Tag: Robert Kelchen

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher, and this is the World of Higher Education Podcast. This is our last podcast for 2025, and as usual, our Christmas edition comes from the University of Tennessee with Robert Kelchen, our favourite guest from the United States. He’s here to talk about the top 10 issues in higher education in the U.S. over the past 12 months. He needs no introduction; this episode needs no introduction. It’s a great annual favourite. Robert, welcome. The

Robert Kelchen is a prolific higher education researcher and also the head of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He is also a pretty steady blogger on higher education, but he doesn’t have the time to post quite as much as he did before he took on all those extra admin duties. One of the casualties of his reduced blogging schedule is that he no longer posts his regular “top ten” stories of the year in US