'Round About Campus

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

In our fifth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on the oft-discussed, yet elusive practice of praxis. We focus on putting learning into action, the unique positions of student affairs professionals in tackling challenges, and how we can animate our values through doing in higher education. In this episode, co-hostesses Erin Simpson and Z Nicolazzo are joined by Hilary Lichterman and Kathleen Gardner to think deeply about praxis through the how: what we do, vulnerability, trust, and ongoing relationship-building. We dive into curiosity and playfulness as portals into learning why we do what we do, and how we can do differently.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• adrienne maree browns's book, Emergent Strategy
•  Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal's book, Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fifth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on the oft-discussed, yet elusive practice of praxis. We focus on putting learning into action, the unique positions of student affairs professionals in tackling challenges, and how we can animate our values through doing in higher education. In this episode, co-hostesses Erin Simpson and Z Nicolazzo are joined by Susan Marine and Chelsea Pratt to discuss how we translate theory into practice, unique roles student affairs practitioners play in student learning and university life, and failure and risk embedded into praxis.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Susan Marine and Chelsea Pratt's book, Critical Praxis in Student Affairs: Social Justice in Action

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, outgoing co-hostess Alex C. Lange, incoming co-hostess Erin Simpson, and Z Nicolazzo share a special live episode recorded during the 2026 ACPA Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. They are joined by are joined Jonathan McElderry, Cameron Beatty, Cristobal Salinas, Jr., Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, and Emily Krechel to discuss identity-conscious and equity-minded mentorship.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• bell hooks' All About Love: New Visions; 
• Robert Brown, Shruti Desai, and Craig Elliott's Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs: Building Relationships and Transforming Systems;
• bell hooks' Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery; and
• Mel Robbins' The Let Them Theory. 

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Erin Simpson,  our new co-hostess! Alex, Z, and Erin look back and towards the future, reflecting on their time in student affairs and in various roles with About Campus.

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Jessica Harris and Reginald Blockett to discuss what we keep and transform within student development research and teaching, sunsetting and sundowning theories, and the entanglement of praxis/theory.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Moira Ozias’s article, White Women's Affect: Niceness, Comfort, and Neutrality as Cover for Racial Harm
• Nevitt Sanford’s book, Where Colleges Fail: A Study of the Student as a Person
• Arthur Chickering and Linda Reisser’s book, Education and Identity (2nd Edition)
• Marlon B. Ross’ book, Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
• J. T. Snipes’ podcast, Blacktivism in the Academy
• Vox’s podcast, Today Explained
• Derrick Bell’s book, And We are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Michael Denton to discuss power, multidisciplinary knowers/thinkers, and (re)turning to what is working, what can be transformed, and what are the potentialities for development in and beyond campus. 

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• David Halperin's book, How to Be Gay
• Steven Thrasher's chapter, "Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing" in the book, Imagining Queer Methods
• Heather Love's book, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
• Sami Schalk's book, Black Disability Politics
• Imani Barbarin's social media, @crutches_and_spice
• Dr. Gabriel Cruz's social media, @gacruz_phd
• Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Alex Lange and Jodi Linley's article, Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students
• Rosie Perez 's article, Paradigmatic Perspectives and Self-Authorship: Implications for Theory, Research, and Praxis
• Jamelle Bouie's article, Trump is on the Wrong Side of History by Design
• Eve Sedgwick’s book, Touching Feeling
• Sara Ahmed's book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
• Dean Spade's books, Mutual Aid and Love in a F*cked-Up World
• Alie Ward's podcast, Ologies
• Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon' podcast, Maintenance Phase
• John Biewen and Ellen McGirt's podcast, Scene on Radio
• Steven Thrasher's book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Wilson Kwamogi Okello to discuss the ontological dimensions of 'holistic,' or the nature of being, particularly what does it mean/who fits within 'the human' for human development. We dive into possibilities, the refusals of singularity and easy solutions, framed through Blackness, Black studies, and Black livingness.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Sara Ahmed's book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
• Carmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoir
• bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress
• William Faulkner's book, The Sound of the Fury
• Kevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
• Alexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
• Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Kris Renn and Erica Johnson to discuss the benefits of college on development (both the unique contributions and areas of limitations/growth) and how practitioners can support students as full people with complex, nuanced lives that go well beyond the classroom and other campus spaces.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Marcia B. Baxter Magold's article, Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey
• Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
• Kristen Renn, Chayla Haynes, Alex C. Lange, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., and Rosemary Perez's upcoming book, College Student Development Theory in Action
• Inside Higher Ed
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Robert Kegan's book, Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Rosie Perez to complicate "better" or "more developed," non-linearity of development, the nexus of theory-to-practice/practice-to-theory, and how we can be good company to each other, students, and ourselves. 

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Kristen Renn, Chayla Haynes, Alex C. Lange, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., and Rosemary Perez's book, College Student Development Theory in Action
• Marcia B. Baxter Magold's article, Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey
• bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress
• Frantz Fanon's book, The Wretched of the Earth

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here. 

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

In our fourth season of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Sumun Pendakur and Stephen John Quaye to discuss who college students are, their complexities, how current<-->historical systems try to enforce and codify the "typical" and assumed presence/experience on campus, and what practitioners can do to ensure students feel like they matter.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Stephen John Quaye, Shaun R. Harper, and Sumun L. Pendakur's book, Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Diverse Populations, 3rd Edition
• Bettina Love's book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
• Resmaa Menakem's book, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
• Estela Bensimon's article, The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success
• Vijay Pendakur's book, Closing the Opportunity Gap Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success

As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at [email protected].

You can get a full transcript of the episode here.