
Welcome to The Vermont Connection (TVC)! TVC is the official organization of all current students in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration graduate program at the University of Vermont. TVC consists of all current HESA students, known as the Full Board, and the Executive Board, an eight-member board elected each year by the Full Board. The goals and objectives of TVC are in line with HESA historical traditions and regularly adjust to fulfill the needs of its membership.
TVC’s first priority is to publish a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of high integrity, addressing the student affairs profession and the field of higher education. This journal has been a tradition of the HESA program for over three decades. Learn more at About The Vermont Connection.
TVC is also responsible for providing opportunities to develop members’ educational and professional skills in order to prepare them for their future careers. TVC helps to foster cohesion and camaraderie within the organization, as well as provide ways for its members to enrich their graduate experience.
Current Volume: Volume 43 (2022) The Embodiment of Liberation: Embracing Opposition and Resistance within Higher Education
Creative Work
Editor's Notes
Land Acknowledgement
TVC 43 Executive Board
Executive Board Editor's Note
Todd C. Cooley and Dana K. Prisloe
Foreword
Foreword: The Body of Liberation
Chantel J. Vereen
Articles
Exceptionally Flawed: A story about expectations and truth
Maria Del Sol Nava
Place-Based Education as Liberatory Praxis
Todd C. Cooley
Speakers of Languages Other than English as an Invisible Minority
Patrick Arsenault
Community Colleges Meeting Students’ Basic Needs
Annamaria Cavaleri, Gabi Cuna, Kaia Palm-Leis, and Robyn Suchy
Past, Present, & Future: A History of BIPOC Student Support & Student-Led Protests at UVM
Nelizabeth Diaz, Logan Henrique de Melo, and Maria Del Sol Nava
The Great Resignation: Retention of BIPOC Professionals within the Division of Student Affairs
Cole MacCollister and Lexi Kane
Institutionalized Erasure: The Influence of Binarism on Nonbinary College Students
Max Cordes Galbraith
The Need for Liberatory Understandings of Queer and Trans Identity Development: A Critical Review of Identity Development Models
Max Cordes Galbraith
The Autistic's Guide to Working in Residential Life
Catherine Meyer
Toxic Rhetoric: Unpacking Discussions of Self-Care
Dana K. Prisloe
800 Miles in Transition
Lexi Kane and Cristina Vega
Exiting the pandemic: A Leadership Approach to Critical Engagement and Change
J Kevin Fisher and Joan Seamster
Hope and Disillusionment in the University
Mattie Schaefer
Reflection
Nothing Left to Give: A Reflection on Burnout as an Obstacle to Liberation and First Steps to Healing
Janelle Raymundo
New Connection
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgements
TVC 43 Executive Board

TVC 43 Executive Board
- Executive Director
- Tatiana Havens
- Managing Director
- Jeremy Torres
- Co-Content Editors
- Dana Prisloe & Todd Cooley
- Membership & Community Development Chair
- Max Cordes Galbraith
- Growth & Aspirations Chair
- Annamaria Cavaleri
- Legacy & Alumnx Relations Chair
- Robyn Suchy
- Public Relations Chair
- Lexi Kane