Associate Professor & Program Coordinator, Colorado State University

Dr. Susana Muñoz is Associate Professor of Higher Education, Program Coordinator of the Higher Education Leadership (HEL) Program, and Co-Director of CSU initiatives for the Race and Intersectional Studies for Educational Equity (RISE) Center in the School of Education at Colorado State University (CSU).  Her scholarly interests center on the experiences of minoritized populations in higher education. Specifically, she focuses her research on issues of equity, identity, and campus climate for undocumented Latinx students, while employing perspectives such as legal violence, racist nativism, Chicana feminist epistemology to identify and deconstruct issues of power and inequities as experienced by these populations. She utilizes multiple research methods as mechanisms to examine these matters with the ultimate goal of informing immigration policy and higher education practices. Her first book “Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists”  (Peter Lang Publishing) highlights the lives of 13 activists who grapple with their legality as a salient identity. Her research can also be found in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs, Research, and Practice, and Teachers College Record. Dr. Muñoz has been honored by the White House Initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics for her teaching and research, she was also recognized as a Salzburg Global Fellow and named one of the “top 25 most influential women in higher education” by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. She also brings 13 years of student affairs experience in multicultural affairs, greek life, diversity and leadership training, TRiO programs, and residence life.  

Susana’s Episodes

In this conversation, Dr. Susana Muñoz shares the transformative experience of her sabbatical. She discusses her awakening, disconnecting her worth from work and productivity, listening to her body, and becoming more grounded and intentional with her energy and spirit. She also shares what this means for moving forward.

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Episode Description Today, we celebrate our 100th episode with our special edition Student Affairs Now Social Hour. All five of our hosts and our production assistant Nat Ambrosey are joined by members of our learning community. The group discusses favorite episodes, other podcasts, pandemic lessons, summer plans, and what they are troubling now in student…

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Dra. Susana Muñoz interviews her dissertation advisor, Dr. Larry Ebbers, professor emeritus of Iowa State University, a pillar in the field of higher education. They discuss Dr. Ebbers’ primary research area, community colleges. And, engage in great conversation about tenure and promotion, doctoral education, the challenges of the pandemic, and building communities of support in…

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The panelists discuss how college and universities can move beyond land acknowledgments. They provide questions for student affairs leaders to consider as more higher education institutions adopt land acknowledgements as a common practice.

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Production Assistant Nat Ambrosey sits down with the hosts of Student Affairs NOW to take you behind the scenes. They discuss how the podcast started, episodes to listen to and more, all for the 1 year anniversary of the podcast.

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Dr. Susana Muñoz talks with authors of Identity-Conscious Supervision; Robert Brown, Dr. Craig Elliott, and Dr. Shruti Desai. Guests explore topics around power, identity, and courageous leadership.

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Dra. Susana Muñoz facilitates a critical conversation about the vital role that community colleges play with three scholars/community college leaders. 

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College students with experiences in the foster care system are often not central to institutionalized support within student affairs and higher education. Dra. Susana Muñoz meets with Angela Hoffman Copper, Dr. Royel Johnson, and Kenyon Lee Whitman about ways higher education and student affairs can better support college students with foster care experiences.

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Dr. Keith Edwards discusses racist rhetoric in our culture, it’s impact, and solutions to move us forward with Dras. Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana Muñoz, editors of the new book Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education.

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Susana Muñoz reflects with panelists 5 years after the Undocumented immigrant Knowledge Community was started in NASPA. What has changed? What hasn’t?

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Dra. Susana Muñoz interviews one of her mentors, Dra. Laura Rendón, a pillar in the field of higher education. They discuss her journey through the academy, validation theory, and navigating liminal, in-between spaces or nepantla in higher education.

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Watch this special collaboration and crossover episode as NASPA SA Voices in the Field podcast co-host Dr. Jill Creighton joins SA Now co-hosts Dr. Susana Muñoz and Dr. Glenn DeGuzman to discuss the role of podcasts, professional development, and more.

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The four hosts of Student Affairs Now look back at what they’ve learned and taken away from the podcast in 2020 and what they are looking forward to from the podcast in 2021.

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Susan Muñoz discusses the new book From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education with two of the authors.

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The panelists discuss how college and universities can move beyond land acknowledgments. They provide questions for student affairs leaders to consider as more higher education institutions adopt land acknowledgements as a common practice.

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In our first episode, the four hosts of Student Affairs NOW will engage in an open conversation about the vision for the podcast.

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Dr. Susana Muñoz talks with authors of Identity-Conscious Supervision with Robert Brown, Dr. Craig Elliott, and Dr. Shruti Desai. Guests explore topics around power, identity, and courageous leadership.

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Student Affairs NOW is the premier podcast, weekly web show, and online learning community for thousands of us who work in, alongside, or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. Our first episode will air in October, 2020.

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Student Affairs NOW is the premier podcast, weekly web show, and online learning community for thousands of us who work in, alongside, or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs.

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