Season 1, Episode 1: Where do we start?
In This Episode:
While the saying goes “easier said than done,” Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles has dedicated her professional career to humanizing higher education. In this first episode of the series Drs. Commodore and Johnson introduce the podcast series and discuss with Dr. Gaston Gayles her hopes for the podcast, ASHE, and higher education scholarship. Access the full episode transcript (.pdf).
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Dr. Felecia Commodore Old Dominion University |
Dr. Royel M. Johnson University of Southern California |
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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and Senior Advisor for the Advancement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Education at North Carolina State University |
- Reading Princeton University
- Lewis-Giggetts, T. M. (2022). Black Joy: Stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration. New York: NY. Gallery Books.
- TED Talk: The trauma of systemic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change... [Morgan Dixon & Vanessa Garrison, Founders of GrilTrek]
- IA Symposium “Professor-ing Podcast: Cultivating Joy” with Joy Gaston Gayles and Dr. Theresa Thames
About the 2022 Presidential Podcast Season "Humanizing Higher Education"
Our global society has experienced a historic and debilitating health pandemic that heightened issues of justice and inequality that already existed throughout all microcosms of society, including education. We find ourselves at another historic inflection point in the aftermath of what we hope was the worst of the global pandemic. The trauma and hurt we have experienced over the last two and a half years and centuries before now require healing and new, liberating approaches to being, doing, and knowing.
In this podcast series, co-hosts Drs. Felecia Commodore and Royel Johnson invite scholar leaders to collectively think about what it means (and does not) to Humanize Higher Education, the conference theme and call to action ASHE 2022 President Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles has set for the membership of the 46-year-old association of higher education scholars. We hope to learn from invited scholars how to use, harness, and evoke humanizing values and practices to study educational problems.