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    Higher Ed Advisor: A Baker Tilly Podcast

    Welcome to Higher Ed Advisor, a Baker Tilly podcast series where we speak with higher education industry leaders about practical and proactive guidance to help colleges and universities protect and enhance their value.
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    Forward-looking solutions to approaching the top challenges, risks and opportunities of 2023

    Forward-looking solutions to approaching the top challenges, risks and  opportunities of 2023

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    Strategies to mitigate construction risks in higher education

    Strategies to mitigate construction risks in higher education

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    Expanding access to mental health services in higher education

    Expanding access to mental health services in higher education

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    Learn more Colgate University: https://www.colgate.edu/

    Learn more about Mantra Health: https://www.mantrahealth.com/

    TCU enhances student mental health support through its unique care model

    TCU enhances student mental health support through its unique care model

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    Learn more Dr. Eric Wood: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drericwood/

    Read more about TCU’s Comprehensive Collaborative Care Model: https://counseling.tcu.edu/about-us/scope-of-care/#GuidingPrinciples

    Learn more about Texas Christian University: https://www.tcu.edu/

    Why institutions should implement an integrated brand strategy in today’s environment

    Why institutions should implement an integrated brand strategy in today’s environment

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    Learn more about the University of Louisville: https://louisville.edu/

    Investing in your students and community through collaborative partnerships

    Investing in your students and community through collaborative partnerships

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    Learn more about the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire: https://www.uwec.edu/

     

    Designing an effective cybersecurity strategy to safeguard institutional data and research

    Designing an effective cybersecurity strategy to safeguard institutional data and research

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    Learn more about The University of Southern Mississippi: https://www.usm.edu/

    Exploring PASSHE’s strategic integration journey towards fiscal sustainability and student success

    Exploring PASSHE’s strategic integration journey towards fiscal sustainability and student success

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    Aligning student and institutional needs to drive enrollment and workforce growth

    Aligning student and institutional needs to drive enrollment and workforce growth

    How do institutions thrive during a period of drastic change and transformation across an evolving higher education landscape? For Rosedale Technical College (Rosedale Tech), it stems from their commitment to being student-centered.  

    Rosedale Tech’s President, Dennis Wilke, joins us in this fiscal resiliency episode to share how the institution’s unique value proposition allows them to better understand their students’ needs, grow a diverse student population and amplify relationships with employers to form workforce development partnerships that create endless possibilities for the entire community. Plus, he explains how his institution’s values-based focus and unique strategies have improved institutional and student outcomes despite the industry’s many challenges.  

    Listen for the key drivers that enabled Rosedale Tech to achieve record enrollment during the peak of the pandemic and their approaches that go beyond conventional wisdom to prepare students for the workforce and holistic success.

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    Celebrating two years of architecting institutional resiliency and student succes

    Celebrating two years of architecting institutional resiliency and student succes

    In this special anniversary episode, our higher education Value ArchitectsTM and hosts, Dave Capitano, Christine Smith and Adrienne Larmett, celebrate two years of Baker Tilly’s Higher Ed Advisor podcast. They reflect on how this podcast began, where it is today and looking towards the future, how it will continue to grow.  

    Higher Ed Advisor provides a unique infrastructure and welcoming platform for institutional leaders to have engaging conversations about challenges, opportunities and solutions occurring within the rapidly evolving higher education landscape to strive for institutional and student success. During a time that demands innovation and transformation, our hosts highlight memorable takeaways, best practices and lessons learned from industry luminaries. Listen as we reminisce on notable episodes that welcomed diverse and valuable insights on a wide range of topics, from fiscal resiliency to collegiate athletics and esports to student mental health and wellness.

    Plus, we give a sneak peek at future episode topics and reveal what college and university leaders should focus on now for a fiscally sustainable tomorrow as they prepare for the upcoming year. 

     

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    University of Washington propels its esports program through its mission, values and student gaming culture

    University of Washington propels its esports program through its mission, values and student gaming culture

    The world of esports continues to be a positive disruptor across higher education and shows no sign of slowing down.  

    University of Washington’s (UW) Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, joins Baker Tilly’s collegiate athletics and esports practice leaders, Dave Capitano and Adrienne Larmett, in this engaging podcast to explore what institutions should consider as they prepare to launch a new collegiate esports program or enhance their existing program into a more robust one. She discusses the importance of aligning institutional mission and values with collegiate esports, attaining equity and creating a sense of belonging for students.  

    Dr. Hoffman also emphasizes the unique role esports plays in creating novel ways of learning in higher education. Listen to how UW’s commitment to being student-centered, their longstanding student gaming culture and the institution’s three pillars – community, career and competition, have all set up the University for esports success.

    Plus, Dr. Hoffman reveals three takeaways that can help colleges and universities amplify their esports programs in this dynamic digital space.

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    Learn more about the University of Washington’s esports https://hub.washington.edu/play/esports/

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    Learn more about Dr. Hoffman: https://linktr.ee/jlhoffman 

    Learn more about Dr. Hoffman’s book: “Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition” 

     

    Innovative support services boost student outcomes and fiscal resiliency

    Innovative support services boost student outcomes and fiscal resiliency

    How do higher education institutions meet the unique and growing needs of a diverse student population while striving for fiscal resiliency at the same time? In this Higher Ed Advisor fiscal resiliency episode, we learn that it starts with building relationships with “today’s student.”

    Iowa Wesleyan University (IWU) Associate Dean of Student Success Initiatives, Katie Aranda, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (Minnesota State) Director for Student Development and Success, Paul Shepherd, join Baker Tilly’s Higher Education Practice Managing Director, Christine Smith, to highlight innovative ways institutions are aligning and connecting their student support services to help ensure students have access to resources on campus and in the community, leveraging technology and tools and using data to make informed decisions to be a student-ready institution.  

    Listen for the top reason why students are unable to complete their degrees and how your institution can strengthen persistence now to ease the pathway to graduation for tomorrow. 

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    Learn more about Iowa Wesleyan University: https://www.iw.edu/

    Learn more about Minnesota State Colleges and Universities: https://minnstate.edu/

    Keys to building a world-class collegiate esports program with Boise State University

    Keys to building a world-class collegiate esports program with Boise State University

    The esports industry has transformed from gamers playing video games as a hobby and student-run clubs into a competitive, collegiate digital playing field as institutions across the country take notice and create their own state-of-the-art esports programs. Boise State University’s Varsity Esports Head Coach, Doc Haskell, returns to our athletics podcast series. We discuss the exponential growth of esports programs on campuses in recent years, how esports awards increase collegiate esports programs’ visibility and boost funding opportunities and how name, image and likeness (NIL) serves as guide to focus on student success.

    Doc also reveals what it takes to build a world-class collegiate esports program: put the student first. 

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    Navigating your institution’s fraud risk landscape

    Navigating your institution’s fraud risk landscape

    From improving enrollment to attaining student and institutional success, higher education is experiencing the need to transform at an accelerating rate. This evolving and competitive environment creates not only opportunities for colleges and universities to differentiate themselves, but also opens doors to commit fraud that could harm an institution’s reputation and derail the path towards achieving fiscal resiliency.  

    Jonathan Marks, leader of Baker Tilly’s global fraud and forensic investigations and compliance practice, joins us in this fiscal resiliency episode to discuss fraud risk in higher education. We explore why fraud happens, internal and external pressures leaders and their institutions face that lead to acts of fraud, the relationship between fraud and reporting data for national rankings and other topics for institutions to consider to proactively detect and prevent fraud risks.  

    Don’t miss Jonathan’s key takeaways: ten “red flags” that help leaders assess and determine the level of fraud risk within their institution. 

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    Florida Tech’s student-centered focus drives its successful esports program

    Florida Tech’s student-centered focus drives its successful esports program

    Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its esports program launched by the university’s esports director, Dana Hustedt. In this episode of Higher Ed Advisor, Dana joined us to discuss how she started the university’s first esports program as she transformed student survey responses and student-run clubs into an initiative that propelled the university into the exciting collegiate esports landscape. We also explored some of the drivers of esports at Florida Tech, including building on its existing and large campus gaming population and integrating the student overlap from Florida Tech’s programs as a and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) institution.  

    Plus, tune in to Dana’s discussion about the anatomy of building a successful and thriving esports program on college campuses.

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    Innovative affordability solutions for fiscal resiliency and student success

    Innovative affordability solutions for fiscal resiliency and student success

    College affordability is a common concern that many prospective and current students have and a challenging issue that colleges and universities face. In this Higher Ed Advisor fiscal resiliency podcast episode, MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) Associate Vice President for Enrollment, Drew Whipple, and Ardeo Education Solutions President, Peter Samuelson, alongside Baker Tilly’s Christine Smith explore loan repayment assistance programs (LRAPs) as an innovative solution that gives students access to higher education and improves institutional enrollment. Plus, we learn about the success of LRAPs in MNU’s “Pioneer Pledge” program, the many benefits of LRAPs, how the programs work and ways LRAPs contribute to institutional fiscal resiliency. 

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    Penn State University women’s rugby team reaches for more goals that foster student success

    Penn State University women’s rugby team reaches for more goals that foster student success

    In this Higher Ed Advisor athletics podcast, Penn State University Women’s Rugby Coach, Kate Daley, and former student athlete and rugby player, Scout Cheeks, join Baker Tilly’s Dave Capitano and Brandon Zlupko to explore factors outside academics that contribute to success for student athletes. They candidly address a range of topics, from having time management skills to seeking resources for mental health and wellness and understanding how coaches balance student development on the field with being a mentor off the field. Plus, listen to Kate and Scout’s advice to student athletes about engaging in opportunities to help them grow and learn from other perspectives and build a network of belonging.

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