Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.

In our second season of 'Round About Campus, we take a 'behind the scenes' look at how About Campus works by talking to various people involved in making the magic happen. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Sharon Stein and Ryan Terry, both of whom are authors of articles in the November/December 2024 issue (Vol. 29, Issue 5) of About Campus.

Dr. Sharon Stein is a white settler, scholar and educator, and associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her work asks how higher education can prepare people to navigate social and ecological challenges in critically engaged, relationally rigorous and intergenerational responsible ways. In particular, she examines the complexities of confronting difficult truths about colonialism and climate change and enacting regenerative and reparative forms of social and institutional change. She is the author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of U.S. Higher Education, founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective. 

Ryan Terry has worked in higher education for ten years, mostly in housing and residence life. He is currently an Assistant Director of Residence Life at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia and a master's from Canisius University.

In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:

• The work of Teia das 5 Curas;
• The work of Riyad Shahjahan;
• The work of Kyle Whyte;
• Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Andreotti;
• Nancy Schlossberg's work on marginality and mattering in college; 
• We Get It: Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults by Heather L. Sevaty-Seib and David C. Fajgenbaum;
• Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation by Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. 

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You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.