Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, speaks with Raj Chetty, Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Professor Chetty discusses the relationship between upward mobility and student success, the impact of first jobs after graduation, and the role of social connectedness in driving economic opportunity. Topics include:

• The decline of the American Dream and disparities in economic mobility
• How geography and race shape students’ opportunities
• The role of higher education institutions in improving social mobility
• The impact of first jobs on long-term career trajectories
• The power of social capital in shaping student success

Tune in to explore how data-driven insights can help universities create pathways to opportunity.
 

Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, speaks with Angela Duckworth, Co-director, Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Professor Duckworth talks about the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data. Topics include:

• Which institutions are the best fit for BCGI’s grit-based program
• How the program’s one-size-fits-all approach makes it more effective as a study
• Ease of implementation at the administrative level
• Bottom-line assessment about the value of the data collected

Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, and Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-Founder of Inside Higher Ed, speak with Marie Lynn Miranda, Chancellor of University of Illinois Chicago, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Chancellor Miranda talks about attentive leadership, the central role of values, building community, strategies for handling a crisis, and tracking overall objectives and key goals. Topics include:

• Leading others by learning from them
• An institution’s budget illustrates the institution’s values
• Post-COVID rebuilding takes longer than many people realize
• Crisis management during Hurricane Harvey
  Self-care and self-examination as ongoing elements of leadership
• Recommended reading about accomplishments and objectives