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Editorial Note

Danielle Rintala Julie Olson Rand

As graduate students and professional staff at the University of Minnesota, we reside in the Twin Cities metro area. Our community is still reeling after the death of Renee Nicole Good, and the continuing upheaval in our state and our nation. As higher education professionals, we are faced with showing up to work while simultaneously navigating federal policy, civil unrest, and concern for the safety and well-being of the students, staff, faculty, and visiting scholars at our institutions. Considering current events and their impact on students, staff, and faculty, we wanted to introduce this issue of the Odyssey by highlighting co-editor of the Journal of College and Character, Dr. Laura Harrison’s blog, “Five Ways to Tell Higher Education’s Real Story”. 

In Dr. Michael Stebleton and Madeline Rowe’s blog, “The Students Are Still Not Okay: (Re)focusing Attention on College Mental Health and Wellbeing”, they offer suggestions for supporting college student mental health. Additional actionable strategies for supporting graduate students who are also parents are outlined by Livinia Kaunda in “Parenting Doctoral Students: Reflections on Identity, Perseverance, and Support.” Ebenezer Agorsor and Victor Klenam Apedo introduce a model for supporting doctoral students in, “Reimagining Mentorship for Full-time PhD Students: A Reflection for Academic and Professional Development for PhD Programs.” 

Turning to the higher education environment, this issue features two blogs from current undergraduate students, Hannah Young and Megan McPhee, who explored the rise of adjunct contracts and neoliberalism’s impact on higher education, respectively. Danielle Rintala writes about the next generation of college presidents in her piece, “The Next Generation of College Presidents are Ready: Why Aren’t They Hired?” and Julie Olson Rand brings forward the issue of faculty retention with, “The Recovering Academics and the Alt-Ac Movement.” Despite these trying times, our goal in this issue is to inspire hope for the future of higher education.

The views and opinions expressed in community blogs are those of the authors who do not speak on behalf of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.