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Today’s guest, Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist for Time Magazine and The Atlantic. Her reporting on education has explored the interaction between public policy and human behavior. In 2013 she published The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. One of the biggest stories in higher ed in the past year has been the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, which offers tuition reimbursement for Starbucks employees at Arizona State University Online. Amanda has reported extensively on this story since Fall 2014 and the culminating cover story, The Upwardly Mobile Barista, was published this week on TheAtlantic.com. This will be ORHigherEd’s first ever two-part series. This episode is Part 1 and will focus on Amanda’s reporting for The Atlantic on the Starbucks College Achievement Plan and will include her thoughts on how Starbucks & ASU Online are approaching the challenges of delivering higher education in innovative ways.