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Dr. Boyers is a nationally regarded expert in the field of higher education and has been published in The Huffington Post, Diverse Magazine, Wall Street Journal Market Watch, Crain’s Business, and Forbes. He has also been covered nationally for his education strategies in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher ED.   Prior to joining the Rosemont College community, Dr. Boyers was the P...

According to a recent survey, 39% of higher education apps run in the cloud today, and that number is expected to increase to 62% by 2021.  Most deployments will likely use a combination of a public cloud and a private environment that remain distinct entities but are bound together, an approach known as a hybrid cloud. Most experts agree that the hybrid cloud will be the new normal. According to...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Shirag Shemmassian, Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting   Dr. Shemmassian is the Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting and one of the world’s foremost experts on medical school admissions, college admissions, and graduate school admissions. For nearly 20 years, he and his team have helped t...

According to the latest figures that came out earliest this year, the report showed that 4.5 million people voluntarily left their positions in November – an “all-time high,” according to the agency responsible for collecting the data. Many are giving up the traditional 9-to-5 structure entirely; 20% of Americans say they are considering a switch to full-time freelance work, according to recent Up...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Hilary Link, President at Allegheny College. Dr. Hilary Link is the first woman to be named as President of Allegheny College, one of the nation's oldest and most innovative academic institutions. Dr. Link has been promoting the importance of new perspectives and multidisciplinary learning to help pre...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ryan Palmer, Principal at Kennedy & Company Education Strategies. Ryan has appeared in numerous theater and screen productions and holds an MFA in acting from the theater school at DePaul University. On transitioning to a career in higher education, he found that his training and work in theater have help...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Shaunak Roy, Founder and CEO at Yellowdig. Yellowdig are doing something amazing, which is increasing learner engagement in K-12. They've experienced a whopping 200% increase in learner engagement across universities and community colleges. And that’s despite the problems that learning institutions face a...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ravi Hutheesing, Education and Cultural Futurist at Ravi Unites, Inc., and a Global Keynote Speaker. Ravi Unites is a large network of international K-12 schools, whose classes participate in peer-to-peer learning with real-time audio and video interaction. This empowers the students of today to succeed i...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Jeannine Jannot, founder and CEO of The Balanced Student. Dr. Jannot had been teaching preschool after being home with her kids for years and years. From there, she eventually moved into elementary schools, then started teaching college after that. Because of her experience in teaching at multiple lev...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Mr. Kona Gray, Principal at EDSA. Mr. Gray helps universities realize that they must innovate and take a leap of faith to try new designs to keep their campuses safe and ahead of the curve. There has been a resurgence in highlighting the great outdoors. People have finally remembered the importance of nat...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Kyle Shea, Executive Vice President of Partnership Development at All Campus. All Campus is a leading online program management services provider that helps universities evolve their academic programs and exceed the ever-evolving expectations of students. Many universities have learned the hard way that t...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with educational consultant, Komal Shah. Komal leverages her passion for education along with her business expertise and her personal conscious living practices.  Her plan is to shift outdated educational paradigms and transform the education system for the betterment of all children. Why? So that preventative...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Richard Guarasci, principal at Presidential Partners LLC and former president at Wagner College. The goal for an institution like Wagner College is for their higher education to link work and democracy together in some way. This is a connection that's not always understood in the United States. It means n...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Roger Sands, CEO at Wyebot. Wyebot keeps WiFi systems up and running, automatically detecting WiFi issues and providing AI-driven solutions. IT departments can now receive the aid they need while also saving them time. This technology can improve the learning experience for teachers and students in a dram...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ben Nelson, founder and chancellor at Minerva University. Ben is a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education through methods of learning that help students better retain the information they take in.  The educational learning structure should be divided into three separate areas: the acquisiti...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Mike Bills, President at AtlasRTX. AtlasRTX's industry-leading chatbots engage customers automatically 24/7, allowing staff to focus on high-value tasks, effective interactions, desirable outcomes, and improving brand affinity. The AtlasRTX approach to chatbots is that humans and AI are better togethe...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Michael London, CEO of Uwill. Uwill’s mission is to expand mental health access and services to colleges by building on technology-enabled models that have been validated in recent years. Unfortunately, since most colleges have a very traditional structure, mental health, in particular, isn't where a lot...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services’ CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Dr. Narine Hall, co-founder and CEO at InSpace Proximity. When Dr. Hall initially began teaching virtually, the biggest problem was feeling like she wasn't a part of the learning experience. For example, when students would split into separate Zoom rooms, she lost the overall awareness of what was happen...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Pierre Dubuc, Co-Founder and CEO at OpenClassrooms. Pierre Dubuc's mission with OpenClassrooms is to make education more accessible to all. And he’s making big strides with the massive amount of open, online courses (aka MOOC courses) now available. They're a challenge to traditional higher education and...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ryan Stowers, Charles Koch Foundation's Executive Director. Ryan kicks things off by outlining a core issue in our higher education system, which is that it's severely outdated. As it stands, only one-third of students at four-year institutions believe that they'll graduate with the skills and knowledge t...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Keil Dumsch, online content writer, editor, and committed education reformer. Interestingly, Keil doesn't come from an education background. He felt compelled to jump off the sidelines as a concerned citizen back in 2009, because he felt the situation with student debt had reached a critical mass. Getting...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Black River Innovation Campus's Program Director, Jason Black. Jason has a unique mix of skills as a teacher in the classroom, a subject matter expert on early stage tech entrepreneurship, and an author. Both of his parents were educators working in colleges as well, so moving into that industry was organ...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Executive Director of SkillUp Coalition, Steve Lee. SkillUp was launched in July 2020 as a reaction to the pandemic and unemployment crisis. It’s an upskilling, non-profit coalition built to help America’s laid-off and furloughed workers gain access to the training and employment opportunities they need t...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , N2N Services CEO, Kiran Kodithala, sits down with Ed Powers and Christina Inge. Together, Ed and Christina launched Husky Communications in collaboration with Northwestern University. It’s a student-run agency, designed to connect students with real-life organizations by bringing the real-world tasks and experiences of running an agency into the cla...

Julian L. Alssid, Chief Marketplace Engagement Officer at Unmudl, joins podcast host Kiran Kodithala on this episode of the Illuminate Higher Education podcast. They discuss the evolution of the community college experience and how new innovations are driving better alignment with workforce demands. Julian explains how community colleges have several challenges to overcome. First, they must move a...