Podcasts about Swarthmore

In this episode you will hear:   (02:12) In The News Vince Garcia and Mark Stucker discuss observations from admission decisions from this year's class. (23:34) Question from a listener:  Mark and Susan answer a question from an anonymous listener who has a number of questions about selecting an engineering program (56:18) Interview: Mark Stucker and David Blobaum, The Co-Founder of Summit Test Prep Debate whether selective colleges should make the SAT or the ACT mandatory-Part 2 of 3 Preview of Part 2 of 3 ²  I share multiple other reasons why I am not in favor of a mandatory ACT or SAT policy ²  David shares what he thinks about some of the other reasons I do not favor mandatory test scores ²  I share my skepticism that the return to test scores is being motivated by a desire to admit under-represented students ²  Dave shares why he believes it was courageous for colleges to return to test scores ²  I share why the overwhelming majority of admission officers who read files, love test optional and they are discouraged if their institution returns to an ACT or SAT mandatory policy   (01:22:58) College Spotlight-Jim Bok Interview, Understanding Swarthmore College Preview of Part 2 ²  Jim Bock talks about the importance of playing ball with others ²  Jim talks about how they target students who meet their needs and not students who they think will come when making admission decisions ²  Jim talks about whether they build out predictive models to see how kids at certain high schools do at Swarthmore academically ²  Jim talks about how Swarthmore differs from schools like Pomona, Carlton, Amherst and Williams? ²  Jim talks about Swarthmore's Honors program tutorials that have been around for over 100 years ²  Jim talks about why Swarthmore is pass/fail for the first semester ²  I ask Jim to comment on some perceptions I have about Swarthmore and I ask Jim if they are correct. The first one is academically intense ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are quirky ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are progressive politically ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are diverse ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students have an insatiable love of learning ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students want to change the world ²  Jim talks about the Lang center for civic and social responsibility that Swarthmore grad, Eugene Lang provided the funding for ²  Jim and I talk about how wait lists may change in light of the unforeseen future       Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. 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In this episode you will hear:   (02:32) In The News Andy Strickler shares some of the changes admissions offices are making due to financial pressures. Part 3 of 3 (16:28) Question from a listener:  Mark and Hillary answers questions from listeners about if a student applies for aid and doesn't submit the CSS PROFILE, should that student not be admitted? (42:05) Interview: Mark Stucker and David Blobaum, The Co-Founder of Summit Test Prep Debate whether selective colleges should make the SAT or the ACT mandatory Preview of Part 1 of 3 ²  David Blobaum gives his backstory ²  David says what his test score policy would be if he were working at a highly selective school and here is a hint, I don't agree with him ²  I ask David what he thinks about using AP scores instead of SAT or ACT scores ²  David gives some proof that colleges are using test scores ²  David shares why he feels selective colleges need to use test scores in their admissions decisions. ²  I share some other factors that can be used besides test scores that in my opinion, are better to use than test scores ²  I share the primary reason why I am not in favor of test-mandatory admissions ²  I share a creative idea that he would like to see colleges use that allows some use of scores without them having inappropriately too much weight in the admissions decisions. (01:12:08) College Spotlight-Jim Bok Interview, Understanding Swarthmore College Preview of Part 1 ²  Jim Bock tells his story from leaving Austin, Texas and heading to Swarthmore, first as a student ²  Jim shares how he answers the question, I've never heard of Swarthmore, what can you tell me about Swarthmore ²  Jim explains how Swarthmore's founding is different from Haverford, another Quaker school that they are often compared to ²  Jim shares the intellectual qualities that when he is reading a file, makes him think, this could be a good match for Swarthmore ²  Jim shares the Personal Qualities that Swat values ²  Jim explains how Committee Based Evaluation, also known as CBE works at Swarthmore College and how they use CBE to evaluate an admission applicant ²  Jim explains the difference between reading a file with CBE vs the traditional way they read files before they implemented CBE ²  Jim shares why he finds reading by school group helps the admission file reading process   (57:46) Recommended Resource-The Admissions section of each website: Here is a section that says what Swarthmore looks for in a student:      Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live.   Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends:   Check out the college websites Mark recommends:   If you want to have some input about what you like and what you recommend, we change about our podcast, please complete our Podcast survey; here is the link:     If you want a college consultation with Mark or Lisa or Lynda, just text Mark at 404-664-4340 or email Lisa at or Lynda at Lynda@schoolmatch4u.com. All we ask is that you review their services and pricing on their website before the complimentary session; here is link to their services with transparent pricing: https://schoolmatch4u.com/services/compare-packages/

It's the Friday News Roundup! We're talking about Mayor Cherelle Parker's budget proposal, how federal cuts are impacting Philadelphians, and where former Mayor/Governor Ed Rendell wants to build a national monument in the city. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by Matt Katz, City Cast Philly executive producer, and Siani Colon, Hey Philly newsletter editor.  Our Friday news roundups are powered by great local journalism:  A West Philly nonprofit lost a multiyear grant worth $700K to DOGE cuts U.S. Department of Education slashes staff Temple, Drexel, Swarthmore, threatened with financial penalties over anti-semitism allegations  University of Pennsylvania freezes hiring, reviews capital projects amid federal funding cuts DOGE cancels Philly apartment lease for Secret Service agents guarding Biden's daughter  How much will Philly's federal footprint shrink under Trump? Here's what we know Ed Rendell wants to build a national monument in LOVE Park for the Semiquincentennial. The city said no. Have you been affected by federal cuts? Have you been laid off? Get in touch with us: https://forms.gle/tP9TsrQ86CvK2h8h9 Thoughts on today's show? Text or call: 215-259-8170 Get Philly news & events in your inbox with our newsletter: Hey Philly We're also on Instagram: @citycastphilly Advertise on the podcast or in the newsletter: citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Key aspects of product development, such as recognizing a true market opportunity, structuring teams for new market pursuits, and proving ROI when launching a new product are unpacked in this episode with Inessa Lurye as Holly Hester-Reilly's guest.  Inessa Lurye, as the Senior Director of Product and head of Women's Health at Hinge Health, identified a substantial market gap and shares her journey of developing a virtual program that has now served over 30,000 women. She has held product leadership roles at venture-funded startups, government agencies, and large corporations, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Kennedy School, and a BA from Swarthmore.  During product development, Inessa and her team focused on fostering empathy and understanding among team members through direct customer interactions. This episode emphasizes the significance of collaboration, innovation, and customer-centric approaches in product management and development. The conversation also touches on strategies for dealing with difficult stakeholders and addressing their concerns proactively.   Resource Links Follow Inessa on LinkedIn Visit the Hinge Health website Celebrate Inessa's 2023 Product Management Leader of the Year Award Follow Holly on Twitter Follow Holly on LinkedIn Visit the Product Science Group website Explore Product Science Workshops and Courses  Quotes from Inessa:"So initially we had a really focused, dedicated tiger team before any engineering was staffed... We were speaking [to] members or potential members, like really doing in-depth research to understand this space."  "We integrated the measurement of baseline data around pain and symptoms and specific patient reported outcomes... into our initial application to get a baseline and then into our app experience."  "We had our pelvic floor physical therapists and Hinge Health... a group of clinical specialists who are PTs that work with the product team to develop new products."  Lab Notes Lab Note 602.1: Great product leaders use all of the product science principles to succeed  (29:16) Lab Note 602.2: Include a subject matter expert on your cross-functional team for a tighter feedback loop (30:50) Lab Note 602.3: Evidence comes from customers, forums, and subject matter experts  (33:11) Lab Note 602.4: When your buyers aren't your users, make it easy for buyers to see the outcome (34:11) Lab Note 602.5: Simple tools can incentivize customer touchpoints for an outsized impact (36:57) Lab Note: 602.6: Spend the most time on your biggest naysayers  (39:11) View the transcript and the full episode description on the Product Science Podcast website here.Ready to elevate your product leadership game? Dive deep into practical solutions for real-world product challenges. Register now: https://www.productsciencegroup.com/services 

Driving fast on the open road is almost as American as apple pie. We all remember the thrill of our first car - a symbol of American freedom and independence. But is our love affair with cars killing us? David Zipper joins us to talk about the wide ranging health impacts of our car obsession, and how policy innovations like congestion pricing and weight-based taxes could offer a way out. We dive into:Why pedestrian deaths are much higher in the US than Canada The successful, but potentially short-lived, NYC experiment with congestion pricingHow SUVs have replaced sedans as the family vehicle, creating dangers for other drivers and pedestriansHow Eisenhower's vision of interstates connecting US cities got turned aroundDavid says it's time to focus on safety of those outside our vehicles, not just inside:“We have spent so much time over decades emphasizing the safety of those inside a vehicle that we have… basically enabled the creation of these Goliaths of SUVs and trucks on our roads, where the marginal size provides maybe an incremental marginal safety benefit for occupants, but at an enormous cost to everybody outside of that huge car... We have… recently hit a year high for pedestrian and cyclist deaths in the US… If I were to rewrite Nader's book, like still unsafe at any speed, I would put much more of the focus on the safety of those outside the car as opposed to occupants.”Relevant LinksLearn more about the MIT Mobility InitiativeVisit David Zipper's websiteRead articles by David Zipper:In Vox (“Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don't we treat them like one?”), Slate (“There is no technology fix for car bloat”) and Fast Company (“Who's really to blame – and who isn't – for America's traffic death epidemic”). About Our GuestDavid Zipper is a Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative, examining the intersection of transportation policy, technology, and society. With experience in city government, venture capital, and consulting, he advises public agencies and foundations on improving transportation outcomes. A contributing writer for Vox and Bloomberg CityLab, his work focuses on road safety, climate change, and transit strategies. He previously served in leadership roles in Washington D.C. and New York City, and holds degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, and Swarthmore.Stay InformedSign up for The Other 80 Newsletter to receive a monthly update with reflections, news, events, jobs and funding curated for you by Claudia. Click here to sign up.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams and

I highlight the incredible support I received from volunteers and attendees, including a helpful staffer named Hunter, whose mother, Wendy, played a key role in pre-event planning. I describe my challenges in the exhibit hall due to noise and crowd density, my enjoyment of the sessions, and memorable networking encounters, including a conversation about podcasting with AI and public speaking opportunities. A humorous moment came when I received a $5 Wawa gift card—a nod to the convenience store's origins near my Swarthmore home. This episode underscores the sense of community at PodFest, offering inspiration and practical tips for navigating events as a visually impaired attendee. Show notes at https://www.iCantCU.com/279  Links Mentioned (product links are affiliate links so that I may earn a commission.) Ziggy's favorite birthday present: https://amzn.to/3ZpuLTO Be My Eyes app (free): https://www.bemyeyes.com/  Seeing AI app (free): https://www.seeingai.com/  Index of That Real Blind Tech Show episodes: https://www.icantcu.com/trbts/  Watch iCantCU episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iCantCU Support iCantCU When shopping at Amazon, I would appreciate it if you clicked on this link to make your purchases: https://www.iCantCU.com/amazon. I participate in the Amazon Associate Program and earn commissions on qualifying purchases. The best part is, you don't pay extra for doing this! White Canes Connect Podcast Episodes 122 In Episode 122 of White Canes Connect, listeners revisit the 2024 NFB of Pennsylvania State Convention in Erie, featuring Daniel Lubiner's insightful presentation, "Braille: The Language of the Blind." Find the podcast on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/white-canes-connect/id1592248709  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1YDQSJqpoteGb1UMPwRSuI YouTube Https://www.youtube.com/@pablindpodcast White Canes Connect On Twitter Https://www.twitter.com/PABlindPodcast My Podcast Gear Here is all my gear and links to it on Amazon. I participate in the Amazon Associates Program and earn a commission on qualifying purchases. Zoom Podtrak P4: https://amzn.to/33Ymjkt Zoom ZDM Mic & Headphone Pack: https://amzn.to/33vLn2s Zoom H1n Recorder: https://amzn.to/3zBxJ9O  Gator Frameworks Desk Mounted Boom Arm: https://amzn.to/3AjJuBK Shure SM58 S Mic: https://amzn.to/3JOzofg  Sony ZV-E10 camera : https://amzn.to/4fFBSxM  Sennheiser Headset (1st 162 episodes): https://amzn.to/3fM0Hu0  Follow iCantCU on your favorite podcast directory! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/icantcu-podcast/id1445801370/  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3nck2D5HgD9ckSaUQaWwW2  Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/iCantCU-Podcast-Podcast/B08JJM26BT  IHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-icantcu-podcast-31157111/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbenj  Reach out on social media Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbenj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbenj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidbenj LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbenj Are You or Do You Know A Blind Boss? If you or someone you know is crushing it in their field and is also blind, I want to hear from you! Call me at (646) 926-6350 and leave a message. Please include your name and town, and tell me who the Blind Boss is and why I need to have them on an upcoming episode. You can also email the show at iCantCUPodcast@gmail.com.

In this episode, the gals chat all about our five senses! From what the five senses are to what sense we can't live without, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Jan-April 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is now open for enrollment on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! AND ROOTS IS GOING BRICK & MORTAR IN THE NEW YEAR!! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

On Sunday, December 15, we worshiped with the congregation of the Wesley A.M.E. church in Swarthmore.  Sermons were offered by both Rev. Catherine Brownlee (of Wesley A.M.E.) and Rev. Joyce Shin (of Swarthmore Presbyterian Church. The scripture passages for this day were Zephaniah 3:14-17 and Matthew 3:1-6. To view the full Lord's Day service, visit our YouTube channel by searching ”Swarthmore Presbyterian Church.”

In this episode, the gals chat all about why we love to shop small! From the welcoming feeling when you enter a small business to find that one-of-a-kind gift for your favorite person, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Jan-April 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is now open for enrollment on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! AND ROOTS IS GOING BRICK & MORTAR IN THE NEW YEAR!! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about their top 10 favorite things about October & November! From some new clothes to just about all five senses of autumn, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Winter 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for enrollment on Small Business Saturday (11/30/24) on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

Innovation in Higher Education Accreditation: How NECHE Leads Change Gone are the days of counting library books and checking boxes. With average presidential tenure plummeting to less than five years and a wave of institutional mergers reshaping American higher education, understanding the evolution from prescriptive to nuanced accreditation has become paramount for institutional survival. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton, in discussion with Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Schall, President of the New England Commission on Higher Education (NECHE), shares insights on how accreditation has transformed from a compliance exercise into a partnership that helps institutions navigate contemporary challenges while maintaining academic quality and institutional accountability. Transformative Trends in Institutional Consolidation Demographic challenges are driving unprecedented changes in higher education structure. According to Schall, New England's unfavorable demographics have accelerated institutional mergers and consolidations, with public systems leading transformative change: 12 Connecticut community colleges have consolidated into a single college with multiple campuses Five Vermont state colleges merged to create Vermont State University. Maine pioneered the country's first system-wide consolidated accreditation. This seismic shift in institutional organization signals a fundamental change in how accrediting bodies must approach quality assurance and institutional oversight. Pioneering Approaches to Accreditation Innovation The conversation around accreditation has moved beyond traditional compliance to encompass comprehensive institutional transformation. NECHE exemplifies this evolution through: Implementation of accelerated degree programs Authorization of Spanish-language graduate programs within the U.S. Expansion of international accreditation Support for innovative educational delivery models Meeting Modern Higher Education Challenges NECHE's approach demonstrates how accreditors can maintain rigorous standards while supporting institutional innovation: Trust-based relationships with member institutions Regular presidential appearances before the commission Proactive communication about institutional challenges Flexible standards that encourage innovation while ensuring quality Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Leadership stability and board-president alignment are critical for institutional success. With presidential tenure averaging less than five years, institutions struggle to implement meaningful change. Strong alignment between boards and presidents is essential for effective governance and institutional advancement. Traditional educational models are becoming outdated, with more innovation happening internationally than domestically. Institutions that proactively develop new models of education delivery are more likely to succeed in the next 25 years. Higher education leaders should look beyond conventional approaches to prepare for future disruption. The independence of higher education from government control is increasingly at risk. Political intervention in curriculum, governance, and accreditation threatens the fundamental strength of the American higher education system. Institutions must work to maintain their autonomy while demonstrating accountability and quality. Navigating accreditation challenges, merger discussions, or innovative program implementation can feel overwhelming. Your institution's mission and values matter. The Change Leader partners with you to tackle these complex challenges head-on, helping you stay true to who you are while meeting accreditation standards. We get it - you're not just another merger statistic. Your institution's unique identity and future matter. These are just some of the key insights and opportunities you will hear in this podcast—listen to the full episode for more. Read the transcript on our website: https://changinghighered.com/accreditation-neche-style-from-prescriptive-to-nuanced/ #HigherEducation #HigherEducationAccreditation #HigherEdChallenges About Our Podcast Guest Dr. Lawrence Schall joined the Commission staff as President in 2020. Previously, he served as President of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, for 15 years. During his tenure, Dr. Schall led the transformation of Oglethorpe from an at-risk institution to a university boasting a doubled class size and rigorous spending safeguards, raised over one hundred million dollars, and secured a solid financial outlook for the institution. Schall currently serves on the Board of Spelman College, the highly-ranked historically Black women's college also in Atlanta. President Schall received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and his J.D. and Ed. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. After practicing law as a civil rights attorney in Philadelphia for a decade, he served as Vice President of Administration at Swarthmore for 15 years before assuming the Presidency of Oglethorpe. Visit President Schall's blog, NECHE On The Road, to learn more about him and his work at the Commission. About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton is Principal Consultant and CEO of The Change Leader, Inc. A highly sought-after higher education consultant with 20+ years of experience. Dr. McNaughton works with leadership, management, and boards of both U.S. and international institutions. His expertise spans key areas, including accreditation, governance, strategic planning, presidential onboarding, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. Dr. McNaughton's approach combines a holistic methodology with a deep understanding of the contemporary and evolving challenges facing higher education institutions worldwide to ensure his clients succeed in their mission. Connect with Drumm McNaughton on LinkedIn →

In this episode, the gals chat all about sweater weather! From what exactly "sweater weather" means to why we love some of our favorites, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Winter 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for enrollment 11/30/24 on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

Send us a textSwarthmore students have faced unprecedented repression in their Palestine solidarity organizing in the past year, despite using tactics embraced in earlier campus struggles. A recent graduate of Swarthmore involved in campus divestment organizing details the double standard that exists at Swarthmore for Palestine-related speech. Students speaking out against the Gaza genocide, many of them low-income and/or people of color, face an array of administrative charges in an internal justice system that affords them few rights.

Melissa Finley has been the head softball coach at Division III Swarthmore College since 2017. Since taking over she has won about two-thirds of her game as head coach, leading the Garnet to a 2023 Centennial Conference title and appearance in the NCAA Tournament. As a player, Finley starred in college at Princeton – winning Ivy League Player of the Year honors in 2003. In Episode #230 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt welcomes Finley in studio to talk about her life in softball. They discuss how she was introduced to the sport, look back on her playing days at Princeton, talk about her success at Swarthmore and much more. “1-on-1 with Matt Leon” is a KYW Newsradio original podcast. You can follow the show on X @1on1pod and you can follow Matt @Mattleon1060.

Sacred Nine will be traveling to Swarthmore college on Good Friday, 2026 to "beatify" the brutally murdered Sarah Maria Cornell. Inspiration came from Murder in a Mill Town by Bruce Dorsey, Professor of History at Swarthmore. Ellen Blue helps us understand the kind of religious atmosphere Cornell would have experienced.https://sacrednine.com/givinghttps://sacrednine.com/martyr

In this episode, the gals chat all about their happy places! From where we enjoy being to who we want to be there with to what we like to do while there, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for enrollment NOW on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about what they like to do other than knitting & crocheting! From cooking & drinking wine to lifting heavy stuff, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for enrollment NOW on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

Swarthmore College head coach Landry Kosmalski joins the Basketball Podcast to share insight on shifting strategies and sustained success.Two-time National Coach of the Year Landry Kosmalski has a 224-93 record at Swarthmore with a .707 win percentage since taking the helm in 2012. Under his leadership, the Garnet have become a powerhouse in Division III basketball, consistently ranking among the top teams in the nation.Kosmalski's coaching career is marked by numerous accolades and achievements. He has been named the NABC Division III Coach of the Year and has earned the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year award multiple times. His teams have made several NCAA Tournament appearances, including trips to the Elite Eight and the Final Four. In the 2019-20 season, his team was ranked No. 1 nationally and finished with an impressive 28-1 record.Kosmalski has been recognized as the Region/District Coach of the Year in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2023. He has also earned the title of Centennial Conference Coach of the Year in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. Under his leadership, Swarthmore has made multiple NCAA Tournament appearances in the 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 seasons. Additionally, his teams have clinched the Centennial Conference Championship in 2016-17, 2018-19, 2022-23, and 2023-24.Before joining Swarthmore, Kosmalski served as an assistant coach at Davidson College, where he helped lead the Wildcats to two Southern Conference championships and NCAA Tournament appearances.

In this episode, the gals chat all about transitioning from summer to fall! From when and what we do to prepare for the fall to what kinds of fun fall activities we may get into, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for enrollment NOW on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about back to school & "new year" fun! From what our favorite back to school "thing" is to when school should really start, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for enrollment NOW on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about the 2024 Summer Olympics! From recapping some of our favorites sports & athletes to what we would do & eat in Paris, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for enrollment NOW on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about skin care and make up products and tips! From taking advantage of Flexible Savings Accounts through your health insurance to getting the most bang for your buck at the drug store, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for enrollment on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ starting August 3rd! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about who they would want to spend 24 hours with and why! From hanging out with a soul sister to surfing on the coast, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for enrollment on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ starting August 3rd! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info.

In this episode, the gals chat all about movies! From their ideal movie length to a movie that we saw that was too long, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Fall 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for registration on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ starting July 27th! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

Fund conversations that matter: donate.accessmore.comThis week we're discussing How to Begin Healthy Tech Practices in Your Family with Andy Crouch In the past 20 years, technology has advanced at an outstanding, often overwhelming rate. It's ubiquitous; we use it at work, classrooms, homes, and churches. We use it to communicate, be entertained, interact with others, perform household tasks, navigate, wake us up, and countless other uses. It's at our beck and call 24/7. For all its positive and life-changing attributes, it also has incredibly addictive qualities that keep us from living in reality. As parents, we need to be intentional about how we use technology, but it increasingly feels like an uphill battle. How do we implement healthy and realistic technological use in our families? Andy Crouch is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch) including one we're discussing today called The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place. Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as a senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. LINK TO SHOW NOTESFor all the detailed show notes, tips and links click - https://soloparent.org/show-notes-blog —> ASK US ANYTHING! We want to answer any Solo Parent questions you may have. Go to SoloParent.org/TalkToUs and ask us anything…it can be related to a topic we cover on the podcast, something you are facing or just something you are curious about. We want you to be part of our podcast! To receive a free SPS Welcome Toolkit with links to groups, info and a free book click - https://soloparent.org/welcome-toolkit Join our FREE daily meditational devotional - pod.link/1517894054Download our free app - APPLE - https://apple.co/3fKOd6F ANDROID - https://bit.ly/2TvjtOs

Fund conversations that matter: donate.accessmore.comThis week we're discussing How to Begin Healthy Tech Practices in Your Family with Andy Crouch In the past 20 years, technology has advanced at an outstanding, often overwhelming rate. It's ubiquitous; we use it at work, classrooms, homes, and churches. We use it to communicate, be entertained, interact with others, perform household tasks, navigate, wake us up, and countless other uses. It's at our beck and call 24/7. For all its positive and life-changing attributes, it also has incredibly addictive qualities that keep us from living in reality. As parents, we need to be intentional about how we use technology, but it increasingly feels like an uphill battle. How do we implement healthy and realistic technological use in our families? Andy Crouch is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch) including one we're discussing today called The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place. Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as a senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. LINK TO SHOW NOTESFor all the detailed show notes, tips and links click - https://soloparent.org/show-notes-blog —> ASK US ANYTHING! We want to answer any Solo Parent questions you may have. Go to SoloParent.org/TalkToUs and ask us anything…it can be related to a topic we cover on the podcast, something you are facing or just something you are curious about. We want you to be part of our podcast! To receive a free SPS Welcome Toolkit with links to groups, info and a free book click - https://soloparent.org/welcome-toolkit Join our FREE daily meditational devotional - pod.link/1517894054Download our free app - APPLE - https://apple.co/3fKOd6F ANDROID - https://bit.ly/2TvjtOs

In this episode, the gals chat all about what they would take from home in an emergency! From our furry friends and sentimental items to some stuff they just cannot live without, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for registration on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode, the gals chat all about comics! From where we read comics to how we think comics have developed over the years, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts on our next episode topic! To be part of the fun, feel free to email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com OR answer our podcast Q&A/poll! And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is open for registration on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode, the gals chat all about our pups! From their favorite toys to the way they keep us active, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is now open for registration on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

(No, the other one.)What happens when two avowed GenXers record a podcast episode? From the host you get a bad reference to C+C Music Factory; from the guest you get helpful lessons on "how to vice president." Michael Keaton, VP for Enrollment Management at Ursinus College, sets the record straight on who was Michael Keaton first, how to leave things better than you found them, and why all colleges are not in the same boat in the midst of the FAFSA rollout debacle. Rapid DescentWalkout song: The Boss by James Brown (Michael actually uses walkout music at open house events ... get yourself to Ursinus for one of these!)Best recent read: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds ReedEager to read next: From Punk to Monk by Ray Rahunath CappoFavorite podcast:  Broad Street Breakdown by Jedi Mind TricksFavorite thing to make in the kitchen: Vegan chopped cheese.Taking and keeping notes: Kindle ScribeMemorable bit of advice: "Don't start none; won't be none."Bucket list: CVisit the last 11 United States he hasn't yet visited. Friends from IA, ID, HI, KS, MI, MS, MT, ND, NE, SD, and WY? Help him out. The ALP is supported by RHB. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment

In this episode, the gals chat all about sports! From hot dogs at a game to women's sports leagues, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠is now open for registration on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode, the gals chat adventure! From planning a trip across national borders to hoping to get a game show contestant, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠⁠will be open for registration on 3/30 on their website ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

Lucy is known for her fearlessly bold & timeless interiors. Her work has been featured in House Beautiful, The Washington Post, The Hunt, and more including several national cover stories on her business process and design beliefs. She brings a diverse set of skills sets with her background in both medicine and fine arts. She brings both her right and left brain strengths to create a one of a kind project and process for clients. She currently leads her team outside of Philadelphia but manages projects across the nation. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with her two children and husband. When she isn't busy running Tartan & Toile, you can find her at Hobbs, swimming, gardening or with her family. https://www.tartantoile.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tartanntoile/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gail-m-davis/message

In this episode, the gals chat birthdays! From how they make their birthdays special to their thoughts on sending cards, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠⁠will be open for registration on 3/30 on their website ⁠⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode you will hear:   (02:10) Julia and Mark planned to  talk about an article that ran in Bowdoin Orient, their student newspaper entitled: “Dean of Admissions Claudia Marroquin on the decline of male applicants to Bowdoin” but they don't get to the article until next week but they do discuss some application tips including, should you write your Personal Statement on Your College Major? Part 1 of 2     (24:36) Question from a listener Marissa Salazar, Associate Director of Admissions at Colorado College answers a couple questions about applications from the state of Florida in our QFL section   (35:55) Interview Lydia Dagenais, a former admission officer at Haverford College and Swarthmore College is joined by Julia Esquivel, a co-host for YCBK but also a former Haverford College admission officer to discuss Haverford and Swarthmore Preview ²  Lydia shares her backstory ²  I ask Lydia, the students that pick Swarthmore over Haverford, why do they do it, and the students that pick Haverford over Swarthmore, why do they do it? ²  Julia, so what do you want our listeners to know about Lydia that she didn't share? ²  Julia, explain the bi-co and tri-co consortium in case our listeners are not familiar with it     (41:10) Recommended Resource: Getting In    (01:00:35) Mark and Lisa talk about Marquette University in our College Spotlight section, Part 1 of 2      Recommended Resource- T  Do it yourself college rankings and and here are the dates for ScholarMatch information sessions:  (PST) 5 MST 6 CST 7 EST  (PST) 11 MST, 12 CST 1 PM EST   Here is a link to the ScholarMatch volunteer form:     Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day. If you have a question for one of our upcoming interviews with admissions professionals, here is a list of admissions professionals who we will interview in 2023 or 2024.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live.   Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends:   Check out the college websites Mark recommends:   If you want to have some input about what you like and what you recommend, we change about our podcast, please complete our Podcast survey; here is the link:     If you want a college consultation with Mark or Lisa or Lynda, just text Mark at 404-664-4340 or email Lisa at or Lynda at Lynda@schoolmatch4u.com. All we ask is that you review their services and pricing on their website before the complimentary session; here is link to their services with transparent pricing: https://schoolmatch4u.com/services/compare-packages/

In this episode, the gals rewind back to Episode 11 for some inspiration on how knitting & crocheting saves them money! From making something that you can use for a lifetime (literally!) & passing down to future generations to saving what would be your coffee money to buy more yarn, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Summer 2024 ⁠⁠class calendar ⁠⁠will be open for registration on 3/30 on their website ⁠⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode, the gals chat all why they are rushing! From rushing to some down time to rushing to fit everything in one day, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Spring 2024 ⁠class calendar ⁠is open for registration on their website ⁠www.rootsknitting.com⁠! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their ⁠website⁠ for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

This lecture was given on September 28th, 2023, at Georgetown University. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Robert P. George is the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, a program founded under his leadership in 2000. George has frequently been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Born on July 10, 1955, Robert George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as a presidential appointee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President's Council on Bioethics. In addition, Professor George has served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was also a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds J.D. and M.T.S. degrees from Harvard University as well as D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., D.Litt. degrees from Oxford University. He holds twenty-two honorary doctorates. George is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and one of Princeton University's highest honors – the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. George is the author of hundreds of books, essays, and articles. He is a finger-style guitarist and bluegrass banjo player.

In this episode, the gals chat all about what their third place is! #1 is home, #2 is work, but where is #3 you might be asking? From fresh air and movement to the local pub, the gals share it all! So tune in & keep listening for updates from your favorite knitting gals :) We would LOVE to hear your thoughts for our next episode! To be part of the fun, please email your answers to Cathy at cathyfinleyknits@gmail.com. Question for Next Episode: Why are you rushing? And don't forget...Roots Knitting Academy's Spring 2024 class calendar is open for registration on their website www.rootsknitting.com! Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram for updates on all the fun they have planned! Local to Delco PA and looking to use your craft for service? Join the Second Saturday Service Knitting (SSSK) Group at Trinity Church in Swarthmore each month! Visit their website for more info. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knittingshoplive/message

In this episode, Andy Crouch talks about what it means to be truly human in an age of technology overload through smartphones and social media. He gives practical wisdom on thinking Christianly in this digital age and how we can use our devices in a way that makes us whole. Andy Crouch Bio: Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction." From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.  

Our first guest grew up on his grandfather's farm, then valiantly served our country in the Airforce before returning to the states, taking a position in the corporate world. Nate Layton, whose desire to find healthy, organic food for his family found the stores lacking in non-chemically-treated, pesticide-free foods, so he made a decision to return to his roots. After re-establishing himself by raising chickens and selling eggs, Nate purchased land in Pennsylvania and began his venture in livestock farming. Now, you can hear more about his path to owning and operating Hershberger Heritage Farms, his CSA: Berger Box, and how you can purchase and have a Berger Box filled with farm-fresh, grass-fed, products shipped directly to you by tuning in! (Link: https://www.hhf.farm)Worthy of numerous accolades, John Hearn is the new owner of the popular Swarthmore, PA restaurant: Village Vine Wine Bar & Bistro. John recently purchased Village Vine Wine Bar & Bistro from Lori Knauer and Jill Bennett Gaieski this past November, and immediately resumed lunch and dinner service--taking on the restaurant like it was business as usual. Locals knew of the change, and lucky for them-- the hard-to-please citizens of Swarthmore found John's touches to the venue and menu delightful! If you want to hear more about what John is working on to jazz up the menu and offerings--stay tuned till the end of the show! (Link: https://www.villagevineswarthmore.com)Have a flight of some boozy 'hot' chocolate, Spiked Mint Chip, and bourbon-infused vanilla ice cream as a treat for tuning in! Owner and Founder, Melissa Taviss, tapped into her family roots when she established her business, Tipsy Scoop. She began her Tipsy Scoop as a startup, selling her alcohol-infused frozen desserts out of a pushcart at popups around the city. Today, she not only has a permanent location, she also has a cookbook, and has grown her New York-based business into a recognized brand. A brand which now offers franchise opportunities on top of shipping products nationwide. If you want to learn more about Melissa and Tipsy Scoop, and to score a sweet discount code, just tune in to Food Farms and Chefs Radio Show! (Link: https://tipsyscoop.com)

Marvin Gaye. Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles. John Denver. The Monkees. All successful musical acts… with FBI files. In this week's episode of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles, the Tulsa World's Randy Krehbil joins show producer/editor Ambre Moton to take a look at how the city of Tulsa was central to The Monkees hitting the FBI's radar as persons of interest. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Boy bands are pretty popular nowadays, and most people probably credit the Beatles for the creation of the phenomenon. But some people remember the Monkees, a group often referred to as the Pre-Fab Four, a U.S. pop band that was created in 1968 for a television show of the same name that originally aired for two seasons and then went on to become a legitimate pop band in its own right. Welcome to Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles, a Lee Enterprises Podcast. I'm Ambre Moton, the show's producer and editor. Back with another story that you may not think of as a traditional true crime case. Okay. The band, it consisted of Micky Dolanz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork. The show played well to both fans and critics and performed well in its original run and through syndication and Saturday morning repeats. The show is a scripted comedy, all about the four bandmates struggling to make it in the music business. And of course, the hijinks that ensued while a manufactured band. The music really did catch on, and they eventually toured to sold out crowds on a cool OC. But how did the creators of Daydream Believer and I'm a Believer, a song brought back into the lexicon by the band Smash Mouth for the Shrek soundtrack, Lend themselves the subject of a true crime podcast? Well, would you be surprised to learn that the Monkees were the subject of an FBI investigation? The group's final surviving member, Micky Dolenz, sued the FBI in 2022 to obtain any files on him. The band and his bandmates, after submitting a Freedom of Information Act request in June of that year and failing to receive anything more than an automated response within the 20 days that federal agencies are obligated to respond. Randy Krehbiel, you may remember from the series of episodes we did with the Tulsa World about the Osages during the Reign of Terror, joins me in this episode to explain how the pop band came to the attention of the FBI. And of course, the tie to Tulsa. Randy, it is great to have you back on the podcast, so thank you so much for doing this. It's with you! You wrote an article about The Monkees, the band, and a tie to the FBI. But let's kind of start a little bit with who the Monkees were. I remember them... when I was little, I think around when I was four, MTV was airing reruns of their TV show, which was a sitcom, if I remember correctly, and I absolutely adored it. Can you just kind of talk about the history of The Monkees? Sure. So I was kind of the Monkees target audience when they came out. But in the 1960s, when they you know, we had the British invasion then and sort of pop music and rock music was really exploding onto the scene. Some TV producers got the idea of creating a band and making a television series about the band. And initially the band was not going to be performing their own music. I think the idea was they actually would do the singing but not play the instruments. And the show turned out to be like a lot of music in that era that the band became rapidly popular and almost as rapidly faded from the scene. But at any rate, they they became proficient enough, I guess you would say. Basically, they just insisted that they were going to be the band, that they didn't need all these other people. So they went out on tour. They had at least a couple of them and well, actually they had more than that, I think. But they went out on tour and they were quite successful. Like I found that they they sold something like 75 million records in about a two or three year span. So like they were pretty much a big deal. They because it was put together by these TV producers, they hired some some of the big, big name songwriters in the Brill Building in New York, which was, you know, the place where a lot of the fifties and sixties and on into the seventies. Big hits were written in the Brill Building in New York. And so so they had and they had some very big hits. And so they and they and then you mentioned MTV. They had kind of a second life when MTV came out because they started playing those shows in reruns and they became popular again. And at least some of them started touring again. And then I guess it was in the eighties and even there's one of them still alive, Micky Dolenz And he still does some shows at 78. Where didn't the show actually win an Emmy, I think. Yeah, I think one year the show won an Emmy for best comedy series. It beat out like Andy Griffith and some shows like that. So, I mean, it was legitimately entertaining, it sounds like, and critically acclaimed. So it was different because they as I recall, they they would come out and there were sort of plots, but it was almost kind of an absurdist comedy in that they were kind of goofy and they were just a lot of little series of scenes. And some people have drawn a line from that show to music videos in the you know, in the MTV area, because the you know, it was set up to kind of sell this and sell the music. And and it all revolved around the music. I mean, the the plot such as they were were pretty simple and silly and really silly, I should say. Right, Right. Okay. So let's set up the crime in air quotes here. So the Monkees were in Tulsa. You said they were touring. They were in Tulsa in 1967 to play a concert. Can you kind of set the scene with that? Yeah, they came. It was actually on January the second, 1967. They played at what was then called the Convention Center Arena. It was a downtown venue that had not been open very long at that time. It would hold about 8500 people for a concert like this, and they sold out. It was mainly like young teens. I think you know, probably 11 or 12 to 16, 17, something like that. And their parents said mom would get roped into, bring in, you know, five or six kids from the neighborhood or whatever. And, you know, we know there was no big controversy, I don't think, at the time, except this entertainment writer editor from the Tulsa Tribune, which was an afternoon paper here at the time. And he just he didn't like it. And and one of the criticisms in general of the Monkees was that it was a it was a back then. Some people call them the pre-fab four because they they you know, they were created specifically for television. It wasn't a group of guys who just kind of came together and started making music together. They were they were created and some people didn't like that. And and and their music was not intended to be, for the most part, real, you know, deep and social meaning or anything like that. And so anyway, he didn't like it. He and he wrote a letter to the FBI. Well, it's not clear to me in the in the report is not clear whether he wrote directly to the FBI. You know, apparently he maybe sent this to the television production or the television studio complaining that they were projecting subliminal messages onto a screen behind them during one of the songs, which is one of the things if you weren't around in the sixties, there was all kinds of stuff like that in the sixties and early seventies. You know, if you play Beatles records backwards, they had some kind of acid or, you know, there was that big set, a lot of a lot of radio stations and so forth would be played. Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen, because no one could understand the lyrics, but they were pretty sure they were bad, so they didn't understand. It was just a very poor recording. But so he anyway, he complained to the FBI. I don't know that the FBI really took it that seriously because as I wrote in the story, they had the guy, the guy who complained his name was Bill Donaldson. So they had his name wrong in their report. They had his newspaper wrong and their report and they had the date of the concert wrong and their report. But what happened was they said someone. A few months later, I compiled all of that into a bigger report is like 80 pages long on the influence of communism and subversive groups on Hollywood. And so that that was included in there. And, you know, I don't think anything came out of it. But if I could, I mean, I this is all kind of fun. But on the other hand, it does make people kind of stop and think it should make people kind of stop and think about, well, what does it take to get, you know, to have an FBI file? Apparently not very much writing. What was the political climate like back then? Yeah, it was it was very it was very is a lot of turmoil. And so what? And in this particular case, what they had done, they had a song that did try and it was called I Want to Be Free. We did try and have a little bit of a social message and they were showing that there is nothing subliminal about this. They were showing images of riots and the war in Vietnam and peace marches. And I think they had something on the maybe Well, I think there were scenes from the Selma, Alabama, march which would have actually taken place, you know, several years earlier. But at any rate, was still very much in the news. And so so it was it really subliminal? It was stuff they'd see on on the news every day. But but the bigger picture was that, yes, there was a lot of turmoil. There's a lot of opposition to the war in Vietnam. There was you know, it was the sixties. It was approaching a protest era. There were quite a few violent demonstrations and there was a lot of concern about the communists taking over. So a lot of a lot of this file was there was a radio station in Los Angeles that would from time to time have members of the American Communist Party on the job and they would mention that so-and-so so-and-so, who is now a very well known personality or producer at dinner with so-and-so, and back in 1938, they attended a dinner and known communists, you know, things like that. And for some reason that this it mentioned Robert Vaughn quite a bit. And people may not remember Robert Vaughn, but he was a popular actor in the sixties. He was in he was one of the Magnificent Seven in the movie The Magnificent Seven. And then later he starred in a TV show called The Man from Uncle, which kind of had a cold following. And, you know, he was always popping up at some kind of demonstration or something like that. So it was a very tumultuous time. Also, the FBI was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who liked to get as much dirt as he could on as many people as he could. So that may have had something to do with it. I don't know. And we have to take a quick break, so don't go too far. You said that Donaldson had accused the band of a deliberate manipulation or a preconditioned, immature audience for propaganda dissemination. And you mentioned that it wasn't in any way subliminal like the message they were getting across in their one potentially political song was was pretty obvious. But do you think he was just reading into things because he didn't like the music or… Well, so Bill Donaldson and I didn't know him. He well, he was still at that. So the Tribune closed in 1992 and I started a year before that. And I, I was at the World when he was at the Tribune, but I don't think our paths ever crossed. He was an older he was part of that older generation. He was a World War Two veteran. You know, patriotism was very big. He also he had an English literature degree from Swarthmore. He just you know, he yeah, I think I think first of all, I don't think he cared that he didn't like the music that much. But second of all, he didn't like the idea of this sort of manufactured he called it manufactured hysteria or manufactured emotion. He didn't like that. So I felt I think he he felt like, you know, these young people were being manipulated and, you know, probably to a certain extent they were. I'm not. But nobody after the concert was over, went out and started trying to burn the city down or anything like that. It was it was mostly just fun. And so I think to a large extent it was I can remember my own dad when I was a kid and that show was on. We we were not supposed to watch it. It just because it didn't it wasn't that he was it made him mad or anything. He just it's a stupid show within the category of television program. It's just a stupid show. And so we were we didn't watch it. And I think, you know, so there's that there's that category category. I wonder what Donaldson would think about, you know, like the Swifties and, you know, of course, the boy band fans, you know, like in I think maybe he'd be appalled. He had a background in the theater. He had performed in the theater here in Run a theater in Tulsa for a while. And, you know, I mean, I just think there would be something, although, you know, I mean, he would have gone through the period when he would have gone through the Elvis Presley period, he would have gone through the Frank Sinatra period when, you know, for even someone my age, Frank Sinatra was always kind of the older guy. But there was a period in the fifties and sixties when, you know, girls would swoon over Frank Sinatra. So anyway, you know, he he knew a little bit about that, and that got it. But he just thought this was too too fake, too phony, that these guys had. No they had done nothing to deserve the adoration and attention they were getting and that whoever had, you know, whoever had created this group was using this group to to warp the minds of Americans. You bear enough may not be entirely wrong, but I think it was probably more to sell albums and TV shows and tickets as a party. It was. It was to make money. That's all I care about, you know. And and I have to say that, you know, there maybe was a little bit of anti anti-Semitism involved. The Monkees weren't the Jewish, but the producer. So the one of the producers was the son of the head of one of the studios in in Los Angeles. And they and they seem to have been Jewish. And so, you know, I don't know. But there could have been some anti-Semitism involved in that, too. I mean, you saw that these guys were all all white, but, you know, with some of the black performers of the time, it was it was really evident, you know, and so, yeah, I mean, this is getting a little far afield, but some people think that President Nixon pushed for the criminalization of marijuana because he believed he associated it with black performers and music genres that he didn't understand or didn't approve of. And so he you know, he he wanted to put those guys in jail. Okay. So you said you didn't think that the FBI really gave it much attention. You mentioned like the misspellings and inaccuracies in the report. Did it give you any indication that they actually followed up and looked into it? Well, so I didn't see this report. But the lawyer, Mr. Zaid, is a lawyer for Mickey Bones, said that there was another report where an FBI agent went to one of the concerts, and it's not clear whether he went because of this report or he went because he had a 12 year old daughter. But anyway, she he went in and said more or less the same thing that Bill Donaldson and I fully admit I really wanted to do this because any time I can talk about Daydream Believer, it makes me happy. My mom said I would run around screaming the lyrics to that song when I was little. So that was always fun. But I mean, is the general consensus does not seem to be that the Monkees were some sort of big, subversive group, is that right? Correct. But but I will say and I, you know, I that again, it shows you how, you know, it's easy to get on some on someone's not on the FBI or whoever's list you know you think about we have these terrorism watch lists now where if your name is close enough to somebody else, you can be in trouble. I mean, so the attorney is also representing the actor from Two and a Half Men, John McCain, I think compared with John. Yeah. Yeah. So he he man him and John Pryor and and Jon Cryer said, well, I don't think I've got anything. But my uncle was an anti-war activist and we kind of like to know if he has anything. So the lawyer put in a request for, you know, this man's file. Well, it turned out it was like 3000 pages long. Holy cow. And I don't know that he was a particularly prominent. I mean, it's not like he was Abbie Hoffman or something, but. Right. Yeah. They've got 3000 pages on it. So and it can be kind of a long, protracted thing to get these because according to the lawyer, they will only process 500 pages a month on any one request. Yeah, right. And so and then and then when you get it, it may be all redacted and you've got to go to court to have the redactions removed. So, I mean, I don't want people in a panic or anything like that, but I think they ought to be aware that, you know, there there is a lot of information out there. And, you know, some people don't like that. Yeah, I don't have good answers. But obviously in this you know, in this case, it's it's difficult. It really is. And, you know, this didn't help the average person, but if they are interested in some of these, better known FBI files, they are they are available online. You can go look up. I mentioned Abbie Hoffman. You can go read every file online if you want. That's pretty much everything I had. Is there anything I didn't ask you about that you really want to make sure we get in there? You know, this is kind of one of those deals where we got the email from the lawyer and when we first looked at it was, you know, what the heck is this? And then the more we thought about it and the more we got into it, it was, you know, it's one of those things it's that's fun and people seem to be interested in it. But at the same time, it does sort of illustrate a bigger issue. Mm hmm. You could be on a list and you don't know it's or, you know, like, how easy is it to just suggest something and have it make it on to some FBI agents desk and then and now, with the digitization of everything, once you're in there, there's no telling where it's over. Maybe it's it's not quite as bad as Twitter, but yeah, you know, I completely agree. Well, thank you. That's. That's all I've got. I was just talking to you. It should be noted that there were multiple musical artists in that era who were known to be tracked by the FBI artists that the group interacted with, including the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. So the Monkees are far from the only musical act to catch the attention of the federal government. But this was still a pretty interesting story. That'll do it for this week's episode of Crime Beat Chronicles. Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss what we have coming up next. Thanks for listening.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonathan Elmer, MD, MS is an associate professor of emergency medicine, critical care medicine, and neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He received his Batchelor's degree in biochemistry from Swarthmore and his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at ...

Elizabeth Economy did her undergraduate work at Swarthmore, earned a master's at Stanford, and holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan. She served at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum before coming to the Hoover Institution in 2020. Dr. Economy is the author of half a dozen books, including her most recent volume, The World According to China. She has just returned to Hoover after a two-year leave of absence in Washington, where she served as senior advisor for China to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Economy discusses China's ambition for controlling international internet traffic and Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambition to reclaim “Chinese centrality on the global stage.” Dr. Economy also compares the China policies of the Trump and Biden administrations and notes that both administrations—while agreeing on very little else—agree that China is a danger and must be dealt with, especially with regard to Taiwan.

Michael J. Weithorn joined me to discuss growing up in Rego Park; the blackout of 1965; his favorite series Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart, and Laugh-In; watching the original SNL in college; going to Swarthmore and having no idea how to get into show business; moving to California right after graduation and teaching for three years; impressing Arnold Margolin who helped him get an agent; writing a freelance script for Benson even though he didn't now Benson's job; his first job on Making the Grade; George Wyner; Gary David Goldberg gave him a job keep him at Family Ties and not take others offers; writing a Cheers episode; thinking Cheers pilot was better than Family Ties pilot; writing Alex-centric episodes using stories from his life; casting Justine Bateman; inventing Skippy in "Death of a Grocer"; writing "The Fugitive" and casting Tom Hanks in the role; "4 Rooms Ocean Vu"; Michael Gross comedic chops; "Stage Fright" becomes a meme & teachers people the acronym SCUBA; "Speed Trap" - Alex on speed; Robert Costanzo; writing "The Real Thing" which introduces Ellen; using Billy Vera and the Beaters "At this Moment"; writing an episode for Peter Scolari; leaving Family Ties and creating Pursuit of Happiness; writing a classic Wonder Years; creating True Colors; cast changes and illnesses; likes to write episodes with surreal dream sequences; his King of Queens version is hated and loved; working on the Sinbad Show; wrote the proposed Krusty the Klown spinoff with Matt Groening but was nixed by James L. Brooks; told to run Sinbad if he wanted South Central to go; FOX cancels most "black" shows; wishes South Central and Ned & Stacey were streaming; writing Ned & Stacey on spec; cast Thomas Haden Church and network wanted Debra Messing; King of Queens was not a spinoff of Raymond; being a big fan of Kein James standup and seeing him starring in a "New Honeymooners"; wrote Carrie in Lean Remini's voice before she was even hired; King of Queens was paired with and crossed over with Raymond; Jack Carter originally hired as Arthur, but they got Jerry Stiller to change his mind; how Patton Oswalt & Nicole Sullivan were cast; his indie film "A Little Help" starring Jenna Fischer; working on Weird Loners, The Goldbergs and Schooled; George Segal and "Where's Poppa"; working on a romcom with 60 year-old actors; Family Ties Vacation and "A, My Name is Alex"

During her days at Swarthmore College, Charlotte Moore found out two things: she was really good at mathematics, and she didn't like teaching. Those realizations led to a long career in astronomy and physics. Moore was born 125 years ago yesterday, in Pennsylvania. Her parents were teachers, and they encouraged her to get a good education. She earned a degree in math from Swarthmore. She worked as a substitute teacher to pay her way, but she didn't like the experience. Moore got a job at Princeton as a “computer” — she did the tedious calculations that today are done by electronic computers. She worked for Henry Norris Russell, a leading astronomer. They published many papers on binary stars and the chemistry of the stars. In 1931, Moore moved to Mount Wilson Observatory in California. She studied the Sun — especially sunspots. She came up with the first good idea of the temperatures of the dark blotches, which are much cooler than the surrounding gas. While in California, she also earned her PhD, in astronomy. Moore later returned to Princeton, where she worked with Norris. She married a fellow scientist, Bancroft Sitterley. And she developed reference tables for the chemical elements that are still in use today. Charlotte Moore Sitterley finished her career at the National Bureau of Standards. Yet she continued to work for decades after retiring — all the way up to her death, at age 91. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

EPISODE 1668: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bruce Dorsey, author of MURDER IN A MILL TOWN, about the first true crime that captivated America Bruce Dorsey is a Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He is the author of the award-winning Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. He lives in New York City and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. His latest book is MURDER IN A MILL TOWN: Sex, Faith, and the Crime that Captivated a Nation (2023) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology, Timing, and the Metaverse.In this episode of The Outspoken Podcast, host Shana Cosgrove talks to Dr. Corinna (Cori) Lathan, Chief Science Officer at DANA Brain Vital, about her current role and her two decades as founder and CEO of AnthroTronix. Cori tells Shana about how she pursued her interests in neuroscience and human space flight into lab jobs (the “vomit comet”) and then a PhD in Neuroscience and an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT (in that order). They discuss her decision to leave a tenured university position to start up AnthroTronix, and Cori retells the company's history of groundbreaking inventions, moving from educational robotics to designing VR experiments for the International Space Station to making “sensors for soldiers.” Cori talks about how she wrote her 2022 book, Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist, as a legacy memoir of her company, as an inspiration to younger generations, and as a way to honor the memory of her parents. She tells Shana that we are already living in the metaverse, urges listeners to make STEM a creative endeavor again, and remembers when her fifth-grade classmates voted her “most likely to go to Mars.”QUOTES“I think we're going to move in and out of the physical-digital convergence. ‘Physical-digital convergence' is how I think of the metaverse. And It's going to be a spectrum of technologies, and it's going to be a spectrum of uses, and it's going to be pervasive. Our day will be moving in and out of this physical-digital continuum.” - Cori Lathan [13:05] “Call it whatever you want. Get the tools you need to get [things] done. . . . If you need to have the label, you can always tack the label on.” - Cori Lathan [48:23]“We very much have done ourselves a disservice by making math the end-all, be-all. . . . I happen to love math and I happen to have been good at it. If I hadn't, I would have been completely steered out of a STEM career.” - Cori Lathan [50:19] TIMESTAMPS[00:04] Intro[01:34] Meet Cori Lathan[04:30] Writing the Stories of AnthroTronix's Inventions [09:35] Emerging Technologies That Improve Human Performance[12:12] Living in the Metaverse? How Pervasive AR/VR Will Be[14:32] Finding the Authentic as New-Generation Digital Natives[16:49] On Tech and Timing: When Technology Meets Market Readiness[21:42] Starting up AnthroTronix[27:45] Winning a National Science Foundation SBIR Grant[29:10] From Disability Product Development to DARPA[34:07] Growing Up Fearless, Inventing a College Major at Swarthmore[40:50] Researching Human Space Flight, Earning a Neuroscience PhD at MIT [48:15] Find Cool Projects with Cool People[51:36] Maker Spaces: Let's Change the Way We Do STEM Education[57:58] OutroRELEVANT LINKSCori Lathan on LinkedInCori Lathan at Outspoken AgencyNyla Technology SolutionsI'd love to hear from you -- your feedback is important to me and I read all of it. If you enjoyed the podcast, I hope you'll give us 5 stars. I'll be sure to thank you via email. If not, let me know what you think we should do differently. Don't forget to hit “subscribe” so you'll receive notifications about guest interviews and other topics that drop every Tuesday.Live well, Shana

Ep.150 features Melissa Joseph (b. 1980, Saint Marys PA), a New York based artist and independent curator. Her work addresses themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as her experiences as a second generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Jeffrey Deitch Projects, MOCA Arlington, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New American Paintings, Le Monde, CNN, and Architectural Digest and participated in residencies at Dieu Donné, Fountainhead, BRIC, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, and will be in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design and Greenwich House Pottery in 2023. Headshot is by Samantha Casolari Artist https://www.melissajoseph.net/ Swarthmore https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/conflicting-truths-works-melissa-joseph The Utah Review https://www.theutahreview.com/exhibitions-about-identity-body-positivity-best-of-utah-design-arts-a-tribute-to-a-beloved-grandmother-artistic-reflection-on-human-mortality-and-realism-highlight-summer-shows-at-utah-museum-of-c/ Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/melissa-joseph-interviewed/ MAD Museum https://madmuseum.org/learn/melissa-joseph Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/640357/melissa-joseph-nee-regular-normal/ Culture Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/17/artists-frieze-los-angeles-focus-2023 Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.in/magazine-story/artist-melissa-josephs-felt-art-responds-to-her-biracial-identity/ Fondazione Imago Mundi https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/webdoc/melissa-joseph-eng/ Arte Realizzata https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/a-refreshing-conversation-with-melissa-joseph Textile Art Center https://textileartscenter.com/feature/air-artist-highlight-melissa-joseph/ Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2022/12/24/melissa-joseph-tissage-et-metissage_6155572_4497319.html Maake Magazine https://www.maakemagazine.com/melissa-joseph

In the wake of the sedition trial's collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell. He finds evidence of a coordinated effort to subvert American democracy… as well as the names of high-profile Americans involved. Rogge then returns to America... and goes rogue. Risking his career as a prosecutor, he makes public what he's discovered about the fascist threat and the Americans who supported it. And he offers a prescient warning about an American criminal justice system that is ill-equipped to defend democracy from those who seek to destroy it.