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 41 (2020) Embracing the Whole: Sentience and Interconnectedness in Higher Education
Editor's Note
Executive Board Editors' Note
Brie L. Hornig and Laura M. Aguilera
Foreword
Articles
An Act of Courage: Providing Space for African American Graduate Students to Express Their Feelings of Disconnectedness
Dr Frederick V. Engram Jr
Are Asian Americans POC? Examining Impact of Higher Education Identity-Based Policies and Practices
Janelle Raymundo
Both/And: Self-Authoring a Feminist Christian Identity
Molly M. Williams
Building Resilience through Culturally Grounded Practices in Clinical Psychology and Higher Education
Catarina Campbell and Phyu Pannu Khin
Connecting Rural Students to Higher Education
Joel Ontiveros
Developing Community Through Energy: The Impact of Student Extracurricular Collaboration
Tiyana L. Dorsey
The Difference Between Fixing, Helping, and Serving in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Bianca Natalie Ramos
From Disconnection to Sentience: Creating Space for Practitioners Who Experience Student Death
Kevin L. Wright
Mic Check? Mic Check! Amplifying Our Voices
Kirsty Nicole Bocado
Power Within. I'm New to Putting Me First
Dr. Michael R. Williams
“Raining” in Your Emotions as a Student Affairs Professional
Chantel J. Vereen
The Space They Take: Evaluating Historically White Fraternities through Critical Race Theory
Fonda M. Heenehan
Start with the Self: Modelling Constructive Self-Statements and Growing with Others
Benedicto B. Llave
Reflection
(Dis)Connection Through Language: Interrogating Buzzword Culture in Student Affairs
Arnelle Faye Sambile
New Connection
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgements
The Vermont Connection Executive Board 2019-2020