Celebrating Our Listeners

Episode Description In celebration of our one year anniversary as a podcast, this episode features the voices and perspectives from across the field of student affairs. Joining Dr. Heather Shea are four incredible student affairs educators participating from coast-to-coast discussing all of the ways in which their lives and work coalesce in higher education in service of students. Suggested APA Citation Shea, H. (Host). (2021, October 6). Celebrating Our Listeners: The Student Affairs NOW 1 Year Anniversary Episode (No. 63) [Audio podcast episode]. In Student Affairs NOW. https://studentaffairsnow.com/oneyear/ Episode Transcript Brian Hercliff-Proffer:We can think of it as a separation of that interpersonal connection. Right. But now we have them back on campus in thousands and there's no way to go, right. They can just poof Harry Potter themselves away. Right. You have to sit in that with them and have to navigate that. And I think that's, that's just a really big thing that students, and even us as professionals are having to relearn in engaging in all of this with all of these layers and the topics that we're bringing up. Heather Shea:Welcome to Student Affairs Now, the online learning community for student affairs educators, I'm your host, Heather Shea. Today we are celebrating our one-year anniversary of Student Affairs Now and featuring a panel of our listeners. Student Affairs Now is the premier podcast and learning community for thousands of us who work in alongside or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. Heather Shea:We hope you find these conversations make a contribution to the field and are restorative to the profession. We release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find us at studentaffairsnow.com on YouTube or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This episode is brought to you by Stylus, visit styluspub.com and use the promo code SANow for 30% off and free shipping today's episode is also sponsored by Anthology. Learn more about their innovative data-driven platforms to build and foster your campus student engagement experience. Learn more by visiting anthology.com/engage. As I mentioned, I'm your host, Heather Shea. My pronouns are she, her, and hers, and I am broadcasting from Okemos, Michigan near the campus of Michigan State University, where I serve as the director of women's student services. And I'm also an affiliate faculty member in the MSU student affairs administration master's program. MSU occupies the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Peoples. The university resides on land seated in the 1819 treaty of Saginaw. So I'm going to open it up now to our panel. Thank you. All of you for being here today for joining me on this exciting one-year anniversary episode. I want to begin by everybody telling a little bit about who you are, what you do, what your current role is on your campus and maybe a little bit about your pathway into, or through student affairs. And so we're going to start with Stephen. Welcome to Student Affairs NOW. Stephen Santa-Ramirez:Yeah. Hi Heather. My name is Stephen Santa-Ramirez. I go by, he him, his pronouns. I currently am an assistant professor of higher ed at the University of Buffalo in Western New York. And I actually got my master's in the program that Heather is currently a faculty member.