'Round About Campus
Want to think about transformational work in higher education? Each month, ‘Round About Campus hosts Alex and Z talk with people across the higher education and student affairs landscape about ways to envision new, innovative, and engaging ways to further college student learning and development. A compliment to the About Campus scholarly magazine, ‘Round About Campus serves up bite-sized episodes where we can be good company with listeners as we collective explore answers to the question: what’s next in student affairs praxis?
‘Round About Campus is co-hostessed by Dr. Alex Lange (Colorado State University) and About Campus Executive Editor Dr. Z Nicolazzo (University of Arizona). The podcast publishes episodes during the academic calendar year, taking breaks for summer and winter leaves. If you have ideas for people to feature or topics to cover, let us know by reaching us at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com.
'Round About Campus's cover art was designed by Mary Ellen Wade.
'Round About Campus
About Editing a Special Issue with Becki Elkins and Quortne R. Hutchings
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 Becki Elkins and Quortne R. Hutchings, who are co-editors for a special issue of About Campus focused on recovery in postsecondary education.
Becki Elkins is associate professor in student affairs administration at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She teaches courses on organization and governance, assessment, student affairs administration, legal issues, and the history of higher education in on-campus, online and hybrid instructional formats. Elkins has worked in higher education for nearly 30 years in such areas as women's and LGBT resource centers, housing, institutional research, assessment and as a registrar. Her current research focuses on college students in recovery from substance use disorders.
Quortne R. Hutchings is a first generation college student, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor of higher education at Northern Illinois University. Their research primarily focuses on black, gay, bisexual, queer, and non-binary undergraduate and graduate students’ academic and social experiences in higher education, student affairs professionals, experiences, and student and academic affairs, undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences with substance use and recovery, and utilizing critical qualitative methodologies. Q is a practitioner, scholar, and student in academic affairs, having professional experiences in academic advising, orientation, multicultural affairs, TRIO programs, and leadership development.
In this episode, a number of publications and community engaged/creative works are discussed, including:
- The work of Dr. Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds
- Trans* in College by Z Nicolazzo
- The work of bell hooks, particularly Teaching to Transgress
- The work of Audre Lorde
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
- Several Parker Palmer books:
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MD
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.
And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.
