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About Dana Malone
Dr. Dana Malone (she/her) is a scholar and practitioner energized by facilitating meaningful learning experiences for students and educators alike. She loves connecting with kindred academic spirits and collaborating on inspiring projects. When she’s not having engaging conversations on The Academic Life channel, she writes, teaches, and works with institutions on a contract basis. Her specialty areas include student cultures, the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religious identities as well as student success and assessment and evaluation. She provides invited talks on her book, From Single to Serious. Dana is also known for kitchen dance parties, wandering the Jersey shore, and greeting the day with a good yoga flow.Dr. Dana Malone (she/her) is a scholar and practitioner energized by facilitating meaningful learning experiences for students and educators alike.
NBN Episodes hosted by Dana:
November 17, 2022
Scholar Skills: Unraveling Faculty Burnout
“I’m burned out” is a familiar phrase in higher ed these days. This episode explores: What burnout is and is not.One scholar’s personal experience …
October 27, 2022
Scholar Skills: Managing and Re-Envisioning the Academic Mid-Career
Ever felt uncertain about how to manage the academic mid-career stage? This episode explores: Why the mid-career stage is so important to mid-caree…
September 29, 2022
Scholar Skills: Communicating Through your Online Presence
Is there a strategy to communicating your research online? This episode explores: What an academic communications strategist does.Why having a stra…
August 25, 2022
Opening Up the University for Displaced Students
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) operating out of Central European University.T…
June 16, 2022
The Great Resignation
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Our guest Eric Frans’ career path into, out of, and around higher educationKey fact…
June 9, 2022
Scholar Skills: Editing a Book Collection Through a Professional Organization
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Karin Lewis’s experience pitching and winning the book bidKarin and the editori…
May 19, 2022
Setbacks and Missteps
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Heather Wagoner’s experience failing her doctoral qualifying examHow she respon…
April 7, 2022
Scholarly Skills: From Dissertation to Book
A Conversation with Dr. William Germano Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Important questions to ask yourself before…
February 17, 2022
How to Finish Your Dissertation
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: A process focused approach to completing a dissertation and other academic writingT…
January 20, 2022
Navigating the Two-Body Problem
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: What the two-body problem isDr. Kelly Baker’s experience on the academic job market…
September 30, 2021
The Role of “Failure” in Student Success
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: the importance of normalizing failure in college, the emotional work involved with co…
August 26, 2021
Mentoring in the Academy
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So, we reached across our mentor network to brin…
July 15, 2021
Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
June 3, 2021
How To: Create a Mentor Network
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
May 13, 2021
College Belonging
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
April 26, 2021
Pandemic Perspectives: Graduating, Job Searching, and Being a New Professional
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
March 29, 2021
Pandemic Perspective from a University Administrator
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
March 22, 2021
Pandemic Perspectives: From a Vice President of Student Affairs
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
February 18, 2021
Faculty versus Administrative Positions
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
February 15, 2021
Pandemic and the Student Parent
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
February 11, 2021
How to Navigate Mid-Career Choices as a Faculty Member
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
January 7, 2021
On Writing Well for Trade
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
December 24, 2020
The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to brin…
November 5, 2020
Introduction to the "The Academic Life" Podcast
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you’re not an island, and neither are we. So, we are reaching across our own contacts – a…