Student Affairs NOW

Student Affairs NOW is the premier podcast, weekly web show, and online learning community for thousands of us who work in, alongside, or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs.

Episodes

The Caring University: Reimagining the Workplace after the Great Resignation

June 25, 2025 • 51 mins

In his book The Caring University, Dr. Kevin McClure shares a transformative approach to higher education workplace culture. He argues that institutions must prioritize the well-being of faculty and staff to enhance student success. He challenges traditional norms that treat staff burnout and overwork as inevitable, instead advocating for an intentional, proactive, and sustained investment in employee care. Kevin shares how higher ...

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Supervising with Strengths: Leading with Intention & Humanity

June 19, 2025 • 67 mins

Anne Brackett and Alicia Wojciuch, two dynamic leaders who’ve helped hundreds of student affairs professionals, join Heather Shea to explore how strengths-based approaches can transform the way we supervise and lead. Whether you’re new to CliftonStrengths or know your top five by heart, you’ll leave with practical strategies, fresh insights, and a renewed perspective on leading with intention and humanity.

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Here’s the Story: “Truthfully Honest”

June 11, 2025 • 28 mins

In these times, being honestly truthful reinforces listening, hearing and holding students. Dr. Palmer shares the necessary value of understanding the difference between honesty and truth.

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Here’s the Story: “When the Tide Turns: Grief, Honor, and the Role of a University”

June 11, 2025 • 43 mins

Tragedy and loss are inevitable in the career of any Student Affairs professional. In this powerful episode, Dr. R. Bowin Loftin recalls the day he had to deliver heartbreaking news after a sailing tragedy, offering insight into the role of institutions in upholding dignity and healing in the wake of disaster.

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Reciprocity Required: Relationships Between Black and White Women in Higher Education

June 4, 2025 • 73 mins

Authentic relationships between Black and white women in higher education are often difficult to cultivate—made more so by the persistent realities of misogynoir and the role white women can play in perpetuating harm. In this powerful episode, co-hosted by Heather Shea and Raechele Pope, we’re joined by Drs. Christina Holmgren, Leah Fulton, and Jayne Sommers to explore the preliminary findings of their ongoing research with Black w...

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Contemplative Practices & Resistance in Higher Education

May 28, 2025 • 51 mins

The editors of this book join to discuss contemplative practices for transformation. The volume shares stories that offer life experience, powerful examples, and concrete practices to help bring being, embodiment, and inner work to becoming and social change. They discuss the power of creativity and imagination in these times and point to the power of the dualities of anger and compassion, pain and joy, being and community, and mor...

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Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing

May 21, 2025 • 57 mins

Dr. Jessica Riddell discusses mindsets and 10 tools to rethink, reimagine, and rebuild institutions of higher education from her research and book Hope Circuits. She offers a critique of the status quo and a call to "challenge the actual in the name of the possible."

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Here’s the Story: “Meeting Gloria, Finding Myself”

May 14, 2025 • 34 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUicR1InL2s Episode Description Heather Shea shares how working in a women's center and bringing feminist icon Gloria Steinem to campus shaped her personal, political, and professional journey. She reflects on the enduring need for activism and advocacy in women and gender equity centers. Suggested APA Citation Gardner, H. (Host). (2025, May 14) Here's the Story: "Meeting Gloria, Finding My...

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Here’s the Story: “Don’t Be a Burpee!”

May 14, 2025 • 30 mins

Dr. Carter-Atkins shares a powerful message of self-care and leadership through the magic of burpees!

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Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies

May 7, 2025 • 53 mins

Drs. Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller, co-authors of Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies, discuss indigenous approaches to teaching and learning. They integrate perspectives, histories, and values from many different Indigenous cultures across North America to offer insights to guide different ways of approaching teaching, learning, education, and being.

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100 Days In: Power, Policy, and Pushback in Higher Education

May 1, 2025 • 55 mins

In this episode (recorded on May 1), Dr. OiYan Poon and Dr. Crystal Garcia join Dr. Heather Shea to reflect on the first 100 days of the current administration and what they reveal about its priorities and governing approach.

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Assessment as a Leadership Process

April 30, 2025 • 55 mins

Assessment experts and student affairs leaders discuss the multi-level assessment process and how to utilize it as a leadership practice. This conversation helps explain this approach, what it offers, examples of how it is being done, and tips. They discuss assessment beyond measurement, leading learning and operations, as strategic planning, and through relationships.

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NIH Ultimatum, Accreditation Power Grab, & Tax Threats

April 24, 2025 • 45 mins

In this episode, host Heather Shea is joined by Dr. Brendan Cantwell and Dr. Demetri Morgan to break down a wave of federal actions reshaping higher education. From the NIH’s ultimatum on DEI to a new executive order on accreditation—and threats to university tax-exempt status—they explore what these moves mean for institutional governance, research integrity, and academic freedom.

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Student Success and Well-Being: Conversation with Dr. Paul Dosal

April 23, 2025 • 48 mins

Dr. Paul Dosal reflects on his 15 years as an innovator, champion, and leader of student success and well-being. He shares lessons from creating institutional transformations for student persistence and retention through deliberative and intentional approaches, breaking down silos, predictive analytics, and creating cultures of care. He highlights blending technological tools and personal connections and relationships for holistic ...

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Who Defines Poverty? Harvard Rejects Demands, & the Promise of American Higher Ed

April 18, 2025 • 41 mins

In this episode, Dr. OiYan Poon and Dr. Demetri Morgan join Heather Shea to unpack three pressing developments shaping the current landscape of higher education.

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I work(ed) at the Department of Education.

April 16, 2025 • 67 mins

In this episode of Student Affairs NOW, host Heather Shea is joined by Dr. Jason Cottrell, a longtime career employee at the U.S. Department of Education who was among the 1,300 staff members recently laid off. Jason shares insights into the role of the Department, how federal agencies navigate transitions between administrations, and what these layoffs mean for education policy. He also reflects on his own journey from higher educ...

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Governance, Higher Ed Resistance, & Revoking Student Visas

April 11, 2025 • 56 mins

Dr. Demetri Morgan and Dr. Felecia Commodore join host Heather Shea to explore the escalating pressures facing higher education, including the lack of board engagement in defending institutional autonomy, rising federal influence, and the unjust revocation of student visas.

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Here’s the Story: “The Power of YOU”

April 9, 2025 • 34 mins

A renewed sense of purpose is gain after the smallest gesture from a student brings beauty to chaos.

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Here’s the Story: “Make Your Path by Walking”

April 9, 2025 • 40 mins

In this origin story, Dr. Brooks shares his inspirational journey to the professoriate. Filled with triumphs as well as tragedies, his story reminds us of the importance of making your own path - one step at a time.

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Current Campus Context: Deportations, Faculty Voice, & Coalitions

April 3, 2025 • 44 mins

In the fifth episode of Current Campus Context, Heather Shea is joined by experts Dr. Felecia Commodore and Dr. Crystal Garcia to discuss the latest challenges facing higher education. They examine the growing threats to international students, including detention, deportation, and forced self-deportation, and the role of universities in protecting them. The conversation also explores faculty fears around academic freedom, the risk...

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Episodes

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Here’s the Story: “Truthfully Honest”

Here’s the Story: “When the Tide Turns: Grief, Honor, and the Role of a University”

Reciprocity Required: Relationships Between Black and White Women in Higher Education

Contemplative Practices & Resistance in Higher Education

Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing

Here’s the Story: “Meeting Gloria, Finding Myself”

Here’s the Story: “Don’t Be a Burpee!”

Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies

100 Days In: Power, Policy, and Pushback in Higher Education

Assessment as a Leadership Process

NIH Ultimatum, Accreditation Power Grab, & Tax Threats

Student Success and Well-Being: Conversation with Dr. Paul Dosal

Who Defines Poverty? Harvard Rejects Demands, & the Promise of American Higher Ed

I work(ed) at the Department of Education.

Governance, Higher Ed Resistance, & Revoking Student Visas

Here’s the Story: “The Power of YOU”

Here’s the Story: “Make Your Path by Walking”

Current Campus Context: Deportations, Faculty Voice, & Coalitions

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The Caring University: Reimagining the Workplace after the Great Resignation

Supervising with Strengths: Leading with Intention & Humanity