The Advising and Career Services Book and Film Club is pleased to share the eighth in a series of emails to help the advising and career services communities further understand the experience of Indigenous students, settler-colonialism, and Indigenization efforts in higher education.
This is the final episode of the “Our Shared Future in Academic and Career Advising” email series. We’ve greatly enjoyed this opportunity to collect and share resources with all of you, and to continue our own learning about Indigenization and Decolonization in relation to advising and career services work.
Our wish for this series is that it would provide ideas and opportunities to keep (un)learning and taking action to make campus more inclusive and welcoming. We hope you will continue to reflect and take action to make your advising and career services spaces more inclusive and equitable even though this series is coming to an end.
We are currently planning a First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour with Omar Poler and will send out a Save the Date for that soon. If you have additional thoughts about how learning and implementation of ideas might continue in the advising and career services community, please share those here.
Our heartfelt gratitude to the creators of these materials and their willingness to share them with us, the wider UW Community, and beyond.
Episode 9: Where do we go from here?
Our peers and readers share their own stories…
“Last November, when emailing students reminders about deadlines and other academic topics, I included links to the resources provided by the “Our Shared Future in Advising and Career Services” email episode. Usually during that time of year, we as a society are so quick to say Happy Holidays or Happy Thanksgiving. So, sending resources seemed like a unintrusive and simple way to challenge the narrative of Thanksgiving.”
Rianna Bailey, Academic & Career Advisor, UW Online Student Services
“I follow a lot of social media accounts (via Instagram) that center decolonization and indigenous identities. Their posts keep me thinking of my own identity and knowledge of the history that wasn’t taught. It sparks me to read articles and learn the perspectives of the people instead of the Eurocentric. Some of the pages I follow are @decolonizemyself and@decolonizethisplace.”
MollyJo Bautch, Advisor, PEOPLE Program
“Departmental advisors, Program coordinators, Faculty, Advisors, Career advisors, and leadership in the School of Education were invited to attend a monthly meeting to discuss the “Our Shared Future in Advising and Career Services” email episodes. The email episode was sent in advance and sometimes we watched one of the short videos together in the meeting. Then we would have small and large group discussions to explore the questions from the episode. At the end of the year we were able to take an abbreviated version of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour with Omar Poler. The experience across the year was one that opened our eyes and hearts. It brought deeper levels of noticing our connections to the earth, troubling histories, and the ways we can advocate for changes long needed.”
Amy Shannon, Director of Advising and Student Success, School of Education
“Being a part of the Book and Film Club allowed me to take a deeper dive into the content of Our Shared Future in Advising and Career Services. This experience also allowed me to share more topics with faculty, staff, and students within my “spheres of influence.” I’ve recently had the opportunity to collaborate with the College of Menominee Nation, and without the perspectives and voices in these episodes, I would not be as informed in my work and my own education. I am grateful to everyone who contributed to this project.”
Eric Schueffner, Student Services Coordinator, College of Letters and Science
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- What thoughts and feelings came up for you when engaging this material?
- How does what you learned relate to your role in advising and/or career services?
- What ideas or next steps might you discuss with colleagues within your unit to put your learning in action?
We hope you enjoy this final episode and welcome you to return to the archived episodes at any time.
Email provided by the Advising and Career Services Book & Film Club:
Cristina Parente | Omar Poler | Emily Dickmann | Becky Smith | Eric Schueffner