Podcast production that speaks to prospective students, alumni, and staff without stepping on student privacy.
Enrollment trust, alumni engagement, and institutional voice, produced with student privacy built into the workflow from episode one.
Resonate Recordings produces The Academic Operations Podcast, a recurring show interviewing registrars, provosts, and administrators across universities and community colleges. That same production discipline applies to admissions, alumni, and institutional shows — built so a podcast never puts identifiable student information at risk.
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Prospective students research for months before they apply. A podcast is how your institution shows up in that research.
Enrollment decisions take months, and prospective students, parents, and transfer students research heavily across that whole window — a single admissions page or viewbook only reaches them once. A recurring show gives an institution a reason to show up again and again during exactly the period when a decision is still being made.
The barrier isn't content ideas, it's a production process that treats student privacy as a default, not an afterthought. Resonate already runs a recurring higher-ed-industry show (The Academic Operations Podcast) built around that exact discipline — willing, named guests speaking for themselves, no other students' records discussed.
Talk to a Higher Ed Podcast Specialist →The Academic Operations Podcast has run across multiple seasons interviewing registrars and provosts nationwide.
more leads at 62% lower cost than outbound marketing, for content generally.
student-privacy-aware review workflow standard for education clients, not an add-on requested after a concern.
The year Resonate started producing podcasts for enterprise and institutional clients.
What kind of show fits your institution's goals?
The right format depends on which audience you're trying to reach: prospective students still deciding, alumni you want to stay connected to, or peer institutions watching how you operate. We help you pick one that respects student privacy by design.
Admissions & Prospective Student Shows
Answer the questions prospective students and families already ask about programs, campus life, and career outcomes. This kind of show reaches applicants during the months-long window when they're still deciding, not just at the open house.
Alumni Engagement Shows
Feature graduates and their career paths to keep alumni connected to the institution long after graduation. A strong alumni show supports giving campaigns and mentorship networks the way a single newsletter cannot.
Academic Operations & Administration Shows
Cover institutional technology, curriculum innovation, and administration for registrars, provosts, and peer institution staff. This is the exact format behind The Academic Operations Podcast, Resonate's recurring show for higher ed leaders.
Faculty & Research Storytelling
Put faculty research and expertise in front of a public audience in plain language. Faculty-led shows build institutional reputation and support media relations without requiring a press office to chase down every story individually.
Everything your institution's podcast needs. One privacy-aware partner.
Resonate offers the full higher ed podcast stack, with review steps built around student privacy instead of added after a recording is already in the can.
Podcast Launch
End-to-end launch that maps a student-privacy-aware review process into the production timeline from day one, so a compliance concern isn't a surprise before your first episode airs.
Learn moreAudio Production
Professional editing, mixing, and mastering for every episode. Degree-trained engineers, three to five business day turnaround, and a consistent process for a multi-season show like The Academic Operations Podcast.
Learn moreVideo Production
YouTube-ready video cuts and short-form clips from every recording, reviewed through the same privacy-aware workflow as your audio episodes before anything publishes.
Learn morePodcast Management
A dedicated producer manages your show week to week, including scheduling around academic calendars and multiple department stakeholders instead of working against them.
Learn morePodcast Marketing
Show notes, audiograms, and social cards, ready for admissions pages, alumni newsletters, and academic department sites your marketing and advancement teams already run.
Learn morePrivate & Public Hosting
Public distribution to Apple, Spotify, and YouTube for admissions and alumni-facing shows, or private, restricted-access hosting for internal staff training and administration content.
Learn moreProducing The Academic Operations Podcast, season after season.
The Academic Operations Podcast is hosted by Mara Koval and Justin Wenig, interviewing registrars, provosts, and administrators from universities and community colleges nationwide about student success, curriculum innovation, and campus technology. Resonate has produced the show across multiple seasons.
Talk to a Higher Ed Podcast Specialist →What makes higher ed work? That's the question the show is built to answer, going straight to the people behind the academic operations of colleges, universities, and post-secondary institutes to elevate the stories of how they're delivering the 'ed' in higher 'ed.'
Higher ed and institutional podcasts produced by Resonate.
A real, ongoing higher ed industry client, alongside enterprise internal-communications and practitioner formats that translate to faculty and staff audiences.
The Academic Operations Podcast
A recurring show hosted by Mara Koval and Justin Wenig, interviewing registrars, provosts, curriculum managers, and IT leaders across universities and community colleges about what it takes to deliver the "ed" in higher ed. Produced by Resonate across multiple seasons.
This is Resonate's clearest higher-ed-vertical credential: a real, ongoing client show built for exactly the institutional-operations audience this page is written for.
Shared Practices — Your Dental Roadmap
A practitioner-focused show for dental professionals navigating practice ownership, growth, and transition. Produced by Resonate since launch, the show has built a loyal, returning audience within its niche.
Academic departments and professional schools can use this same practitioner-deep-dive format to build authority with a specific professional audience over time.
Better by Great Place to Work
A branded podcast for Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, interviewing executives and people leaders on building high-trust workplaces. Produced and managed end-to-end by Resonate.
Institutions recruiting faculty and staff in a competitive market can use this same internal-culture format to support hiring and retention.
Ready to build a show that speaks to students, alumni, and staff?
Thirty minutes. We discuss your institution, your audiences, and what a privacy-aware production workflow looks like for your show.
Common questions about university and higher ed podcast production.
Everything you need to know before starting or scaling a podcast for your institution.
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Your prospective students are still deciding.
Let's give them a reason to keep listening.
Book a thirty-minute strategy call. We discuss your institution, your audiences, and what a privacy-aware podcast looks like for your show.
No commitment. Thirty minutes. Honest advice about whether podcasting is right for your institution right now.