The Admissions Directors Lunchcast

Information about Lunchcast Lectures is available here. Use promocode: COLDOPEN for a friend of he pod discount! This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ College admissions has always been stressful—but today’s students are facing a level of anxiety and pressure...

Information about Lunchcast Lectures is here. Use promocode: COLDOPEN for a friend of the pod discount! This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ The last few years have been rough for admissions professionals, and the conversation about staff morale isn’t going...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ Vendors are a critical part of the admissions and enrollment world—but are you getting the most out of them? This week, Nathan and Teege explore the best strategies for building, managing, and maximizing vendor partnershi...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ Data drives everything in modern admissions—but are colleges using it the right way? This week, Nathan and Teege dive into how institutions can analyze student data more effectively to improve recruitment and yield. Joini...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ CRMs, texting platforms, predictive analytics, chatbots—oh my! The world of admissions technology keeps evolving, and if you’re not careful, your tech stack can start running you instead of the other way around. This week...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ Expanding into new recruitment territories is a common strategy—especially with the demographic cliff approaching—but how do you actually break into a market where your institution has little name recognition? This week,...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. ⁠https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ ⁠ College fairs: Are they still worth it? Have they evolved enough to keep up with the way students search for colleges today? And what’s next for these staple recruitment events? In this episode, we tackle the chan...

This week's episode sponsored by Geneologie, where you'll get 10% off your first order if you mention The Admissions Directors Lunchcast. https://www.geneologie.com/promo-box/ Politics have always played a role in higher education, but in today’s climate, are they actually influencing where students apply and enroll? In our Season Nine premiere , we tackle the complex relationship between...

Ready or not, we're back for another season! Coming to your podcast feed every Tuesday between now and May 1, you can expect Nathan and Teege to deliver their signature banter on current topics in admissions. Each week, they'll be joined by two guests: one influencer and one practitioner, each discussing the same topic. We strive to be the most productive lunch meeting you'll take all...

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email ad...

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email ad...

Every season, we take a few interviews way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast. Sometimes, the content is just too good to leave on the cutting room floor. When that happens, we bring these extended interviews as a J Term or Summer Session. That's what happened during our conversation with Paul McGinnis, Vice President of Marketing and Enrollment at Bethel University in Saint P...

Every season, we take a few interviews way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast. Sometimes, the content is just too good to leave on the cutting room floor. When that happens, we bring these extended interviews as a J Term or Summer Session. That's what happened during our conversation with Thom Golden, Founder and CEO of Golden Educational Consulting in Hendersenville, Tennesse...

We meant to publish this extended interview last July, but we just kept putting it off. Okay, enough procrastination jokes. Each season, we find a few conversations go way too long to fit into a regular episode of the Lunchcast, and we bring them here, to the J Term or Summer Session episodes. Given the format of the last season, we didn't have any - fortunately, this interview with Laurie Kopp We...

Every season, we have a few interviews that run long - and we release the extended cuts later. Given the format change for the last season, we didn't have that - which means it's quite fortunate that we had this great conversation from season seven. Originally published in March, 2024, during our Counselor's Choice season, we had this great conversation with Kerri Caruso, College Scholarship Coord...

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email ad...

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email ad...

The Admissions Directors Lunchcast recently launched an exclusive video podcast series - Lunchcast Live. Twice a month, Teege and Nathan will welcome a guest to discuss a hot topic on their mind. The interview will often be shared here, but the full conversation with the audience is available only to members of the Lunchcast community. If you would like to be added to the invitation list, email ad...

Okay, let's get into it. What's happening on TikTok as it relates to the college search process, and what should colleges do to manage it? Jenna Shulman, founder and owner of Get Me Into College helps us see how students are leveraging TikTok as a tool in the college search process. Natasha Caudill, Digital Communications Specialist at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois steps in as the pr...

You've heard them - now let's talk about them. In this episode, we want to address what some of the most common student misconceptions are, and focus on what we should do about them. Butch Hamilton, Director of College Advising at Saint Mary’s Raiken High School in Lennertown, Maryland and a Certified Educational Planner and Educational Consultant at Golden Educational Consulting begins th...

Is this a podcast about ocean life, or college admissions? It might take you a few minutes into the episode to be sure. But, to end the suspense, this episode is about learning loss, and the impact to colleges hovering just below the surface of the demographic cliff. Ed Venit, Managing Director of Strategic Research at EAB shares with us the results of research and futuring work they've done t...

If you follow higher ed news, you'd think small colleges everywhere are falling faster than when a quarter push machine is shaken. Of course, for every story told about a small college that is struggling or worse - there are stories that aren't told. So how (and why) are some small colleges thriving in this environment? To answer that, we have two outstanding guests. Scott Novak , The Small Colleg...

We've talked about all the different directions enrollment leaders go when they move on: the dark side - the high school side - the independent counseling side - this week we explore a whole new angle: K-12 Admissions. Kevin Napp , Director of Admissions at Gaston Day School in Gastonia, North Carolina, gets us started sharing his journey of just such a transition. Jade Dominique an Independen...

For the second year in a row, The Admissions Directors Lunchcast has sponsored a survey on the state of morale in college admissions. You can view the full report here . Additionally, this research will be discussed at the first Lunchcast Live event in October and the Lunchcast Lectures event in Milwaukee in June, 2025. The first order of business, however, is bringing in a rockstar guest with a c...

We're as surprised as you are. The Admissions Directors Lunchcast has officially crossed over 15,000 unique listens since we launched a few years ago. For that reason, we're thrilled to announce a new initiative: Lunchcast Live. This talk show style series will be available only to members of the Lunchcast community for an intriguing conversation twice-monthly. If you're interested in...