Tanya Barnett has had a unique and fascinating journey through higher education. As the Director of the Office of Career Strategy at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Tanya leverages the assets afforded to higher education to partner with industry to build Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready students. Her insights likely prognosticate the future of higher education.

In higher education, it's norm is that academics experience very few academic environments, typically through their work experience. Search firms who work with universities and colleges get deeply entrenched for a period before the search and through the search completion. Natalie Leonhard, a partner with Isaacson Miller, has been working in the talent recruitment field for almost fourteen years. She oversees multiple searches simultaneously and thus has worked with an incredible number of. institutions. Listen and hear her seasoned perspective!

Of all the purposes institutions of higher education serve, what is the ultimate? The students. It behooves RHE to garner the student perspective.

Today's episode is the first one that garners ideas from the student perspective. Our guest, Katherine Walsh, has established herself as a young thought leader. Ms. Walsh is an undergraduate student at Marquette University and was featured in the Wall Street Journal in November, 2020.

In this episode, we discuss higher education and what she sees as those things we should not let go. She also offers ideas on how we might create a "new" university.