Tricia Shalka and Sy Simms

'Round About Campus

Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo talk with Drs. Tricia Shalka and Sy Simms.
Dr. Tricia Shalka is an associate professor of Higher Education at the University of Rochester. Her work explores the impacts of trauma on college students and their experiences, as well as how to create trauma-informed spaces in higher education supportive of students, staff, and faculty success and well-being.
Dr. Sy Simms is a REEDS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Their research interests include interrogating institutional and administrative practices of diversity and inclusion [and] examining higher education policies and practices through queer of color and feminist critiques as well.
A number of pieces for further reading were mentioned in this episode by the guests, including:

• Tricia Shalka's new book, Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Higher Education
• Sara Ahmed's idea of non-performative speech acts comes from is her text On Being Included: Racism and Diversity and Institutional Life
• Tema Okun's work on white supremacy culture
• The Language of Appeasement by D-L Stewart
• A Student Affairs Now podcast conversation between Drs. Raechele Pop and Carlton Green on canceling the culture of nice in higher education
• The Reorder of Things by Roderick A. Ferguson
• Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions edited by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, and Frank A. Tuitt

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You can get a full transcript of the episode here.
And as always, thanks to Mary Ellen Wade for the 'Round About Campus cover art.