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SACSA's SA Today: A Reflection on the First 100 Episodes by SACSA Podcast

Join Connor Weir and Ashley Sanfacon as they share their experiences as SACSA Presidential Scholars. Connor worked with Dr. Jane Adams Dunford leading up to the 2024 SACSA Conference and Ashley was Presidential Scholar for Dr. Matt Clifford. Learn more about the role and how to get involved with SACSA.

Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education with Jordan Viars-Whisinnand by SACSA Podcast

Join Dr. Wanda Johnson, the 2024 Dissertation of the Year recipient from SACSA as she discusses her dissertation, "Still, I Rise... Using Sista Circles to Explore the Lived Experiences of Black Women Who Attend(ed) Historically White Institutions as Undergraduates." She discusses her professional and doctoral journey and how she is putting her scholarship into action.

One of the myths of student affairs is that you take a job out of grad school and you stay in that job for AT LEAST two to three years. But what if you aren't in the right place for you? How do you navigate a career change in year ONE? Join David Maldonado, Jr. and Hannah Starling as they discuss their job changes early in their careers and how they navigated their searches differently the second...

2025 SACSA Time by SACSA Podcast

Join Trevis Belle, Elise Blackburn, Daisy Peña, Melissa Thierry, and Sade Bowers from the Future of Student Affairs Summit. Their team focused on how to meet our current students where they are and get them meaningfully engaged on campus.

Join Tony Cawthon, Myah McDonald, Elle Smith, Emily Tietelbaum, and Molly Yonker from the Future of Student Affairs Summit. Their team focused on supervision and how we can engaging in continual improvement in this important aspect of the job.

Join Dr. Mya Richardson-Echols, Cat Novakovich, Venessa Peart, and Drew Nicklaus in a timely and important conversation. As we seek innovative ways to support marginalized students on campus, we must find ways to support the practitioner-educators who provide that frontline work. Listen in to how this team developed a protocol for SACSA support of these practitioners at the recent Future of Studen...

Welcome to To Practice, a practitioner skill-building conversation presented by SACSA. This season is about parenting in student affairs. To Practice is hosted by Kate Radford, Executive Director of the Center for Student Leadership and Engagement at Clemson University, and Myles Surrett, Associate Vice President at James Madison University. In this season, Myles and Kate take a slight detour from...

Welcome to To Practice, a practitioner skill-building conversation presented by SACSA. This season is about parenting in student affairs. To Practice is hosted by Kate Radford, Executive Director of the Center for Student Leadership and Engagement at Clemson University, and Myles Surrett, Associate Vice President at James Madison University. In this season, Myles and Kate take a slight detour from...

Welcome to To Practice, a practitioner skill-building conversation presented by SACSA. This season is about parenting in student affairs. To Practice is hosted by Kate Radford, Executive Director of the Center for Student Leadership and Engagement at Clemson University, and Myles Surrett, Associate Vice President at James Madison University. In this season, Myles and Kate take a slight detour from...

Let's go back to a year ago to an episode recorded in May of 2024. As Evan Branyon (Tri County Technical College), David Maldonado (Old Dominion University), Kaleb Scott (Northwestern University), and Arianna Wade (University of South Carolina - Sumter) were preparing to graduate, they also took time out to talk about the graphic novel series Check, Please! Listen in to their reflection on the boo...

This episode's guest is Dr. Evan Faidley from the University of Central Arkansas. Join us as he shares about his journey into higher education as well as his teaching and scholarship. And, yes, he will be speaking French - but not for the entire episode. Another great faculty profile this week on the SACSA Podcast.

Join Jeff Hahn as Camden Miller and Michelle Boettcher talk about the series Hacks. We explore cancel culture, college student perspectives, relationships, and human development. Jeff also gives us some insight into the good, the bad, and the painfully true aspects of improv in the show and in his life. The episode includes a variety of other resources, ways to encourage improvisation in classes,...

Join two special guest hosts as we explore the ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and can be used in higher education as well as the ethical implications of AI generated content. New ideas, new content, new voices, and new ideas.

Join Dr. Dax Boatwright from Florida Atlantic University to learn about strategies for using conflict management as a tool for student success.

Join Camden Miller and Michelle Boettcher for this first episode focused on the intersection of popular culture and student affairs/higher education. We talk about our interest in these topics and discuss Promising Young Woman (2020) - the film that maybe solidified our shared interest and partnership in talking about this topic. Please be aware that this episode contains discussions of violence,...

Join Abigail Beadle and Fred Tugas and hosts Camden and Michelle as they discuss student development, roommate conflicts, and faculty and staff, at Shiz University in the 2024 film Wicked. Warning: Spoilers, so watch the movie first.

Join SACSA Past President Dr. Jane Adams-Dunford for a conversation celebrating the SACSA 2024 conference and her term as SACSA President. She reflects on her experience, her goals as a leader of the organization, and she looks ahead to SACSA's future.

Join Kaleigh Del Greco and Anne Badgett from the student affairs program at Appalachian State University as they discuss hurricanes, the changing nature of higher education, and the people who have helped them navigate all that 2024 has had to offer.

Join Austina Wolverton at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina and Camden Miller at the Duke University School of Law for a conversation about supporting students in law school. What inspired them to do this work? What are the unique needs of law students? We discuss these and a number of other questions in an effort to understand student-facing and student-supporti...

Join Rachel Onley, Ashley Crisp, and Hannah Watts for a discussion about supporting students in medical school programs. While we sometimes overlook the role of student affairs in graduate and professional schools, these students have needs, pressures, and concerns both similar to and different from undergraduate students. This conversation sheds some light on working with students in a different...

Join SACSA 2024 Conference Chair Dr. Alicia Golston and Programs Chair Dr. Thomas Bruick for a conversation about SACSA 2024 in Charlotte, NC November 2-4. Hear about their roles in the conference, what the event has to offer, and why SACSA is a brilliant place to invest your professional development funds, your time, and your talent. For more information about the conference, visit the SACSA site...

To kick off the academic year and a new season of SA Today, we have an awesome episode for you. How many times do we talk about how difficult it is to describe what student affairs is? Okay, we don't need an actual number. The point is, it's tough to explain. Listen in to conversations with family and friends about what this career entails. Conversation hosts include: Victoria Goetzinger, Arianna...