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Higher Ed: A Guide for the Perplexed

The College Tuition Problem
Mark Salisbury on why tuition is broken and how to fix it
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The Achievement Culture
Joseph Davis on college, anxiety, and the purpose of higher education
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The Purposeful Graduate
Tim Clydesdale on vocation, anxiety, and higher education
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How College Works
Dan Chambliss explains the basics
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Shooting Down Helicopter Parents
Mike Edmondson on rethinking parental expectations about majors, careers, and college in general
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The First Three Weeks
Mark Salisbury on the most important 21 days of an undergraduate's life
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Hard Questions to Ask College Admissions Officers
Mark Salisbury on what really matters in choosing a college.
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Higher Ed: A Guide for the Perplexed
All the resources that the podcast has produced which explain college to the confused
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Working College
Allison Holbrook Southard on Alice Lloyd College and the work-college tradition
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Knowledge Towns
Building colleges for local prosperity, with David Staley and Dominic Endicott
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What’s the Use of Your Humanities Degree in an AI World?
Brent Orrell on work, learning, and the liberal arts amid automation
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The Secret Syllabus
Jay Phelan and Terry Burnham on the unwritten rules of college success
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