Earlier this summer, I read the book: We Are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream by William Perez and Daniel G. Solorzano. My intention was to broaden my w[...]
I watched the aftermath of Philando Castile’s death and was struck by the commentary from many of my colleagues. I saw the “YOUR LIFE MATTERS” posts on social med[...]
Last month, student affairs professionals from across the globe gathered in Indianapolis for the 2016 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Conference. As one of m[...]
As regular participants in #SAchat know, the final thought blog post comes pretty quickly after a particular chat is over… usually within a week or two. This one is differe[...]
Every now and then on the Student Affairs Professionals Facebook group page, there are examples of dissent, erasure, and every -ism. If you are reading this and you are a member of[...]
I remember waking up on the morning of Sunday, June 12th around 6:00am with my two friends before we set out on a hike. I rolled over, picked up my phone, and saw the CNN notificat[...]
When I was originally writing for this blog series, I was organizing my thoughts on the tragedy in Orlando. Since that unfortunate situation, there have been more than three horrib[...]
Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Repeat. It seems like every single day, I wake up to another senseless act of violence. Police brutality, shootings [...]
As student affairs professionals, we need to understand and prepare for the short-term and longer-term impact of tragedies like the Orlando massacre. This “human engineered” mass s[...]
“What? Again? Wait, no; how? Why? For what? How could…? But, now in 2016? Who did it?” These were only a few of the many questions and thoughts that raced through my head as I awok[...]