Dr. Paul LeBlanc on How We Can Fix Our Social Systems

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our</span></em> <a href= "https://gettingsmart.com/newpathways/"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">New Pathways campaign</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the Walton Foundation, the New Pathways campaign will question education’s status quo and propose new methods of giving students a chance to experience success in what’s next. </span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University and author of the books</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Students-First-Equity-Opportunity-Education/dp/1682536750"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and, most recently,</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Social-Systems-Failing-Them/dp/1637741766"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them </span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in while Tom and Paul talk about the power of stories, the difference between belonging and mattering and how keeping relationships at the center of human systems is the only way to find success. </span></p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Students-First-Equity-Opportunity-Education/dp/1682536750"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Students First (Amazon Link)</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Social-Systems-Failing-Them/dp/1637741766"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Broken (Amazon Link)</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://higherlearningadvocates.org/team/paul-le