The Keynote on Speaking Engagement

Agora Talk: Introducing the Miner Nation Contributors program

22 min · 4. kesä 2026
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What do you do when your engagement goals are climbing, your content has gone all-ask and no-story, and there's no budget to hire a writer? At UTEP, you stop looking inward and start looking out — to your own alumni. In this special Agora edition of the podcast, Sydney Bertram, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Communications and Engagement at UTEP, shares how her team broke out of the "transactional loop" by launching the Miner Nation Contributors Program — a fractional team of alumni freelancers who bring an authentic voice and institutional pride that money can't buy. Sydney walks through the build, the pay-per-piece model, the CASE-metrics framework that proved its impact (contributor content was UTEP's highest-engagement content type in FY25), and three diagnostic questions for your own shop. Hosted by Ryan Catherwood with Agora Leader - Annie Quade. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe [https://www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

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Christine Cruzvergara has spent her career at the seams where higher ed, employers, and the workforce meet. After a decade leading career services at George Mason, GW, Georgetown, and Wellesley, she spent more than seven years as Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake, with a bird's-eye view across 1,600-plus institutions and millions of employers. In this Keynote, Christine and Ryan get into her long campaign to elevate career services to the cabinet table, why career readiness needs a leader even when it is everyone's job, and the concept she championed at Wellesley: a personal board of advisors, at least three alumni for every student. They also dig into the silos between advancement and career services, the young-alumni-donor overlap most shops miss, the ROI debate and economic mobility, and what AI is doing to entry-level work, including why relational intelligence matters more than ever. Watch the full-length version on YouTube (57 mins) For more Keynotes, and to join our Book Club and Agora, become a member at speakingengagement.org [http://speakingengagement.org]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe [https://www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

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