The Signal

With more than 500,000 downloads, The Signal is the podcast for higher education’s innovative leaders. Hosted by Jeff Dillon, The Signal cuts through the noise of the "status quo" to bring you the strategic intelligence ...more

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106

September 25, 2026 • 00:31:05
Ep. 106 - Jeffrey Stepakoff:  Content Is What You Put in a Sofa

Ep. 106 - Jeffrey Stepakoff: Content Is What You Put in a Sofa

What happens when a veteran TV writer—whose credits include The Wonder Years, Dawson's Creek, and Disney's Tarzan—decides to build a film school inside North...

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105

September 18, 2026 • 00:24:37
Ep. 105 -Michael Leggs: The Essay Was Never Evidence of Thinking

Ep. 105 -Michael Leggs: The Essay Was Never Evidence of Thinking

What if the real crisis AI has exposed in higher education isn't student dishonesty, but the fact that we've been treating final papers as...

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104

September 11, 2026 • 00:31:34
Ep. 104 - Raffi DerSimonian: Ikigai and purpose driven paths

Ep. 104 - Raffi DerSimonian: Ikigai and purpose driven paths

Jeff talks to Raffi DerSimonian, VP and Chief Strategy Officer at ERI, a digital agency that has been building for colleges and universities since...

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103

September 04, 2026 • 00:32:20
Ep. 103 - Jenny Petty: The Alignment Gap That's Bankrupting Higher Ed Marketing

Ep. 103 - Jenny Petty: The Alignment Gap That's Bankrupting Higher Ed Marketing

Jeff Dillon talks to Jenny Petty, Vice President of Industry Relations and Advisory Services at Simpson Scarborough, who has spent over a decade inside...

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102

August 28, 2026 • 00:31:16
Ep. 102 - John Fees: The Insurance Founder Who Says His Own Company Shouldn't Have to Exist

Ep. 102 - John Fees: The Insurance Founder Who Says His Own Company Shouldn't Have to Exist

What if the best measure of an insurance company's success isn't how many claims it denies, but how many it pays—and how many of...

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101

August 21, 2026 • 00:33:09
Ep. 101 - Jeff Wilser: How One Chatbot Cut Summer Melt in Half

Ep. 101 - Jeff Wilser: How One Chatbot Cut Summer Melt in Half

In a world drowning in AI hype, how do you separate what's actually useful from what's just shiny? And what happens when the people...

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