Bonus Episode: About Identity-Conscious Mentorship, Live from ACPA

Bonus Episode: About Identity-Conscious Mentorship, Live from ACPA

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, outgoing co-hostess Alex C. Lange, incoming co-hostess Erin Simpson, and Z Nicolazzo share a special live episode recorded during the 2026 ACPA Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. They are joined by are joined Jonathan McElderry, Cameron Beatty, Cristobal Salinas, Jr., Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, and Emily Krechel to discuss identity-conscious and equity-minded mentorship. In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including: * bell hooks' All About Love: New Visions [https://www.elliottbaybook.com/item/2QHtVTCGJR-y-vmDK_S93w];  * Robert Brown, Shruti Desai, and Craig Elliott's Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs: Building Relationships and Transforming Systems [https://www.routledge.com/Identity-Conscious-Supervision-in-Student-Affairs-Building-Relationships-and-Transforming-Systems/Brown-Desai-Elliott/p/book/9781138365599]; * bell hooks' Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery [https://rep.club/products/sisters-yam?srsltid=AfmBOopEv4dYwB_I81DNBK728Fmta5wN4w3FolqI3eF4ds8V9FP0zetC]; and * Mel Robbins' The Let Them Theory [https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/].  As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com. You can get a full transcript of the episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szf3y-yrxXzQYp-15BrTBaiXpuYcAzg_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112733172650147997419&rtpof=true&sd=true].

Bonus: About Goodbyes and Hellos with Alex, Z, and Erin

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, Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Erin Simpson,  our new co-hostess! Alex, Z, and Erin look back and towards the future, reflecting on their time in student affairs and in various roles with About Campus. As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com. You can get a full transcript of the episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VEeJCN2g_4YNq8EKq7uIcTCXu_Ap3_kw52d47h1oeQg/edit?usp=sharing].

About Lessons I (Un)learned from Student Development with Jessica Harris and Reginald Blockett

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 Jessica Harris and Reginald Blockett to discuss what we keep and transform within student development research and teaching, sunsetting and sundowning theories, and the entanglement of praxis/theory. In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including: * Moira Ozias’s article, White Women's Affect: Niceness, Comfort, and Neutrality as Cover for Racial Harm [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/884287/summary] * Nevitt Sanford’s book, Where Colleges Fail: A Study of the Student as a Person * Arthur Chickering and Linda Reisser’s book, Education and Identity (2nd Edition) * Marlon B. Ross’ book, Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness [https://www.dukeupress.edu/sissy-insurgencies] * J. T. Snipes’ podcast, Blacktivism in the Academy [https://blacktivismintheacademy.libsyn.com/] * Vox’s podcast, Today Explained [https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast] * Derrick Bell’s book, And We are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice [https://bookshop.org/p/books/and-we-are-not-saved-derrick-bell/14189eeb3e2156c0?ean=9780465003297&next=t] As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com. You can get a full transcript of the episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GC_KBvditgAY6rLqAEEbFxjYWbT6nAQg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112733172650147997419&rtpof=true&sd=true].

About How Power (Re)shapes Student Development with Michael Denton

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 Michael Denton to discuss power, multidisciplinary knowers/thinkers, and (re)turning to what is working, what can be transformed, and what are the potentialities for development in and beyond campus.  In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including: * David Halperin's book, How to Be Gay [https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-be-gay-professor-of-literature-david-m-halperin/95e1fa0dc22bc998] * Steven Thrasher's chapter, "Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing" in the book, Imagining Queer Methods [https://nyupress.org/9781479829484/imagining-queer-methods/] * Heather Love's book, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo44778004.html] * Sami Schalk's book, Black Disability Politics [https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-disability-politics] * Imani Barbarin's social media, @crutches_and_spice [https://www.instagram.com/crutches_and_spice/] * Dr. Gabriel Cruz's social media, @gacruz_phd [https://www.instagram.com/gacruz_phd/?hl=en] * Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-stephen-graham-jones/d1b4a8cac4757e4e] * Alex Lange and Jodi Linley's article, Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221546.2025.2560749] * Rosie Perez 's article, Paradigmatic Perspectives and Self-Authorship: Implications for Theory, Research, and Praxis [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/715311] * Jamelle Bouie's article, Trump is on the Wrong Side of History by Design [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/trump-dei-meritocracy-civil-right.html] * Eve Sedgwick’s book, Touching Feeling [https://bookshop.org/p/books/touching-feeling-affect-pedagogy-performativity-eve-kosofsky-sedgwick/dd54e9c5b7889987] * Sara Ahmed's book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others [https://www.dukeupress.edu/queer-phenomenology] * Dean Spade's books, Mutual Aid [https://bookshop.org/p/books/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next-dean-spade/6d964062e8ba8054] and Love in a F*cked-Up World [https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-a-f-cked-up-world-how-to-build-relationships-hook-up-and-raise-hell-together-dean-spade/ddff896c26e4cccf] * Alie Ward's podcast, Ologies [https://www.alieward.com/ologies] * Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon' podcast, Maintenance Phase [https://www.maintenancephase.com/] * John Biewen and Ellen McGirt's podcast, Scene on Radio [https://sceneonradio.org/] * Steven Thrasher's book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-viral-underclass-the-human-toll-when-inequality-and-disease-collide-steven-w-thrasher/ce22608f5728eb84]

About What Counts as Holistic Development with Wilson Kwamogi Okello

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 Wilson Kwamogi Okello to discuss the ontological dimensions of 'holistic,' or the nature of being, particularly what does it mean/who fits within 'the human' for human development. We dive into possibilities, the refusals of singularity and easy solutions, framed through Blackness, Black studies, and Black livingness. In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including: * Sara Ahmed's book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life [https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-being-included] * Carmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoir [https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-the-dream-house-a-memoir-carmen-maria-machado/5ceaf64efc15d795] * bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress [https://bookshop.org/p/books/teaching-to-transgress-education-as-the-practice-of-freedom-bell-hooks/deb6d0be9943be64] * William Faulkner's book, The Sound of the Fury [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sound-and-the-fury-william-faulkner/a8ae93ac28cdc135?ean=9798217189175&next=t] * Kevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being [https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-aliveness-or-a-poetics-of-being] * Alexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human [https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/254/Habeas-ViscusRacializing-Assemblages-Biopolitics] * Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower [https://bookshop.org/p/books/parable-of-the-sower-octavia-e-butler/3d0d65170d5548df] As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com. You can get a full transcript of the episode here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BOcY-LET5k3evkl1asz6nxJHOhP91xoP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112733172650147997419&rtpof=true&sd=true].