As we enter Persephone Days here in Columbia, when we drop below ten hours of daylight in twenty-four, we again try to sit in that pause when things have gone wrong and we're unsure what to do next. We talk with Tinesha Croom, Associate Director of Advising Technologies and Operations and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, who has experience as both an advisor and a faculty member in her contact with students. Her perspective in both of these kinds of work offers important insight on student response to failure and how we as faculty and staff can change our responses in kind. We talk together about having hard conversations when students and faculty can both be uncertain what should happen next.

What can these conversations look like? What has she found is important when they happen? How could we find new ways of having these conversations? Join us to get a little farther into our explorations and to pay tribute to another season guide whose influence helped inform this podcast project.

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