OutRival Presents The New Normal Ep 3: Western Governors University President Scott Pulsipher

OutRival Presents: The New Normal · Jul 23, 2026 · 1h 5m

Rubén Harris and Timur Meyster sat down with President Scott Pulsipher of Western Governors University, at WGU's headquarters in Salt Lake City, to talk about running the largest nonprofit online university in America in the AI era. Scott didn't climb the academic ladder. He spent more than 20 years building technology companies, including a run at Amazon, before taking the presidency in 2016. Today WGU serves nearly 380,000 individuals a year across all 50 states, carries roughly 190,000 concurrent students, and has awarded more than half a million degrees since its first graduate in 2000…