Lessons Learned from Leaving Student Affairs

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:24 — 24.0MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

Exploring Hybrid Work Arrangements in Student Affairs

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:25 — 18.3MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

Rethinking the Residence Director Role: Part II – The Live In Perspective

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:50 — 71.2MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

Lessons Learned for Being a Great New Professional

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:23 — 15.5MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

The Future of Undergraduate Career Education

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:47 — 19.2MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

Reigniting Relationships to Spark Successful Careers

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:38 — 18.0MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

Reproductive Health on Campus Post-Roe

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:10 — 15.6MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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 forms of student engagement around reproductive health may vary drastically from one higher education institution to another. In this episode, Dr. Heather Shea talks with Dr. Teresa DePiñeres and Dr. Carrie N. Baker about essential knowledge and skills for addressing reproductive health on college and university campuses.

Continue reading →

Apologies: From the Individual to the Collective Levels

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:42 — 77.9MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 79.7MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:08 — 77.1MB)

Subscribe to #SAnow RSS | Subscribe to #SAnow Podcast

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.

Continue reading →