{"id":28635,"date":"2025-10-28T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=28635"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:46:53","slug":"listen-to-macdonald-herrington-on-monmouth-matters-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2025\/10\/28\/listen-to-macdonald-herrington-on-monmouth-matters-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald, Herrington Guests on Monmouth Matters Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monmouth University President Patrick Leahy and Matt Harmon welcomed Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald and Associate Director Tom Herrington as guests on the Monmouth Matters podcast on Oct. 21. MacDonald and Herrington shared their thoughts on the UCI\u2019s 20th anniversary, the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/symposium-and-awards\/2025-ocean-champions\/\">Future of the Ocean Symposium<\/a>, MacDonald\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2025\/09\/17\/transition-at-the-monmouth-university-urban-coast-institute\/\">forthcoming transition<\/a> to a new role as a fellow at the UCI, and the ongoing environmental work ahead. Leahy and Harmon also touched on recent campus events, including the career fair and homecoming, within the context of Monmouth\u2019s steady rise in external rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28635-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/podcast-player\/3727\/monmouth-matters-episode-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/podcast-player\/3727\/monmouth-matters-episode-2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/podcast-player\/3727\/monmouth-matters-episode-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/podcast-download\/3727\/monmouth-matters-episode-2.mp3?ref=download\">Download file<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/podcast-download\/3727\/monmouth-matters-episode-2.mp3?ref=new_window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Play in new window<\/a> | Duration: 48:20 | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/10\/Monmouth-Matters-Ep-2.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/monmouth-weekly\/id1504496752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubW9ubW91dGguZWR1L3ByZXNpZGVudC9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/sg4b53wh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PocketCasts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University President Patrick Leahy and Matt Harmon welcomed Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald and Associate Director Tom Herrington as guests on the Monmouth Matters podcast on Oct. 21. MacDonald and Herrington shared their thoughts on the UCI\u2019s 20th anniversary, the recent Future of the Ocean Symposium, MacDonald\u2019s forthcoming transition to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":28637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 07:31:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28653,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions\/28653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}