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Why this Harvard professor says admissions Is selecting for the wrong student | Jonathan Teubner
August 18, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
How to redesign a university around the students it was never built for | Brian Reed
August 5, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
Enrollment management
The VineDown: How to make enrollment management cool again | Reggie Hill @ UMSL
July 21, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
The VineDown: How to expand the definition of student success with the admissions leader @ UT Austin
June 17, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
Enrollment management
The VineDown: How brutal honesty built five straight years of enrollment records | Jenny Sawyer @ Louisville
June 3, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
Enrollment management
The VineDown: How UCLA's head of admissions processes 170,000 applications a year | Gary Clark
May 28, 2026
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The VineDown podcast
Enrollment management
The VineDown: The transcript is broken: Kevin Mathes on why admissions is running on outdated infrastructure
May 6, 2026
Emily Smith
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Emily Smith
Principal and VP of Partner Success, CollegeVine
Emily Smith has spent more than 20 years in higher ed tech and consulting, working with the enrollment, admissions, and student success teams at over 500 institutions. She's a fixer of systems and processes, an implementer of technology, and a builder of enrollment strategy. On The Vinedown, Emily digs into where humans, technology, and enrollment meet, with candor and humor.
