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With the June 24, 2022 Supreme Court of the United States decision overturning Roe v. Wade, campuses across the U.S. are scrambling to address students’ reproductive health needs and deal with underlying issues contributing to lack of access to care. As laws permitting or limiting abortion care are now decided at the state, campus policies, access to abortion care, student activism, and other forms of student engagement around reproductive health may vary drastically from one higher education institution to another. In this episode, Dr. Heather Shea talks with Dr. Teresa DePiñeres and Dr. Carrie N. Baker about essential knowledge and skills for addressing reproductive health on college and university campuses.

We all mess up. Today's guests discuss the role of apologies in accountability, repair, and restoration. They explore responsibility, expectations, ego, and obstacles for making apologies as individuals, leaders, organizations, and the collective.

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses the new book, Reframing Assessment to Center Equity with four contributors; Drs. Gavin Henning, Divya Bheda, Joe Levy, and Ciji Heiser. They discuss the power of assessment to be more equitable as a process and to advance equity as a goal in higher education. Today's guests offer insights and reframing as well as tools, strategies, and tangible ways to examine power, privilege, and positionality to advance equity.

Dr. Keith Edwards talks with Dr. Kathleen G. Kerr, Debbie S. Deas, and Zachariah Brumfield about the challenges, skills, and art of leading up, down, and all around. The conversation explores curiosity, care, listening, feedback, power, and identities. The guests' insight and wisdom are helpful for leaders at all levels of the organization who want to be more effectively create change and lead others.

In honor of Father’s Day, we get the perspective from what it is like to be a student affairs professional and father for this special episode of Student Affairs Now. Dr. Glenn DeGuzman (father of a 16yr old daughter and 18 year old son) discusses the many challenges and joys facing fathers who work in, around and/or adjacent to the field of student affairs. Dr. Wilson Okello, Dr. Keith Humphrey, Donnie Brooks, and Dr. Kyle Ashlee join this panel to talk story and tell dad jokes.

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses community board involvement with three senior-level student affairs leaders engaged with multiple boards. Drs. Alvin Sturdivant, Cheree Meeks, and Tanisha Price-Johnson discuss their participation, benefits and challenges, what they have learned, and considerations for what and how to pursue this kind of involvement for personal and professional fulfillment.

Episode Description Today, we celebrate our 100th episode with our special edition Student Affairs Now Social Hour. All five of our hosts and our production assistant Nat Ambrosey are joined by members of our learning community. The group discusses favorite episodes, other podcasts, pandemic lessons, summer plans, and what they are troubling now in student affairs and higher education. Suggested APA Episode Citation SA NOW. (Host). (2022, June 1). SA NOW Social Hour: 100th Episode. (No. 100) [Audio podcast episode]. In Student Affairs NOW. https://studentaffairsnow.com/100/ Episode Transcript Keith Edwards:Hello, and welcome to Student Affairs NOW. I'm your host. Keith Edwards. Today we're celebrating our 100th episode with a super fun, special student affairs. Now social hour, we've invited members of our learning community to join us. We also have all of our host joining us and our production assistant Nat Ambrosey. The gang is all here. We're gonna dive into some deep thoughts, some real wisdom and some rapid fire questions and hear from so many great folks who are joining us here today. This will be fast-paced and maybe a little chaotic, so buckle up, but first some business. Student Affairs NOW is the premier podcast and online learning community for thousands of us who work in alongside or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs, we release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find details about this episode, or browser archives at studentaffairsnow.com. This episode is sponsored by LeaderShape. Go to leadershape.org, to learn how they can work with you to create a more just caring and thriving world. Today's episode is also sponsored by Simplicity. A true partner, Simplicity supports all aspects of student life with technology platforms that empower institutions to make data driven decisions. As I mentioned, I'm one of your hosts today. Keith Edwards, my pronouns are he him, his I'm a speaker consultant coach, and you can find out more about me. Keithedwards.com. I am broadcasting from Minneapolis, Minnesota at the end, at the intersections of the ancestral homelands of the Dakota in the Ojibue peoples welcome. Everyone. Let's get to this. I'm gonna turn it over to Nat Ambrosey our production assistant. Who's going to kick us off with introductions and our first questions over to you Nat. Nat Ambrosey:I am so, so excited to be with our full team here of hosts, as well as all of our guests that have been on previous episodes. So welcome to all of you. To kick us off. Let's get started to the host. I want to send you off on a question, please introduce yourself as well as share a guest that you'd really love to have on the show. So if you could pick any colleague, any friend, anyone that you can just say like, hey you, who would that be? Keith Edwards:Yeah, I'll go first. Keith Edwards, my pronouns, are he him, his. I'm a speaker and consultant. The guest that I always wanted to have on was Bell Hooks, who I had a fascinating airport ride with without really realizing it. But unfortunately, Bell Hooks or Gloria Watkins' past. So my new answer would be Adrian Marie Brown, who wrote emergent strategies and pleasure activism and some other things. Glenn DeGuzman:Glenn DeGuzman associate Dean of students at UC Berkeley use the hehe pronouns recording this from Livermore and the unseated territory of the Pelman tribe of the Aloni peoples and the guest that I would've loved to have come on was my mentor, Dr. Keith Meiser. I think we did a couple episodes where we, we got to talk with just people who've been inspiring and Keith has been a big part of my professional career, so I would've loved to have had him come on, but he passed away not too long ago. In terms of who I would want to, that's a secret. I am not going to share that. So I'm going to pass it on Raechele Pope:Right. I love the secret though. And now I'm going to be wondering forever. Raechele Pope,

Dr. Glenn DeGuzman sits down with Dr. Kehaulani Vaughn, Dr. Leilani Kupo, and Sefa Aina to talk story about the Pacific Islander student experience and the obstacles and challenges facing this often overlooked student population.

Dr. Keith Edwards discusses graduate student mental health, well-being, and support with Drs. Christina W. Yao, Lisa S. Kaler, Dave Nguyen, and Michael J. Stebleton. Each guest brings perspectives as a graduate student, supporting graduate and professional students, and their writing and research about graduate students. The conversation explores the challenges facing graduate and professional students and ways to support students holistically from the individual to institutional levels.

Trauma is omnipresent in the lives of college students despite receiving limited attention in student affairs literature. Whether sexual assault and intimate partner violence, campus shootings, or racial trauma, many students arrive on our campuses and have either experienced trauma before arriving or while in college. It is critical for student affairs professionals to increase their understanding of trauma and its effect on the mental health and well-being of students.