Episode 2 - UMass Stonewall Center's Dr. Genny Beemyn

Dr. Genny Beemyn, Director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amhearst.

Listen to Admit It Episode 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many other podcast services. Just search “Admit It AACRAO” in your favorite podcasting service.

As some of you may know, I have been engaged with AACRAO’s Student Identity Workgroup. The Workgroup is creating a report, based in the most current understanding around the needs of Trans students, that will serve as a guide to admissions, registrars, and technology vendors as we work to create more inclusive identity management in higher education.

It is within the context of this work that I started running into one name over, and over, and over, and over again in the peer reviewed literature: Dr. Genny Beemyn. Dr Beemyn is one of the foremost and prolific researcher in the area of the needs of Trans students in higher education settings. This interview was such a pleasure. I can’t tell you how much I learned from Dr. Beemyn.

Additional learnings:

The UMass Amhearst Stonewall Center

The Campus Pride Index

The National Center for Trans Equality

Elon University Trans Student resources (Elon is my hero forever. This is amazing)

The Lives of Transgender People book by Dr. Beemyn and Susan Rankin

Trans People in Higher Education book by Dr. Beemyn

Follow Dr. Beemyn on Twitter

Episode 1 - Inside Higher Ed's Scott Scott Jaschik

Scott Jaschik (Rhymes with Classic obviously) was our inaugural Admit It guest. Scott is Managing Editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed.

Listen to Admit It Episode 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many other podcast services. Just search Admit It AACRAO in your favorite podcasting service.

For our first guest, I couldn’t think of anyone better than Scott Jaschik. Scott is the Managing Editor and one of three co-founders of the publication, Inside Higher Ed. Let’s get this straight right now: Scott Jaschik is my “do your homework” hero. He came to our interview SO PREPARED for everything I threw at him. Of course, the main focus of our time together was Inside Higher Ed’s Survey of Admissions Directors. However, he had knowledge and insights to share on even the most derivative of topics. I hope you enjoy this CLASSIC interview with Scott Jaschik.

Some fun reading:

Follow Scott Jaschik on Twitter. He’s awesome.

Inside Higher Ed’s Survey of College and University Admissions Directors (your personal info is required to download).

The latest news on the test optional movement can be found at fairtest.org.

Students for Fair Admissions has a website…if you must.

Additional reporting from Scott on AP courses. Really great read!

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