Cabinet Conversations - October 2026

Dr. Philip Ryken and Mike Schauer, Athletic Director and Head Basketball Coach

0:00 Introduction

1:54 Reflections from the Athletic Director

2:33 How is Wheaton College ROTC doing?

4:07 Collaboration between athletics and ROTC

5:49 Status of the endowment?

6:39 Major challenges for the College?

7:53 Excellence in athletics

8:57 The experience of the spectator.

10:29 The experience of the spectator.

12:24 What percentage of students are athletes?

13:44 The history of Wheaton colors.

15:43 Athletics facilities

18:49 Biological males in women's sports?

21:47 Does Wheaton embrace “classical” education?

23:25 Will there ever be an indoor track facility?

24:38 Other CCIW schools with an AD who is also a head coach?

25:00 Wheaton grads as coaches?

26:17 Jeff Peltz role at Wheaton?

27:21 Wheaton College president who was also a varsity athlete?

27:56 The demographic “cliff”?

28:37 The “transfer portal”?