The Info Desk

We're taking you BEYOND the Info Desk. Following the conversation of Giving and Gaining, we dive deeper into professional development, work-life balance, and maintaining healthy relationships with colleagues, peers, and friends. 

Dee and Jessie sit down with John Taylor (ACUI CEO) and Adam Dunbar (Regional Director for Region VIII) to have a conversation about giving and gaining in the professional world of Higher Education. They share their insights on their time in the profession and where they see the future of Higher Education and ACUI going. This conversation had the laughs and inspiration we all look for in our day to days, you don't want to miss!

The ACUI Region VIII Conference will be hosted at UMass Lowell in November. We are chatting with Joanne Dunbar, Conference Chair and Cheyenne Alexander, Host Chair about what to expect out of this year's conference. Get an inside scoop - this is an episode you don't want to skip!

The Info Desk is back with Season 2! We are bringing you new content and conversations and a new host! Meet Dee Kennelly from Mary Immaculate College SU. We are so happy to have her and to get back to providing engaging topics with our listeners. Follow us on IG to keep up to date with everything ACUI Region VIII and Higher Education @acuiregionviii.

The Info Desk sat down with two retirees who have dedicated their lives to Higher Education. We talk about their advice to young professionals, their lives in higher education, and much more! Tune in!

Let’s crack on with our international partners! Learn about the new virtual international program and hear from the people who have take the program and developed it into what it is today! We are joined by Erin Morrell, Dee Kennelly and Hayden Greene.

Flexibility, not just for yogis. Many of us have been home, furloughed, transitioned roles. How can managers make space for this new expectation of flexibility in the workplace. Chat with Brenda Evans, Dean of Student Affairs at UMass Lowell and past ACUI President , and Una Redmond, Director of Student Life at Dublin City University to hear insight on prioritizing you and your teams self-care while remaining student centered.

The Info Desk dives into a conversation about social justice with Amy Liss and Pascha McTyson.  Join us for this exciting episode as Amy and Pascha unpack how to apply a social justice lens in the workplace, as well as their perspectives on what it means to be an ally. You won’t want to miss this podcast – it will inspire you to action!

The Info Desk is talking all things hustle and hobbies with Lina Balcom and Gillian O’Gorman. The conversation goes up, up, and away into topics of work life/balance and understanding boundaries in the work place. This is one episode you’ll absolutely want to tune in to – you’ll never want it to end!

Today we talk with Cheyenne Alexander & Zac Lomas who are a part of this year's ACUI education planning team for the Region VII and VIII duel conference! The new deadline for ed session submission is September 24. For more info: https://www.acui.org/regions/vii/region-vii-conference

We enjoy sunshine and dinner with loved ones, we travel, we prepare to go back to campus post pandemic...hear from Yemi and Kaitlyn on how they are preparing themselves and their teams for the return to work for the Fall Semester!

Welcome to The Info Desk: An ACUI Region VIII Podcast.

This week we talk with Erin Dayharsh: Regional Director (Reg. VIII), Anthony Otero: Regional Director (Reg. VII), Scott Shea: Conference Coordinator (Reg. VIII), and Andrea Giachino: Conference Coordinator (Reg. VII). Get the inside scoop on how the idea of a combined conference was executed and the excitement behind planning this years double conferences!