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'Round About Campus

'Round About Campus

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Want to think about transformational work in higher education? Each month, ‘Round About Campus hosts Alex and Z talk with people across the higher education and student affairs landscape about ways to envision new, innovative, and engaging ways to further college student learning and development. A compliment to the About Campus scholarly magazine, ‘Round About Campus serves up bite-sized episodes where we can be good company with listeners as we collective explore answers to the question: what’s next in student affairs praxis?


‘Round About Campus is co-hostessed by Dr. Alex Lange (Colorado State University) and About Campus Executive Editor Dr. Z Nicolazzo (University of Arizona). The podcast publishes episodes during the academic calendar year, taking breaks for summer and winter leaves. If you have ideas for people to feature or topics to cover, let us know by reaching us at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com.

'Round About Campus's cover art was designed by Mary Ellen Wade.

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Episodes
  • About How Power (Re)shapes Student Development with Michael Denton
    Mar 24 2026

    Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.

    In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Michael Denton to discuss power, multidisciplinary knowers/thinkers, and (re)turning to what is working, what can be transformed, and what are the potentialities for development in and beyond campus.

    In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

    • David Halperin's book, How to Be Gay
    • Steven Thrasher's chapter, "Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing" in the book, Imagining Queer Methods
    • Heather Love's book, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
    • Sami Schalk's book, Black Disability Politics
    • Imani Barbarin's social media, @crutches_and_spice
    • Dr. Gabriel Cruz's social media, @gacruz_phd
    • Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
    • Alex Lange and Jodi Linley's article, Advancing a Model of Self-Definition for Transgender College Students
    • Rosie Perez 's article, Paradigmatic Perspectives and Self-Authorship: Implications for Theory, Research, and Praxis
    • Jamelle Bouie's article, Trump is on the Wrong Side of History by Design
    • Eve Sedgwick’s book, Touching Feeling
    • Sara Ahmed's book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
    • Dean Spade's books, Mutual Aid and Love in a F*cked-Up World
    • Alie Ward's podcast, Ologies
    • Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon' podcast, Maintenance Phase
    • John Biewen and Ellen McGirt's podcast, Scene on Radio
    • Steven Thrasher's book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
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    47 mins
  • About What Counts as Holistic Development with Wilson Kwamogi Okello
    Feb 17 2026

    Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.

    In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Wilson Kwamogi Okello to discuss the ontological dimensions of 'holistic,' or the nature of being, particularly what does it mean/who fits within 'the human' for human development. We dive into possibilities, the refusals of singularity and easy solutions, framed through Blackness, Black studies, and Black livingness.

    In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

    • Sara Ahmed's book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
    • Carmen Maria Machado's book, In the Dream House: A Memoir
    • bell hooks' book, Teaching to Transgress
    • William Faulkner's book, The Sound of the Fury
    • Kevin Quashie's book, Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
    • Alexander Weheliye's book, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
    • Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower

    As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com.

    You can get a full transcript of the episode here.

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    38 mins
  • About What Kind of Development Happens in College with Kris Renn and Erica Johnson
    Jan 20 2026

    Welcome to 'Round About Campus, the podcast for the About Campus magazine, the scholarly magazine of ACPA-College Student Educators International.

    In our fourth and fifth seasons of 'Round About Campus, we are taking on a super-sized series focused on student development theory. We tackle big topics, ask challenging questions, and seek new perspectives on what makes this place called college unique when it comes to how students learn, grow, and change. In this episode, co-hostesses Alex C. Lange and Z Nicolazzo are joined with Kris Renn and Erica Johnson to discuss the benefits of college on development (both the unique contributions and areas of limitations/growth) and how practitioners can support students as full people with complex, nuanced lives that go well beyond the classroom and other campus spaces.

    In this episode, a number of resources are discussed, including:

    • Marcia B. Baxter Magold's article, Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey
    • Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • Kristen Renn, Chayla Haynes, Alex C. Lange, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., and Rosemary Perez's upcoming book, College Student Development Theory in Action
    • Inside Higher Ed
    • The Chronicle of Higher Education
    • Robert Kegan's book, Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

    As always, if you have feedback or thoughts, do not hesitate to reach us via email at AboutCampusMag@gmail.com.

    You can get a full transcript of the episode here.

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    44 mins
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