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Everything happening in the world converges in one place: higher education. On College Matters, we explore the world through the prism of the nation’s colleges and universities. Listen to College Matters wherever you get your podcasts.

Host Jack Stripling

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Season 2: Previous Episodes

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez June 24, 2025
In this Bates College course, students learn what fuels conspiracy theories, how they amass influence, and how to combat them.
By Jack Stripling May 27, 2025
Released from prison and back in the college-consulting business, Rick Singer is chippy, driven, and — he promises — squeaky clean.
By Jack Stripling May 20, 2025
Two years after a board takeover, the left-leaning liberal arts college is gaining students and losing some of its granola appeal.

Season 1: Previous Episodes

By Jack Stripling April 8, 2025
Long a third rail of campus politics, parking inspires raging debates that are about far more than fees, fines, and crowded lots.
By Jack Stripling April 1, 2025
On many campuses, relations between professors and administrators have eroded to a worrisome degree.
By Jack Stripling March 25, 2025
It’s March Madness, and we’re picking the top scandals, imbroglios, and snafus of the past quarter century.
By Jack Stripling March 18, 2025
An emboldened GOP is reaching deeper into what colleges teach, banning “identity politics” and theories of “systemic racism” from core courses in Florida.
By Jack Stripling March 11, 2025
White student enrollment has dropped more than that of any other racial group. What’s happening?
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