Higher Ed Hot Takes

Higher Ed Hot Takes with Joel G Goodman - Higher Ed Hot Takes The counterculture higher ed marketing podcast. Join Joel G Goodman and explore smarter, more sustainable ways to leverage technology without compromising strategy, UX, or humanity.

🎙️ new @higheredhottakes.com episode with my pal @shanebaglini.bsky.social is out early. Get in before tomorrows big rush? I don’t know. He’s authoring next week’s newsletter so subscribe on the site if you haven’t yet!

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Higher Ed Hot Takes with Joel G Goodman - Higher Ed Hot Takes The counterculture higher ed marketing podcast. Join Joel G Goodman and explore smarter, more sustainable ways to leverage technology without compromising strategy, UX, or humanity.

🎙️ Is trading the privilege of human connection worth whatever supposed gains AI hype promises to #HigherEd? @joelgoodman.co doesn’t think so. Episode 6 of #HEHT is out now wherever you get podcasts. #HEMarCOM #UX

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Higher Ed Hot Takes with Joel G Goodman - Higher Ed Hot Takes The counterculture higher ed marketing podcast. Join Joel G Goodman and explore smarter, more sustainable ways to leverage technology without compromising strategy, UX, or humanity.

New hot take out tomorrow. If you work in #HigherEd, are you listening yet?

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Greatness is inefficient Podcast Episode · Higher Ed Hot Takes · 05/20/2025 · 6m

🎙️ new episode! This is my call for retaining some inefficiencies in your work. Reclaim your humanity from the machines.

Craft amongst the slop - Higher Ed Hot Takes Is generative AI making higher ed marketing even more generic? In this episode, Joel Goodman explores the pitfalls of relying on AI-generated content in college and university marketing.

🎙️ New episode - Craft amongst the slop is out now. #HEMarCom

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Performance is non-negotiable - Higher Ed Hot Takes Universities are losing millions due to slow websites and poor digital decisions. In this episode of Higher Ed Hot Takes, Joel Goodman exposes the hidden costs of bad web performance in higher educati...

🎙️ Episode 003, where @joelgoodman.co talks about how slow #HigherEd websites have direct financial ramifications, is out now wherever you like to listen to podcasts. #HEMarCom

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Results are everything. #HigherEd #HEMarCom
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Personalize This! - Higher Ed Hot Takes How should personalization work in higher ed? Joel Goodman says it should be invisible and frictionless. But we're doing it wrong. Listen now.

Personalization in #HigherEd is so badly misunderstood. Here's what I think about it.

🎙️ Episode 002 - Personalize This! - is out now.

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We’ve documented over 1,300 cases of the government revoking international students’ visas. Here’s our latest data. Blue bubbles are private colleges, gray bubbles are public. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #highered #academicsky

Higher Ed Hot Takes with Joel G Goodman - Higher Ed Hot Takes The counterculture higher ed marketing podcast. Join Joel G Goodman and explore smarter, more sustainable ways to leverage technology without compromising strategy, UX, or humanity.

It’s alive! I finally got @higheredhottakes.com stood up. First episode is out on your podcatchers. I’d love to hear what you think. higheredhottakes.com

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The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

If anyone could say it, it was Harvard. Bravo!

Now brace yourselves.

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Higher Ed Hot Takes with Joel G Goodman - Higher Ed Hot Takes The counterculture higher ed marketing podcast. Join Joel G Goodman and explore smarter, more sustainable ways to leverage technology without compromising strategy, UX, or humanity.

Launching April 15, 2025. Podcast, newsletter, #HEMarCom community amplifier. Let's challenge the discourse and make better decisions — together.

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