Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives: A Reflection on Activism and Social Media

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Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives: A Reflection on Activism and Social Media When the Women’s Center at UMBC at celebrated its 20 th anniversary, the staff wanted to make a commemorative quilt. Each student organization and department the Women’s Center partnered with over the years made a square that was patched together into a quilt that was unique to the history of the Women’s Center. We...

Being a Scholar-Practitioner

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Being a scholar-practitioner In November 2013, I attended my first ASHE conference. ASHE is the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). I had only recently learned of this conference, knew that mostly faculty and graduate students attended, at least that was my perception. I was excited to attend the conference for the first time. After several recommendations, I signed up for the...

A Reflection on Class and Gender

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A Reflection on Class and Gender Recently I was getting my daughter ready for school. I teach a section of first year seminar on Friday mornings and could not chance being late. As I was reminding her that she needed to stay focused on getting ready, she asked “What are you going to teach today Mom? Is it long division?” Since I am responsible for our student conduct processes, my nine year old...

Just Doing It

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Just Doing It My colleague and I often talk about the “trifecta” for us as women in student affairs- career advancement, a doctoral degree, and personal success (i.e. partnership, and having children). As mid-level scholar/practitioners we talk about looking for female mentors who have the trifecta or are completing the trifecta and can often count these women on one hand. I am married to my...

Advice to a First Generation Graduate Student -- The Struggle Continues

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Advice to A First Generation Graduate Student—The Struggle Continues As I began to speak with other student affairs colleagues about their experience in graduate school thus far, I noticed a trend emerging from those who were first generation undergraduate students. Despite our (for I include myself in this population) awareness of various resources on campus as student affairs professionals and...