Finding Your Place is an open-access college podcast series produced for college students, by college students. College is challenging, and students who go it alone often don't achieve their educational goals. That's why we're here to guide you through some of the most common barriers to success. As the series grows, more and more episodes featuring the authentic voices of college students - talking about the issues that matter most to you - will be made available right through this channel. So stick with us, and let us help you find your place in college.
2018-2019 Production Team: Students Emily Albright, Sontiana Brandts, Monte Brown, Tanita Cronk, Ana Leyva, Marko Milosevic and Faculty Dave Engen and Robert Jersak.
Finding Your Place has been created with the support of Minnesota State "Shark Tank" grant funding for innovation in higher education. Many thanks also to our colleagues and mentors at Century College, Minnesota State University Mankato, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Minnesota Public Radio.
Finding Your Place is an extension of Dreaming by Degrees, a traveling multimedia project on the college experience as seen through the eyes of first-generation students. For more details on the Dreaming by Degrees installation exhibit and Educator's Guide, please contact Dave Engen (david.engen@mnsu.edu) or Robert Jersak (robert.jersak@century.edu).
Welcome back to the Finding Your Place podcast - a series about the college experience made by college students for college students.
Where are they now? In this follow-up episode, we re-connect with FYP producers Emily, Ana, Monte and Tanita to see what's happened for each of them since finishing their work on the podcast project. They also offer listeners some additional advice about how to survive the college bumps and barriers on the way to graduation.
If you're moved by Ana's regret at the end of this episode and you'd like to reach out to the producers, please drop us a line at robert.jersak@century.edu or david.engen@mnsu.edu. We'll be sure to pass on your comments and responses.
Music composed and performed by Marcus Bagala from his 2018 album, Materials. Used with permission.
The Finding Your Place Podcast Series has been created with the support of Minnesota State "Shark Tank" grant funding for innovation in higher education. Many thanks also to our colleagues and mentors at Century College, Minnesota State University Mankato, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Minnesota Public Radio.
17 Jul 2019
Finding Your Place: Going Back Home (Episode 8)
Welcome to the Finding Your Place podcast - a series about the college experience made by college students for college students.
College is an entirely new way of life, and that can mean that home can take on a different meaning after you've started college. In the eighth episode, our FYP producers take their recorders home, giving us a few of the sights and sounds of home. But the focus of the episode is a story told by Faculty Producer Dave Engen. Engen reflects on the tensions of being caught between two worlds in college: the world of the professional middle class that college was preparing him to join and the working-class community he was raised in.
Music composed and performed by Marcus Bagala from his 2018 album, Materials. Used with permission. Please support his work at www.marcusbagala.com.
The Finding Your Place Podcast Series has been created with the support of Minnesota State "Shark Tank" grant funding for innovation in higher education. Many thanks also to our colleagues and mentors at Century College, Minnesota State University Mankato, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Minnesota Public Radio.
17 Jul 2019
Finding Your Place: Creating Your Place on Campus (Episode 10)
Welcome to the Finding Your Place podcast - a series about the college experience made by college students for college students.
In this episode, we bring the title of our series full circle. Producers Ana, Marko and Monte share sounds from their favorite places on campus, while Producer Marko sits down with Maxwell Poessnecker, Associate Director of Student Life and the Director of the first U.S. community college LGBTQ Center. Together, they examine the specific challenges that LGBTQ+ students can face as they try to find security and visibility, as well as the general challenges that all students face as they seek a space where they truly belong.
Music composed and performed by Marcus Bagala from his 2018 album, Materials. Used with permission. Please support his work at www.marcusbagala.com.
The Finding Your Place Podcast Series has been created with the support of Minnesota State "Shark Tank" grant funding for innovation in higher education. Many thanks also to our colleagues and mentors at Century College, Minnesota State University Mankato, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Minnesota Public Radio.
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