by Envision Strategies | Aug 18, 2026 | Video Interviews
Occidental College is a small, residential liberal arts campus of 2,000 students in Los Angeles, with a dining program built around a single dining hall and one late-night retail space. Erik Russell joins Sojo Alex to talk about what has shifted most in student...
by Envision Strategies | Aug 11, 2026 | Video Interviews
UMass Dining serves over 50,000 meals a day and has held the top spot in Princeton Review’s college dining rankings for nine consecutive years. Garrett DiStefano joins Sojo Alex to talk about what comes after that kind of track record, and why the answer...
by Envision Strategies | Aug 5, 2026 | Video Interviews
Michigan Dining runs 31 kitchens across a large, geographically dispersed campus, supported by over 500 full-time staff and roughly 1,300 student employees. Steve Giardini joins Sojo Alex ahead of two new facility openings, one next year and a different kind of...
by Envision Strategies | Jul 23, 2026 | Video Interviews
Auxiliary services don’t teach students, but they shape the spaces where students engage, connect, and grow. For Jackson Mathews, AVP of Auxiliary Services at William & Mary, that responsibility starts with a deceptively simple idea: meet students where they...
by Envision Strategies | Jul 21, 2026 | Video Interviews
Sacramento State’s dining program is a hybrid one, combining residential dining with more than 20 retail operations, some run through their foodservice supplier and some subcontracted, alongside catering and concessions. Angela Rader, Director of Retail and...
by Envision Strategies | Jul 7, 2026 | Video Interviews
When Geoff Labe joined Lafayette College as Assistant Vice President for Operations, he was barely in the door before it became clear the dining program needed a hard look. Budget pressures were real, but the louder signal was coming from the campus community:...
