18 episodes
H.E.A.R.D., An AACRAO Podcast Tashana Curtis, Portia LaMarr, Ingrid Nuttall
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Join three AACRAO members talking about the intersection of DEI, higher education, and our own lives. You’ll hear us be vulnerable, make mistakes, and learn and grow with all of you.
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You Need You: Self-Care
The HEARD ladies return from their pod hiatus to talk about the importance of self-care with Tiffani Robertson, Associate Director of Enrollment Management at Governors State University and Dr. Connie S. Newsome, Director of Registrar Services at Campbell University School of Law. Tiffani and Connie talk about how "pouring into yourself" and "beneficial selfishness" are essential to having the capacity to show up in service to others, as well as their upcoming AACRAO workshop on self-care for higher education professionals. You need you just as much as anyone else does, so take a moment to reconnect with HEARD and this critical topic. A note of awareness: We talk about some difficult topics in this episode, including the loss of a parent. Listen with care for you.
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Let Your Students Lead: Technology and DEI
Portia kicks off this episode’s conversation with Joel Nelson, Program Manager for Learner Success and Innovation in the Office of Digital Learning at The Ohio State University. A wide range of topics arose, including accessibility, AI, data and DEI, and the pros and cons of efficiency. Joel concluded with a strong recommendation to “let your students lead” when looking for direction and strategy for advancing DEI overall.
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Right Within (Summer Book Club)
The ladies wrap up the summer book club series in the nick of time with Minda Harts book, Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace. In this episode, the ladies get vulnerable discussing previous workplace experiences and the opportunities for healing explored in Harts’ work. Harts provides tangible suggestions for dealing with workplace trauma, including what can be done in the workplace to create equitable and inclusive spaces.
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I Am Not Yelling (Summer Book Club)
The summer book club continues with Elizabeth Leiba’s book, I Am Not Yelling: A Black Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Workplace. In this book, Leiba weaves her biography with other lived experiences to share how black women can find empowerment by embracing their truth and being their authentic selves. Tashana walks Portia and Ingrid through the book and draws off their personal experiences in academic and professional settings to explore the books’ topics, including microaggressions, imposter syndrome vs. imposter treatment, and code-switching.
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The Supreme Court and What’s Next w. AACRAO Executive Director Melanie Gottlieb
Tashana, Portia, and Ingrid pause their summer book club series to sit down with AACRAO Executive Director Melanie Gottlieb to walk through the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and its impact on race-conscious admissions. Melanie walks through a summary of the decision’s impact and what is still unclear; its likely impact on the holistic review process; and how AACRAO is moving forward with supporting the community.
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The Complexities of Race (Summer Book Club)
Tashana, Portia, and Ingrid kick-off their Summer Book Club with The Complexities of Race: Identity, Justice and Power in an Evolving America (ed. Charmaine Wijeyesinghe). Each chapter is a different essay exploring possible interventions or considerations to help us think about big questions that emerge from the book’s look at how race and racism shape and are shaped by contemporary issues. The ladies talk about identity, the possibilities of worldmaking, and, “the dangers of being too certain” when it comes to approaching DEI work.
Customer Reviews
Is your name an advisory or enemy
I enjoyed this podcast for many reasons. One thing that stood out to me the most was the part Ms Curtis spoke about how she put her name on her résumé. I was born in the late 60s and I think my generation was the last of his time the names that were chosen for the children were either biblical or related to names given to Caucasian children. Parents then and before knew that their child’s name may affect them in the future when looking for a job. That’s because my parents told me this.
It was during the late 60s and early 70s during the black power movement a lot of the young parents then adopted names that sounded more Afrocentric and represented whom they felt they were. names like Malcolm, Martin, Marcus, Richard etc. became more Afrocentric during this younger generation. Now we have a generation of adults whose names sound more representative to their culture. so when Ms Curtis mentioned how she use her name on applications it became familiar to me of what I saw growing up in society and what they showed on television.
Many corporations, in order to receive grants may have to have reached a quota of individuals of more ethnic groups.Therefore a name like Malik would be an advisory to him,Whereas other corporations his name may have been an enemy.