Beyond the Quadcast
Beyond the Quadcast
Podcast Description
Real issues impacting higher education. At Beyond the Quadcast, we bring higher education’s most critical conversations to life. Through in-depth interviews with experts—including chancellors, DEI officers, faculty, and students—we explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of higher education.
Listen. Learn. Lead.
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Content Themes
The podcast addresses a variety of pressing themes in higher education including the integration of AI in academic settings, character and ethical leadership development, and the evolving role of human resources. Episodes feature discussions such as how AI is revolutionizing research tools with guests like Ome Ogbru and how character education frameworks are being implemented in universities led by experts like Scott Raecker.
Real issues impacting higher education. At Beyond the Quadcast, we bring higher education’s most critical conversations to life. Through in-depth interviews with experts—including chancellors, DEI officers, faculty, and students—we explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of higher education.
Listen. Learn. Lead.
What does it really mean to run a college like a high-functioning organization, without losing the heart of higher education?
In this episode of Beyond the Quadcast, Dean Jean-François Coget, Dean of the College of Business at Sacramento State, has a candid conversation about data-driven budgeting, program review, and the realities of leadership behind hard decisions.
Dean Coget shares how business schools use outcomes data, employer feedback, accreditation metrics, and class efficiency to align resources with student success and workforce demand, while also protecting mission, culture, and trust.
You’ll also hear Dean Coget’s honest leadership lessons on listening tours, pacing change, navigating feedback, and why he thinks of leadership as “riding an elephant.”
In This Episode:
What “data-driven budgeting” looks like day-to-day in a college of business
AACSB accreditation and how it shapes metrics, strategy, and accountability
Using outcomes data (including a LinkedIn partnership) to understand graduate career pathways
When to reinvest, redesign, or sunset programs and how to do it transparently
The difference between state-supported vs. self-support programs and what “break-even” really means
Why culture comes before strategy (and how to build trust in decision-making)
Leadership lessons: patience, loneliness, not taking feedback personally, and bringing people along
Featured Guest:
Dean Jean-François Coget, Dean, College of Business, California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State)
Host / Co-Host:
Misty Evans (Host)
DeMario Easley (Co-Host)
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Keywords:
Higher education leadership, dean leadership, budgeting in higher ed, program review, enrollment strategy, AACSB, outcomes data, campus culture, academic administration
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