Dear Neighbor

A community podcast sharing stories from Saint Rose

The Dear Neighbor Podcast

Dear Neighbor is a podcast that brings you stories of growth and learning at Saint Rose.

Our production team interviews students, faculty, staff and administration throughout the year to capture voices and experiences from across campus. As we listen to your submissions, we’ll build programs around themes that are important to you, and that inspire all of us to become better neighbors to one another.

Share your own story by recording a conversation with a friend and sending it to dearneighbor@strose.edu, or by speaking with one of our producers in person!

Each and every person on campus contributes to our collective mission of fostering growth and learning. Stay tuned for each upcoming episode, join us for listening parties, and keep in touch as the conversations about radical hope and student-centered pedagogy continue.

Recent Episodes Playlist

Dear Neighbor

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Dear Neighbor Trailer

Oct 21, 2021 •

Overall, this podcast experience was incredible! I hope that others will find the conversation just as helpful as I did.
Episode 1: Creating Community in the Classroom

Nov 12, 2021 • 39:15

On our first episode of Dear Neighbor, listen to professors and students work together to create a sense of welcome in the classroom, and how they build on that feeling of community to grow and learn.
Episode 2 Finding our place on campus: before, during, and after quarantine and distance learning

Dec 10, 2021 • 40:18
Episode 3 Conversations About Race, part 1: In the Classroom and Beyond

Apr 22, 2022 • 33:52

We revisit Liz’s conversation with Communications senior, Jada Hart, and she shares her perspective on why it is so critical to support conversations about race on campus. Then Professor of Political Theory, Angela Ledford, talks to two of her students about the relationship between personal and systemic forms of racism,…
Episode 4 Conversations about Race Part 2: Antiracist Teaching Tools

May 6, 2022 • 37:51

We continue our conversations with guests from Episode 3, this time connecting conversations about race on campus and in the classroom with antiracist teaching tools.
Episode 5: Creating the College You Want

Sep 13, 2022 • 34:39

Yolanda Caldwell, Chief Diversity Officer and Director of the Bold Women's Leadership Institute at the College, talks to Glesaidys Eve, BOLD Scholar and College senior.

Co-producer Liz Richards interviewing students

UPCOMING EVENTS

Season 2 is launching on September 14 at 2:40pm in the Neil Hellman Library.

Following the episode premiere, we’ll have a “Living Room Conversation” to explore topics from the episode. This is a fabulous teaching tool introduced in Episodes 3 and 4 from last season. Many thanks to Professor Jennifer Marlow (English) for hosting the conversation, and showing us how it works.

See you on the 1st floor for coffee, cookies and great conversation!

Learn more about LIVING ROOM CONVERSATIONS