TRANSFORMED

Public Higher Education in an Age of Disruption

24 Sep 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Ian F. McNeely reveals how his book "The University Unfettered" provides a dispassionate, evidence-b...

Pivoting Off the Strategic Plan to Adopt a 7-week Course Structure

10 Sep 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Western Technical College president Roger Stanford shares with host Joe Gottlieb how moving to a seven-week term s...

Establishing Core Values and Revitalized Culture to Drive an Institutional Pivot ​

28 Aug 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Emily Messer, President of Texas Wesleyan University, sits down with host Joe Gottlieb to explore how collabor...

Partnering with Your Board to Navigate Tumultuous Times

14 Aug 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Mary Papazian, Senior Fellow at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and former presid...

Investing in Faculty to Embrace Transformation

31 Jul 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, our host, Joe Gottlieb, speaks with Dr. Pamela Steinke, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor of Aca...

Patient Gardening for Rapid Enrollment Growth

17 Jul 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe speaks with Jeffrey Morin, President of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Des...

Marshalling Progress with an Agile Strategic Plan

02 Jul 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe sits down with Dr. Andrea Talentino, President of Augustana College, to explor...

Customer-focused Coach as Technology Leadership Model

19 Jun 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb speaks with Sean Moriarty, Chief Technology Officer at State University of New York,...

Partnering with Finance to Recover from Technical Debt

05 Jun 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, host Joe Gottlieb welcomes Matthew Gunkel, Chief Information Officer at the University of Califor...

Thrifty Innovation among Friends at Scale

22 May 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Nuno Fernandes, President of American Public University System (APUS), joins our host, Joe Gottlieb, for an inspir...

Back to the Future for Higher Education

08 May 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Join our host Joe Gottlieb as he welcomes back Wayne Bovier, Co-founder and CEO of Higher Digital, for a wide-rang...

The Importance of Social Capital for the Strategic CIO

24 Apr 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe sits down with Dwane Sterling, Chief Information Officer at Skidmore College, ...

Turning a Necessary Merger into a Tectonic Shift in Teaching and Learning

10 Apr 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe Gottlieb talks with Alin Vrancila, CEO of Jessup Global and former provost at ...

Surviving as a Rural yet Resourceful Community College​

27 Mar 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe Gottlieb sits down with Dr. Shawn Powell, President of Eastern New Mexico Univ...

Adaptive Leadership: How to Win Trust and Accomplish Change​

13 Mar 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, host Joe Gottlieb speaks with Dr. Karlyn Crowley, Provost at Ohio Wesleyan University, about &quo...

Applying Quiet Leadership to Digital Transformation 2.0

26 Feb 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!David Weil, Vice President of Information Technology and Analytics at Ithaca College, joins the TRANSFORMED podcas...

Exerting Patience When Refreshing an Institution's Vision

12 Feb 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Fairmont State University President, Dr. Michael Davis, shares his journey as a first-time president, offering ins...

Creating Student Success in a Digital Now

29 Jan 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Vin Del Casino, Provost at San José State University, joins our host, Joe Gottlieb, Higher Digital President ...

Transforming to an R1 Institution

16 Jan 2025

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Jon Allen, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Baylor University ...

Maximizing an Institution’s Capacity for Change

19 Dec 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Joe Gottlieb sits down with Steve Munson, Vice President and Chief Information Off...

Obligations and Opportunities for Ethical AI

05 Dec 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Peter Kilpatrick, President of the Catholic University of America, discusses the development of their groundbr...

Leveraging Objective Prioritization to Serve the Research Agenda

21 Nov 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Miroslav Humer, Vice President and CIO at Case Western University joins host, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO at H...

Intentional IT for Intentional Higher Ed for Intentional Students

07 Nov 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Bao Johri, Chief Information Officer at Fresno State University, joins our hos...

Reimagining Land Grant to Connect Rural Communities to the Post-AI Economy

24 Oct 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Jeff Thompson, Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses the evolving ...

Serving Students Like Family while Maintaining a Relevant Academic Portfolio

09 Oct 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Unlock the secrets to a family-like academic environment where support is not just an option but a guarantee. Join...

The Importance of Project Timing

26 Sep 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Joe Whitehead, Senior Advisor to the President for Regional Science Initiatives and former Provost at Bowling ...

Comprehensive Academic Planning in the Age of Polytechnic Velocity

12 Sep 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Host Joe Gottlieb sits down with Glendalí Rodriguez, Provost at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, to explore the...

Leveraging IT as a Sustainable Strategic Change Catalyst

29 Aug 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Join our guest, Christina Baum, CIO and VP of Digital Transformation at Utah Valley University as she details her ...

Harvesting Necessity to Mother the Reinvention of Programs

15 Aug 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Our guest, Dr. Diana Rogers-Adkinson, former Provost for Commonwealth University, goes into depth with our host, J...

How Engagement Transforms Student Success

01 Aug 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, talks with Jim Brigadier, CEO of Ready Education about How Enga...

Transforming the Strategic Plan to Transform the Institution

18 Jul 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Dr. Michael Lacourse, Provost at Utah Tech University, joins Joe Gottlieb to walk through a series of strategic pl...

Transforming Business Reports as a Pathway to Data Governance

02 Jul 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Fred Rocha, former CIO at Coast Community College District and current senior consultant at Higher Digital, joins ...

Dual Transformation as the Growth Engine for Higher Ed

19 Jun 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, we break the mold and welcome two esteemed guests from Butler University: Dr. Broo...

So You Want To Be a Provost...

06 Jun 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Andrea Scott, Former Provost and new Special Advisor to the President and dist...

Transformation via Active, Open Leadership

23 May 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Josh Wilson, former Associate CIO at Brandeis University, Board Vice Chair for Ape...

Developing a Comprehensive Strategy for AI

09 May 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Patricia Patria, Chief Information Officer at Babson College, talks about the pros...

Principle-Centered Leadership for Confident Transformation

25 Apr 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Ali Houshmand, President at Rowan University, highlights the value of candid a...

What’s Possible When the Provost Owns Transformation?

11 Apr 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Tamara Brown, Provost and SVP of Academic Affairs at the University of Texas, ...

Changing the Institutional Business Model for a Post-pandemic World

28 Mar 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Ann Marie Klotz, Vice President for Development, Enrollment and Student Succes...

Transitioning Online Education from External OPM to Internal Core Competency

14 Mar 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode of TRANSFORMED, Dr. Maléka Ingram, Executive Dean of the Online Campus at Adler University, walks...

Transforming a Law School by Taking Its Signature Degree Online

29 Feb 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode in the Presidential Series of TRANSFORMED, Darby Dickerson – president and dean of Southwestern ...

Barbarians at the Higher Ed Table

14 Feb 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode in the Presidential Series of TRANSFORMED, Dr. John Jackson – president of William Jessup Univer...

Higher Ed Myths, Trends, and Future Practices

01 Feb 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Casey Green – creator of the Campus Computing Project and award-winning industry analyst in hig...

The New Provost: Accelerating Change in Complex Times

18 Jan 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Junius Gonzales – Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Montclair State ...

Liberal Learning and Applied Arts: Higher Ed Blueprint for the Age of AI?

04 Jan 2024

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Bryon Grigsby – President at Moravian University – offers his perspective on the value of a l...

Courageous Leadership for Impactful Transformation

20 Dec 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Miloš Topić – Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Digital Officer at Grand ...

Surviving a Presidential Ouster through Focus on Transformation Results

06 Dec 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Subscribe or follow TRANSFORMED wherever you listen, to get the latest episode when it drops and hear directly fro...

Overcoming Imperfect Incentives to Serve Learners of All Ages

22 Nov 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Lisa Vollendorf – President at Empire State University – highlights her institution’s f...

Organizational Mutations Leading to Higher Education Evolution

09 Nov 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Higher Digital has just published the next episode of its podcast, TRANSFORMED. Every other week we interview expe...

Alignment as a Catalyst for Positive Change

25 Oct 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Higher Digital has just published the next episode of its podcast, TRANSFORMED. Every other week we interview expe...

Organizational Change to Drive Organizational Change Management

10 Oct 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Monique Sendze – Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at California State Univ...

The CIO as Not-so-accidental Therapist

26 Sep 2023

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Leveraging Stakeholder Buy-in for Better/Faster Change

05 Sep 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Rafik Mohamed – Provost and VP of Academic Affairs at Cal State San Bernadino – offers su...

How Ai Will Catalyze Higher Ed Reform

31 Aug 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Saul Jimenez-Sandoval – President of California State University, Fresno – explains how A...

Preparing Fourth Generation Enterprise Technologists

10 Aug 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Lin Zhou - CIO of The New School - discusses the preparation of fourth generation enterprise ...

Maintaining Traditions through Disruptive Change​

21 Jul 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Bashar Hanna - President of Commonwealth University - discusses the importance of maintaining...

Leveraging Network Effects for Higher Education Reform

13 Jul 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Pardis Mahdavi - President-select at the University of La Verne - discusses the need for and ...

The Humanist Approach to Transformation

29 Jun 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Marlene Tromp - President of Boise State University - discusses how she is applying a humanis...

Transforming IT Culture, Team and Portfolio

25 May 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Vince Kellen - Chief Information Officer at University of California San Diego - discusses th...

Empowering Digital Stakeholders

11 May 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Andrea Ballinger - Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer at Oregon State University - emphas...

Quality-minded Transformation

27 Apr 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Muddassir Siddiqi - President of Central College in the Houston Community College System - of...

Transforming the Teach/Learn/Work-space over Time

12 Apr 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Bill Coppola - President of Tarrant County College, Southeast Campus - describes how a facult...

Institutional Change Strategies Intent on Reversing the Great Education Recession

06 Apr 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Lisa Avery - President of Linn Benton Community College - reviews critical strategies for rev...

Preparing Citizens for Success in our Digital Democracy

09 Mar 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Elaine Maimon - former President of Governors State University - explains why critical thinki...

Driving Strategic Alignment through Academic Program Innovation

23 Feb 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Anthony Wutoh - Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Howard University - shares his direct e...

Transforming Software Customizations

31 Jan 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Moreau - recently retired Vice Chancellor of Technology for the Foothill-De Anza Community Co...

Transforming Institutional Strategy

16 Jan 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Celia Esposito-Noy - Superintendent and President of Solano Community College - describes how...

Strategically Transforming IT

05 Jan 2023

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Anne Pacione - CIO at St. John’s University - shares best practices and lessons learned from ef...

Kinetic Leadership for Kinetic Transformation

12 Dec 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Margaret McMenamin - President of Union College of New Jersey - describes the kinetic leaders...

Overcoming Organizational Fear that Prevents Digital Transformation With former President Mary Papazian of San Jose State University

30 Nov 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Mary Papazian  - former President of San Jose State University - shares lessons learned abou...

Leveraging the University Platform to Transform Communities with President Keith Whitfield of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

14 Nov 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Keith Whitfield - President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas - describes how UNLV is tr...

Refreshing Student Engagement Post-COVID with Iowa State’s Associate Provost for Academic Programs Ann Marie VanDerZanden

02 Nov 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Ann Marie VanDerZanden - Associate Provost for Academic Programs at Iowa State University - descr...

Extended Reality Learning Innovation

04 Oct 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dr. Mary Gallagher - President of L.A. City College - and Marcy Drummond - Vice President of Econ...

People-first Transformation

21 Sep 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Dionne Curbeam - Deputy CIO at Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD - describes how a “peop...

The Psychology of Transformation

07 Sep 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Jane Close Conoley, PhD - President of California State University, Long Beach - describes how th...

Data-driven Transformation

24 Aug 2022

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Taking IT Organizations from Good to Great

10 Aug 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, sat down with Jack Suess, Vice President of IT...

Driving Organizational Engagement to Facilitate Change

18 Jul 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, sat down with Ed Evans, CIO of Texas A&M U...

Transforming the Student Experience Through Evolved Governance, with John Rathje

06 Jul 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, sat down with John Rathje, Vice President of I...

Balancing Complex Forces in The California State University System

20 Jun 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, sat down with Michael Berman, CIO of the Calif...

transformed #31 Shaunak Roy - Gamifying Student Engagement

01 Jun 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, sat down with Shaunak Roy, founder and CEO of ...

Reimagining College for Faster Completion

09 May 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!Subscribe or follow TRANSFORMED wherever you listen, to get the latest episode when it drops and hear directly fro...

Digital Transformation at Liberal Arts Colleges

29 Apr 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb sat down with Carol Smith, CIO of DePauw University, to discuss how digital transfor...

Transforming Student Value via System-level Shared Services

18 Apr 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!On April 12, 2022, Joe Gottlieb, President and CTO of Higher Digital, and Jory Hadsell, Vice Chancellor of Technol...

Growing Enrollment in Higher Ed through Technology

07 Apr 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, recorded on the floor of the ASU+GSV Summit, Joe Gottlieb welcomes Jack MacKenzie, founder and CE...

Provost-driven Digital Transformation

21 Mar 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, our host Joe Gottlieb welcomes Wayne Bovier, co-founder and CEO of Higher Digital, to discuss the...

Student Government as a Partner for Change

18 Feb 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, our host Joe Gottlieb invites Alessio Papa, Product Owner at Higher Digital, to draw on his exper...

Digital Transformation and How It's Manifesting in the UK

02 Feb 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb welcomes Michael Agnew, Senior Vice President of Europe for Higher Digital, to discu...

Digital Transformation and Measuring Digital Success

18 Jan 2022

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe Gottlieb invites Wayne Bovier, co-founder and CEO of Higher Digital, to discuss digital trans...

The Future of the IT Department

07 Dec 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!This week, Joe Gottlieb welcomes Wayne Bovier, Higher Digital co-founder and CEO, to discuss a recent article in t...

The Future of Strategic Change Management

10 Nov 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, President Joe Gottlieb welcomes Colleen Baker, co-founder and COO of Higher Digital and the creat...

The Role of Enterprise Architect as Tech Debt Slayer

30 Sep 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, President Joe Gottlieb welcomes Gwen Kerdiles, the VP of Services at Higher Digital in Amsterdam,...

What We’ve Learned: 2021 EDUCAUSE Digital Transformation Survey

23 Sep 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this episode, Joe and Wayne discuss the 2021 EDUCAUSE Digital Transformation Survey. Listen in for an interesti...

5 Core Themes from the ASU+GSV Summit

31 Aug 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!This week, President Joe Gottlieb welcomes back Co-Founder and CEO Wayne Bovier to discuss the recent ASU+GSV Summ...

Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, and Enhancing the Student Experience

22 Aug 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!In this feature of transformed, President Joe Gottlieb invites Aimee Leishure, former SVP of Business Transformati...

What’s Next for the Higher Ed Industry Following 2U’s Acquisition of edX

26 Jul 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!This week, President Joe Gottlieb sat down with CEO and Co-Founder Wayne Bovier to discuss 2U’s acquisition of e...

Dr. Saundra Williams on Women in Higher Ed IT

21 Jun 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!For this week’s episode, President Joe Gottlieb welcomed Dr. Saundra Williams, a leader in IT and higher ed for ...

Online Education - A Key Disruptor in Higher Ed

07 Jun 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!For this week’s episode, President Joe Gottlieb sat down with Rick Shangraw, President of Cintana Education, to ...

DEI and Its Pivotal Role in Higher Ed

28 May 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!This week, President Joe Gottlieb sat down with Kim Wells, an award-winning executive education and career develop...

Postsecondary Value, Social Justice, and the Motivation to Get There

14 May 2021

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Questions? Feedback? Send us a text!For this week’s feature, President Joe Gottlieb sat down with CEO and Co-Founder Wayne Bovier to discuss postsec...