The SACSA Podcast

Join Connor Weir and Ashley Sanfacon as they share their experiences as SACSA Presidential Scholars. Connor worked with Dr. Jane Adams Dunford leading up to the 2024 SACSA Conference and Ashley was Presidential Scholar for Dr. Matt Clifford. Learn more about the role and how to get involved with SACSA.

Jordan Viars-Whisinnand, Assistant Director of Global Health and Safety at Duke who manages risk for student experiential programs. She talks about using AI to draft and personalize student communications, training tools with style guides, building pre-departure learning modules, and practical startup tips like data protection and disclosure. Concludes with hopes, worries, and the need to preserve human connection.

Join Dr. Wanda Johnson, the 2024 Dissertation of the Year recipient from SACSA as she discusses her dissertation, "Still, I Rise... Using Sista Circles to Explore the Lived Experiences of Black Women Who Attend(ed) Historically White Institutions as Undergraduates." She discusses her professional and doctoral journey and how she is putting her scholarship into action.

One of the myths of student affairs is that you take a job out of grad school and you stay in that job for AT LEAST two to three years. But what if you aren't in the right place for you? How do you navigate a career change in year ONE? Join David Maldonado, Jr. and Hannah Starling as they discuss their job changes early in their careers and how they navigated their searches differently the second time around.

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Join Trevis Belle, Elise Blackburn, Daisy Peña, Melissa Thierry, and Sade Bowers from the Future of Student Affairs Summit. Their team focused on how to meet our current students where they are and get them meaningfully engaged on campus.

Join Tony Cawthon, a faculty member at Clemson University and advocate for effective supervision in student affairs, along with his colleagues from the Future of Student Affairs Summit. They dive into the complexities of supervisory challenges, emphasizing the importance of empathy and communication. Highlighting innovative evaluation tools, they discuss the shift towards supportive coaching rather than critical evaluation. The conversation also explores the art of supervision in busy work environments, focusing on emotional intelligence and the significance of trust in enhancing job satisfaction.

Join Dr. Mya Richardson-Echols, Cat Novakovich, Venessa Peart, and Drew Nicklaus in a timely and important conversation. As we seek innovative ways to support marginalized students on campus, we must find ways to support the practitioner-educators who provide that frontline work. Listen in to how this team developed a protocol for SACSA support of these practitioners at the recent Future of Students Affairs Summit (FOSAS).

Welcome to To Practice, a practitioner skill-building conversation presented by SACSA. This season is about parenting in student affairs. To Practice is hosted by Kate Radford, Executive Director of the Center for Student Leadership and Engagement at Clemson University, and Myles Surrett, Associate Vice President at James Madison University. In this season, Myles and Kate take a slight detour from normal business to discuss parenting in student affairs. In this episode, they share thoughts on how to prepare for parenting in student affairs. How did they prepare and get those around them ready? What would have they have done the same or different?

The hosts delve into the balancing act of parenting and work in student affairs, weighing the pros and cons of family engagement on campus. They share personal anecdotes about how involving families enhances educational experiences and community connections. A humorous quiz about the Hadid family and playful discussions about pop culture add a light-hearted touch. The speakers explore the emotional impact of integrating family dynamics in professional settings, advocating for supportive workplace relationships to ease the parenting-workload balance.