04/05/2022
Episode 2 - Shoutout to All My Play-Cousins: We Out Here! is now liiivveeeee!!!
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One of the least talked about goals of attending college is to leave having built meaningful relationships with a new group of folks that you can now call family; your new play-cousins. You spend years together figuring out your courses, your career goals, and more importantly, who you are as a person. In doing so, you get to take part in life changing experiences that have the potential to mold you into your most authentic self, and solidify who you want to be in the world around you. Yet, in order for this to happen, your campus has to intentionally provide space for you to experiment, explore, fail, and succeed safely with the support of your peers, teachers, and administrators. We recognize that this may look differently depending on the environment you’re in, but nevertheless, we all want the vibe of having felt included, encouraged, and inspired. This is the goal, this is the vibe, this is the culture we’re all seeking. To pull from our research into institutional inequity within post-secondary institutions, “According to one group of scholars, ‘Culture is the 'invisible glue' that holds institutions together by providing a common foundation and a shared interpretation and understanding of events and actions.” (Eckel et al., 1999, p. 26).
This episode, we’ll hear directly from Stillman College junior, Hanna Fields, about what she needs from her institution in order to perceive her campus culture as equitable and inclusive, and senior administrators, Darryl Ann Lai Fang and Chanel L. Fort, on what we can be doing to instill this sense of family and protect our most vulnerable. Let’s meet our guests (take a scroll and see their longer bios in the episode description wherever you stream your podcasts).
Sponsored by Catalyst Ed
