'Round About Campus

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Jessica Harris and Reginald Blockett to discuss what we keep and transform within student development research and teaching, sunsetting and sundowning theories, and the entanglement of praxis/theory.In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:Moira Ozias’s article, White Women's Affect: Niceness, Comfort, and Neutrality as Cover for Racial HarmNevitt Sanford’s book, Where Colleges Fail: A Study of the Student as a PersonArthur Chickering and Linda Reisser’s book, Education and Identity (2nd Edition)Marlon B. Ross’ book, Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit ManlinessJ. T. Snipes’ podcast, Blacktivism in the AcademyVox’s podcast, Today ExplainedDerrick Bell’s book, And We are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial JusticeAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Michael Denton to discuss power, multidisciplinary knowers/thinkers, and (re)turning to what is working, what can be transformed, and what are the potentialities for development in and beyond campus. In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:David Halperin's book, How to Be GaySteven Thrasher's chapter, "Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing" in the book, Imagining Queer MethodsHeather Love's book, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer TheorySami Schalk's book, Black Disability PoliticsImani Barbarin's social media, @crutches_and_spiceDr. Gabriel Cruz's social media, @gacruz_phdStephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter HunterAlex Lange and Jodi Linley's article, Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College StudentsRosie Perez 's article, Paradigmatic Perspectives and Self-Authorship: Implications for Theory, Research, and PraxisJamelle Bouie's article, Trump is on the Wrong Side of History by DesignEve Sedgwick’s book, Touching FeelingSara Ahmed's book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, OthersDean Spade's books, Mutual Aid and Love in a F*cked-Up WorldAlie Ward's podcast, OlogiesMichael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon' podcast, Maintenance PhaseJohn Biewen and Ellen McGirt's podcast, Scene on RadioSteven Thrasher's book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Wilson Kwamogi Okello to discuss the ontological dimensions of 'holistic,' or the nature of being, particularly what does it mean/who fits within 'the human' for human development. We dive into possibilities, the refusals of singularity and easy solutions, framed through Blackness, Black studies, and Black livingness.In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:Sara Ahmed's book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional LifeCarmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoirbell hooks' book, Teaching to TransgressWilliam Faulkner's book, The Sound of the FuryKevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of BeingAlexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the HumanOctavia Butler's book, Parable of the SowerAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Kris Renn and Erica Johnson to discuss the benefits of college on development (both the unique contributions and areas of limitations/growth) and how practitioners can support students as full people with complex, nuanced lives that go well beyond the classroom and other campus spaces.In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:Marcia B. Baxter Magold's article, Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the JourneyTimothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyKristen Renn, Chayla Haynes, Alex C. Lange, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., and Rosemary Perez's upcoming book, College Student Development Theory in ActionInside Higher EdThe Chronicle of Higher EducationRobert Kegan's book, Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Rosie Perez to complicate "better" or "more developed," non-linearity of development, the nexus of theory-to-practice/practice-to-theory, and how we can be good company to each other, students, and ourselves. In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:Kristen Renn, Chayla Haynes, Alex C. Lange, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., and Rosemary Perez's book, College Student Development Theory in ActionMarcia B. Baxter Magold's article, Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journeybell hooks' book, Teaching to TransgressFrantz Fanon's book, The Wretched of the EarthAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Sumun Pendakur and Stephen John Quaye to discuss who college students are, their complexities, how current<-->historical systems try to enforce and codify the "typical" and assumed presence/experience on campus, and what practitioners can do to ensure students feel like they matter.In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:Stephen John Quaye, Shaun R. Harper, and Sumun L. Pendakur's book, Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Diverse Populations, 3rd EditionBettina Love's book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational FreedomResmaa Menakem's book, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesEstela Bensimon's article, The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student SuccessVijay Pendakur's book, Closing the Opportunity Gap Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student SuccessAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Lorenzo Baber to discuss what makes college special (or not so special), including the importance of community colleges, higher education and K-12 partnerships, and how to support student success/development at all institution types.In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:George D. Kuh, John H. Schuh, and Elizabeth J. Whitt’s book, Involving Colleges: Successful Approaches to Fostering Student Leaning and Development Outside the ClassroomUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign's Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)David F. Labarees’ article, Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational GoalsNick Hillman’s article, Place Matters: A Closer Look at Education DesertsSteven Brint and Jerome Karabel’s book, The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in American, 1900-1985Xueli Wang’s book, Delivering Promise: Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical CollegesPamela EddyRegina Deil-AmenLaura RendónUniversity of Pittsburgh’s Council for the Study of Community CollegesAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk about their opening thoughts about student development, including how their thinking has evolved over time and what they view as important areas into which student development theorists could delve. In this episode, a number of publications are discussed, including:Marcia B. Baxter Magolda's book, Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-developmentKristen Renn's ASHE presidential address, Reimagining the Study of Higher Education: Generous Thinking, Chaos, and Order in a Low Consensus FieldAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Susana Muñoz and Amanda Tachine about how rest is central to how they think about their lives and work. Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at University of Oregon. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies. Dr. Susana M. Muñoz is Associate Professor in the Higher Education Leadership (HEL) Program, in the School of Education at Colorado State University (CSU).  Her scholarly interests center on the experiences of minoritized populations in higher education. Specifically, she focuses her research on issues of equity, identity, and campus climate for undocumented Latinx students while employing perspectives such as legal violence, racist nativism, Chicana feminist epistemology to identify and dismantle power, oppression, and inequities experienced by these populations. In this episode, a number of publications are discussed, including:Brianna Wiest's The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery; Tricia Hersey's Nap Ministry (you can also find out more about her book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto); Amanda's incredible book Native Presence and Sovereignty in College: Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters;As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Leonard Taylor, Jr. and Amanda Wong about how they make intentional and regular time for rest amidst the busy nature of their work. Dr. Leonard Taylor is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, and Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University. Leonard has taught in college contexts for more than a decade in various teaching roles, working with undergraduate and graduate students. His scholarship is focused on investigating and improving how student success commitments are enacted at higher education institutions.Amanda Wong is the Assistant Dean and Associate Director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL) at Dartmouth College, overseeing Pan Asian Student Advising after six years of supporting Women and Gender Student Advising and International Student Advising. Born and raised in Seattle, she is a child of refugees and a first-generation college student with a decade of experience in student affairs in various functional areas at institutions in Vermont, Colorado, and California. Amanda also currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for Outright Vermont, a statewide nonprofit building a Vermont where LGBTQ+ youth have hope, equity, and power.In this episode, a number of publications are discussed, including:Darin Stewart's Presidential Address for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (you can listen to it here and read it here); Roderick Ferguson's The Reorder of Things; andReginald Blockett, Leonard Taylor, and Steve Mobley's chapter in Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice titled, "If You Can't Go to Bella Noche's: On the Onto-Epistemological Possibilities for Qualitative Researchers. As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Cori Bazemore-James and Alina Wong about how they incorporate practices of rest in the work they do with student affairs educators. Dr. Cori Bazemore-James (she/her), Seneca Nation, serves as Assistant Vice Provost of the Graduate School Diversity Office and Affiliate Faculty in the Higher Education program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is also a Consultant/Trainer for Strategic Diversity Initiatives consulting and a budding Leadership Coach. Cori’s research centers Indigenous Knowledge to support and magnify the work of Indigenous students and staff in historically white institutions. Her proudest professional accomplishments include publications from her award-winning research, founding the ACPA Indigenous Student Affairs Network, and leading the development of the first Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) standards for Indigenous Student Affairs.Dr. Alina Wong currently serves as the Vice President for Institutional Equity at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN on Dakota land. This newly formed division guides and facilitates strategic initiatives to advance and embed equity and social justice throughout the College, including equity education and practice; advocacy and support; and collaborative partnerships with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to address institutional barriers and structural inequities. Her scholarship emphasizes intersectionality as a lens for interrogating and transforming higher education. In addition to Macalester, they have previously worked in Advancement, student affairs, and educational equity at Amherst College, Swarthmore College, Barnard College, and Penn State University. In this episode, a number of people, publications, and bits of pop culture are discussed, including:The work of Lee Anne Bell, especially Bell's contributions in Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice; Patricia Hill Collins' The Four Domains of Power;The work of Kimberlé Crenshaw; Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson; Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey; andThe Lives of Campus Custodians: Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy by Peter M. Magolda. As always, if you have feedback, do not hesitate to email us via [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk about their own reflections on the book, set up the idea of a book club through the podcast, and discuss their own dis/connections with the notion of rest.   In this episode, a number of people, publications, and bits of pop culture are discussed, including:The work of Amanda Tachine;Love My Naps, But Stay Woke: The Case Against Self-Care by Dian D. Squire and Z Nicolazzo;The late Peter M. Magolda; The late Deanna S. Forney;The Weather by Christina Sharpe;Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner;No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel; andThe TV show The Good Place.As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo reflect on Season 2 of the podcast with Cynthia Villarreal, an Associate Editor for About Campus.Dr. Villarreal is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University, just right up the road from where I am in Tucson. She holds a PhD in Urban Education Policy from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, and identifies as a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas, studying the borderlands of higher education, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), organizational culture, equity and decision making, and Chicana feminisms and higher education. As a critical qualitative researcher, she uses interdisciplinary theories and research to inform her approach to the study of HSI and how they serve their Latine students by interrogating the policies, structures, and culture within colleges and universities. She is a mother scholar living in Phoenix, Arizona with her two children and husband.In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:The work of Eve Tuck;The work of K. Wayne Yang;The work of bell hooks; The work of Gloria Anzaldúa;Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving the Academy as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña;A Third University is Possible by la paperson; andWeaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice co-edited by Amanda R. Tachine and Z Nicolazzo. As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Sharon Stein and Ryan Terry, both of whom are authors of articles in the November/December 2024 issue (Vol. 29, Issue 5) of About Campus.Dr. Sharon Stein is a white settler, scholar and educator, and associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her work asks how higher education can prepare people to navigate social and ecological challenges in critically engaged, relationally rigorous and intergenerational responsible ways. In particular, she examines the complexities of confronting difficult truths about colonialism and climate change and enacting regenerative and reparative forms of social and institutional change. She is the author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of U.S. Higher Education, founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective. Ryan Terry has worked in higher education for ten years, mostly in housing and residence life. He is currently an Assistant Director of Residence Life at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia and a master's from Canisius University.In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:The work of Teia das 5 Curas;The work of Riyad Shahjahan;The work of Kyle Whyte;Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Andreotti;Nancy Schlossberg's work on marginality and mattering in college; We Get It: Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults by Heather L. Sevaty-Seib and David C. Fajgenbaum;Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation by Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dwayne Hamilton, Jr. and Ryan Moore, both of whom are members of the About Campus Graduate Students and New Professionals Editorial Board.Dwayne Hamilton, Jr. (he/him) is the Assistant Director for Basic Needs Services at George Mason University, where he provides case management for students experiencing basic needs insecurity and oversees initiatives promoting access to food and housing. Before this role, Dwayne was a graduate assistant for case management while he received his master's degree in Student Affairs Administration and Higher Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dwayne has published works focused on equity centered care and Black students’ experiences while obtaining graduate degrees. His most recent work is slated to be published in the Journal of College Student Development. Ryan (he/him) is a recent graduate of Miami University’s MS in Student Affairs and Higher Education (SAHE). Ryan has experience working in residence life, student activities, and as a teaching assistant for the SAHE Program at Miami. He started his journey with ACPA in 2020 at ACPA’s Next Gen Institute and has been engaged with the ACPA since then, both as an undergraduate and graduate student.In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey by Marcia Baxter MagoldaMaslow's Hierarchy of NeedsNote to Educators: Hope Required when Growing Roses in Concrete by Jeffrey Duncan-AndradeKimberlé Crenshaw's work on intersectionalityThe work of Zeus Leonardo Nevitt Sanford's Challenge and Support TheoryWhy We Need Trauma-Informed Campuses Now More than Ever by Kirsten M. Weber, Natalie F. Douglas, Tierney Popp, and Rachael K. NelsonStructural Competency: A Framework for Racial Justice Intervention in Student Affairs Preparation and Practice by Kenyon Lee Whitman and Wma Mazyck JayakumarAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Becki Elkins and Quortne R. Hutchings, who are co-editors for a special issue of About Campus focused on recovery in postsecondary education.Becki Elkins is associate professor in student affairs administration at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She teaches courses on organization and governance, assessment, student affairs administration, legal issues, and the history of higher education in on-campus, online and hybrid instructional formats. Elkins has worked in higher education for nearly 30 years in such areas as women's and LGBT resource centers, housing, institutional research, assessment and as a registrar. Her current research focuses on college students in recovery from substance use disorders.Quortne R. Hutchings is a first generation college student, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor of higher education at Northern Illinois University. Their research primarily focuses on black, gay, bisexual, queer, and non-binary undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and social experiences in higher education, student affairs professionals, experiences, and student and academic affairs, undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences with substance use and recovery, and utilizing critical qualitative methodologies. Q is a practitioner, scholar, and student in academic affairs, having professional experiences in academic advising, orientation, multicultural affairs, TRIO programs, and leadership development. In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:The work of Dr. Mahauganee D. Shaw BondsTrans* in College by Z NicolazzoThe work of bell hooks, particularly Teaching to TransgressThe work of Audre LordeToni Morrison: The Pieces I AmSeveral Parker Palmer books: To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey,A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, andThe Courage to Teach: Guide for Reflection and RenewalIn the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MDAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Roman Christiaens, who serves as the Managing Editor for About Campus. Roman is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona whose research focuses on examining diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education using critical frameworks around race, gender, space, and sexuality. Roman is an educator committed to anti-racism and decentering whiteness in education and queer and trans equity in their work. In addition to their role as the Managing Editor of About Campus, Roman also serves as the Internal Relations Director with the Consortium of Higher Education, LGBT Resource Professionals.In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi KoyamaThe work of Against EqualityThe Reorder of Things by Roderick A. FergusonNo Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh PatelRural Students Need Campus Champions by Dani McCauleyInvesting in Trans Lives in Education Through the Speaker Series Model by Roman Christiaens and Z NicolazzoThe work of the Trans Studies in Education Speaker SeriesIt Matters Who Leads Them: Connecting Leadership in Multicultural Affairs to Student Learning and Development by D-L StewartAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Laila McCloud.Dr. McCloud is an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to coming to GVSU, she was an assistant professor of college student personnel at Western Illinois University. She also holds a doctorate in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies from the University of Iowa and prior to pursuing a faculty career, she served as a student affairs educator focused on issues of equity and access at several institutions in the Chicagoland area.Dr. McCloud's research uses critical theories and methods to explore the professional and academic socialization of Black college students, the professionalization of multicultural student affairs work, and teaching and learning practices in higher education and student affairs graduate preparation programs. In 2023 she was also named an ACPA emerging scholar. A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests and co-hostesses, including: Being 'Lazy' and Slowing Down: Toward Decolonizing Time, Our Body, and Pedagogy by Riyad ShahjahanPublic Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle Over Educational Goals by David F. LabareeAll About Love: New Visions by bell hooksHelping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey by Marcia B. Baxter MagoldaOn Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara AhmedA Third University is Possible by la papersonAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Erin Simpson, Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel, and Colette Sterling.Dr. Erin Simpson is the director for the Gender Equality Center and Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Oklahoma. In this role, Erin works directly with queer and trans students, faculty and staff to imagine and create an equitable and affirming campus culture.Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel is an intersectional speaker and educator, trans and queer centered diversity worker and community leader. She works full-time, engaged in trans and queer centered diversity work at Columbia University, where she directs LGBTQ student life for the undergraduate colleges. She's also the QTPOC Caucus co-chair and member of the National Advisory Council for NCORE, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity and Higher Education. Welcome.Colette Sterling currently serves as the assistant director for Colorado State University's (CSU) Office of Parent and Family Programs (PFP). She has worked for CSU's PFP Office for several years in multiple roles, infusing the office with the core of DEIJ theory and active practice to better serve CSU’s thousands of parents, family members and student support networks. We are so excited that all three of you could join us today.In this episode, Erin mentioned Friend of the Pod and former podcast guest Tricia Shalka's new book, Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Higher Education.As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Tricia Shalka and Sy Simms.Dr. Tricia Shalka is an associate professor of Higher Education at the University of Rochester. Her work explores the impacts of trauma on college students and their experiences, as well as how to create trauma-informed spaces in higher education supportive of students, staff, and faculty success and well-being.Dr. Sy Simms is a REEDS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Their research interests include interrogating institutional and administrative practices of diversity and inclusion [and] examining higher education policies and practices through queer of color and feminist critiques as well. A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests, including: Tricia Shalka's new book, Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Higher EducationSara Ahmed's idea of non-performative speech acts comes from is her text On Being Included: Racism and Diversity and Institutional LifeTema Okun's work on white supremacy cultureThe Language of Appeasement by D-L StewartA Student Affairs Now podcast conversation between Drs. Raechele Pop and Carlton Green on canceling the culture of nice in higher educationThe Reorder of Things by Roderick A. FergusonPlantation Politics and Campus Rebellions edited by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, and Frank A. TuittAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. D-L Stewart and Ryan Barone.Dr. D-L Stewart is Professor and Chair of the Higher Education Department in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. His scholarship, teaching, and professional service focuses most intently on the ways that historically white settler colonial institutions function as crucibles that impinge on the learning, growth, and life chances of minoritized students through (dis)engagements with equity and justice. Ryan P. Barone (he/him), PhD, is the Assistant Vice President for Student Success at Colorado State University reporting dually to Academic and Student Affairs, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. Ryan loves spending time with his family and in his vegetable garden, occasionally simultaneously.A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests and co-hostesses, including: The Language of Appeasement by D-L StewartA Third University is Possible by la papersonHigh-Impact Practices (book chapter) by Alex C. Lange and D-L StewartThe Glass Escalator by Christine WilliamsNice White Men or Social Justice Allies? by Lori D. Patton and Stephanie BondiImperialistic Reclamation of Higher Education Diversity Initiatives through Semantic Co-option and Concession by Naomi NishiGrowing C-D-R (Cedar) by Dana N. Thompson Dorsey and Terah T. Venzant ChambersBurned Out or Burned Through by R. Kirk AndersonOn Being Included by Sara AhmedEveryday Utopias by Davina CooperThe Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. JemisinThe work of Octavia ButlerAs always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Stephanie Waterman. Dr. Stephanie Waterman, Onondaga Turtle Clan, is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and coordinates the Student Development/Student Services in Higher Education program. She is also the Academic Advisor on Indigenous Curriculum and Education under the Vice-President and Provost for the University of Toronto. Her research interests are First Nations/Native American college experiences, First Nations/Native American Student Affairs units, the role staff play in student retention, Indigenous methodologies, college transition, and critical race theories. She was recently awarded the ASHE Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship: Senior Scholar and has co-edited a new book with Routledge entitled Developments Beyond the Asterisk: New Scholarship and Frameworks for Understanding Native Students in Higher Education. In this episode, Stephanie also mentions Michelle Samura's About Campus article titled Understanding Campus Spaces to Improve Student Belonging as a piece she regularly goes back to.  We also mention Stephanie's piece in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice titled Home-Going as a Strategy for Success Among Haudenosaunee College and University Students, which we think is a must-read for all educators!As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected] can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo introduce listeners to the format, setup, and style of this every three-to-four week podcast. The upcoming season is focused on equity in higher education and features a series of incredible guests. We are excited for listeners to join us as we speak with a wide range of folks doing equity-based work in higher education, and know the episodes will provoke further food for thought. We look forward to listeners joining in and listening along. And as always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected]. You can get a full transcript of the episode here. And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.