Apologies to my colleagues for taking such a long hiatus from this blog. I had my hands full finishing my dissertation ;c). Done and done this past July.

That Was Then~

In early August of this year, soon after ACPA’s July Leadership Meeting (JLM), my dear friend and colleague Laura Arroyo (Elon University) and I wrote a short piece for the blog hosted by the ACPA Commission for Housing and Residential Life (#HRL4LIFE blog). The piece, Facilitators of community: Our work post Orlando, Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas, was a call to housing and residential life professionals to: 1) be ready to create space for students to vent about issues of race in America today, 2) continue to examine their own stories and privilege, and 3) work to integrate multicultural/intercultural learning opportunities into the residence hall and campus communities. Continue reading →