Alex Usher

Alex Usher


He/Him. President, Higher Education Strategy Associates

Appears in 47 Episodes

2.29: Higher Education in China

2.29: Higher Education in China

S2E29 · · 27:03

This week's guest is Dr. Gerard Postiglione, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. In this episode, Gerry takes us thr...

2.28: Culture Wars in American Higher Education

2.28: Culture Wars in American Higher Education

S2E28 · · 28:14

To help sort out all the complexities of the US system, our guest today is Brendan Cantwell, professor at Michigan State University who specializes in the political economy of higher...

2.27: EdTech with Phil Hill

2.27: EdTech with Phil Hill

S2E27 · · 28:21

Today my guest is Phil Hill, an ed tech consultant and Lead at Phill Hill and Associates. Today he joins us to talk about the last twenty years and how they have shaped the sector. T...

2.26: Private Higher Education in India

2.26: Private Higher Education in India

S2E26 · · 27:50

Today's guest is Professor N. V. Varghese, the Vice Chancellor of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration in New Delhi. He's the co-editor of a recent book ...

2.25: Mariupol State University: The Invincible University

2.25: Mariupol State University: The Invincible University

S2E25 · · 34:47

Today's guest is Dr. Mykola Trofymenko, the President of Mariupol State University. He agreed to join the show to talk about the events of early 2022, how he steered the institution ...

2.24: Australian Universities Accord – One Year Follow Up with Andrew Norton

2.24: Australian Universities Accord – One Year Follow Up with Andrew Norton

S2E24 · · 24:29

This week we welcome back our very first podcast guest, Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy at Australian National University, to follow up on the Aus...

2.23: Higher Education in Russia

2.23: Higher Education in Russia

S2E23 · · 30:08

With us today is Maria Yudkevich, a professor of Higher Education at the University of Haifa in Israel. She is the co-author, with Yaroslav Kuzminov of the excellent book Higher Educ...

2.22: England’s Lifelong Learning Entitlement

2.22: England’s Lifelong Learning Entitlement

S2E22 · · 27:40

With us this week is David Kernohan, Deputy Editor of the website WonkHE. which is as close to a sister organization to Higher Education Strategy Associates as exists anywhere on the...

2.21: Lumina Foundation & National Education Attainment Goals

2.21: Lumina Foundation & National Education Attainment Goals

S2E21 · · 28:38

With us today is Courtney Brown, Vice President of Impact and Planning at Lumina Foundation and the person most responsible for making sure the foundation hits its goals and develops...

2.20: Taiwanese Higher Education

2.20: Taiwanese Higher Education

S2E20 · · 29:02

Today's guest is Angela Yung-Chi Hou. She is currently a Professor of National Chengchi University in Taipei and for nearly two decades has been the foremost English-language scholar...

2.19: Alex Usher on Canadian Higher Education

2.19: Alex Usher on Canadian Higher Education

S2E19 · · 28:34

Our guest this week is Alex Usher, President and CEO of Higher Education Strategy Associates. Alex joins co-producer Tiffany MacLennan to talk about the Canadian Higher Education sec...

2.18: Higher Education in France

2.18: Higher Education in France

S2E18 · · 26:38

Today's guest is Andrée Sursock, a higher education consultant and Senior Advisor to the European Universities Association. She's here to take us on a guided tour of the French syste...

2.17: Malaysian Higher Education

2.17: Malaysian Higher Education

S2E17 · · 27:32

Today's guest is Dr. Morshidi Sirat. He’s one of Malaysia’s most experienced higher education observers and policy-makers. Over the last two decades he;s been a Dean, a Vice-Chancell...

2.16: The Failed Fees Free Policy in New Zealand

2.16: The Failed Fees Free Policy in New Zealand

S2E16 · · 24:47

With us today is Roger Smyth. He’s a consultant based in Christchurch New Zealand and a former senior official in New Zealand’s Ministry of Education, and he’s had a privileged perch...

2.15: "Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education” with Brian Rosenberg

2.15: "Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education” with Brian Rosenberg

S2E15 · · 26:40

Today my guest is Brian Rosenberg, a former president of Macalester University of Minnesota and currently a president in residence — that's really a thing — at Harvard University's G...

2.14: Javier Milei and Argentinian Higher Education

2.14: Javier Milei and Argentinian Higher Education

S2E14 · · 26:55

With us today is Marcelo Rabossi, a professor of higher education policy and management at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Over the course of this conversation, he gui...

2.13: Global Academic Excellence Initiatives

2.13: Global Academic Excellence Initiatives

S2E13 · · 27:56

Today's guest is Philip Altbach. Phil is Professor Emeritus at Boston College, the former Founding Director of that university's internationally-renowned Centre for International Hig...

2.12: Top 10 Stories of 2023 in American Higher Education

2.12: Top 10 Stories of 2023 in American Higher Education

S2E12 · · 25:29

Joining us today is Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the genu...

2.11: Post-Soviet Higher Education

2.11: Post-Soviet Higher Education

S2E11 · · 27:15

This week, we welcome Professor Isak Froumin onto the podcast. Froumin is Head of the Observatory of Higher Education Innovations at Jacobs University, in Bremen Germany and the co-e...

2.10: The Floating University

2.10: The Floating University

S2E10 · · 28:50

With us today is Tamson Pietsch, author of a new book on the Floating University from the University of Chicago Press. Her book covers a number of facets of this story: the extraordi...

2.9: Chile: A Decade of Gratuidad

2.9: Chile: A Decade of Gratuidad

S2E9 · · 25:06

This week's episode features Paula Clasing Manquian, a postdoctoral researcher in education from Chile’s Nucleo Milenio de Educacion Superior. The discussion takes a look back at the...

2.8: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) — Selecting a Rector

2.8: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) — Selecting a Rector

S2E8 · · 22:06

Today's guest is Marion Lloyd, a higher education researcher at UNAM, and she’s here today to give a tour of UNAM’s electoral system, the behind-the-scenes power politics that accomp...

2.7: OECD and the Geography of Higher Education

2.7: OECD and the Geography of Higher Education

S2E7 · · 27:25

Today's guest is Raffaele Trapasso, a Senior Economist at the OECD who heads the that organizations Platform for the Entrepreneurship Education Collaboration and Engagement Network o...

2.6: African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

2.6: African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

S2E6 · · 27:36

Today's guest is Dr. Ernest Aryeetey. He has not only led one of Africa’s premier universities — the University of Ghana — but is also currently the Secretary-General of the African ...

2.5: Brazilian Higher Education

2.5: Brazilian Higher Education

S2E5 · · 23:53

Today our guest is Professor Marcelo Knobel.  He is a highly respected Physicist and Science Educator.  He also holds the rare distinction of having been a rector both at one of Braz...

2.4: Higher Education in India

2.4: Higher Education in India

S2E4 · · 29:12

Today's guest is Dr. Pushkar — just one name — the Director and Chief Executive of the International Centre Goa, and a frequent commentator on higher education in India. Dr. Pushkar ...

2.3: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

2.3: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University

S2E3 · · 24:06

Today’s guest is Daniel A. Bell, a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.  Originally from Montreal, he became a specialist in this study of Confucius from t...

2.2: Romanian Higher Education

2.2: Romanian Higher Education

S2E2 · · 24:04

Joining us this week is Romania’s Minister of Education, Ligia Deca. Ministers in Romania are not generally speaking elected politicians — the country works on a model similar to tha...

2.1: Selective Schools and Holistic Admissions

2.1: Selective Schools and Holistic Admissions

S2E1 · · 27:32

We're back! Welcome back to the World of Higher Education, Season 2. In this episode, Alex Usher is joined by one of his favourite authors, Jeff Selingo, author of Who Gets in and Wh...

1.18: Admissions, Affirmative Action, and SCOTUS

1.18: Admissions, Affirmative Action, and SCOTUS

S1E18 · · 22:24

On the season finale of the World of Higher Education Podcast, we’re joined by Zach Bleemer, currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale