'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 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 Roman Christiaens, who serves as the Managing Editor for About Campus.

Roman is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona whose research focuses on examining diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education using critical frameworks around race, gender, space, and sexuality. Roman is an educator committed to anti-racism and decentering whiteness in education and queer and trans equity in their work. In addition to their role as the Managing Editor of About Campus, Roman also serves as the Internal Relations Director with the Consortium of Higher Education, LGBT Resource Professionals.

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

• The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama
• The work of Against Equality
• The Reorder of Things by Roderick A. Ferguson
• No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
• Rural Students Need Campus Champions by Dani McCauley
• Investing in Trans Lives in Education Through the Speaker Series Model by Roman Christiaens and Z Nicolazzo
• The work of the Trans Studies in Education Speaker Series
• It Matters Who Leads Them: Connecting Leadership in Multicultural Affairs to Student Learning and Development by D-L Stewart

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Laila McCloud.

Dr. McCloud is an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to coming to GVSU, she was an assistant professor of college student personnel at Western Illinois University. She also holds a doctorate in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies from the University of Iowa and prior to pursuing a faculty career, she served as a student affairs educator focused on issues of equity and access at several institutions in the Chicagoland area.

Dr. McCloud's research uses critical theories and methods to explore the professional and academic socialization of Black college students, the professionalization of multicultural student affairs work, and teaching and learning practices in higher education and student affairs graduate preparation programs. In 2023 she was also named an ACPA emerging scholar.

A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests and co-hostesses, including: 

• Being 'Lazy' and Slowing Down: Toward Decolonizing Time, Our Body, and Pedagogy by Riyad Shahjahan
• Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle Over Educational Goals by David F. Labaree
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
• Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
• On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
• A Third University is Possible by la paperson

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Erin Simpson, Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel, and Colette Sterling.

Dr. Erin Simpson is the director for the Gender Equality Center and Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Oklahoma. In this role, Erin works directly with queer and trans students, faculty and staff to imagine and create an equitable and affirming campus culture.

Vanessa Aviva González-Siegel is an intersectional speaker and educator, trans and queer centered diversity worker and community leader. She works full-time, engaged in trans and queer centered diversity work at Columbia University, where she directs LGBTQ student life for the undergraduate colleges. She's also the QTPOC Caucus co-chair and member of the National Advisory Council for NCORE, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity and Higher Education. Welcome.

Colette Sterling currently serves as the assistant director for Colorado State University's (CSU) Office of Parent and Family Programs (PFP). She has worked for CSU's PFP Office for several years in multiple roles, infusing the office with the core of DEIJ theory and active practice to better serve CSU’s thousands of parents, family members and student support networks. We are so excited that all three of you could join us today.

In this episode, Erin mentioned Friend of the Pod and former podcast guest Tricia Shalka's new book, Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Higher Education.

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Tricia Shalka and Sy Simms.

Dr. Tricia Shalka is an associate professor of Higher Education at the University of Rochester. Her work explores the impacts of trauma on college students and their experiences, as well as how to create trauma-informed spaces in higher education supportive of students, staff, and faculty success and well-being.

Dr. Sy Simms is a REEDS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Their research interests include interrogating institutional and administrative practices of diversity and inclusion [and] examining higher education policies and practices through queer of color and feminist critiques as well. 

A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests, including: 

• Tricia Shalka's new book, Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Higher Education
• Sara Ahmed's idea of non-performative speech acts comes from is her text On Being Included: Racism and Diversity and Institutional Life
• Tema Okun's work on white supremacy culture
• The Language of Appeasement by D-L Stewart
• A Student Affairs Now podcast conversation between Drs. Raechele Pop and Carlton Green on canceling the culture of nice in higher education
• The Reorder of Things by Roderick A. Ferguson
• Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions edited by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, and Frank A. Tuitt

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. D-L Stewart and Ryan Barone.

Dr. D-L Stewart is Professor and Chair of the Higher Education Department in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. His scholarship, teaching, and professional service focuses most intently on the ways that historically white settler colonial institutions function as crucibles that impinge on the learning, growth, and life chances of minoritized students through (dis)engagements with equity and justice. 

Ryan P. Barone (he/him), PhD, is the Assistant Vice President for Student Success at Colorado State University reporting dually to Academic and Student Affairs, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. Ryan loves spending time with his family and in his vegetable garden, occasionally simultaneously.

A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests and co-hostesses, including: 

• The Language of Appeasement by D-L Stewart
• A Third University is Possible by la paperson
• High-Impact Practices (book chapter) by Alex C. Lange and D-L Stewart
• The Glass Escalator by Christine Williams
• Nice White Men or Social Justice Allies? by Lori D. Patton and Stephanie Bondi
• Imperialistic Reclamation of Higher Education Diversity Initiatives through Semantic Co-option and Concession by Naomi Nishi
• Growing C-D-R (Cedar) by Dana N. Thompson Dorsey and Terah T. Venzant Chambers
• Burned Out or Burned Through by R. Kirk Anderson
• On Being Included by Sara Ahmed
• Everyday Utopias by Davina Cooper
• The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
• The work of Octavia Butler

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Dr. Stephanie Waterman.

Dr. Stephanie Waterman, Onondaga Turtle Clan, is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and coordinates the Student Development/Student Services in Higher Education program. She is also the Academic Advisor on Indigenous Curriculum and Education under the Vice-President and Provost for the University of Toronto. Her research interests are First Nations/Native American college experiences, First Nations/Native American Student Affairs units, the role staff play in student retention, Indigenous methodologies, college transition, and critical race theories. She was recently awarded the ASHE Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship: Senior Scholar and has co-edited a new book with Routledge entitled Developments Beyond the Asterisk: New Scholarship and Frameworks for Understanding Native Students in Higher Education.

In this episode, Stephanie also mentions Michelle Samura's About Campus article titled Understanding Campus Spaces to Improve Student Belonging as a piece she regularly goes back to.  We also mention Stephanie's piece in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice titled Home-Going as a Strategy for Success Among Haudenosaunee College and University Students, which we think is a must-read for all educators!

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 this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo introduce listeners to the format, setup, and style of this every three-to-four week podcast.

The upcoming season is focused on equity in higher education and features a series of incredible guests. We are excited for listeners to join us as we speak with a wide range of folks doing equity-based work in higher education, and know the episodes will provoke further food for thought. We look forward to listeners joining in and listening along. And 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.