Introducing Season 9 - Coming September 14

SA Voices From the Field

We are very excited to be preparing for Season 9 of SA Voices from the Field. This season we will be looking at things that we do something we do many times in our careers, transitions. Take a listen while Jill Creighton and Chris Lewis talk abmany times in ourout the new season.

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Transcript

Jill Creighton:

Welcome to Student Affairs voices from the field. The podcast where we share your student affairs stories from fresh perspectives to seasoned experts. This is season 9 on transitions in student affairs. This podcast is brought to you by NASPA. And I'm Doctor Jill Creighton. Sheherhers, your SA voices from the field host.

Happy August, Chris.

Christopher Lewis:

It is great to be back and really excited about this new season and new school year. and just new in general.

Jill Creighton:

You've got a lot of major things happening in your life right now about to sun. Well, I'll I'll let you talk about it.

Christopher Lewis:

that we do. And not only with work, but personally, I'm sending my oldest to college. So she is a freshman the university of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She's there. She started, and she is living her best life. So we are stepping back and watching from a distance and doing the whole parent thing. And I'm watching from the pilons and watching to see how student affairs works at other institutions.

Jill Creighton:

It's such a fascinating thing to going from the person who's behind the scenes to the person who's experiencing the thing that we all try to make sure it works. And that's a huge transition for you. I also know that I've got a huge transition on my campus this fall Over the summer here at DKU, we opened 22 new buildings. And I know that is such a wild concept for pretty much anyone in American Higher Ed. But because my institution is only a decade old, we're still building infrastructure. So our phase 2 campus just opened out of 22 of those facilities. 11 of them are under student affairs. And I've got a new sports complex opening, our student union building, which is called our community center. Just came online. And I also have 8 undergraduate residence halls and 1 graduate student residence hall. And, you know, I've opened new buildings in my career before. but I've literally never opened 11 at once. So big transitions for both of us, which got us really thinking, what do we wanna focus on this season? So, Chris, do you wanna make the big announcement?

Christopher Lewis:

Really excited because this season, we're going to be talking about transitions gonna be talking about transitions in our personal life, but we're also gonna be talking about transitions in student affairs to get some amazing guests throughout the entire season. they're gonna be talking about transitions that they've gone through in their careers and the things that worked, the things that didn't work, or might not have worked, and we'll definitely be learning from all of them along the way and pass that learning on to you.

Jill Creighton:

And we want to really take your guest suggestions this season as well. We're always open to them. But if you know someone who's making a transition in their career, whether it be from undergraduate to graduate student pursuing a master's in higher ed or a graduate student to 1st full time position or from a new professional to mid level professional, especially if you're going from never supervising full time professionals before to leading and supervising full time professionals. We're also very excited to be experiencing along with them at the transition to NASA board chair for Doctor Shikora Martin. And then I'll also give a teaser that one of our long time NASA members and pillar of the profession, Doctor. Lori S White, will be coming on to talk about transition from VPSA to a university president, which is a very, very big transition. So all of these folks are going to be sharing their stories and We really do hope to hear from you on other folks who we should be featuring.

Christopher Lewis:

One of the things that I would really throw out there, and they said this at the beginning is that if you know of somebody or if you have had a transition that wasn't the best transition and it wasn't a positive experience, we'd like to talk to you too. because we don't want any of these episodes to come across as being that all transitions are great because they're not. And so many times where you might make a choice you may step into something and it doesn't work out, but you learn from it and the learning that you had from that experience or others have had from their experiences could help others to not make the same mistake and to be able to learn and grow from the steps that you were in or that others were in.

Jill Creighton:

The other type of transition that we'd love to hear from you on is if you're experiencing leadership transition, maybe you yourself are sitting in the same seat, but perhaps the people above you are changing. I know that's happening on my campus. We're getting a brand new chancellor as well as a brand new executive vice chancellor, which in the structure that I operate in, is effectively the COO of the campus. And so having kind of the top two roles that my campus changing at the same time is a major transition. So while my role is staying stable, I don't know what the priorities of the new leadership will be, and I think that's always an thing placed to navigate. And so wherever you are in your organizational structure, if that's happening for you, you would also be a great guest.

Christopher Lewis:

Oh, Jill, I'm just really excited I'm excited to not only be a part of this season, but to learn about from all of the guests because I know there's going to be so much that they're going to share, not only with us, but it's great to be behind the scenes. And I know that you that are listening are going to learn so much from the season as well. And we just love having you listen every week.

Jill Creighton:

So thank you for continuing to come back. We will be releasing our first episode sometime in early to mid-September still on that Thursday drop. So for those of you who are commute-based listeners, and you can look forward to like I said, early to mid-September, and we look forward to, bring you all the content. So see you very soon.

Jill Creighton [00:05:32]:

This has been an episode of essay voices from the field brought to you by NASPA. This show is always made possible because of you, our listeners, we are so grateful that you continue to listen me on LinkedIn by searching for Dr. Jill L Creighton. We welcome your feedback and topic and especially your guest suggestions. We'd love it if you take a moment tell a colleague about the show, and please like Bait and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening now. It really does help other student affairs professionals buy the show and helps us after Chris Lewis. Guests coordination by Lu Yongru, special thanks to Duke Kunshan University and the University of Flint for your support as we create this project. Catch you next time.