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About Campus

Enriching the Student Learning Experience

eISSN: 15360687 | ISSN: 10864822 | Current volume: 29 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Bi-monthly
We at About Campus feel strongly that in order to challenge and inspire our colleagues in higher education—and to address hard issues honestly and directly—we need to present the experience and knowledge of a unique mix of researchers, public figures, professionals, faculty members, students, and those working in both student affairs and academic affairs. Although you may recognize many of our contributors, we reach beyond widely published researchers and professionals to include the insights and perspectives of the many other practitioners who are thinking creatively about higher education, testing new ideas and practices, and assessing the effects of the policies put in place on our campuses. These articles aim to take a stand on how to advance our shared agenda of “enriching the student learning experience.”

About Campus is a scholarly magazine that focuses on bringing theory to life in stories of practical application as a way to enrich the student learning experience. The magazine seeks to be a space where authors engage in storytelling that highlight day-to-day praxis for postsecondary educators on and off college campuses. The magazine’s readership is wide and far-reaching, including a diverse array of administrators, faculty, staff, students, and policy-makers across educational contexts. With this readership in mind, authors are invited to use theory, practical experiences, and conceptual thinking to illuminate approaches to ongoing challenges facing postsecondary education.

About Campus prioritizes manuscripts that focus on timely and pressing issues affecting student affairs and higher education contexts. Authors are encouraged to focus their manuscripts on pressing issues and how they can imagine alternative, emancipatory, and/or liberatory possibilities in education. In this way, About Campus offers a space for authors and readers to continue collectively reimagining the field of higher education.

About Campus publishes articles revolving around three main focal areas:

College students: the magazine advances critical understandings about who college students are and the environments in which they live, learn, work, think, play, and get to know themselves and others. We invite submissions that detail rich, complex, and compelling narratives about students and student learning in postsecondary educational contexts.

Student affairs praxis: the magazine invites work that advances knowledge on pressing issues while challenging dominant narratives of student affairs work. We invite submissions that explore innovative and exciting directions in the application of theory to practice to enhance student learning.

The process and values of postsecondary education: the magazine amplifies work that focuses on education as a process and its varied effects on the student learning experience. We encourage submissions that invite readers to wrestle with the complex challenges facing postsecondary education, especially those that offer fresh perspectives and creative, transformative approaches to addressing those challenges.

About Campus addresses these aims by offering authors multiple possible article types which provide an in-depth exploration of a timely topic (Campus Feature), profile an innovative campus practice or program (In Practice), examine assessment practices around student learning (Taking the Pulse), feature first-person stories of educational praxis (View from Campus) or claim a stance regarding a compelling campus issue (Bottom Line).

Executive Editor
Z Nicolazzo Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
Managing Editor
Roman Christiaens Doctoral Candidate, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
Associate Editors
Reginald Blockett Assistant Professor, Higher Education Administration, Auburn University
Laila McCloud Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Counseling, Grand Valley State University
Moira Ozias Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
Purvi Patel Director of Civic and Campus Engagement, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago
Adrián Arroyo Perez Associate Director of Faculty Affairs, Office of Faculty Affairs, University of Arizona
Carmen Rivera Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, Colorado State University
Erin Simpson Assistant Dean of Students, Director of the Gender and Equality Center, and Coordinator of OU Advocates, University of Oklahoma
Michele Tyson Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Denver
Cynthia Villarreal Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Northern Arizona University
Rachel Wagner Associate Professor, Educational and Organizational Leadership Development, Clemson University
Katherine Wheatle Culture, Race, and Equity Officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Alina Wong Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Macalester College
Board of Contributors
D. Chase J. Catalano Assistant Professor, Higher Education, Virginia Tech
Becki Elkins Associate Professor, Student Affairs Administration, University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Leonard Taylor, Jr. Director, National Survey on Student Engagement and Associate Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington
Susana Muñoz Associate Professor, Higher Education, Colorado State University
Alan M. “Woody” Schwitzer Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA
Amanda R. Tachine Assistant Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
Melvin Whitehead Assistant Professor, Student Affairs Administration, Binghamton University
Round About Campus-Podcast Co-Hostess
Alex C. Lange Colorado State University, USA
Previous Executive Editors
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve University of Denver, USA
Jean M. Henscheid National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Patricia M. King University of Michigan, USA
Marcia Baxter Magolda Miami University of Ohio, USA
Charles C. Schroeder University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA
Frank Shushok, Jr. Roanoke College, USA
Michele Tyson University of Denver, USA
ACPA Leadership
Heather Shea ACPA President, Michigan State University
Flo Guido ACPA Governing Board Director of Research and Scholarship
Chris Moody Executive Director
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