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This episode features a panel of scholars and practitioners as well as the executive director of the College Autism Network discussing how colleges and universities can better meet the needs of autistic and neurodivergent students on college campuses.

Student development theories and frameworks are foundational to the student affairs professions; however, there have often been concerns about their applicability to and effectiveness with marginalized college students. Square Pegs and Round Holes offers new perspectives to this important conversation by centering Critical Race Theory as a way to interrogate our understanding about the development...

Who are today’s college students, what do they need, and how can institutions rise to meet these needs? Today’s new episode brings together four panelists who contributed to a new book Multiple Perspectives on College Students: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities. Combining thoughtful insights from higher education stakeholders -- including students, their parents, K-12 educators, faculty, and ad...

This conversation features the two editors of the new book, Identity Interconnections. Lisa Delacruz Combs and Dr. Aeriel A. Ashlee discuss concepts and connections from their book, including compassionate cautions, liminality, threshold theory, healing and transformation, paradox and nuance, aspiring allyship, and even a Rihanna quote.

Today’s episode features three authors of chapters in a new book Becoming a Diversity Leader: Navigating Identity and Situational Pressures. While diversity leaders exist at all administrative ranks and levels across both academic and student affairs. Today’s episode focuses on the senior diversity officer role. Often a senior administrator or vice president or chancellor, senior diversity officer...

Student persistence, retention, and success are the central roles of higher education. Many campuses are centering belonging in their efforts. This conversation brings together Drs. Erin M. Bentrim, Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, and Vasti Torres discuss insights from the new book, The Impact of the Sense of Belonging in College: Implications for Student Persistence, Retention, and Success. They clarif...

The guests on this episode move beyond restorative justice in campus conduct processes to talk about the proactive and responsive ways higher education can utilize restorative philosophy, practices, principles, and justice processes. Special co-host Jessi Benveniste joins Keith Edwards in conversation with Drs. Léna Crain, Desirée Anderson, Patience Bryant, and Valerie Glassman. They discuss resto...

As we launch the fall semester, student activists will once again—as they have for decades—resume their work to address climate on campus as related to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of oppression. In this episode, co-authors of the book, Identity-Based Student Activism: Power and Oppression on College Campuses, discuss ways that campus administrators can reflect...

So many candidates and so many hiring authorities share that traditional approaches are no longer working, and the issues they always elicited are worse than ever. We need new approaches to hiring processes. Today's guests were all recommended as folks who are doing hiring radically differently. They discuss people-centered processes that honor the humanness of all involved, retaining current empl...

Today’s new episode is all about promoting voting and democracy on college and university campuses. Many states have recently held primaries and midterm elections are right around the corner in the U.S.. This episode’s panelists are engaged—both inside higher education institutions as well as beyond—in exploring voting initiatives and increasing democratic engagement among college students. Joinin...

Many student affairs professionals are considering leaving the field for so many reasons. In today's conversation, three folks who moved away from traditional student affairs roles, years ago, share their experience, transitions, and insights. They discuss disconnecting work from humanity, unlearning capitalistic mindsets, separating a work role from identity, centering our purpose to find clarity...

How can hybrid in-person and work-from-home work arrangements help better meet the needs of both students and staff? In this conversation, the guests share what has informed their thinking, considerations, decision making, and policy making. The guests challenge some conventional norms, challenge the profession to be nimble and innovate, and offer some strategies and policies that have served thei...

Dr. Glenn DeGuzman sits down with William Hsu, Robert Magdeleno, and Chelsea Whitaker to examine the current topics and future challenges facing Residential Life departments from the professional live-in staff perspective.

Each of today's guests was recommended as a great new professional. They discuss key lessons learned that helped them thrive as new professionals and some lessons they wished they had learned sooner. They discuss relationship building, professional development, navigating experiences with marginalized identities, curiosity, navigating politics, healthy discomfort, managing up, self-advocacy, mento...

Today's bonus episode is our first ever in-person podcast recording for Student Affairs Now. Two career center leaders discuss reconnecting with students, with employers, and reconnecting them to each other. They discuss challenges and opportunities, staffing challenges for career centers, and how has recruiting changed. They also discuss innovation, relationships, purpose, data-informed practices...

As the present and future of work continue to change toward increasing precarity, today's guests look to what career education can do to help students navigate careers well beyond their first job. Editors and authors of the new book, "Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education: Equitable Career Learning, Development, and Preparation in the New World of Work," discuss the future of work,...

With the June 24, 2022 Supreme Court of the United States decision overturning Roe v. Wade, campuses across the U.S. are scrambling to address students’ reproductive health needs and deal with underlying issues contributing to lack of access to care. As laws permitting or limiting abortion care are now decided at the state, campus policies, access to abortion care, student activism, and other form...

We all mess up. Today's guests discuss the role of apologies in accountability, repair, and restoration. They explore responsibility, expectations, ego, and obstacles for making apologies as individuals, leaders, organizations, and the collective.

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses the new book, Reframing Assessment to Center Equity with four contributors; Drs. Gavin Henning, Divya Bheda, Joe Levy, and Ciji Heiser. They discuss the power of assessment to be more equitable as a process and to advance equity as a goal in higher education. Today's guests offer insights and reframing as well as tools, strategies, and tangible ways to examine power, pr...

Dr. Keith Edwards talks with Dr. Kathleen G. Kerr, Debbie S. Deas, and Zachariah Brumfield about the challenges, skills, and art of leading up, down, and all around. The conversation explores curiosity, care, listening, feedback, power, and identities. The guests' insight and wisdom are helpful for leaders at all levels of the organization who want to be more effectively create change and lead oth...

In honor of Father’s Day, we get the perspective from what it is like to be a student affairs professional and father for this special episode of Student Affairs Now. Dr. Glenn DeGuzman (father of a 16yr old daughter and 18 year old son) discusses the many challenges and joys facing fathers who work in, around and/or adjacent to the field of student affairs. Dr. Wilson Okello, Dr. Keith Humphries,...

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses community board involvement with three senior-level student affairs leaders engaged with multiple boards. Drs. Alvin Sturdivant, Cheree Meeks, and Tanisha Price-Johnson discuss their participation, benefits and challenges, what they have learned, and considerations for what and how to pursue this kind of involvement for personal and professional fulfillment.

Episode Panelists Aja Holmes Aja C. Holmes, Ph. D., is the Assistant Dean of Students, Director of Community Living at University of San Francisco. Previous episode(s):Rethinking the Residence Director RoleCelebrating Our Listeners Stephen Santa-Ramirez Dr. Stephen... The post SA NOW Social Hour: 100th Episode appeared first on Student Affairs NOW .

Dr. Glenn DeGuzman sits down with Dr. Kehaulani Vaughn, Dr. Leilani Kupo, and Sefa Aina to talk story about the Pacific Islander student experience and the obstacles and challenges facing this often overlooked student population.

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses graduate student mental health, well-being, and support with Drs. Christina W. Yao, Lisa S. Kaler, Dave Nguyen, and Michael J. Stebleton. Each guest brings perspectives as a graduate student, supporting graduate and professional students, and their writing and research about graduate students. The conversation explores the challenges facing graduate and professional stu...