Being The Change

Kay Coles James, JMU Board of Visitors member and chair of the presidential search committee, and Donna Harper (’77, ’81M, ’86Ed. S.), secretary of the committee, discuss progress in the search for the next president of James Madison University. 

JMU alumnus and entrepreneur Peter Denbigh (’02, ’11M), along with JMU VP of Research, Economic Development and Innovation (REDI) Dr. Anthony Tongen, discuss the imminent opening of a new cutting-edge co-working space in downtown Harrisonburg within the context of JMU's continued evolution as a national research university and regional economic engine. 

Work-based learning is taken to the next level through a partnership between JMU's multidisciplinary X-Labs and Ellucian, a global leader in edtech. X-Labs director Connie Frigo, student Bonnie Pohland and Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Carrie Combs discuss the program's groundbreaking significance.

Suzanne Bergmeister, executive director of JMU's Gilliam Center for Entrepreneurship, discusses the exciting and life-changing experience for students taking part in the Hisaoka-Pahlevani Challenge and other Gilliam Center programs.  

Join us as we discuss efforts to preserve and interpret a former boarding house in Harrisonburg's Northeast Neighborhood that was used by Black travelers during the Jim Crow era. The property is one of the few surviving "Green Book" houses dramatized in the Academy Award-winning film of the same name.

Co-chairs of the JMU Task Force on Artificial Intelligence discuss their progress and what’s next for how AI at JMU. 

Head of JMU Financial Aid Brad Barnett, also a national leader on the subject of financial aid in higher education, discusses how JMU is navigating the botched rollout of the Department of Education's new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.

A conversation with JMU history professor and best-selling author Evan Friss and his wife, Amanda, who runs Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg.

A conversation with new A.D. Matt Roan about the Dukes' winning ways and the changing landscape of collegiate athletics.

Host Andy Perrine (‘86) and Madison magazine editor Jim Heffernan (‘96, ‘17M) discuss plans for the podcast.

A conversation with Interim President Charlie King as he looks at the year ahead.