How and why do we sleep? How does our sleep change across our life span? What are the implications of sleep deprivation on college students and how might that guide our practice? How has technology transformed our understanding of sleep? How do caffeine and alcohol work within the body to affect the quality of sleep? Are pills like melatonin and Ambien effective in providing healthful sleep? What is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)? What are some tips and strategies to improve the quality of our sleep?

Learn the answers to these questions and more as host Tony Doody interviews Dr. Brad Wolgast (Director of the Center for Counseling and Student Development at the University of Delaware). Please contribute to the conversation by emailing questions before the show to tony@higheredlive.com or by tweeting live during the show using the #higheredlive hashtag. We’ll do our best to infuse questions from viewers (with attribution) into the live conversation.


Episode Host

Tony Doody

Tony Doody



Brad Wolgast

Dr. Brad Wolgast has worked in Student Affairs for 20 years as a counseling center psychologist, and is now the Director of the Center for Counseling and Student Development at the University of Delaware. He has been passionate about Sleep Health for decades and is Board Certified in Behavior Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine and the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine. He has presented students, faculty and counseling center staff at the Universities of Colorado -Boulder, Maryland – College Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State -State College, George Mason, Temple, Sewanee, as well as state psychology associations and the Veteran’s Administration. He has been consulted and interviewed for sleep programing on MTV, and NBC and the Associated Press.