Leadership education, grounded in campus practice.
NASPA Leadership Podcast treats leadership education as practical work shaped by context. Conversations move between student learning, assessment, professional development, fraternity and sorority life, conduct, equity, and the communities that sustain the field.
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NASPA Leadership Podcast is a field conversation for people who teach, design, assess, and support leadership learning in higher education. The show works from the assumption that leadership education does not live in one office or one course. It appears in conduct meetings, first-year programs, fraternity and sorority life, civic engagement, graduate preparation, student leader training, and professional gatherings. Episodes often bring several guests together, creating a panel format that lets different institutional and functional contexts sit beside one another. The pacing is conversational and reflective. It sounds like colleagues thinking aloud after a conference session, with enough specificity to be useful to practitioners who know the work from the inside. A major theme is leadership in context. Guests and recurring voices ask what changes when leadership remains the center of the conversation instead of being added at the end. Assessment, evaluation, and research are handled as living tools rather than compliance exercises. The show makes room for surveys, narrative inquiry, interviews, program outcomes, and the limitations of any single method. It also returns often to equity, liberatory practice, access, accountability, and social change. Those themes are grounded in concrete student affairs settings, not treated as slogans. Conference-centered episodes highlight leadership education professional spaces as sites where scholars, practitioners, and graduate students can build shared language. Reflection episodes slow the season down and model the meaning-making that leadership educators often ask students to practice. There is plenty of field shorthand, but the show remains generous in spirit. It is not glossy or overproduced. Its strength is the sense of an active professional community trying to name its own work more clearly. For listeners in student affairs, leadership studies, or co-curricular education, it offers both practical examples and a reminder that the field is still being built through conversation.
Made for: For higher education professionals, graduate students, leadership educators, and student affairs practitioners who connect student learning with program design, assessment, and community care.
What sets it apart: The show keeps leadership education at the center while moving through many campus contexts. Its panels blend practitioner experience, scholarship, graduate student perspective, and professional association work.
Podcast by Myles Surrett
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A reflective season finale on leadership education, meaning-making, and the questions academic affairs professionals keep carrying.
This season finale settles into the reflective mood of people looking back while still working through what comes next. Framed by finals week in academic affairs and a welcome shift into no-snow-boots weather in Vermont, the conversation moves from seasonal relief into a broader…
A thoughtful case for leadership assessment as contextual listening, with student stories adding what a brief survey cannot.
Leadership assessment becomes stronger when it makes room for the lives behind the data. With Dr. Lindsay Hastings, Dr. Ben Korea Harker, and Dr.
A focused case for keeping leadership education central to higher-ed practice and scholarship.
Leadership Educators Institute comes through as a gathering built around a clear priority: keeping leadership at the center of higher-education work as settings, students, and delivery models continue to shift.
A practitioner panel finds leadership education in the everyday work of student affairs.
Leadership education is easy to recognize when a program carries the label. This episode argues that it also shows up in conduct work, first-year programming, and the student-affairs systems that help students enter college. With Dr.
A grounded look at leadership education shaped by inherited programs, assessment, and care.
Leadership education in fraternity and sorority life comes through as practical, inherited, and always in motion. Jen Wallach, Freddy Juarez, and Bianca Williams frame the work around programs already in place, assessment habits, and the ways young members learn to shape their…
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NASPA Leadership Podcast's season finale brings Melissa, Derek, and Brittany into a finals-week reflection on what is giving them energy as May 1 approaches.
Four positive student evaluations are not enough evidence for leadership research, and Lindsay Hastings says that frustration came from reviewing weak manuscripts.
Courtney Holder, Avani Rana, and Cokie Thompson join the NASPA Leadership Podcast as members of the 2024 Leadership Educators Institute Planning Committee for LEI in Philadelphia.
NASPA Leadership Podcast brings Kristen Rupert Davis of Ohio State, Amy Haggard of Florida State, and Grant Mitchell of Tulane into one panel on leadership education across student affairs.
NASPA Leadership Podcast's Leadership in Fraternity and Sorority Life with Freddy Juarez, Jen Wallach, and Viancca Williams treats fraternity and sorority life as a place where leadership education happens every day.
["The NASPA Leadership Podcast's \"Graduate Student Panel with Bitton, Burns, Pacheco, Peterson, and Scott\" brings together Grace Peterson, Joshua Burns, Pam Scott, Adrienne Bitton, and Derek Pacheco.", "The panel spans the University of Vermont, Florida State University, the University of Maryland College Park, and Ohio State University, with each guest working in programs tied to leadership studies, undergraduate research, or student life.", "Across the conversation, the group keeps returning to one idea: leadership education matters when it helps students move from titles and roles toward process, values, and context.", "The strongest examples come from Pam Scott's relational classroom, Grace Peterson's equity-and-access framing, and Derek Pacheco's Latinx leadership work at Florida State."]
NASPA Leadership Podcast's mid-season reflection brings Brittany Devies, Melissa Rocco, and producer Derek into a conversation about leadership education, doctoral progress, and the second half of the season.
NASPA Leadership Podcast uses Barbara Kellerman's conference challenge to frame why ILA's guiding questions matter for leadership programs.
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Hosts interview two professionals who transitioned from student affairs to leadership education in STEM fields.
Host John Mark Day previews the 2020 NASPA Annual Conference events planned by the Student Leadership Program's Knowledge Community, interviewing co-chair Liz Hammond.
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