The Academic Operations Podcast Coursedog

Ian Wischmeier, University Registrar at Northern Arizona University, discusses what it means to measure how the registrar's office impacts student success.

Dr. Colin Marlaire, Provost at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design shares his lessons learned from implementing multiple LMS and SIS systems at different institutions. He discusses the art to gathering faculty and campus stakeholder buy in for new technologies and how institutions should approach implementations more broadly for success.

We sit down with Dr. Jill Wright, Assistant Vice President of Assessment, Accreditation & Academic Services at Illinois Central College, and discuss her journey in higher ed and what she's learned along the way about institutional innovation. Jill shares insights about how to put students at the center of innovation and how to effectively conduct change management along the way.

On episode 2, we speak with Kara Monroe, former Provost at Ivy Tech Community College, about new urgencies around curriculum innovation and how institutions can keep up with evolving demands from students and employers.

In this episode, we talk about the future of the student information system (SIS) and how technology needs at post-secondary institutions are evolving with Mark Simpson.

What makes higher ed work? That’s the question we’re here to answer on the Academic Operations Podcast. Mara Koval and Justin Wenig are going straight to the people behind the academic operations of colleges, universities, and post-secondary institutes - provosts, registrars, curriculum managers, IT experts, and an ensemble of other administrators - to elevate the stories of how they’re delivering the ‘ed’ in higher ‘ed’.