end anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy in Kentucky. Then, we're THRILLED to introduce you to Jamie Skudlarek, bringing the grassroots challenge to Steve Meredith in KY SD 5. Then we discuss the I-75 shooter, the importance of red flag laws, and what it means to be a Gunsafe Candidate of Distinction come November 5. #ColonelsOfTruth @ProgressKentucky NEWS OF THE WEAK: Hadley Duvall has TRUMP in her sights (don't laugh, she took down Cameron) https://youtu.be/XHYeqeWl5-Q?si=oH1zoY3N5QEAU5rT https://www.wlky.com/article/gov-beshear-sign-executive-order-ban-conversion-therapy-kentucky/62250277 https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/09/17/growth-in-clean-energy-jobs-spurred-by-incentives-congressional-gop-opposes-says-advocacy-group/ INTERVIEW: Candidate Corner Jamie Skudlarek, SD 5 - Breckinridge, Butler, Grayson, Meade, & Ohio counties https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555141721894 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jamie-skudlarek-ky-state-senate-5-1 INTERVIEW: Cathy Hobart, KY Lead for Moms Demand Action https://gunsensevoter.org/states/ky/ CALL TO ACTION: Join us Thursday, 9/19/24 in Nicholasville to kick off our election campaign to stop Amd 2 and send great candidates to Frankfort! https://www.facebook.com/share/5wLJ8My8kKag13Yd/ https://calendar.app.google/aWHnp2d52MnbkVct9 #ProgressKentucky - #ColonelsOfTruth Join us! http://progressky.org/ Support us! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/progressky Live Wednesdays at 7pm on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/progressky/live/ and on YouTube  http://bit.ly/progress_ky Listen as a podcast right here, or wherever you get your pods: https://tr.ee/PsdiXaFylK Facebook   - @progressky Instagram  - @progress_ky Twitter    - @progress_ky Episode 178 was produced by great kid, Parker Williams Theme music from the amazing Nato - hear more at http://www.NatoSongs.com Logo and some graphic design provided by Couchfire Media

Join Brad & Jess as we chat with Steve Meredith from Lowrance.  In this episode we talk all things sonar & fish finders. Fun fact: Did you know modern fish finder technology is more advanced than what was being used in WWII?  Lowrance website: https://www.lowrance.com/ Steve's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meredithoutdoors/ Have a question for the podcast?: https://www.lenthompson.com/podcast.html  

President Scott L Wyatt and host Steve Meredith talk to Dr. Frank Dooley, Chancellor of Purdue University Global, about Purdue University Global.Featured Quotes:I think that the biggest thing that has changed in the past year, I think the acceptance of online education has moved forward—and I mean by both faculty and by prospective students—has probably been moved forward a decade.Dr. Frank Dooley, Chancellor - Purdue University Global...we're serving a set of students, when you look across the country, that largely have been ignored by higher education for a long time.Dr. Frank Dooley, Chancellor - Purdue University GlobalLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and host Steve Meredith sit down with members of Southern Utah University’s faculty and staff to discuss how the University has adapted teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sylvia Bradshaw, Matt McKenzie, Johnny MacLean, Lynn Vartan, and Matt Weeg all share their perspective on the last year. Featured Quotes:I think all of these offices and probably all of the offices across campus have really learned a lesson in being nimble with the changing priorities as we’ve tried to address the challenges that…kind of the ever-changing challenges that have been confronting us. And I believe we’re going to take that nimbleness forward with us as we continue to be a leader in innovation across the USHE system and across the Intermountain West.Johnny MacLean, Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs, Southern Utah UniversityI tell you, the most exciting piece of it that came from this, we are now absolutely paperless. You can imagine a grants office and the amount of paper that was involved…we had already started making that transition and when the pandemic came along, that was beautiful. We have no more stacks of paper anywhere, it’s lovely._Sylvia Bradshaw, Director of SPARC Office (Sponsored Programs, Agreements, Research, and Contracts) _Links Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Solutions for Higher Education host Steve Meredith are joined by Peter Fuller, president of Workflow Academy. The trio discusses Workflow Academy and how it upscales students, preparing them for placement in cloud technology related careers. Featured Quotes:. . . a massive opportunity that I see, one that makes me try and partner with SUU and with other universities, I want to tap the immense talent pools that you’ve done such a good job of preparing. And the implicit message there is you’ve prepared them 80% of the way . . .Peter Fuller, CEO The Workflow Academy. . . I worry that higher ed might not be fast enough to build the infrastructure necessary to teach people what we have to teach. Because, I’m not saying it’s going away, but the immediacy of the talent need is right now. We need to make solutions right now.”Peter Fuller, CEO The Workflow AcademyLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith welcome Seana Murray and John O'Brien from the Microsoft Mixed Reality Team as we explore more Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education.  Featured Quotes:And so, the new [Case Westen University] medical school is going completely holographic, and they have taught already a number of semesters doing holographic anatomy and cadaveric research. And if I remember correctly, they had decided at one point that approximately…their students are getting approximately 30% additional recall by learning anatomy via spatially contextual holograms versus flat textbooks. And so, that is a huge uptick in recall, and particularly since these are our future doctors.Seana Murray, Business Program Manager, Microsoft Mixed Reality TeamThere are certain topics that it’s so much easier to teach and for people to appreciate if you can see it in three dimensions instead of on a screen or in a book—and I love reading, don’t get me wrong—but as human beings, we’re used to operating in a 3D world. We spot patterns and process information; our brains are geared to process information that way. And so, I think this is going to open up kind of a whole new frontier for history, for astronomy, for physics, for… you name it.John O’Brien, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Mixed Reality TeamLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:In the first episode of the spring 2021 season, Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt and Solutions for Higher Education host Steve Meredith introduce this semester’s topic, Alternatives to Traditional Higher Education. The two discuss the upcoming season and begin to dive into the variety of options available for people outside of higher education.  Links Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith talk with SUU's Provost Jon Anderson about the strategic planning process in higher education. They also discuss leadership and how a leader can get everyone involved in the planning and innovation process.Featured Quotes:And so, [according to the American Association of University Professors] it is the president’s responsibility to innovate for the institution and to push that, and the question then becomes, ‘How is that best done?’ And as you mentioned, it’s best done not by one person putting out new ideas and everybody jumping in line. A lot of that work has to be coming to a shared understanding of the changes that need to happen, and not specific policy changes that I’m talking about, but the changes that are driven by environmental conditions that put the long-term sustainability of the institution at risk.Jon Anderson - Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Southern Utah University. . . I’ll say in advance as we have this conversation that this work of shared governance is not efficient, and it is incredibly slow relative to dictatorship styles, and it is very time-consuming, but very healthy. And so, as we work through this, we’ve got to make sure that people who are engaging in it—and we’re asking, faculty, staff, everybody to engage in it—they have to know upfront it is going to take a lot of effort, it’s going to take a lot of time.Jon Anderson - Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Southern Utah UniversityLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by the entire Solutions for Higher Education team. From recording to distribution, this week’s guests cover all the steps in the podcast’s production. Bailey Bowthorpe, Libby Meredith, Natasha Johnson, Lexi Carter, and Jill Whitaker join in to share their part of the process and their favorite episodes from the years. Featured Quotes:For those of our listeners at home that tune in regularly, they know that the 2020-21 academic year is going to be focused on us talking about ‘how the sausage gets made’ in Higher Ed. Looking behind the innovations that we have undertaken and seeing where they stand and what things have worked and what things haven’t worked. And today, in celebration of this, our 100th episode, we decided to talk about how the podcast sausage gets made.Steve Meredith, Assistant VP of Enrollment Management for Graduate and Online Programs . . . this actually started as a means to try to communicate to the employees at the university some of the things that we're thinking about and answer questions and explore ideas. So, that's kind of how it started, and we started by bringing in faculty to talk about their research and innovations at the university and challenges that we face.Scott Wyatt, President of SUULinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Rita Osborn, executive director of the Center for Rural Health to discuss Southern Utah University’s Rural Health Scholars Program. The program prepares students for graduate-level healthcare programs through academic and non-academic experiences.Featured Quotes: . . . the interesting message is you can have any major you want. You could be a music major and get to medical school. Many healthcare graduate programs appreciate that you diversified a lot of your undergrad experience exploring something that you’re passionate about. We have Spanish majors, psychology majors, nutrition majors, the whole gamut…business majors. So, as long as they're doing well in their sciences and achieve their science pre-reqs, then they’re fine.Rita Osborn, Executive Director of the Center for Rural HealthMany of our students just don’t know that they’ve got what it takes to do this, and so we come from this with an asset-based approach. 'These are the things that you bring to the table, and if you truly have the passion to do this, you can.'Rita Osborn, Executive Director of the Center for Rural HealthLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with SUU’s Dr. Eric Kirby, assistant vice president for student affairs and Ryan Bailey, coordinator of completion and student success. They discuss SUU’s main retention strategy, the Assistant Coaches for Excellence and Success (ACES), a peer mentoring program for first year students. Featured Quotes:. . . the ACES are basically the "one stop shop" for all incoming students, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The ACE contacts their incoming student within 24 hours of that student 'depositing' at SUU and basically says that much. "I am your one stop shop; I am your end all and be all of anything you need. I may not know the answers, but I'm going to get you where you need to go."Eric Kirby, SUU Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. . . there's always been staff members, there's always been academic advisors, financial aid counselors, but this way, every student has another student where maybe they can ask the nitty-gritty questions, or, "You just did this last year, how did you combat tough roommates? Or asking somebody on a date? Or homesickness?" And they're getting feedback from someone who is in their own shoes which I think has been really successful.Ryan Bailey, SUU Coordinator of Completion and Student SuccessLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with SUU’s Provost Jon Anderson to discuss SUU’s newest innovation: a $10,000 bachelor of general studies degree program. They discuss the promise of online student growth and how this new program offers yet another path for SUU students to succeed.Featured Quotes: . . . as we did our financial modeling, we settled on a price point of about $79 a credit, which would allow someone to enter SUU Speedway Campus and finish a full bachelor’s degree for under $10,000. I believe we’re the first institution in the intermountain west to offer a full bachelor’s degree for under $10,000. The Speedway Campus only offers one degree program and that is a Bachelor of General Studies, either a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies. It’s a list of about 40 courses the student can complete to get to 120 credits and they can do that entering in seven week sessions.Dr. Jon Anderson, SUU ProvostI really, fundamentally believe that the broader the brand is, the more recognized the brand is, the more success that every modality will have. So, as people hear about SUU being successful in any one area, that begins to bleed over to lots of other areas and the whole institution begins to elevate. It’s true that the rising tide lifts all boats, and the same thing happens with the brand of an institution.Dr. Jon Anderson, SUU ProvostLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott Wyatt and Steve Meredith meet with two leaders from Southwest Technical College, Tessa Douglas, director of Dual Enrollment and Placement Services, and Will Pierce, Vice President of Instruction. They discuss the innovative partnership between SUU and Southwest Tech and how the two entities have developed multiple pathways for students to take courses at both institutions.Featured Quotes:The SUU students who come [to STECH] all seem to have really positive feedback about their programs. They’re really excited that they have an option to do hands-on type learning in addition to their academic learning at SUU. A lot of the Southwest Tech students who have moved on to SUU, have been really, really grateful because they don’t necessarily think they would have gone to SUU otherwise...Tessa Douglas, Director of Dual Enrollment and Placement Services - Southwest Technical College. . . we gathered faculty and administration at Southwest Tech and we said, “Let’s take a look at your [SUU’s] curriculum. Let’s pull together your syllabi, let’s pull together your…what textbooks you’re using, let’s get some examples of some of your assignments, some of your tests…. And we got all of that together, it was a monumental task.Will Pierce, Vice President for Instruction - Southwest Technical CollegeLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Tawny Hammond, National Director of Learning Advancement for Best Friends Animal Society and SUU's Melynda Thorpe, Executive Director of Community and Professional Development. They discuss the SUU & Best Friends Executive Leadership Certification, the nation’s first university-endorsed animal services leadership program for working professionals as well as the importance of obtaining higher education in animal welfare.Featured Quotes:. . . it really goes back to an alumni banquet that we had here on campus and SUU was recognizing Julie Castle, CEO of Best Friends who is an alumna. I happened to be there in the audience…I was at a table at the back of the room. I remember where I was sitting, I remember Julie standing up there and her saying the words articulating the goal of ending the killing of animals in shelters by the year 2025. And when you hear Julie speak, she's such a captivating speaker and person altogether, but that really resonated with me and I turned to the person next to me and said, 'I think we can help with that.'Melynda Thorpe, Executive Director, SUU Community and Professional DevelopmentI think that our work with SUU has . . . made us better as an organization in that we're able to fulfill that goal of being a learning and leading organization in ending the killing of pets in our nation. It's given us a prestigious partner, an academic partner, a very logical partner when you look at geography.Tawny Hammond, National Director of Learning Advancement, Best Friends Animal SocietyLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith talk with Ken Hall, SUU School of Business Associate Dean, about the overhaul and growth of the MBA program over the last few years. They discuss the importance of maintaining quality between face-to-face and online courses and how holding the same admissions standards for all students - regardless of how they take classes - has really strengthened the program.Featured Quotes:It’s nice to see the numbers grow, absolutely, there’s a lot of positives that come with growth, but one of the things that I think we’re most proud of is our admissions standards have stayed the same and the quality—especially the quality of our online classes—has increased during this time.Ken HallLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith talk with SUU's Faculty Senate President Bill Heyborne about the Three Year Degree program. They discuss the initial concept, the ripple effect it had on campus - specifically among faculty members - and how authentic communication and using the brilliant minds available made the program setup a success.Featured Quotes:After you approached me about participating in this podcast, I started thinking about the things that have gone well, the things that haven’t gone so well, and as I thought about the things that haven’t gone so well from the faculty perspective, I then started thinking, “Well, what is it that these things all have in common? Why did they not go so well?” And the place where I’ve landed is: faculty are creatures of habit. And I don’t mean that in a derogatory way at all.Bill HeyborneWhat impressed me and what I learned from this experience, is that all I had to do was say to you and your committee in the Faculty Senate, "Whatever you want to do is fine." [ . . . . what I learned is that those who care the most about something have to be in at the beginning, not reviewing proposals.Soctt L WyattLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith kick off the 2020-21 season by introducing this year’s podcast theme: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned. They preview some of the topics to be discussed, like the partnership between SUU and Southwest Technical College and SUU’s Three Year Degree program.Featured Quotes:We don’t give salary increases for people that are creative, we don’t give a bonus to anybody like that. But as you move up the ladder and get to the top, so you’re at the point where you can be the most creative and influence change the most, it seems like in the public sector, that you also tend to irritate more people. And, as we say in politics, “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”Scott L Wyatt. . . disruptions always lead an organization or a person into being better or worse at the end of the disruption. So, that’s…and the approach that we’ve tried to take as a university is we are going to be better at the end of this pandemic.”Soctt L WyattLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Dave Shively to discuss his book The Pacific Alone, the second installment in the Summer Book Club series. They discuss Ed Gillet’s journey across the Pacific Ocean and Shively’s process for gathering all the details and writing this book.Featured Quotes:You just keep moving forward and if things get bad, take a break. Stop and eat, make camp, and then you get up the next day and you keep moving because you know that you’re more capable than you thought you were.David Shively quoting Ed GilletWe expect comfort and all of our endeavors to be achieved with minimal effort. Yet, here is somebody who could have done the same experience, gone to Hawaii with minimal effort, but chose to take the absolute most difficult path.David ShivelyLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

This is the second part of my conversation with both President Scott Wyatt and Assistant to the President for Institutional Effectiveness Dr. Steve Meredith of Southern Utah University. President Wyatt and Dr. Meredith are also co-hosts of their own podcast, Solutions for Higher Education, and the two share their story as to why they started the podcast and how it helps the president communicate with the SUU community stakeholders. Next we dive deeper into athletic topics such as presidential communication because of the NCAA/Big Sky Conference governance structures. President Wyatt opens up about the inside conversation and decision process for canceling the Big Sky men's basketball tournament and spring sports, as well as how the conference must be flexible with its scheduling this fall to accommodate a conference that represents 8 different states.

This is the first part of my conversation with both President Scott Wyatt and Assistant to the President for Institutional Effectiveness Dr. Steve Meredith of Southern Utah University. In this episode we talk about the biggest challenges ahead in the 2020's for higher education because of COVID-19. Listeners will also hear what goes into a strategic decision such as deciding on the budget or how to return to campus safely amidst a pandemic. President Wyatt and Dr. Meredith are also co-hosts of their own podcast, Solutions for Higher Education, and the two share their story as to why they started the podcast and how it helps the president communicate with the SUU community stakeholders.

This is the second part of my conversation with both President Scott Wyatt and Assistant to the President for Institutional Effectiveness Dr. Steve Meredith of Southern Utah University. President Wyatt and Dr. Meredith are also co-hosts of their own podcast, Solutions for Higher Education, and the two share their story as to why they started the podcast and how it helps the president communicate with the SUU community stakeholders. Next we dive deeper into athletic topics such as presidential communication because of the NCAA/Big Sky Conference governance structures. President Wyatt opens up about the inside conversation and decision process for canceling the Big Sky men's basketball tournament and spring sports, as well as how the conference must be flexible with its scheduling this fall to accommodate a conference that represents 8 different states.

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by SUU professors Dr. Daniel Hatch and Dr. Tyler Stillman to discuss the first book in the Summer Book Club: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. They discuss their interpretations of the meaning of life, the importance of relationships with others and being honest with yourself, and speculate about Viktor Frankl’s motivation in writing this book.Featured Quotes:It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.Viktor FranklA human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in the given situation.Viktor FranklLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:As part of the podcast series Solutions for Higher Education, SUU President Scott L Wyatt will lead a “Summer Reading Club” focusing on a new book each month. Readers who join the podcast will be given an introduction to the book by Scott Wyatt and podcast host Steve Meredith, who will be joined by an expert guest to give additional insight and context to the completed reading.Featured Quotes:. . . We've put together an interesting collection of books that we hope are all relevant to the time that we're in. And some of the books are new, some are old, some are really deeply thoughtful and some are just fun. But we think that it’s going to be a good group of books. And they’re all from kind of a different genre.Scott L Wyatt, SUU PresidentWell, and it’s a good time to be reading books. So, people are always asking us, "What are we doing with our time?" And the answer is usually, "We’re actually working harder than we were last summer."Scott L Wyatt, SUU PresidentLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit 6 feet apart and discuss SUU and COVID-19, how the coronavirus has impacted Southern Utah University and higher education.Featured Quotes:This generation that has been sometimes accused of being overly socially engaged on technology and not socially enough engaged face-to-face . . . is the most well-equipped generation of all time to be able to handle a pandemic like this.Scott L Wyatt, SUU PresidentIt reminds me that of all the things that we’re trying to teach, the character is probably the supreme. We’re trying to help people develop grit, the ability to face change, to adjust their lives.Scott L Wyatt, SUU PresidentLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Beth McMurtrie, senior writer for The Chronicle for Higher Education. They discuss McMurtrie's article "Fixing the Courses that Everybody Loves to Hate" and how the student success movement has adjusted in light of Generation Z students flooding college campuses.Featured Quotes:This generation, Gen Z they call it, is an interesting one. They're quite practical, they're kind of skeptical, they’re very comfortable with being self-taught, they learn a lot of stuff from YouTube and other means, they don’t necessarily assume the teacher has all of the answers. So, they kind of…they're challenging them in a way saying, "Explain to me why I should care." And I think a good teacher should be able to do that, right? They should be able to stop and say, "This stuff does matter."Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher EducationSomebody called what happens in the classroom a donut hole in the student success movement. People talk about nudges, they talk about chatbots, they talk about all sorts of things outside of the classroom that might keep students in college, but they don’t really talk about the core of their experience which is what happens in the classroom day in and day out. What are you learning? Do you feel engaged? Do you feel connected? Do you feel like you belong? Do you feel like you’re learning how to do college?Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher EducationLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Rachel Fishman, Deputy Director for Research at the Higher Education Initiative with New America, to discuss the perceptions of higher education, including affordability, quality, and return on investment.Featured Quotes:. . . overwhelmingly people think [higher education is] not fine the way it is. We do ask a follow-up question to this that’s open ended that’s like, “Well, why do you feel that way?” And the overwhelming response is cost and affordability, which I think makes a lot of sense, especially given everything that we’ve basically seen in the news for the past four or five years where there’s a constant talk about student loan debt, how it’s 1.5-1.6 trillion dollars, what that means for a generation of students who now have debt and what that means for millennials and Generation Z mobility.Rachel Fishman, Higher Education Initiative with New America. . . never before have students been this invested in their education by having to borrow loans or having to front their own earnings or their parents’ earnings to help pay for it. And so, more people are in higher education than ever before and more are looking to see a serious return on investment because they’re making a serious investment of their own money.Rachel Fishman, Higher Education Initiative with New AmericaLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Jon Boeckenstedt, vice provost for enrollment management at Oregon State University. They discuss the adjustments colleges need to make to stay alive over the next decade, including more transparency in pricing and reducing barriers to admission.Featured Quotes: . . . there was a Gallup Poll just a few weeks ago that talked about the American public’s confidence in higher education and how important it was or is or isn’t and the number who said it was very important has fallen from 70% to 50% in just three or four years. So, I think people are becoming less willing to put forth and put out that much effort and that many resources for the education that they believe, I think, is largely a commodity anymore . . .John Boeckenstedt, Oregon State University. . . we can kind of get by from year to year if everything external stays the same, but when those big things happen outside the university in society, or politics, or government, or economics, or just public perception, we’re not always well equipped to handle that dramatic, punctuated equilibrium.John Boeckenstedt, Oregon State UniversityLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith discuss the upcoming shift in enrollment numbers at universities and colleges with Nathan Grawe, professor of economics at Carleton College and author of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education.Featured Quotes:[Because of the financial crisis of 2008] Young families decided that maybe it wasn’t the best time to have children and fertility rates declined and, in fact, they’ve continued to decline through at least 2018. And so, that means that about 18 years later, we can expect there to be a smaller population of prospective students for traditional-aged college. And the declines we’re talking about are significant. We’re talking 10% to 15% nationally and in some parts of the country, much steeper than that. So that no matter where you are in higher ed, we can expect that in the mid-2020s, we’re going to see a significant reversal. And so, we end up sharing some burdens together and yet having distinct paths at the same time.Nathan Grawe, Carleton CollegeI wouldn’t be surprised to see many institutions . . . engaging more aggressively with merit aid and discounting. That kind of pressure can create pressure that goes upward. You might find that you compete well with another institution for a student in the current environment, but if you're competing with another institution that starts getting aggressive with discounting and offering financial aid, you may start losing students that you’ve become accustomed to winning.Nathan Grawe, Carleton CollegeLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Eric Kelderman, senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, to discuss enrollment projections in the United States over the next ten years. They discuss the growth SUU has seen and the rippling impact decreasing enrollments will have on surrounding businesses, especially in communities where universities are the main economic driver. Featured Quotes:We anticipate that there are going to be winners and losers. The small, non-selective privates are probably the most endangered and we’ve seen several of those close in recent years. As you mentioned, I think the flagships typically tend to feel like they’re buffered from this a little bit and that may be the case and certainly the most selective privates, the Ivies, the Stanfords, places like that, are expected to continue to attract a significant amount of interest and applications to maintain their classes. And then further down the line we’ll see institutions like yours, sort of what we call typically comprehensive regionals. And we’ve seen a number of strategies that institutions around the countries have used to sort of try and ameliorate or stave off some of these challenges.Eric Kelderman, The Chronicle of Higher EducationIn Utah alone since 2000, if you average the tuition cost from all of the universities in Utah, the public ones…and we’re affordable. Utah is like the second most affordable tuition rate in the whole country, but even in Utah, tuition and fees have climbed 216% since the year 2000. And during that time, general inflation has only increased by 48%. People are considering this.Scott L Wyatt, Southern Utah UniversityLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Did you know that if you buy or sell a company that already has government contracts, you have to get approval from the government to KEEP those contracts? In fact, you have to get approval from EVERY government agency/organization individually. This is part of a process called contract novation. In this episode of Game Changers, we sit down with Steve Meredith from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission to discuss the basics of contract novation. If you are involved in the sale or acquisition of a company (currently or in the near future) that has government contracts, you don't want to miss this episode.

Show Notes:President Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by SUU's VP for Advancement & Enrollment Management Stuart Jones. They discuss the impending enrollment crisis all colleges and universities are facing and talk through a few of the ways Southern Utah University is combating that enrollment drop.Featured Quotes:Well, as we go forward from here, one of the things that we need to be very aware of is that the enrollment challenges that universities and colleges around the country are facing may come to us. It’s just that Utah is a little bit behind everyone else in the declining of students coming to college because we’ve had a higher birth rate than many other places and because of the economic activity in Utah, primarily in the center of the population, the Wasatch Front, a lot of economic growth up there. But our birth rate dropped in 2008 like everybody else’s and we’re going to see some changes in 2026. And so, part of this growth strategy is to have a running head start when we know that the inevitable disruptions are going to occur in about six years.Scott Wyatt, SUU President. . . I think the most important thing that we did [at SUU] is made enrollment our focus. I love what Warren Buffet says, he and Bill Gates were asked what the key to their success was and they both said the same thing—focus. That you cannot do everything but you can do virtually anything if you really set your mind to it.Stuart Jones, SUU Vice President for Advancement and Enrollment ManagementLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Welcome back to Inside The Circus! We are joined by Senator Steve Meredith as we take on some hot ticket items such as Former Governor Bevin's exit from office, sports gambling, medicinal marijuana, and more!

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Dustin Hansen, Sr. Creative Director at Electronic Arts, to discuss game design and game theory and how video games relate to learning opportunities and educational growth.Featured Quotes:. . . if I’m being really honest, my approach to education kind of follows my approach to game theory which is you have to let people experiment. You have to let somebody fail, and I was in a teaching, an art teaching position, one of the hardest things for any artist and I’m sure Steve will fit with this too because it crosses over to music very well, is artists are told to find their voice. What’s the unique thing that you can do to find your voice? And it just absolutely stifles people. It stops them in their tracks. So, my theory to that is the only way to find your voice is to fail at trying to be somebody else.Dustin Hansen, Electronic ArtsSo, when we’re asking people to really pause and understand language and we can’t truly speak their language—and I’m speaking as a game designer, not as an educator but I think there are some similarities there—when we’re asking them to speak in a language that we have defined, as a game designer, there’s a high, high correlation with failure there. But when you allow them to speak in their own experiences, that failure and that learning goes up dramatically.Dustin Hansen, Electronic ArtsLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:In a special Veteran’s Day episode, President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with the SUU Veteran’s Resource and Support Center Director Amanda Keller and Executive Director of the Bryce Canyon Association Gayle Pollock to discuss the history of Veteran’s Day, what life can look like after service for veterans, and the resources for veterans in southern Utah.Featured Quotes:In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. Generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Union Brigadier General, US Civil WarSo, there are a lot of unique challenges that they [veterans] face . . . when they decide to come back to school. They change from a very structured and very rigid daily life to not so much structure. They sit in classrooms next to the traditional 18 year old. They have different world views, they have this rich knowledge that our traditional students don't have - - and some of that knowledge comes with a little bit of baggage.Amanda Keller, Director - SUU Veterans Resource and Support CenterLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Ryan Hagge from the American Academy of Innovation, and SUU’s own James Sage and Johnny MacLean, to discuss the balance between content and skills in project- and competency- based education.Featured Quotes:So, the classic example when people hear the word “project,” they automatically think “Science Fair” and that’s not really what we’re talking about here. The whole idea of project-based learning centers on student-led inquiry, research, and design. That means that you may pose this essential question, is what it’s called, this big question and then the student gets to really dictate the direction that they take that learning from there. And the question is such that it can’t be a Google answer, so, there’s no one side of the answer, there’s some current debate on the issue.Ryan HaggeI think about my family and that they work in their profession for many, many years and they developed skills in management or account or all kinds of skills and there’s no mechanism for higher ed to award credit for those demonstrated skills. So, being able to assemble a portfolio, being able to apply standards and then map competencies to college credit…Is a really transformative thing for higher ed. It really is innovative.James SageLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with John Louviere and Rene Eborn, AVP/Exec Dir for Academic & Instructional Services and SAVP for Strategic Initiatives at Utah State University, to discuss the innovative approach USU is taking to competency-based education, specifically with general education assessments and online course offerings.Featured Quotes:So, for instance, the student would register for English 1010 and . . . there’s a pre-assessment to see where they fall, and then there’s content and casing material that the faculty members have developed for these courses that the students then move through at different speeds and variables, and then they move into the next assessment and the next assessment on their own time during the term and they have that flexibility during the term. They can take the whole term to do it or they can do it in the first two weeks and the faculty member works with them individually to help them learn the materials and move through the course or to demonstrate their competence into the course.Rene EbornI think that the students that are coming to us now are different students than they used to be and they are very consumer driven. They do a lot of research before they come and then a lot of our adult learners are looking for that flexibility as well. And so, yes, I think it’s very much market-driven in that regard.Rene EbornLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes:President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith sit down with Paul Fain, writer for Inside Higher Ed, to discuss direct assessment, a type of competency-based education.Featured Quotes:I'm going to make a bold prediction here, but I think people should be watching competency-based education because I think the addition to kind of the growth of these programs and the kind of adopters who are trying this, that's one thing, but the underlying potentially transformative change to higher education on the whole, if it's more competency-focused, is enormous.Paul Fain. . . it seems hard to believe that someone won’t figure this out in a really scalable way. And just even the interest politically, and it’s not just coming from one side, they’re trying to do things differently. I’ve got to feel like something is going to happen.Paul FainLinks Associated with this Episode:TranscriptFollow Us:Solutions for Higher Education PodcastSUU BlogSUU Facebook

Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith talk with Julie Hartley and Greg Benson, Assistant Commissioners of Higher Education for Academic and Student Affairs in the state of Utah, about the delivery methods for general education and the various competencies gained through general ed courses. Featured Quotes: For a long time, higher education was kind of seen as a gatekeeper of sorts. Something for people of elite status to have access to and not other people. And the teaching model is often referred to as “face on the stage” where a very smart person is up at the front just spewing out information for the students and the smart ones will grasp it and move through the ranks and the others will drop out and along the sideline. And there’s been a major shift in higher education and pedagogical strategies to being more concerned about teaching methodologies and making sure that the students are actually grasping the materials and that the faculty are educating them as opposed to weeding them out. *Julie Hartley * Are General Education courses themed and structured to foster success? Or are they unnecessary obstacles for students? Greg Benson Links Associated with this Episode: Transcript Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook

Show Notes: Dr. Jean Boreen, dean of SUU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, joins President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith this week for the last book in the Summer Book Club: Pride and Prejudice. They discuss the bridge Pride and Prejudice has built between classic literature and young adult literature and outline some of Jane Austen’s background as a successful author in the 1800s. Featured Quote: . . . there were women during the timeframe that Austen compared herself to who were being published, and I think in that way, she was very competitive and wanted to make sure that what she was writing could be held up against anything that was being written by any of these other female authors, as well as most of the male authors . . . Jean Boreen, Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences, Southern Utah University Links Associated with this Episode: About the Summer Book Club series Transcript Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook

Show Notes: Dr. Bryce Christensen joins President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith this week for the third book in the Summer Book Club: Tao Te Ching. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Tao,” is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward the Tao, or the “Way”: harmony with the life force of the universe. Traditionally attributed to Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher thought to have been a contemporary of Confucius, it is the essential text of Taoism, one of the three major religions of ancient China. Featured Quote: "I think we, Americans, even more broadly, Westerners in general, tend to be very agenda driven. We have things we want to do. And that can lead to what the British poet Elizabeth Jennings called, and I love her phrase, the phrase I’m about to quote, “A kind of tutored willfulness." Bryce Christensen, Professor of English, Southern Utah University Links Associated with this Episode: Bryce Christensen - Faculty Website About the Summer Book Club series Transcript Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook

Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Dr. Joy Sterrantino to discuss the second book in the Summer Book Club: Hamlet. The trio discuss the upcoming performance of Hamlet by the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the complex relationships found within the story, and the overall themes woven into the story. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed. Note: The Utah Shakespeare Festival will be performing Hamlet beginning June 8th and running through October 12th, 2019. Featured Quote: "It was not this haughty thing just for kings and queens, which I think there’s a misinterpretation that some people think that that’s what Shakespeare was about, but it wasn’t. " Joy Sterrantino, Assistant Professor of English, Southern Utah University Links Associated with this Episode: Joy Sterrantino - Faculty Website About the Summer Book Club series Transcript Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook

Show Notes: President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith are joined by Dr. Kyle Bishop to discuss the first book in the Summer Book Club: The Underground Railroad. The trio discuss the metaphor of the railroad, break down the motives of the main characters, and identify the learning outcomes from the book. The Underground Railroad, published in 2016, is the sixth novel by American author Colson Whitehead. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as primarily a rail transport system in addition to a series of safe houses and secret routes. The Underground Railroad was a critical and commercial success, hitting the best seller lists and winning several notable prizes. Featured Quote: "Her fate is tremendously ambiguous. And that's one thing that frustrates a lot of people with more modernist or post-modernist writing is it’s the ambiguity. Author’s love the ambiguity because we don't really know when this story takes place. We don't really know if this is an alternative history where there was no Civil War or if this is pre-Civil War because it’s…my students noticed that it reads like a dystopia. It reads like a post-apocalyptic narrative in a lot of ways." Kyle Bishop, Professor of English, Southern Utah University Links Associated with this Episode: Kyle Bishop - SUU Experts Directory The Underground Railroad About the Summer Book Club series Follow Us: Solutions for Higher Education Podcast SUU Blog SUU Facebook

This episode explores the concept of inclusive coaching and how coaches can apply this to their situation. The panel explores what inclusive coaching is and why this is important along with key learnings when coaching multicultural communities, practical examples on how a coach can display inclusive qualities and how this can benefit the playing group.