SA NOW Social Hour: 100th Episode

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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...

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Graduate Student Well-Being: Mental Health, Well-Being, and Support

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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 students and ways to support students holistically from the individual to institutional levels.

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Student Success: Perspectives, Approaches, and Strategies

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Dr. Keith Edwards discusses many different perspectives, approaches, and strategies for student success with the editor and two contributing authors of the new book How College Students Succeed. Drs. Nick Bowman, Jodi Linley, and Mary Murphy discuss models, issues of identity, equity, institutional agency, and practical implications for student success.

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Trauma Stewardship: Navigating trauma and overwhelm as individuals, communities, and organizations

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Dr. Keith Edwards talks with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm, about how to navigate the challenging experiences and systems that we experience directly and vicariously as an individual, as communities, and organizationally. This conversation discusses Buddhism and neuroscience, self-awareness and self-management, and community care and sustainability. They also discuss the importance of creating organizations that are honest, realistic, allow space for emotional processing, and are strategic about rethinking how to move forward.

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Legal Issues: From Foundations to Emerging Issues

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Join Dr. Keith Edwards as he discusses legal issues in higher education with Jessica Salazar, Dr. John Wesley Lowery. and Dr. Ryan C. Holmes. These guests discuss foundational concepts; navigating the complexities of law, institutional context and culture, and people; various ways to work effectively with the general counsel's office; and emerging legal issues on the horizon. Today's guests bring different perspectives as a scholar of higher education law, a practicing campus attorney, and a senior student affairs practitioner.

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Academic Advising: From Foundations to Emerging Issues

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CJ Venable, Ariel Collatz, and Dr. Drew Puroway discuss all that is included in academic advising, different models, and challenges to professionals in this functional role with Dr. Keith Edwards. They also discuss how to center equity in academic advising work including challenging paradigms and institutional loyalty, navigating emotional experiences of resistance in the body, surveillance technology and predictive analytics, and how education might be getting in the way of freedom.

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Fraternity & Sorority Life: From Foundations to Emerging Issues

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Three campus and professional association leaders join Dr. Keith Edwards to discuss the benefits, challenges, and future of fraternity and sorority life. Chris Graham, Michelle Guobadia, and Dr. Kim Monteaux De Freitas discuss the breadth and depth of fraternity and sorority life; benefits to students, institutions, and society; and the challenges around equity, critical issues, and staffing models.

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Lessons from Research on a Curricular Approach

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These scholar-practitioners join us to discuss the lessons learned from their four different research studies on a curricular approach to learning beyond the classroom. They discuss lessons and generously share resources on organizational change, learning organizations, organizational culture, staff members seeing themselves as educators, and the impact on learners.

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Finance in Higher Education

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Dr. Keith Edwards discusses the finance of higher education with three experts, Drs. Nate Daun-Barnett, Amy Li, and Kevin McClure. They cover the basics of the higher education financial models as well as cutting-edge issues. The conversation centers around how more equitable resourcing is needed to meet student needs as opposed to the status quo continuing to exacerbate the gaps between the "haves" and the "have-nots."

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Student Affairs Career Transitions

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In this episode, we discuss a variety of career transitions including seeking a terminal degree, mid to senior-level, practitioner to faculty, student affairs adjacent roles, retirement, and more. Dr. Keith Edwards discusses the role of identity, imperfect institutions, purpose, and transformation with an editor and contributing author to the book Managing Career Transitions Across the Lifespan for Student Affairs Practitioners.

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