Critical Praxis in Student Affairs

Susan B. Marine (she/her) is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Higher Education Master's Program at Merrimack College. She has 25 years' experience leading in higher education with specific expertise in sexual violence prevention and response, feminist praxis, and advocacy for the LGBTQ community. Susan teaches courses in higher education history, theory, and practice, and her research interests include feminist praxis in higher education, trans* student inclusion and agency, and ending campus sexual violence. Seeing the classroom as a mutually transformative enterprise, she is deeply committed to preparing future leaders in higher education to transform campus cultures and to continually advance social justice in higher education. She is the author of the ASHE monograph, Stonewall's Legacy: Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Students in Higher Education, and recently co-edited (with Ruth Lewis) Collaborating for Change: Transforming Cultures to End Gender-based Violence in Higher Education (Oxford).

This text represents an effort to describe and document these practices of intentionally centering critical theories. The first section of this text examines the ways that critically-minded practitioners lead through equitable, liberatory frameworks, offering important models for reimagining the future of higher education.

Acknowledgments Introduction -Susan B. Marine and Chelsea Gilbert Part One. Centering Critical Praxis in Student Affairs Leadership 1. Critical Praxis in Student Affairs Supervision. A Trauma-Informed Approach -Chelsea Gilbert 2. Critical Praxis With Undocumented Students in Medical Education -Sunny Nakae, Denisse Rojas Marquez, Yadira Ortiz, and Angela Chuan-Ru Chen 3. Not Marginal, Just Mattering. Community Colleges in Student Affairs Practice -Marci Rockey, Colvin T. Georges Jr. Krystal Andrews, and Eboni M. Zamana Gallaher 4. Centering Social Justice to Understand and Address Sexual Violence -Mari Knuth-Bouracee and Kiara Lee 5. A Critical Praxis of Interconnectivity in Student Affairs -Kyle C. Ashlee and Aeriel A. Ashlee Part Two. Engaging Students in Critical Praxis 6. Cultivating Intersectional Conciousness. Considerations and Suggestions From LGBTQ Resource Center Professionals -Alex C. Lange, Nicole Bravo, Bailey Krestakos, and Alex Sylvester 7. Empowering Latinx Students Through Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning -Maritza Torres and Jane Rodriguez 8. Critical Leadership Education for Fraternity and Sorority Leaders - Carter Gilbert 9. Pondering Possibilities. A Critical Reimagining of Residence Life Staff Training - Rachel Wagner and Nick Thuot 10. Catalyzing Social Justice Through Classroom Praxis. Constructing an Advanced Social Justice Course -Susan B. Marine and Chris Haigh Conclusion. Social Justice in Action. A Model for Critical Praxis -Chelsea Gilbert and Susan B. Marine Contributors Index