Jeff Selingo on Dream Schools in conversation with Doug Belkin | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Jeff Selingo (Special Advisor to President, ASU; Bestselling Author) joins Doug Belkin (Reporter, The Wall Street Journal) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 in Jeff Selingo on Dream Schools to explore how families can rethink what defines a “good” college and find the right fit.

Jeff Selingo has written about colleges and universities for more than 25 years and is a New York Times bestselling author of four books. His latest, Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You (September 2025), draws on more than two years of research and a survey of some 3,000 parents to give families permission to think more broadly about what signals a “good” college and the tools to discover their dream school.

He is also the author of Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, named one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year in 2020. A regular contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, Jeff is a special advisor to the president and professor of practice at Arizona State University.

Doug Belkin is an education beat reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

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