FSU Higher Education Program Newsletter - Fall 2020

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM A letter from our Program Coordinator Hello friends of the Higher Education Program, 2020...What a year! Mid-semester transitions from in-person to online classes. National conferences getting canceled or going virtual. Practicum, internships, and assistantships rapidly reimagined. A divisive national election. Persistent police violence and anti-black racism. A world-wide pandemic that has killed a quarter-million Americans and disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives.

Yet, amid all that, the FSU Higher Education Program continues to thrive. We have welcomed a great new cohort of students (and graduated quite a few students too!), published dozens of articles, and won major national awards. As we head into winter break, I hope you will take a moment to read about the program's newly adopted land acknowledgement, learn more about the online Ed.D., and join our celebration of faculty and students who have been honored by our field this year.

Be well, and take care.

Brad

Dr. Bradley E. Cox brad.cox@fsu.edu Associate Professor of Higher Education Program Coordinator 2020-2022

PROGRAM NEWS

Land Acknowledgement Adoption

Land Acknowledgement We, within the Higher Education Program, acknowledge that our Program is located on the indigenous lands of the Apalachee Nation, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. We highlight and pay respect to this

Our Creative Journey

history because we understand how the state of Florida and Florida State University came to be settled on these lands. We recognize this land as scarred with a painful past of enslavement, settler colonial violence, the desolation of culture, and the forced removal of indigenous bodies. Despite this, we respect the cultural and

Our

journey

to

Acknowledgement

create started

our with

Land Brittany

Brewster, third-year doctoral student and Doc HESA Chair, this August. She brought her knowledge and work to a HESA event, showing us how a Land Acknowledgement should look.

ceremonial practices these Indigenous nations

Through Brittany we learned of Dr Kristin

maintain in and around Tallahassee today. As

Dowell's work, from the Department of Art

educators, we honor the knowledge of these

History, who had a working Acknowledgment

tribes and their people and acknowledge that

she was using. Dr. Dowell kindly provided us with

Indigenous

and

resources to help us in crafting our own

administrators are vital to higher education. We

statement. Our program GA Kendra Bumpus

embrace the decolonization of our educational

then began drafting language to put forward

system and commit to disrupting suppressive

before the faculty, who unanimously agreed that

systems through the explorations of many

this would be a wonderful learning opportunity

truths and lived experiences and creating room

for our students. Our faculty wordsmithed the

for those who are often excluded by harmful

language, led by Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones,

colonial erasures in our practice and pedagogy.

finalizing the version you find here. Thank you to

students,

faculty,

all involved for your work and dedication!

THANK YOU TO BRITTANY BREWSTER, DR. KRISTIN DOWELL, KENDRA BUMPUS, AND DR. TAMARA BERTRAND JONES

PROGRAM NEWS Program Updates

PROGRAM INTERNSHIPS We have seen a lot of talented students come through the higher education program. We want to utilize our students' areas of expertise and we are making a commitment to hold an internship in every semester for which we offer our Internship course. Spring semester has traditionally held a Visiting Days intern. Our new summer and fall semester interns will work towards recruitment and retention of graduate students through online engagement. Stay connected with the program via social media:

facebook.com/FSUHEProgram instagram.com/fsu_he twitter.com/FSU_HE

Fall Intern: Charlotte Hayes Class of 2021 Hello FSU Higher Ed friends. My name is Charlotte Hayes and I am a current second year in the master’s program. Before arriving at FSU, I attended Virginia Tech for my Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages: Classical Studies. Last year my assistantship with University Health Services and this year my assistantship is with Advising First. My internship this fall semester has been as the Recruitment Intern for the Higher Education Program. In this internship, I am responsible for the program’s social media posts, co-hosting Livestream recruitment events, and creating recruitment videos. It has been a great experience to learn more about how the program works and getting to engage with prospective new students. This is the first semester this position has existed and I am super excited to see what future students in the position do!

EDUCATION DOCTORATE FSU's Higher Education program has long offered a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.), and our Ed.D. alumni have made countless contributions to their own institutions and the field at large. As the landscape of higher education has evolved, so too has our Ed.D. By transitioning from a face-to-face program to a higher education pathway within the department's online Ed.D, in Educational Leadership & Policy, we are able to maintain the program's rigor while increasing student access. This pathway highlights higher education as a central component to the larger system of education and helps expose students who may have had K-12 as their focus to think about the system as a whole. This expansion of both access and scope helps ensure that FSU's Ed.D. graduates remain well positioned to lead systemic improvements throughout the field of education.

Ed.D. alumni are an import part of our program and we will now have an online pathway to a higher education-focused Ed.D.

HONORS AND AWARDS National Awards

DR. TAMARA BERTRAND JONES 2020 ASHE Presidential Medal

DR. KATHY GUTHRIE NASPA's Pillar of the Profession Award

DR. CAMERON BEATTY McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship

HONORS AND AWARDS State Awards and Other Accolades

DR. BRANDON BOWDEN NASPA Florida Outstanding Service to Students Award

BRITTANY DEVIES NASPA Florida Graduate Student of the Year Award and 33 under 33 for Tri Delta Sorority

THANK YOU FROM OUR PROGRAM

Higher Education Faculty for 20202021 pictured from left to right: Dr. Kathy Guthrie, Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones, Dr. Brad Cox, Dr. Christine Mokher, Dr. Robert Schwartz, Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner, Dr. Cameron Beatty, Dr. Sally Watkins, and Dr. Shouping Hu.