New Hiring Practices for Student Affairs

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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 employees as the best hiring practice, taking a recruitment mindset rather than running candidates through an obstacle course or gauntlet, and making the processes reciprocal for the mutual benefit of candidates and organizations.

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Lessons Learned from Leaving Student Affairs

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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, and making sure that purpose doesn't keep us stuck in unhealthy situations.

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Exploring Hybrid Work Arrangements in Student Affairs

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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 their teams well.

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Lessons Learned for Being a Great New Professional

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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, mentorship, and more.

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The Future of Undergraduate Career Education

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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, paradigm shifts need in career education, centering equity, and the potential of experiential learning as opportunities for praxis. Join Melanie Buford, Michael J. Stebleton, Michael Sharp, Heather Nester, and host Keith Edwards for this conversation.

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Reigniting Relationships to Spark Successful Careers

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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, and equity in career center work. Thanks to Symplicity for making this conversation possible.

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Apologies: From the Individual to the Collective Levels

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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.

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Reframing Assessment to Center Equity: Why, What, & How

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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, privilege, and positionality to advance equity.

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Leading from the Middle: Leading Up, Down, and All-Around

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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 others.

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Community Board Involvement: Benefits, Challenges, and Considerations for Leaders

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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.

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