Radical Cooperation

About Radical Cooperation

Welcome to Radical Cooperation, the podcast in which higher education leaders explore collaboration as the key to lasting change. Host Dr. Michael Horowitz, together with presidents, chancellors, and trailblazing experts, dives into thought-provoking conversations about solutions to some of the most pressing issues in higher education. From fostering partnerships across institutions to leveraging innovation over tradition, each episode unpacks how cooperation, not competition, drives success. If you're ready to embrace bold, forward-thinking ideas that unite and inspire, you’re in the right place.

Publisher

Radical Cooperation

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2025

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   How One Law School Rebuilt Bar Prep From Day One

   For generations, colleges and universities have measured success by how many students they enroll, retain, and graduate. But in professions like law, psychology, teaching, and medicine, a degree alone is not enough. Students still face a high stakes licensure exam that determines whether they can begin the career they trained for, and for many of them, commencement is not the finish line at all. It is the beginning of the hardest stretch. In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz is joined by three leaders from the Colleges of Law: Brandy Price, J.D., Associate Dean Hybrid J.D. Program and Chief Academic Officer, April Vincent, J.D., Associate Dean of Student Success and Bar Preparation and Jen Louie, Director of Student Success and Bar Preparation. Together they explain how the school moved bar preparation from an optional resource students bought and rarely used into an integrated strategy that begins at orientation and continues past graduation. That meant extending bar prep from three months to six, building a data-driven success formula around study hours and practice questions, and supporting the working adults, parents, and caregivers who make up much of the student body. The results have followed, with the school's multi-year bar pass rate now well above the state minimum. Rather than treating licensure as something that happens after the education ends, this conversation makes the case that it belongs inside the education itself. It is a candid look at what changes when an institution decides that no student should be allowed to struggle quietly. In this episode: Why bar preparation was moved into the final semester rather than left until after graduation How a data-driven success formula lets the team intervene before a student falls behind What holistic support looks like for students balancing full-time work, childcare, and elder care Why bar passage is not innate, and what that means for admissions and access How faculty, staff, and students share responsibility for outcomes across the institution

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   WNBA Expansion From the Inside: Building the Toronto Tempo

   Institutions tend to think of themselves as standalone enterprises, competing for attention, students, and resources on their own merits. But no organization rises entirely on its own. The health of the wider ecosystem it belongs to determines how much attention, investment, and credibility any single member can command, and that dynamic runs in both directions. In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz draws on a comparison he has used for years: The Community Solution Education System works like a sports league, where the System is the league and each university is a team. The strength of the league creates opportunities for individual teams, while the success of each team strengthens the league as a whole. To explore that dynamic, he speaks with Eli Horowitz, Assistant General Manager and Senior Vice President of Basketball Strategy for the Toronto Tempo, who joined the WNBA’s first Canadian franchise before it had played a game, after seven years with the Los Angeles Sparks. Eli is also his son, a relationship they address at the top. Their conversation covers how the WNBA grew from a sliver of sports media coverage into a sold-out product, why the Tempo built a full leadership team and a fan base before a single player arrived, and how analytics and human judgment now work together in evaluating talent. Rather than treating sports as a metaphor held at arm's length, this conversation traces the specific mechanics that transfer directly to higher education: how culture gets built deliberately, how leaders balance central support with local autonomy, and why data works best when it narrows the field rather than making the decision. In this episode: Why the growth of the league and the success of individual teams depend on each other How the Tempo built a leadership team, a culture, and a community presence before signing players What the right balance of ownership involvement looks like, and the symbolism of autonomy How a draft model built around survival rates changed the way the team evaluates prospects Why the WNBA's four-year college rule produces players who arrive more prepared

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   16 Sept 2026

   What Higher Education Can Learn From Global Affairs

   The world has never been more interconnected, yet many graduates enter the workforce without the global awareness and adaptability that interconnection demands. At the same time, nations and institutions are struggling with the very skill higher education exists to teach: how to collaborate across differences on shared problems. That raises a question worth sitting with. What can higher education learn from the world of global affairs, and how should it prepare students to lead in it? In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz speaks with Dr. Stewart Prest, a political scientist and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, whose work focuses on democracy, international cooperation, and the geopolitical trends shaping our world. Their conversation ranges from why cooperation between democracies rests on a sense of shared identity rather than pure transaction, to how decades of economic integration across North America became so hardwired that unwinding it carries real costs. Dr. Prest also explains why Canada's higher education sector developed so differently from the American one, and what that means for students on both sides of the border. Rather than treating global affairs as distant from campus life, this conversation traces the direct lines between international dynamics and the institutions, students, and communities higher education serves. It closes on a practical note about what educators can actually do: build relationships across borders, help people see the world with clear eyes, and start with concrete projects that can scale. In this episode: Why a global perspective is essential to understanding events on any campus or in any community What makes cooperation between democracies durable, and why transactional partnerships tend not to last How North American economic integration became hardwired, and what erosion of that trust costs Why Canada's higher education system is overwhelmingly public, and what limits that creates What higher education leaders can do to keep cross-border connections open in a difficult moment

Inside a recent episode

Which Marketing Strategies Reach Today’s Students

Published 18 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so how are you thinking about attribution these days? The precursor to that is to not look at the very we talk about last touch attribution. Last touch attribution is a model that says that the last touch in a marketing funnel is the one the drove V results. And often a CFO will look at things that way. So often if an institution is not doing well or a fashion brand is not doing well, often the CFO will be more involved than if the institution is doing well. And that makes sense. It's amazing to me. The CFOs aren't marketers and I'm not a CFO the way I kind of where they had my agency. And if the CFOs involve they're going to say turn this thing that's not producing leads up. […]

Who has been a guest on Radical Cooperation

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• Michael Alexander
• Dr Sonny Ramaswamy
• Michael Horowitz

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings