Collegeland
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CollegelandOct 15, 2021
S2 Episode 6: Making Space for Queer Students at an HBCU
Making Space for Queer Students at an HBCU
This final episode of Collegeland takes us to North Carolina Central University, a Historically Black College and University, where we talk with three people who have been critical to developing the LGBTA Resource Center. Co-hosted by Lisa Levenstein and Tiffany Holland, the episode highlights the importance of dedicated spaces for queer students on college campuses. Our guests discuss the challenges and the joys involved in carving out space for difficult conversations and fostering supportive communities.
About our Guests:
Jennifer Williams serves as the Director of the Women’s Center at North Carolina Central University. She formerly served as the Associate Director for Diversity & Inclusion, and the Program Coordinator of the LGBTA Resource Center at NCCU, where she also teaches. She came to NCCentral in 2013 for a dual Masters in Clinical Mental Health and Career Counseling. She completed her studies in 2016.
Amber Esters is the Education Coordinator at the NCCU Women's Center. She graduated from NCCU with a BA in Public Health Education in 2014 and received her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from UNC Greensboro in 2019.
Eric Martin is a former Lavender-Liaison and the current LGBTA Resource Center Coordinator and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion staff at NCCU. Eric earned his BS in Psychology in 2020 and his MS in Higher Education Administration in 2022 at NCCU.
For more information about the resources and programming provided by LGBTA Resource Center check out their website.
Looking to learn more about how HBCUs have cultivated cultures of LGBTQ+ inclusion, this recent study from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation examines and highlights institutions that are doing exemplary work related to increasing LGBTQ+ student support.
For more information on HBCUs America and the threat of recent funding cuts discussed in this episode see this recent HBCU policy report. And for suggestions and resources on how to better support them check out this article.
S2 Episode 5: Beyond the Campus Counseling Center
COVID has brought new attention to what many are calling the “mental health crisis" on college campuses. A 2020 study found that nearly 40% of college students experienced depression and 13% have had suicidal ideations.
The week Lisa Levenstein talks with Gary Glass, licensed psychologist, and director of counseling and career services at Oxford College of Emory University, about the challenges facing students and the increasing pressure on faculty to address mental health concerns. Glass calls on us to expand our thinking from how to diagnose and treat individuals in crisis to how to build a broader campus community and culture that supports students more holistically.
Following the conversation, Levenstein talks with her friend and colleague Tiffany Holland, a lecturer at UNC Greensboro and Guilford College. Holland shares her experiences embracing vulnerability and building community with students in the wake of the pandemic.
About our Guests:
Gary D. Glass, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has been working with college students and serving various campus communities for over 20 years. Committed to an interdisciplinary perspective, his professional identity extends beyond “licensed psychologist” to include Educator, and he incorporates skills and wisdoms from his undergraduate studies in English literature and Communication, as well as his deep appreciation for music, poetry, and theology.
Read Gary’s article for Inside Higher Ed “Rethinking Campus Mental Health”
J. Tiffany Holland is a public educator, freedom dreamer, and wayward scholar. Her scholarly passions focus on the expansiveness and complexities of black identity and the potentials of black liberation. A former performing artist and middle-school teacher, Tiffany has taught history and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Guilford College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds an M.A. in history from Duke University. She lives in Greensboro North Carolina with her partner, her wonder-twin seven-year-old children, and her extended and magical queer family.
Episode image by: TanushkaBu
S2 Episode 4: Living the Contradictions of Precarious Labor
Students know who their favorite professors are on campus but they rarely know that up to 70% of college faculty are contract workers, often paid by the course, with very low pay and no job security.
To put a personal face on the issues facing contingent faculty, we talk to Jennifer Hyland Wang, a long-time non-tenure-track faculty member at the University of Wisconsin. Jennifer balances parenting, teaching, research, and organizing work as co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Jennifer explains what it is like to “live the contradictions” of a university system designed for the outdated model of white male tenured professors. Contingent faculty are usually paid per course and rarely have job security or benefits. They face the lack of institutional support for parenting common to tenure-track faculty as well as policies that deny them research funding, participation in governance, and even library access. How would higher education be different if we acknowledged that contingency is structural, not shameful, and that the people who have landed tenure-track positions just happened to “fit the suit” to be filled at a particular moment? Jennifer calls for new kinds of thinking, organizing, and community building that support and enfranchise contingent faculty and make non-tenure-track jobs liveable.
S2 Episode 3: Revitalizing Dakota Language
Teachers of indigenous languages encounter a difficult problem: how to use the classroom, so long a site of white supremacist , violence and language loss for native people, to step outside of a Western viewpoint and rebuild native ways of being?
This week we hear from leaders in Dakota Language revitalization connected to the University of Minnesota, Šišóka Dúta and his former student and now colleague Raine Cloud.
Dúta and Cloud share their stories of learning Dakota Language as adults and how they have become teachers of the language. They also are starting an innovative project designed to preserve first-language speakers’ use of Dakota in a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and the College of Sisseton Wahpeton, a tribal college on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. They address the challenges and possibilities of working through universities to revitalize Dakota language and culture.
How can universities can redress prior wrongs? How can they build relationships with Native peoples that are empowering rather than extractive? Programs like the one Dúta helped start in Minnesota offer models for people across higher education who seek to hold universities accountable for past harms and create transformative community partnerships.
To learn more about Dakota revitalization and our guests:
You can follow Šišóka Dúta on Twitter
American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota offers Dakota and Ojibwe language instruction. You can read about their offerings at https://cla.umn.edu/ais/undergraduate/dakota-ojibwe-language-programs
Sisseton Wahpeton College is a tribal college located on the Lake Traverse Reservation and has partnered with the University of Minnesota on the Dakota Language Journal Project.
For information on Minnesota Transform, the Mellon Grant Program at the University of Minnesota that supports the Dakota Language Journal Project
https://ias.umn.edu/programs/public-scholarship/minnesota-transform
University of Wisconsin online Dakota Dictionary
https://filemaker.cla.umn.edu/dakota/home.php I
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S2 Episode 2: Studying Under the Shadow of Deportation
According to federal and most state laws, undocumented students can enroll in higher education in the United States, but do they feel like they belong there?
Our guest, Shirley Leyro, critical criminologist and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Borough of Manhattan--CUNY asked that question in a study she conducted on the challenges facing students without citizenship status. Lisa talked with Shirley about how her experiences as a first-generation Latinx professor helped her ask critical research questions that others have overlooked.
Shirley then helps Lisa and Nan think about the impact of this time of deep uncertainty in US immigration policy on DACA and “unDACAmented” students -- from worrying about deportation, to protesting against hostile professors, to finding ways to pay for school without access to federal financial aid or work permits. While some universities have recently declared themselves “sanctuary campuses,” students across the country are calling on their universities to not only “talk the talk” but “walk the walk” to make campuses truly safe and welcoming places for all students.
The conversation concludes with a call on educators to rethink assumptions about “traditional” and “non-traditional” students and to understand the lives of students beyond the one’s-size-fits-all mold the university has created.
About our guest
Shirley Leyro is a critical criminologist and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Borough of Manhattan--CUNY. She studies deportation effects, including the impact that vulnerability to deportation has on noncitizen immigrants. Shirley is currently working on a funded research project exploring the impact of deportability on belonging and membership for CUNY noncitizen students. She is the author of Crimmigration, Deportability and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrants (Spring 4-30-2018) and Co-Editor of Outside Justice: Immigration and the Criminalizing Impact of Changing Policy and Practice.
You can follow her on Twitter @DrShirLo and as part of the #thisiswhataprofessorlookslike campaign.
S2 Episode 1: Accommodations Denied
As campuses across the country have returned to in-person education this fall, requests by faculty for accommodations have been routinely ignored or denied. So for our first episode for Season 2, we reached out to three members of the Accessible Campus Action Alliance (ACAA), an organization of disability studies scholars and activists that has called on universities to do better with their statement “Beyond High Risk,” first released back in June of 2020 and updated in July of 2021.
Aimi Hamraie, Jonathan Sterne & Bess Williamson challenge the celebration of being “back to normal” and the failing accommodations systems that have put financial considerations over the safety of faculty and students.
Our hosts learn that the very technologies that made teaching online possible last year arose from the needs and responses of the disabled community. But now that universities are pushing in-person instruction, administrations are refusing access to them.
In the final segment, Jonathan, Bess, and Aimi discuss what it would mean to build institutions imbued with an ethic of care that recognizes our mutual vulnerability and dependency.
For more information on the ACAA, read their statement and follow them on Twitter.
Accessible Campus Action Alliance (2021), "Beyond 'High-Risk': Update for 2021," https://bit.ly/accesscampusalliance.
About our guests
Aimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and director of the Critical Design Lab.
Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. His book Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment will be available in January 2022.
Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Collegeland is produced and edited by Craig Eley and Jade Iseri-Ramos
Research assistance and publicity by Danyel Ferrari
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art designed by erhui1979 on iStock
A special thanks to the North Carolina Humanities Council and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Bonus Episode: Life as a First-Gen PhD
For this special bonus episode, Nan and Lisa sit down with Season 1 producer Richelle Wilson to talk about her experience as a first-gen college student, the challenges of student loan debt and getting a PhD in a collapsing academic job market, and why she loves higher ed even though it doesn’t always love her back.
Stay tuned for Season 2, coming your way soon!
About our guest
Richelle Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is writing a dissertation about IKEA. She is the managing editor of Edge Effects, a digital magazine about the environment, and producer of the talk show A Public Affair on WORT 89.9 FM.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by LwcyD on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support of Season 1.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 10: Meet Me at the Library
Libraries are the information infrastructure of universities. And as with most infrastructure, the critical work they do is often invisible—that is, until something breaks.
There’s a lot more to the library than meets the eye, so we asked Maura Seale, history librarian at the University of Michigan, to break it down for us. In true librarian fashion, she provides a wealth of information and perspective about what university libraries do and why they are so vital to the campus community.
Throughout the conversation, Maura challenges the myth of librarians as enemies of the digital, makes the case for why libraries still need physical space in the age of the internet, and reveals the often invisible intellectual labor and care work performed by librarians. Libraries are the “front porch,” as sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom has said, or a gathering place where everyone on campus is welcome.
Then, in the final segment before our summer session, Nan and Lisa tell their own library love stories, reflect on the first season of the podcast, and shout-out listener ideas for future episode topics.
If you’re going to be in Wisconsin this summer, you can hear clips from our food insecurity episode on FairShare CSA’s Routes to Roots self-guided tours. Registration opens June 1.
About our guest
Maura Seale is a history librarian at the University of Michigan and co-editor of The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2018). Previously, she was a collections, research, and instruction librarian at Georgetown University.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art designed by stories / Freepik
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 9: Tales of a Campus Housekeeper
You’ve probably heard the horror stories about college dorms: late nights, loud parties, and lots of questionable bathroom antics.
These campus living areas depend on the vital labor of housekeepers like Tracy Harter, who works at UNC Chapel Hill. She’s here to set the record straight about the students living in the dorms. Sure, they sometimes give her a run for her money. But for Tracy, it’s all about the care and connection: the students have her back, and she has theirs.
Tracy has long participated in her local union and was an outspoken advocate for her fellow housekeepers at the start of the pandemic, when cleaning workers were given limited personal protective equipment to work in increasingly unsafe conditions. In 2019, she also took part in the “Silent Sam” protests on UNC campus, which culminated in the toppling of a Confederate statue. Tracy shares these stories and describes the day-to-day work of being a campus housekeeper—including some of the more, shall we say, memorable days on the job.
To wrap things up, co-hosts Nan and Lisa reminisce about their own time in the dorms and offer some Extra Credit reading and viewing about cleaning workers.
About our guest
Tracy Harter is a housekeeper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of UE Local 150, the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union.
Extra Credit
Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of California Press, 2007)
Justice for Janitors: A Story of Hope, Courage, and Triumph short documentary film by SEIU (2014)
Follow Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, on Twitter (@aijenpoo)
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by Lena Helfinger
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 8: Beyond the Land-Grab University
Land-grant universities are the legacy of the Morrill Act of 1862, which gave states throughout the Midwest and West upwards of eleven million acres to establish colleges that would focus on agriculture and the “mechanic arts.” This opened up higher education to people all over the country.
At least, that’s the narrative you’ll see in most U.S. history books.
The truth is that these land-grant universities were more like “land-grab” universities, as Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone wrote in a widely circulated article for High Country News last summer. Not only are these campuses located on Native lands, but many universities sold the stolen land to create what are now, in some cases, absolutely enormous endowments.
So how can universities begin to redress these wrongs?
Give back the land, yes. But that’s not all, says Michael Dockry, assistant professor of forestry at the University of Minnesota and registered member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He makes a clear and compelling case for how universities can use their land and money to benefit Native people and partner with tribes to support sustainable education and land management. Through this process, individual campuses and the entire academy will be transformed by Indigenous knowledge.
We conclude with another round of grading! For this Report Card segment, Nan and Lisa give their highest marks to the NCAA women’s basketball players, who totally rocked it on the court during the championship games last weekend despite their woefully inadequate training facilities.
About our guest
Michael Dockry is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Forest Resources, where he is also an associate faculty member of the American Indian Studies Department and an Institute on the Environment Fellow. He is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Further reading
“Land-Grab Universities” by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone (High Country News)
“Sustainable development education, practice, and research: an indigenous model of sustainable development at the College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, USA” by Michael J. Dockry, Katherine Hall, William Van Lopik, and Christopher M. Caldwell
This podcast is produced at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which sits on Ho-Chunk land, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, which has long served as the site of meeting and exchange for a number of Indigenous peoples, including the Keyauwee and Saura.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by Roy N on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 7: Why University Presses Matter
Few things say “college” more than a stack of books, and yet university presses remain one of the best-kept secrets on campus.
To get a behind-the-scenes look into the world of academic publishing, we talk to John Sherer, director of the University of North Carolina Press. UNC Press has long been a pioneer in publishing books on African American history and gender and women’s studies. This past year, the press saw a surge in readership during the pandemic, and many UNC Press titles made their way onto Black Lives Matter reading lists.
John explains how and why university presses operate on a “deficit publishing” model to support important books that aren’t money-makers, talks about racial inequities in the publishing world, and describes new and exciting open-access (OA) initiatives to make campus research more accessible to the public.
After the interview, Nan and Lisa share a few of their personal favorite university press books in a Letter of Recommendation segment.
About our guest
John Sherer is the director of the University of North Carolina Press. Previously, he was the vice president and publisher of Basic Books.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by jmexclusives on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 6: Food Insecurity on Campus
According to a 2017 study, nearly half of all college students in the U.S. face food insecurity.
That’s a huge problem. And it’s not just about food, either—many of these same students also experience housing insecurity or have other basic needs not being met as they struggle to pay skyrocketing tuition bills and expensive educational fees.
These are students Paula Umaña meets every day through her work at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in Philadelphia. She helps us unpack the reality of food insecurity on campus and urges college administrators to develop programs to help connect students with vital resources, including federal benefits such as SNAP.
Nan and Lisa wrap up the show with a Report Card segment, with an A+ for our friends over at The Campus Hunger Project Podcast (check them out!) and an F for a certain blogger who thinks that taking cold showers and cutting the lattes can keep you out of student debt (take our word for it and don’t check it out!).
About our guest
Paula Umaña is the Director of Institutional Transformation at the Hope Center. Previously, she worked at the Community College of Philadelphia, where she established and directed the Single Stop program, which has connected more than 13,500 students with over $28 million dollars in tax refunds, cash, and non-cash benefits.
Learn more about the Hope Center’s #RealCollege movement by visiting their website.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art from Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 5: Inside a University Vaccine Lab
During the COVID vaccine rollout in the U.S., major pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna have become household names. But did they really create these vaccines by themselves?
Not by a long shot, says Dr. Deborah Fuller, a vaccinologist and professor of microbiology who runs her own lab at the University of Washington. She and her team have been working on DNA and RNA vaccine technology for years, laying the groundwork for the rapid, safe, and effective development of the COVID vaccines currently on the market, all of which got their start at universities.
Deborah makes the case for why we need to fund “unglamorous” basic research, describes what it’s like running a university vaccine lab during the pandemic, and notes an important shift happening in the science community, with more and more researchers collaborating and sharing their findings in real time.
Then, co-hosts Nan and Lisa are back to grading! For this Report Card segment, they take up student quarantine and new surveillance technologies on campus.
About our guest
Deborah Fuller is a vaccinologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her research focuses on virology, vaccines, and biotechnology.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by cromaconceptovisual on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
Episode 4: Zoomversity
Rebecca Barrett-Fox tells us why she advised professors to “do a bad job of putting your courses online” in a blog post that went viral as colleges quickly pivoted to remote learning last March.
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Among other things, 2020 was the year of the Great Virtual Shift, when college campuses across the country pivoted to emergency remote instruction in response to the pandemic coming to the United States in March, just before spring break.
While Zoom classes have now become a regular fixture of university life, many instructors had a rocky beginning moving their courses online. Enter Rebecca Barrett-Fox, coordinator of online learning at Hesston College, who wrote an encouraging blog post called “Please Do a Bad Job of Putting Your Courses Online.”
Within a week, the post had a million views. The message was just what every teacher needed to hear: It’s okay if you’re not perfect at this teaching online thing right away. Be gentle with yourself and supportive of your students in this difficult time.
We sat down with Rebecca to learn more about her story of “going viral” and her (online) teaching philosophy, including kindness as pedagogy and her take on the screens on/screens off debate.
Co-hosts Nan and Lisa weigh in with their own experiences teaching online and sign off with a new edition of Office Hours, where they answer a listener’s question about community college.
Have a question for Office Hours? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
About our guest
Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Visiting Coordinator of Online Learning at Hesston College in Kansas. Previously, she was an assistant professor of sociology at Arkansas State University. She maintains a blog at her website, anygoodthing.com.
Here are a few of our personal favorite posts from Rebecca’s blog:
“Please Do a Bad Job of Putting Your Courses Online”
“Students Love Discussion Board—When It’s Well-Designed”
“How to Help Your Students Rest”
“Successful Grading in an Online Classroom”
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by Joseph Mucira on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Episode 3: Student Voting
Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, and we have students like Morehouse College’s Rick Hart to thank.
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All eyes were on Georgia after they flipped blue for Biden/Harris in November and again as they voted in two Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, in a historic runoff election earlier this month.
But none of this was a sure thing. It took countless hours of local get-out-the-vote efforts by tireless volunteers like Rick Hart, a junior at Morehouse College in Atlanta, who this time last year was getting up at 5 a.m. with his friends to canvass around the state.
We sat down with Rick back in November to learn about his experience with student voter engagement at Morehouse. Then, we caught up with him again in January to congratulate him on Georgia’s Senate victories.
Co-hosts Nan and Lisa take this opportunity to reflect on the role of HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in U.S. history and think about college students as a voting bloc. They wrap up the show with their first edition of Office Hours, where they answer listener questions about all things college.
Have a question for Office Hours? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.
About our guest
Rick Hart is a junior majoring in political science at Morehouse College. He serves as attorney general in the Student Government Association, co-chair of Georgia Young Leaders for Biden, HBCU outreach director of College Democrats of America, and president of the Morehouse College Collegiate Chapter of National Action Network (NAN).
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by Jennifer Griffin on Unsplash
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Episode 2: Every Campus a Refuge
We speak with Dr. Diya Abdo from the Center for New North Carolinians about her work resettling refugees on college campuses.
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College campuses are like cities unto themselves, and they have an abundance of resources to share with the surrounding community.
That’s the expansive vision of Dr. Diya Abdo, who founded Every Campus a Refuge, a refugee resettlement program that places families in university housing and uses campus resources to help them thrive in their new community. Campuses should function as home spaces where everyone there can feel safe, Diya argues. She powerfully invites colleges and universities to heed the call of sharing their abundance and cultivating a culture of hospitality.
After this generative conversation, co-hosts Nan and Lisa reflect on campuses as a place of refuge and offer Extra Credit TV and book recommendations about refugees.
About our guest
Diya Abdo is the director of the Center for New North Carolinians at UNC Greensboro and the founder of Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR), housed at Guilford College and with chapters across the country.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by janjf93 on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.
Episode 1: Dear Pandemic
Welcome to Collegeland!
We started a podcast about higher education in the middle of a pandemic, so it’s only fitting that we kick off this first episode with our favorite campus scientist, Dr. Malia Jones.
Malia is one of the creators of Dear Pandemic, a social media campaign and one-stop shop for practical, science-based information and advice about navigating life during COVID. She gives us an inside peek into the work of the “Nerdy Girls” team in combating the infodemic and keeping us all safe and sane.
After the interview, co-hosts Nan and Lisa give out their first grades of the semester in a Report Card segment.
About our guest
Malia Jones is an associate scientist in health geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Applied Population Laboratory. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Dear Pandemic, a popular public outreach account on social media.
Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson
Theme music by Josh Wilson
Show cover art by Margaux Parker
Episode cover art by Viktor Ivanchenko on Pixabay
A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support.