SWACUHO Podcast
The SWACUHO Podcast provides small-scale actionable professional development for housing professionals by interviewing Past Presidents, practitioner scholars, and other SWACUHO members with specific areas of experience. Episodes will be released on the first Monday of every month.
Episodes
26 episodes
025 - Fun Topics from the ACUHO-I Community Forum | Joel Gatti [Feature Topic]
After a three month gap, we have M. Joel Gatti (Director of Housing Operations at SMU) back on the show. This time around we are cruising the ACUHO-I community message boards for topics to discuss and banter about. Those topics include:...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:13:57
024 - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and the Texas Legislature | Dr. Reba Sims [Feature Topic]
When recording this episode, there was simply too much to cover so please excuse the discontinuity between the intro and the topic for the month. We had such an expansive conversation with Dr. Reba Sims (Texas A&M-San Antonio) that the reco...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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56:39
023 - The Friend of My Friend Could Be My Friend: Network Science [Book Club]
This month we are using the book "Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Career" to talk about network science. In this episode we define the various ties in your network: strong, weak, and dorman...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:15:26
022 - Moving On or Moving Up, Programming Models, and Assessment | Molly Albart [Feature Topic]
This episode features Molly Albart, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at UT Arlington. Molly talks about moving up and moving out of housing into an AVP role that, interestingly enough, does not include housing in her current portfol...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:19:32
021 - Reflections on Professional Involvement | Don Yackley [Past President]
This month we are joined by Don Yackley, fresh off his tenure as President of SWACUHO. This is probably the most organic interview we have had thus far on the podcast, with topics ranging from stupid questions to imposter syndrome to having sit...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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1:13:56
020 - Mentorship On-Demand - Answering Listener Questions (Vol. 2)
This month is our second round of asking the most important questions of all: your questions! That's right, our panel today is responding to listener questions. Coming back on the show is Adonis Thompson, Maggie Guzman, and Ken Stoner who give ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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1:05:52
019 - To Every Summer Season - Turn, Turn, Turn | Kyle Estes, Drew Jahr, Joel Gatti [Feature Topic]
Although it is only March, our three guests today have already been hard at work planning for the summer make-ready season. Those rooms don't magically get perfect before August move-in, but rather take lots of time, planning, and resource mana...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:10:43
018 - Building Relationships is Our Business | Trey Stoermer, Norma Ramirez, and Felisha Perrodin [Feature Topic]
CORRECT EPISODE NOW UPLOADED!The annual conference is right around the corner, and to lead up to the big event, this episode was put together by SWACUHO's Exhibits and Displays Committee. In this episode, Trey Stoermer, Norma Ram...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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59:25
017 - Sitting in the Big Kid's Chair for the First Time | Tanya Massey [Feature Topic]
We start the New Year off with Tanya Massey, who about six months ago began her new role as the Senior Managing Director for University Student Housing at Texas Tech University. To mark her first-time accession to the SHO role, Tanya shares goi...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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58:39
016 - An Exodus or a Reckoning? The Great Resignation in Campus Housing | Robin Williamson, Stephanie McBrayer, and Mimi Benjamin [Feature Topic]
This month on the SWACUHO Podcast we are joined by Drs. Robin Williamson, Stephanie McBrayer, and Mimi Benjamin to discuss and dig into "The Great Resignation". While we only scratch the surface, we start by looking upstream at the challenges o...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:15:59
015 - Reflections on the New Professional Experience | Nancy Chadwick-Murphy [Past President]
On this episode we talk to Past President Nancy Murphy-Chadwick. We start with Nancy's hobby of making stained glass windows and applicable lessons to the workplace and how Nancy originally wanted to be a high school band director, but was stee...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:04:59
014 - Disarming the College Student Suicide Conversation | Rikki Turner [Feature Topic]
To conclude Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, this episode features Dr. Rikki Turner, Founder and CEO of Still You Rise, Inc. Rikki worked her way up the housing ranks in Arkansas and through her dissertation research found her life's calling...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:03:08
013 - Reflections on Coming Full Circle | Ken Stoner [Past President]
This month we have a very special guest who was never employed at a SWACUHO-affiliated school but certainly orbited SWACUHO throughout his long career in student housing. Several of our guests talked about SWACUHO being a family, so in my best ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:10:30
012 - Mentorship On-Demand: Answering Listener Questions | Various Guests
This month is special as it rounds off one full year of the SWACUHO Podcast. To celebrate, we are answering listener questions. Four people wrote in over the course of the year asking for advice. Along the way, I've recorded various guests answ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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50:29
011 - Intentional or Misspent Resources in RA Hiring Processes | Apefa Cooper [Article Review]
It's been mentioned on the Podcast a few times how time consuming it is facilitating RA hiring processes, so today Apefa Cooper (Texas A&M San Antonio) came back to the show to talk about an article she wrote in The Journal of College a...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:02:25
010 - Read, File, Delete, or Ignore: Email Management | Monique Burkley and Maggie Guzman [Feature Topic]
In the fast pace world of campus housing we have to be effective at communicating through a variety of formats to reach our audiences. One of those formats, is email. This month we are joined by Monique Burkley (UT Arlington) and Maggie Guzman ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:06:08
009 - Reflections from a Black President | Adonis Thompson [Past President]
This month we are joined by Adonis Thompson, who served as President of SWACUHO in 2018 and 2019. We start by talking about Adonis’ career on the operations side of the house and how processing conduct cases built the necessary skills to be suc...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:25:08
008 - The Expectations and Satisfaction of Residents with Autism | Dustin Grabsch [Article Review]
April is World Autism Month, so this episode aims to share the stories of residents with autism. To do so, we are joined by Dr. Dustin Grabsch from Southern Methodist University who published an article last year in The Journal of College a...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:19:27
007 - Overthinking Everything in Campus Housing | Jasmine Jennings and Sara Frick [Book Club]
Today our guests use the book Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking as a vehicle to discuss those inevitable rabbit holes within our mind that every campus housing professional has fallen down at one time or another. Our...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:13:54
B01 - Live Recording at the 2022 SWACUHO Conference
We have a special bonus episode of the SWACUHO Podcast today. We recorded live from the SWACUHO Annual Conference during session block 6 where we heard about some programs conference participants ended. Of course we dive into random topics rela...
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Season 1
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39:12
006 - Student Staff Accountability: Demerits or Development? | Alana St. Cyr, Victor Salazar, and Jason Titus [Feature Topic]
“This podcast has positive psychology and solutions-based counseling.” -Jason Titus, Ph.D.Today’s episode is another feature topic: student staff accountability. If the only times you think about staff accountability are when you ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:11:57
005 - Reflections on Professional Families | Tanya Massey [Past President]
We start off the New Year with a conversation with another SWACUHO Past President, Tanya Massey from Oklahoma State University. Tanya spent a number of years focusing on the human resources component of campus housing, so we dive into importanc...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:17:01
004 - Preventative Maintenance: Solving Problems Before They Are Problems | Drew Jahr, Katy Pelton, and Miles Oller [Feature Topic]
On today’s episode we explore the maintenance side of the house, specifically looking at solving problems before they are problems with preventative maintenance. Our three guests are Drew Jahr, Katy Pelton, and Miles Oller, all of whom began th...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:13:20
003 - Resident Assistant Hiring Decisions | Craig Seager [Article Review]
A recent article in The Journal of College and University Housing Officers explored the many factors influencing the decisions of housing professionals when hiring Resident Assistants. Our guest today is one of the authors of this arti...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:11:59
002 - Meaningful Moments in Campus Housing | Apefa Cooper and Maddie Reid [Book Club]
We often talk about the experience students will have living in campus housing. When we look more closely, experiences are really just a series of moments, one after another after another. The book, The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:07:18