'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.
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'Round About Campus
About What Counts as Holistic Development with Wilson Kwamogi Okello
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Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.
In our fourth and fifth seasons 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
- Carmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoir
- bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress
- William Faulkner's book, The Sound of the Fury
- Kevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
- Alexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
- Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower
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.
