The Quadcast Mary Christie Institute

Dr. Jessi Gold, Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, joins the Quadcast to discuss campus-wide mental wellbeing. As a clinician who sees students, faculty and administrators, she has a unique perspective into the mental wellbeing of all campus stakeholders and how those populations interact with one another.

Kelsey Matthews, a mental health advocate and member of MCI’s new National Youth Council on College Mental Health, joins the Quadcast to share her powerful story of perseverance that defined her path to a college degree. Youth Council Chair Carson Domey co-hosts with Dana Humphrey in an episode that touches on resilience, the first-generation student experience, and the impact of college affordability on access and wellbeing.

This week’s Quadcast features a conversation between LearningWell Editor in Chief, Marjorie Malpiede, and Executive Writer for LearningWell, Nichole Bernier, on what she learned while writing her recent article: “How to Build a Career You Love.” In the article, Bernier reports on how colleges students are applying design thinking to reexamine traditional career paths through a personal, purpose-based lens. This new twist on career development is inspired by Stanford’s Life Design Lab and the best-selling book based on it, called Designing Your Life.

Quadcast hosts Dana Humphrey and Marjorie Malpiede discuss new content in LearningWell magazine, including “Bringing Wellbeing into the Classroom” a profile on the Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning at Georgetown University. The hosts talk about how and why they wrote the stories, bringing insights and information about their subjects that may not have made it into the magazine.

On today’s Quadcast, Boston Globe correspondent Kara Miller comments on the new report by Raj Chetty, David Deming and John Friedman, Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges, which points out the disproportionate admission of affluent students at elite colleges in comparison to students of comparable profiles with less means. Miller questions whether the hyper focus on who gets into so few schools takes away from the broader issue of opening up more opportunities across the board.

A conversation with Richard Miller of the Coalition for Transformational Education and Marjorie Malpiede of the Mary Christie Institute on the debut of their new joint publication, LearningWell.