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 Sumun Pendakur and Stephen John Quaye to discuss who college students are, their complexities, how current<-->historical systems try to enforce and codify the "typical" and assumed presence/experience on campus, and what practitioners can do to ensure students feel like they matter.

In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

• Stephen John Quaye, Shaun R. Harper, Sumun L. Pendakur's book, Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Diverse Populations, 3rd Edition
• Bettina Love's book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
• Resmaa Menakem's book, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
• Estela Bensimon's article, The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success
• Vijay Pendakur's book, Closing the Opportunity Gap Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success

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You can get a full transcript of the episode here.