Apologies: From the Individual to the Collective Levels

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Student Affairs Dads: Parenting Perspectives & Dad Jokes

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 Humphrey, Donnie Brooks, and Dr. Kyle Ashlee join this panel to talk story and tell dad jokes.

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

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.

SA NOW Social Hour: 100th Episode

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 Pacific Islander Student Experience

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.

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

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.

Trauma-Informed Student Affairs Practice

Trauma is omnipresent in the lives of college students despite receiving limited attention in student affairs literature. Whether sexual assault and intimate partner violence, campus shootings, or racial trauma, many students arrive on our campuses and have either experienced trauma before arriving or while in college. It is critical for student affairs professionals to increase their understanding of trauma and its effect on the mental health and well-being of students.

Student Affairs MomS

In honor of the upcoming holiday, we’re sharing perspectives of several mothers who work in or adjacent to the field of student affairs. This group, also known as S.A.M.S. or Student Affairs MomS, has an active community on Facebook, presence at national conferences, and beyond. In today’s episode, Dr. Heather Shea (herself a SAM) discusses the many challenges and joys facing mothers in student affairs with the creator of the Facebook group, Dr. Alexandria Wright and three other SAMS, Dr. Kathy Adams Riester, Dr. Megumi Moore, and Kimberly Steed-Page. #momwin #MoreThanAMom #IMomSoHard #momguilt #workingmomlife