3.2 Creative Inspiration for Academics with Selcen Öner

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• How teaching and doing justice work at a college of art and design is different.
• Lyssa's work as the Dean of the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation.
• The history of MassArt,  the first public independent art college in the United States
• Lyssa's career journey. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Lyssa at MassArt

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Magdalena's new co-authored book, The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. 
• Her motivation for writing the book, informed by her own experiences in graduate school.
• The retention and mentoring of Latinx and other historically underserved faculty and students in higher education.
• Magdalena's role as Vice Provost for Faculty Success at San Jose State University and the story of her career journey. 
• Putting research into practice in administration.
• Magdalena's research on representations of Mexican Americans in early twentieth century American cultural production.
• Her article about  Jennifer Lopez and its reception. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Magdalena at San Jose State University
• The Latinx Guide to Graduate School (co-authored with Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales)
• “I Love How We Developed a Community Already”: A Graduate Student Orientation Model for Minority-Serving Programs and Institutions
• Hottentot 2000: Jennifer Lopez and Her Butt

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Jennifer's new co-authored book, It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom.
• Motivation for writing the book and thoughts on its reception.
• Writing for the Academe blog.
• Fascism in higher ed.
• Ron DeSantis and higher ed. 
• Activism and the consequences of speaking up (or not) in the academy. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Jennifer Ruth at Portland State
• Jennifer's website
• Jennifer's new co-authored book, It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom
• Jennifer's writing at the Academe blog
• “Florida Bill Would Destroy Higher Education as We Know It”

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Karyn's new book: Nine Guiding Principles for Women in Higher Education.
• Opportunities and challenges of being a woman in higher education.
• Karyn's workshop:  Planning a Realistic Summer Break
• The process of writing her book.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Karyn Sproles's website
• Karyn's book: Nine Guiding  Principles for Women in Higher Education. 
• Karyn at the US Naval Academy

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Dominique's project that explores the links between race, racism, and how student loan policies are covered in the media..
• Her interest in media coverage of student learns and early findings.
• Dominique's career path and the story of how she made it to her current role.
• The importance of setting boundaries in the life of a faculty member.
• The benefits of working as a faculty member.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Dominique Baker's website
• Project on Media Coverage of Student Debt and Race
•  Study of Impact of Test-Optional Admissions
• Hate crimes and Black college student enrollment
• Too much or nothing at all: Racialized organizations and higher education policy communication in Texas.
• Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Media Coverage of Immigration
• “Not Nearly as Bad”: Social Comparisons and the Debt Experience

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Ariana's book, Reparative Universities: Why Diversity Alone Won't Solve Racism in Higher Ed.
• Her administrative career and her career journey
• Lessons and reflections for those doing DEI work in higher ed
• Finding joy and creating a joy practice
• Roller derby and roller skating as a joy practice. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Ariana Gonazles Stokas's website
• Reparative Universities: Why Diversity Alone Won't Solve Racism in Higher Ed
• Thinking in the Midst podcast

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

•  Experiences of women of color in faculty positions at our teaching-oriented institutions. 
• Strategies for individuals and institutions to support faculty advancement
• Color-evasive frames deployed by higher education and  student affairs professionals

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Blanca Vega at Montclair State University
• Delegitimizing Race: The Role of Color-evasive Ideologies and HESA Professionals
• Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Elevating Intersectional Consciousness to Reframe the “H” in HSIs
• Serving Black Communities at Hispanic Serving Institutions
• Delegitimizing Race
• “What Is the Real Belief on Campus?” Perceptions of Racial Conflict at a Minority-Serving Institution and a Historically White Institution
• Scholar Mami Strategies: Advancing in the Teaching-Oriented Institution at Mid-Career.

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

•  Challenges faculty faced while caring for children during the pandemic.
• Taking an equity-minded approach to faculty workload.
• Best practices related to faculty workload equity.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

•  Dawn at University of Maryland. 
• Faculty-Related COVID-19 Policies and Practices at Top-Ranked Higher Education Institutions in the United States
• “You can't hide your children anywhere”: Perceptions of organizational support for work‐life during the pandemic among academic couples who parent
• Addressing Workload Equity: Seven Strategies for Chairs
• Gendered and racialized perceptions of faculty workloads
• Making faculty work visible: An equity‐minded approach
• Equity-minded faculty workloads: What we can and should do now. American Council on Education
• Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Sharon's new book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial  Foundations of US Higher Education.
• Decolonization in the context of higher education.
• The challenges of teaching in this context.
• The future of higher education and the difficulty of imagining a different future.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Sharon's book: Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education
• Sharon at The University of British Columbia
• Universities confronting climate change: beyond sustainable development and solutionism in Higher Education
• Reflections on “Unsettling the University” and Its Call to Responsibility in Critical Internationalization Review
• Sharon's piece at Inside Higher Ed: Beyond Apologies

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

•  Racial stratification in Cuba’s private tourism economy.
• Experiences of Black homestay hosts in Havana.
• Content analysis of school board meetings from January 2020 to February 2022. 
• How COVID impacted Sophia's work.
• The role of race in basic building blocks of education. 
• Interaction between ideas of youth, childhood, and Blackness. 

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Sophia Lindner at Yale University.
• Critical Race Theory and Political Backlash at ASA

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia