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New Gates Foundation Podcast: Innovation, Equity, and Excellence

April 3, 2017

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success team recently released the first episode in its new podcast, To a Degree.

Moderated by Casey Green from The Campus Computing Project, the podcast will feature higher education professionals, institutions and organizations discussing various issues related to postsecondary innovation, policy, practice and success.

In this first podcast, Dan Greenstein talks about changes in the Gates Foundations’ postsecondary initiatives, what they’ve learned and the challenges of scaling. Deborah Santiago from Excelencia in Education and Bridget Burns from the University Innovation Alliance discuss how data can drive interventions that lead to student success and innovative initiatives that promote equity and excellence in higher education.

To listen to the full podcast and see more of what’s to come, please visit the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s website.

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