Varying Viewpoints

In this episode, we invited Frederick Shegog, founder of The Message, LLC and notable keynote speaker, to join us. During the interview, Frederick talks about how his challenging, yet eye-opening experiences inspired him to become the leader he is today. He shares how important it is to empower communities and encourage self-awareness in students who often experience self-doubt. Frederick speaks a...

In this episode, we invited Sarah Todd, social work professor and the director of Carleton University’s School of Social Work to join us and interview with our Communications Intern, Sharaya Morrison. Sarah’s background includes research in many areas related to social work and community practice. She touched on how broad social work in communities can be and further discusses what whiteness and p...

In this episode, we invited Michael Hicks, assistant professor of education at Centenary College of Louisiana, to join us. Michael talks to us about his role as an educator of future educators and how he teaches leadership techniques. He created the “Teach, Speak, Create” model in an effort to inspire himself and others to be effective leaders, especially through the lenses of diversity, inclusion...

In this episode, we invited Karen Gross, a consultant to non-profit schools, organizations, and governments, to join us. Karen’s work focuses on strategies for vulnerable student success across the K-20 pipeline, with a focus on the impact of trauma on educational outcomes. A frequent author, speaker, and commentator on issues in education, she is the author of the newly released, award-winning bo...

In this episode, we invited Yolanda Wiggins, an assistant professor of sociology at San Jose State University, to join us. Yolanda highlights her research on educational inequality and explores the role that families play in students' feelings of inclusion at higher education institutions. Additionally, Yolanda digs deeper into how diversity initiatives are often surface-level interventions that d...

In this episode, we invited Ivory Toldson, a professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University, president of Quality Education for Minorities (QEM), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Negro Education to join us. Ivory highlights his substantial work around harmful repercussions of "B.S.," or bad statistics, and misinformation on Black people often found in media sources and sometimes 'rep...

In this episode, we invited Loraleigh Keashly, a professor of Communications at Wayne State University to join us. Loraleigh talked about the topic of workplace bullying and how prominent this issue is becoming today, as people are becoming more open to sharing their experiences with bullying. Loraleigh notes how the generational shift in work culture has been a huge help towards addressing workpl...

In this episode of the “Varying Viewpoints” podcast series, we invited Ingrid Tulloch, an assistant professor at Morgan State University and director of Morgan State’s Animal Research Facility, to join us to discuss workplace bullying. Ingrid specializes in the Neurobiology of Risky Behavior, and uses her research to identify the role of chemicals in the brain - specifically inflammatory cytokine...

In this episode, we invited Philo Hutcheson, professor, higher education historian, and author of the book “A People's History of American Higher Education,” to join us. In this interview, Philo talks about the importance of studying the history of higher education and why it is important to understand the foundations on which our colleges and universities are built upon. Philo argues that issues...

In this episode, our John Smartt Summer Scholars Steffi Huynh, Tiyana Herring, and Miranda Febus invited Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University, to join them. Roderick talks about police presence on campus and the impact it has on students, especially as it relates to race, gender, and sexuality. Roderick briefly discussed the Ja...

In this episode, we invited Kate Slater, Associate Director and Manager of Programs for the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) and lecturer at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Kate tells us of her work with the IRT, as the organization attempts to move towards racial equity in the educational sector, and her passion for engaging in anti-racist work, both as a scholar and an educator...

In this episode, we collaborate with the National Center on Institutional Diversity (NCID) at the University of Michigan to share research and provide insight into the American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) designation. Thai-Huy Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Education at Seattle University, and Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Education at Oregon Sta...

In this episode, we invited Levon T. Esters, Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication at Purdue University, to talk about how he approaches mentoring students and strategies for positioning graduate students of color for career advancement. Levon is also the Director of the award-winning Mentoring@Purdue program (M@P) and discusses how he uses his...

In this episode, we invite Marcheta Evans, President of Bloomfield College, an institution that is dually designated as a Predominately Black Institution (PBI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). President Evans talks about her road to becoming president of Bloomfield, the factors that have influenced her interest in leading the 150-year institution, and some of the initiatives she plans to...

In this episode, we invited Evan Marlbrough, Vote Everywhere Ambassador for the Andrew Goodman Foundation and Student President for the Young Democrats at Georgia State University, to join us. Evan talks about his experience as a student voting rights activist on campus and his involvement with the Andrew Goodman Foundation as an outlet for advocating for increased student voting on campus. As a s...

In this episode, we invited Michael Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College, a Historically Black College, to join us. President Sorrell talks to Proctor Institute Executive Director Marybeth Gasman about his journey toward becoming president of Paul Quinn, his transformative efforts to restructure higher education so as to better serve the needs of under-resourced students and communities, and h...

In this episode, we invited Elmira Mangum, the founder and CEO of EM Plus 3 LLC and the former president of Florida A&M University, to join us. Though it was never a goal of hers, Elmira shares her journey to becoming the first woman president of the university, what she has learned from holding various leadership positions, and how she applies leadership lessons to all of her professional endeavo...

In this episode, we invited Josue Falaise, CEO of GOMO Educational Services, to join us. GOMO Educational Services is an organization that provides professional development and executive-level training that focuses on equity to build the capacity of adults in fostering student agency. Josue highlights his professional career, where he started as an elementary school teacher and later became a midd...