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The EdUp Experience

The EdUp Experience

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We welcome YOU to America’s leading higher education podcast! Hosted by Dr. Joe Sallustio, whose down-to-Earth approach & industry experience helps to make dry & complicated educational topics more fun & engaging to discuss. Elvin Freytes, Producer, brings YOU the most innovative leaders in higher education to the microphone. The EdUp Experience team brings over 40 years of experience in higher education - YOU will feel refreshed, upskilled, & reskilled after listening to this podcast. LEARN MORE: edupexperience.com We make education YOUR business!YOUR Higher Education Podcast
Episodes
  • From Wicked Problems to Ingenious Solutions: The Leadership Transformation - with Melissa Morriss-Olson, CEO, The American University of Greece Global Campus
    Dec 5 2025

    It's YOUR time to #EdUp with Melissa Morriss-Olson, CEO, The American University of Greece Global Campus, Distinguished Professor of Higher Ed Leadership, Bay Path University, host of the IngenioUs podcast, & author of Ingenious Leadership: Creating Solutions to Wicked Problems in Higher Education!

    In this episode, brought to you by Career-Bond,

    YOUR co-host is Darius Goldman, Founder & CEO, Career-Bond

    YOUR host is Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    • How does a 150 year old institution founded by women missionaries from Massachusetts bring its incredible history & culture to the world through an entirely online global campus with faculty & students from around the globe?
    • What happens when a leader interviews college presidents for 5 years, identifies common themes & habits from thriving leaders & turns those insights into a book with embedded QR codes & an accompanying workbook for emerging leaders?
    • How does an online university design asynchronous 8 week MBA courses with weekly modules, 24/7 discussion forums & highly intentional learning outcomes that allow modern adult learners to complete assignments on their own time while maintaining rich interaction?

    Buy Melissa's book & accompanying workbook at Academic Impressions:
    https://www.academicimpressions.com/product/ingenious-leadership/

    Listen in to #EdUp

    Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp!

    Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience

    We make education YOUR business!

    P.S. Want to get early, ad-free access & exclusive leadership content to help support the show? Then ⁠​subscribe today​⁠ to lock in YOUR $5.99/m lifetime supporters rate! This offer ends December 31, 2025


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    44 mins
  • 4 Nobel Prizes, 100+ Programs, 600K Alumni: Inside Berkeley's Innovation Machine - with Darren Cooke, Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley
    Dec 4 2025

    It's YOUR time to #EdUp

    In this episode, sponsored by the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 17-19,

    YOUR guest is Darren Cooke, Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, UC Berkeley

    YOUR co-host is Brent Ramdin, CEO, EducationDynamics

    YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio

    • How does a university with over 100 innovation & entrepreneurship organizations on campus coordinate them all to become #1 in the world for venture backed startups founded by undergraduate alumni, beating Stanford 3 years in a row?
    • What happens when a university wins 4 Nobel prizes in 1 week & makes innovation & entrepreneurship activity count as a positive in faculty tenure evaluations?
    • How does a public university leverage 600,000 living alumni & scale to 1,000X alumni engagement while maintaining its mission of providing long term societal benefits?

    Listen in to #EdUp

    Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp!

    Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience

    We make education YOUR business!

    P.S. Want to get early, ad-free access & exclusive leadership content to help support the show? Then ⁠​subscribe today​⁠ to lock in YOUR $5.99/m lifetime supporters rate! This offer ends December 31, 2025!


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    47 mins
  • Half of America's Colleges Are Coin Tosses, Here's How to Beat the Odds - with Gary Stocker, Founder, College Viability
    Dec 3 2025

    It's YOUR time to #EdUp

    In this episode, part of our EdUp Extra series (because who doesn’t love a little extra goodness in their life), & sponsored by the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 17-19,

    YOUR guest is Gary Stocker, Founder, College Viability

    YOUR host is ⁠⁠Elvin Freytes

    • How does a guy helping a friend prepare for a college presidency discover in 2015 that there was zero merger partner data available & end up founding College Viability in 2018 to create financial comparison apps for 3,000 colleges?
    • What happens when you discover that not even half of American 4 year colleges graduate at least 50% of their students in 4 years & create tools to help parents check financial health before majors or campus tours?
    • How does tracking the CapEx to depreciation ratio & 8 year enrollment trends reveal which of the hundreds of colleges in financial distress will face closure versus merger decisions driven by economic survival?

    Listen in to #EdUp

    Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp!

    Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience

    We make education YOUR business!

    P.S. Want to get early, ad-free access & exclusive leadership content to help support the show? Then ⁠​subscribe today​⁠ to lock in YOUR $5.99/m lifetime supporters rate! This offer ends December 31, 2025!


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    37 mins
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A 2022 Professional Development podcast of the year awardee. A must listen for anyone interested in higher education.

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