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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Reproductive Health on Campus Post-Roe

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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.

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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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Student Affairs Dads: Parenting Perspectives & Dad Jokes

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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.

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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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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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