SA Voices From the Field

Today on SA: Voices From the Field we are continuing our COVID-19 Crisis Conversations Dialogue. Today's episode is all about housing and residence life and how those operations in the student affairs profession have been impacted, in particular our students and staff. Today we were joined by Dr. Pamela Schreiber, Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Executive Director of Housing and Food Services at the University of Washington and Kawanna Leggett, Executive Director of Residence Life at Washington University in St. Louis. Both shared their expertise in housing and residential life as well as practical tips that they had to follow at their institutions to support their students and staff.

Dr. Schreiber shared her favorite non-Student Affairs Book as being The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Her favorite Student Affairs Read is The Chronicle of Higher Education. If you want to reach out to Dr. Schreiber you can reach out on Twitter at @pschreib or at [email protected].

Kawanna Leggett's critical Student Affairs read is "Critical Race Theory". If you want to reach out to Kawanna Leggett you can find her on twitter @k_leg80.

Join the NASPA Gender & Sexuality Knowledge Community on Friday, June 5 at 2 PM EST for an important community conversation with Dr. Kaity Prieto on the current state of research on bisexual/pansexual/queer identities among today's college students. Dr. Prieto's presentation will include empirical and qualitative research and implications for current practices and policies for the field, particularly post-COVID. Register for free now: bit.ly/GSKCjun5.

The WISA KC will be offering affinity spaces for healing, dialogue, and community. We encourage WISA members to join the spaces they feel called to participate in and that reflect their identities. Members are welcome and encouraged to join more than one space.

Today on the SA Voices from the Field Podcast we are bringing you up to date information about the changes coming to TITLE IX.

On May 14, NASPA provided a free rapid response webinar with experts in the field on TITLE IX. This discussion shared a panel of experts, representing a diverse range of perspectives from those whose roles will be most directly impacted by the final rule.

In addition, NASPA will offer a new virtual, thirty-four hour personalized Title IX certificate, beginning in late June, in partnership with Peter Lake. The Title IX certificate program is a first-of-its-kind training which includes separate tracks for Title IX Coordinators, Title IX Investigators, and Student Conduct staff. The training will cover the new regulations from the Department of Education, intersections between Title IX, Clery, and VAWA, as well as the relationship between student conduct administrators and Title IX coordinators. Registration details will be available soon.

Today's episode of SA Voices From the Field continues our COVID-19 and Crisis Conversation series. Today we talk with two faculty guests that will speak about the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on communities of color. We talk with Dr. Charles H. F. Davis III who is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at the University of Southern California. He is also the former Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Research at the USC Race and Equity Center. Also, we talk with Dr. Russell Jeung. Dr. Jeung is Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Jeung is a scholar of race and religion and his most recent book is: Family Sacrifices: The World Views and Ethics of Chinese Americans.

Dr. Davis said that his essential Higher Education read is The Alchemy of Race.

If you want to reach out to Dr. Davis you can find him on Twitter ( @hfdavis ) or Instagram ( @hfdavis )

Dr. Jeung said that his essential Higher Education read is Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

He also shared that if you are an Asian American you can share your own experience you can go to stopaapihate.com. There are over 12 languages that you can report discrimination.

If you would like to contact Dr. Jeung he can be reached at [email protected].

Today on SA Voices From the Field we will be having our first conversation about COVID-19 and the Student Affairs context. We'll be talking about basic needs like food security, home security, healthcare, student emergency funding and internet. We have two great guests, Dr. Omar Estrada Torres, Dean of Students at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU in Atlanta, Georgia and Dr. Sean Crossland, Director of the Thayne Center for Service & Learning at Salt Lake Community College.

Today on SA Voices from the Field we are talking to Dr. Robert Kelly and Colin Stewart, the editors of the book Disruptive Transformation: Leading Creative and Innovative Teams in Higher Education which is now available from the NASPA bookstore and on Amazon. The authors of this new book share how disruptive transformation can be seen on campuses today and how, in this changing world we are in, we can see and become stronger leaders from this as well.

If you want to reach out to these editors, Dr. Kelly shared that he can be reached at [email protected] , and Colin Stewart mentioned you can reach him at [email protected] or through Instagram or Twitter

Get ready for Season 2 starting next week. Today, Dr. Jill Creighton and Dr. Christopher Lewis share some of the new things you will find in our new season of SA Voices From the Field.

This week on SA Voices from the field you will meet Dr. Jill Creighton, the new host of SA Voices from the Field. Dr. Creighton is Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students and Deputy Title IX Coordinator at Washington State University. Today you will get to know Dr. Creighton as well as learn more about the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus on her campus and what they are doing to support all of their students.

So get out your notebook and be ready to learn as there are so many nuggets to take away from today's interview.

Join your host Dr. Corliss Bennett to gain some practical insights and tips into how you can be the best student affairs professional you can be.

Below is a message from NASPA President Kevin Kruger.

We write to share news that the place-based NASPA Annual Conference, The Placement Exchange, and the NASPA Connected Conference in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California have been cancelled due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and its designation as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. We have spent the past few days working through the process outlined by the City of Austin for events greater than 2,500, which has both taken longer and been more complicated than the news has reported. The health and safety of our members has always been our first priority, however we have also been working to assess the long-term impact of canceling the conference on our ability to continue serving and supporting our community. We appreciate your patience as we thoroughly reviewed all of our contractual obligations to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Association. The official decision was made to cancel the Annual Conference by a vote of the NASPA Board of Directors today, March 12, 2020.

Our Association's gathering to reconnect, network, learn, and discuss research and practice that support student success has taken place annually for the last 101 years. (The only other time we did not hold an Association-wide meeting was during World War II.) From celebrating the achievements of our colleagues to participating in informal reunions with those who have become our chosen family, these moments away from day-to-day work are good for our own mental health and often sustain us throughout the year until the next time that we are all together.

While we will not hold a place-based event, we are working to develop a free virtual, live-streaming option for keynotes, featured educational sessions, and our constituent group business meetings, including the NASPA Annual Business Meeting. We also will recognize our NASPA Annual Award winners, the NASPA Pillars of the Profession, and the countless others who have given so much to our Association this past year. We plan to make the virtual option available to participants from Monday, March 30, 2020 – Wednesday, April 10, 2020.

Although we would like to engage the nearly 1,600 presenters who committed to sharing knowledge at the NASPA Annual Conference, it will be challenging to recreate the experience of 700 sessions at the in-person event. We know that each of you who submitted program proposals and were selected have worked hard to prepare content that is engaging for your colleagues and the field at-large. We are working on an alternative method for content to be shared for those who would like to do so. We will be in touch with all presenters next week.

Additionally, we are working with our partners at ACUHO-I to proceed with a virtual option for TPE that still allows employers and candidates to participate in interviews using our scheduling tools and online platform as a resource. We encourage you to continue to schedule interviews through the TPE website, with more information and details about next steps and refund options shared in the coming days with TPE registrants.

We will refund registration in full and without fees to those who are registered for the NASPA Annual Conference. If you would like your registration fee to be transferred to the 2021 NASPA Annual Conference, you may also do this. Any registration fees that are not cancelled by April 3, 2020 will be automatically transferred to the 2021 event. If you are unsure if you will attend the conference in 2021, please know that you contact us to receive a full refund by cancelling no later than January 9, 2021. Please visit our COVID-19 FAQs page for specific instructions.

Hotel reservations made through NASPA's room block will be automatically cancelled. Attendees will receive a cancellation confirmation email from the hotel directly. Attendees made their own housing reservations must cancel directly with the properties. As noted in our conference registration policies, NASPA cannot control flight cancellation/change fees for participants.

NASPA Connected Conference registrants will receive a separate email with information about refunds and hotel cancellations

We are very grateful for the nearly 18 months of planning by the 2020 Conference Leadership Committee, 2020 TPE Committee, 2020 NASPA Connected Conference Committee, volunteer leaders, and staff who have worked tirelessly in the planning process for these events. We know that you are managing much of the same challenges on your own campus, and we thank you for allowing us the grace and flexibility to do what is best for our members, the Association, and the health, safety, and well-being of our community.

Thank you,

Kevin Kruger

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Hello, this is Chris Lewis, producer of Student Affairs voices from the field. This is a quick episode today with a little announcement that with the NASPA conference happening March 29 to April 1, the student affairs voices from the field podcast is going to be taking a short break to prepare for the conference. We look forward to seeing and meeting you at the conference. And we'll be back to our regularly scheduled episodes in April. Thanks so much for being a loyal Student Affairs voices from the field podcast listener. We truly truly appreciate it and look forward to having you back again soon.

In the meantime, we would love to have you leave a review of Student Affairs Voices from the Field on your favorite podcasting platform as this allows us to know what is working and what may also need some work!

This week on SA Voices from the field you will meet Dr Lori White, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis and Past NASPA Board President as she talks with host Corliss Bennett about My Soul Looks and Wonders How I Got Over from the NASPA book: Transformational Encounters: Shaping Diverse College and University Leaders

So get out your notebook and be ready to learn as there are so many nuggets to take away from today's interview.

Join your host Dr. Corliss Bennett to gain some practical insights and tips into how you can be the best student affairs professional you can be.