The VineDown with Emily Smith

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How Auburn Tripled Applications Without Hiring | Joffery Gaymon VP Of Enrollment @ Auburn

October 14, 2026

In this episode of The VineDown, Emily Smith sits down with Dr. Joffery Gaymon, Vice President of Enrollment Management at Auburn University. In his seven years there, Auburn has grown from about 20,000 applications to 60,000. The admissions team handling them is down one person.Joffery's explanation comes down to pace. Auburn is a 35,000-person R1 that runs on relationships, and he says understanding that culture comes first, because culture will eat strategy every day. He moves change a...

→ Georgia Tech Cut the Essay Nobody Was Using | Mary Tipton Woolley

September 29, 2026

Georgia Tech spent years adding to its application. It took one hallway conversation to subtract from it.Mary Tipton Woolley is executive director for undergraduate admission at Georgia Tech, where the applicant pool has climbed close to 400% across her 17 years. This year her office dropped the "why this major, why Georgia Tech" supplemental essay. The reason it went is the interesting part: the students who wrote the best answers turned out to be the most likely to switch majors b...

How This Tech Journalist Would Actually Use AI on a College Campus | Casey Newton @ Platformer

September 15, 2026

Casey Newton spends his week talking to the people building AI, and he brought a room full of higher education leaders an uncomfortable message. Inside those companies, student safety and mental health are treated as unfortunate edge cases, staffed so the CEO never has to think about them. What counts as high stakes is revenue and user growth. His conclusion, delivered live at The Vineyard: nobody is coming to protect your students, so you had better do it yourself.Newton founded Platformer a...

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The VineDown with Emily Smith typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior higher-education administrators, enrollment or student-success executives, faculty members with relevant institutional expertise, and education-technology founders or leaders. Common among recent guests: Leadership of university enrollment, admissions, or student-success operations; Implementation of measurable institutional or student-outcome improvements; Research, teaching, or executive expertise in higher education. Recent guests include Jonathan Teubner, Brian Reed, and Reggie Hill.

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