'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 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 Lorenzo Baber to discuss what makes college special (or not so special), including the importance of community colleges, higher education and K-12 partnerships, and how to support student success/development at all institution types.

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

• George D. Kuh, John H. Schuh, and Elizabeth J. Whitt’s book, Involving Colleges: Successful Approaches to Fostering Student Leaning and Development Outside the Classroom
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign's Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)
• David F. Labarees’ article, Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals
• Nick Hillman’s article, Place Matters: A Closer Look at Education Deserts
• Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel’s book, The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in American, 1900-1985
• Xueli Wang’s book, Delivering Promise: Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges
• Pamela Eddy
• Regina Deil-Amen
• Laura Rendón
• University of Pittsburgh’s Council for the Study of Community Colleges

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 talk about their opening thoughts about student development, including how their thinking has evolved over time and what they view as important areas into which student development theorists could delve. 

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

• Marcia B. Baxter Magolda's book, Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-development
• Kristen Renn's ASHE presidential address, Reimagining the Study of Higher Education: Generous Thinking, Chaos, and Order in a Low Consensus Field

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 third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Susana Muñoz and Amanda Tachine about how rest is central to how they think about their lives and work. 

Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at University of Oregon. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies. 

Dr. Susana M. Muñoz is Associate Professor in the Higher Education Leadership (HEL) Program, 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 dismantle power, oppression, and inequities experienced by these populations. 

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

• Brianna Wiest's The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery; 
• Tricia Hersey's Nap Ministry (you can also find out more about her book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto); 
• Amanda's incredible book Native Presence and Sovereignty in College: Sustaining Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters;

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 third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Leonard Taylor, Jr. and Amanda Wong about how they make intentional and regular time for rest amidst the busy nature of their work. 

Dr. Leonard Taylor is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, and Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University. Leonard has taught in college contexts for more than a decade in various teaching roles, working with undergraduate and graduate students. His scholarship is focused on investigating and improving how student success commitments are enacted at higher education institutions.

Amanda Wong is the Assistant Dean and Associate Director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL) at Dartmouth College, overseeing Pan Asian Student Advising after six years of supporting Women and Gender Student Advising and International Student Advising. Born and raised in Seattle, she is a child of refugees and a first-generation college student with a decade of experience in student affairs in various functional areas at institutions in Vermont, Colorado, and California. Amanda also currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for Outright Vermont, a statewide nonprofit building a Vermont where LGBTQ+ youth have hope, equity, and power.

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

• Darin Stewart's Presidential Address for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (you can listen to it here and read it here); 
• Roderick Ferguson's The Reorder of Things; and
• Reginald Blockett, Leonard Taylor, and Steve Mobley's chapter in Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice titled, "If You Can't Go to Bella Noche's: On the Onto-Epistemological Possibilities for Qualitative Researchers. 

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 third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Cori Bazemore-James and Alina Wong about how they incorporate practices of rest in the work they do with student affairs educators. 

Dr. Cori Bazemore-James (she/her), Seneca Nation, serves as Assistant Vice Provost of the Graduate School Diversity Office and Affiliate Faculty in the Higher Education program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is also a Consultant/Trainer for Strategic Diversity Initiatives consulting and a budding Leadership Coach. Cori’s research centers Indigenous Knowledge to support and magnify the work of Indigenous students and staff in historically white institutions. Her proudest professional accomplishments include publications from her award-winning research, founding the ACPA Indigenous Student Affairs Network, and leading the development of the first Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) standards for Indigenous Student Affairs.

Dr. Alina Wong currently serves as the Vice President for Institutional Equity at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN on Dakota land. This newly formed division guides and facilitates strategic initiatives to advance and embed equity and social justice throughout the College, including equity education and practice; advocacy and support; and collaborative partnerships with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to address institutional barriers and structural inequities. Her scholarship emphasizes intersectionality as a lens for interrogating and transforming higher education. In addition to Macalester, they have previously worked in Advancement, student affairs, and educational equity at Amherst College, Swarthmore College, Barnard College, and Penn State University. 

In this episode, a number of people, publications, and bits of pop culture are discussed, including:

• The work of Lee Anne Bell, especially Bell's contributions in Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice; 
• Patricia Hill Collins' The Four Domains of Power;
• The work of Kimberlé Crenshaw; 
• Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson; 
• Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey; and
• The Lives of Campus Custodians: Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy by Peter M. Magolda. 

As always, if you have feedback, do not hesitate to email us via [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 third season of 'Round About Campus, we take a go at having a book club. The book we have chosen to focus on for the season is Ashley Neese's Permission to Rest: Revolutionary Practices for Healing, Empowerment, and Collective Care. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk about their own reflections on the book, set up the idea of a book club through the podcast, and discuss their own dis/connections with the notion of rest.   

In this episode, a number of people, publications, and bits of pop culture are discussed, including:

• The work of Amanda Tachine;
• Love My Naps, But Stay Woke: The Case Against Self-Care by Dian D. Squire and Z Nicolazzo;
• The late Peter M. Magolda; 
• The late Deanna S. Forney;
• The Weather by Christina Sharpe;
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade; 
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner;
• No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel; and
• The TV show The Good Place.

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. 

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

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 reflect on Season 2 of the podcast with Cynthia Villarreal, an Associate Editor for About Campus.

Dr. Villarreal is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University, just right up the road from where I am in Tucson. She holds a PhD in Urban Education Policy from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, and identifies as a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas, studying the borderlands of higher education, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), organizational culture, equity and decision making, and Chicana feminisms and higher education. As a critical qualitative researcher, she uses interdisciplinary theories and research to inform her approach to the study of HSI and how they serve their Latine students by interrogating the policies, structures, and culture within colleges and universities. She is a mother scholar living in Phoenix, Arizona with her two children and husband.

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

• The work of Eve Tuck;
• The work of K. Wayne Yang;
• The work of bell hooks; 
• The work of Gloria Anzaldúa;
• Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving the Academy as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña;
• A Third University is Possible by la paperson; and
• Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice co-edited by Amanda R. Tachine and Z Nicolazzo. 

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. 

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

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. 

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. 

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

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 Dwayne Hamilton, Jr. and Ryan Moore, both of whom are members of the About Campus Graduate Students and New Professionals Editorial Board.

Dwayne Hamilton, Jr. (he/him) is the Assistant Director for Basic Needs Services at George Mason University, where he provides case management for students experiencing basic needs insecurity and oversees initiatives promoting access to food and housing. Before this role, Dwayne was a graduate assistant for case management while he received his master's degree in Student Affairs Administration and Higher Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dwayne has published works focused on equity centered care and Black students’ experiences while obtaining graduate degrees. His most recent work is slated to be published in the Journal of College Student Development. 

Ryan (he/him) is a recent graduate of Miami University’s MS in Student Affairs and Higher Education (SAHE). Ryan has experience working in residence life, student activities, and as a teaching assistant for the SAHE Program at Miami. He started his journey with ACPA in 2020 at ACPA’s Next Gen Institute and has been engaged with the ACPA since then, both as an undergraduate and graduate student.

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

• Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey by Marcia Baxter Magolda
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Note to Educators: Hope Required when Growing Roses in Concrete by Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade
• Kimberlé Crenshaw's work on intersectionality
• The work of Zeus Leonardo 
• Nevitt Sanford's Challenge and Support Theory
• Why We Need Trauma-Informed Campuses Now More than Ever by Kirsten M. Weber, Natalie F. Douglas, Tierney Popp, and Rachael K. Nelson
• Structural Competency: A Framework for Racial Justice Intervention in Student Affairs Preparation and Practice by Kenyon Lee Whitman and Wma Mazyck Jayakumar

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. 

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

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 Becki Elkins and Quortne R. Hutchings, who are co-editors for a special issue of About Campus focused on recovery in postsecondary education.

Becki Elkins is associate professor in student affairs administration at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She teaches courses on organization and governance, assessment, student affairs administration, legal issues, and the history of higher education in on-campus, online and hybrid instructional formats. Elkins has worked in higher education for nearly 30 years in such areas as women's and LGBT resource centers, housing, institutional research, assessment and as a registrar. Her current research focuses on college students in recovery from substance use disorders.

Quortne R. Hutchings is a first generation college student, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor of higher education at Northern Illinois University. Their research primarily focuses on black, gay, bisexual, queer, and non-binary undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and social experiences in higher education, student affairs professionals, experiences, and student and academic affairs, undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences with substance use and recovery, and utilizing critical qualitative methodologies. Q is a practitioner, scholar, and student in academic affairs, having professional experiences in academic advising, orientation, multicultural affairs, TRIO programs, and leadership development. 

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

• The work of Dr. Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds
• Trans* in College by Z Nicolazzo
• The work of bell hooks, particularly Teaching to Transgress
• The work of Audre Lorde
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
• Several Parker Palmer books: 
  • To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey,
  • A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, and
  • The Courage to Teach: Guide for Reflection and Renewal
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MD

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. 

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