This Prof Life Podcast focuses on Women of Color (WOC) in higher education and empowering their voices. The experience can be enlightening and different at the same time. You will hear the challenges, successes and strategies women use to navigate academia.
Join Dr. Pat Sanders, a Full Professor of Communications, as she talks to women who work in the academy.
A former broadcast journalist, Dr. Pat now wants to tell the stories of BIPOC in higher education. She talks to women engaged in administration, teaching, mentorship, communications, media, and who are thought leaders.
Visit her website at https://www.drpatsanders.com/
If you know someone you would like to add the conversation, email Dr. Pat at [email protected]
Is it a racist act or racialized? You decide after listening to Dr. Venise Berry, University of Iowa, our guest on this podcast episode.
Twenty years of research has been centered around race, racism…
She has worked in 50 different countries and is still counting. On this episode of This Prof Life, Karla Fraser shares the joys of working and succeeding in international education. It’s something s…
Dr. Leslie Wang has experienced some perks and drawbacks while living and teaching as an Asian American woman in the United States. On this episode, she speaks to us about:
Dr. Pat Sanders celebrates the one year anniversary of her podcast in Season 4! She discusses leadership and a major change that has occurred in her work life since she created the podcast.
Dr. Pat a…
Summer is here, but I'm still working to bring you the best of the best from women who work in higher education. Listen. Learn. Lead. This Prof Life: WOC in Higher Education Podcast with Dr. Pat Sand…
What drove me to do a series on self-care? In this episode, I tell you how I learned the importance of self-care when an onset of sickness came knocking at my door at a young age.
This episode also…
Dr. Pat shares her own personal story concerning self-care in the last episode of Season 3. She explains why she chose that theme for the latest podcasts.
Nicole Vick is a public health advocate and part-time instructor. She tells us that slowing down, taking some things off the list, and aiming for goals that may be set at a tad lower bar can help us…
Shhh, don’t disturb others in the library. That was the library of the past. Nowadays, libraries are hubs of activity due to people like Jamia Williams. They, too, though, have to learn how to manage…
This gregarious pastor and coach shares how that was her emotional state at one point. In fact, stress showed up so severely in her back that she had to call 9-1-1. After her own wake-up call, Charit…
We have to learn how to disconnect from the grid from time-to-time, whether it's in the middle of a pandemic or general worklife. Dr. Tomika Williams, of East Carolina State University is a clinical…
Give yourself some grace! Match your goals with your values. When I say I loved speaking with Dr. Darshon Reed from the University of Central Arkansas, it’s an understatement. She shared such valuab…
Navigating stress, PTSD, workplace battles, relationship with yourself and others in order to achieve self-care. That’s the message for High Value Women. Did you know that just by virtue of being e…
We must take time for ourselves. Right? Lisa Wilkinson addresses self-care for university women and other clients. She is a wife, new mom and licensed couples and family therapist and consultant.
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It's 2021, and we have survived the challenges of 2020! A pandemic disrupted our personal and work-lives. In some instances, the academy was hit hard, so how are you doing?
For Season 3, Dr. Pat focu…
Are you tired yet? 2020 has been a doozy.
In this episode, Dr. Pat Sanders shares the personal ways she plans to relax during the Holiday Season. She's hoping you will find it helpful.
Takeaways:
…On this episode, I talk about the hiring Black women at universities, companies and organizations.
Tips are shared on what companies can do to recruit, hire and retain Black female employees and t…
We work to find fulfillment in meeting goals and to help others. We also work to find professional fulfillment and happiness for ourselves, don't we? Of course we do!
In this episode, Dr. Pat helps…
Episode 16: Dr. Stephanie Ricks
Dr. Stephanie Ricks is an Educator, Creator, Mom. She LOVES teaching! Did you see what I wrote? Teaching is her passion.
She shares with us:
Episode 15: Do you have a Black child in school? Dr. Carla Monroe's research has centered around black lives, and, in particular, young Black boys in education. She discusses how Black children's beh…