Opening Plenary Session:

9:00-9:10 Welcome and SEN update (Michael Zeman)
9:10-9:50 Keynote/Panel with Dr. Larry Terry, Vice President for Outreach

Invited panel members to ask questions:

• • Natalie Hernandez DePalma, Senior Director of Counseling and Psychological Services
  • Dennis Shea, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Outreach, College of Health and Human Development
  • Sita Fredrick, Director of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State

10:00-10:50 Session 1 (break out, remote)

Session 1-A: Harnessing the Power of the Engagement App

Presenters:

Brendan Bagley, Project Manager for Undergraduate Education

Devon Whalen, Assistant Director for Student Engagement, Student Engagement Network

Description:

The Engagement App is an exciting tool for faculty and staff! Faculty can use the App to help: Connect/communicate with students in their courses, promote their courses, promote their research activities and opportunities to engage in research, and more. Staff can use the App to connect/communicate with students, promote events on campus, create communities where students can get involved. The Harnessing the Power of the Engagement App Workshop will focus on how to best maximize the potential of the App for your goals through:

• An overview of key features
• A conversation on best practices
• An opportunity to brainstorm and workshop ideas for your unit

Session 1-B: Community Engagement – What’s in it for me?

Presenters:

Donna Chambers, dmc6004@psu.edu, Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish, Interim Coordinator of The Office of Community Engagement, Penn State Berks

Description:

Very few people are willing to try new things unless they can see how it benefits them. This session will discuss how community engagement benefits not only students, but faculty and staff as well. Learn how working with the Penn State Berks Office of Community Engagement helps faculty, students, and staff incorporate Community Engagement into their daily routine by putting forth relatively minimal effort, yet reaping maximum advantages.

Session 1-C: Working On Wellness Together Project: A Campus-Based Approach

Presenters:

Roxanne Atterholt, MRPYC, Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Tammy Divens, OTR/L, OTD, Associate Teaching Professor of Occupational Therapist Assistant

Jennifer Jewell, PT, DPT, Teaching Professor of Physical Therapist Assistant

Tiffany Petricini, Ph. D., Assistant Teaching Professor of Communications

Angela Pettitt, MA, Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Kathy Shaffer, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor of Science

Ashley Poghen, Student, Human Development and Family Studies

Description:

For our project, seven instructors from multiple disciplines worked together to integrate individual and collective engagement and well-being across an entire campus. This interactive session will present the results of a mixed-methods study that explored the relationship between well-being, engagement, and student success. Our session provides curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular interventions to promote student well-being across disciplines, academic units and beyond.

Session 1-D: Engaging students on Career Readiness in the Classroom

Presenters:

Bob Orndorff, Senior Director, Career Services, Affiliate Associate Professor, Counselor Ed

Brooke Owen, M.P.M., Director of Career Development, Mentoring Program Coordinator

Kate S. Zimmerman, Director of Cooperative and Continuing Education

Description:

Penn State is committed to ensuring career readiness for all Penn State students. To this end, we must find ways to incorporate career readiness into the academic mainstream. In this breakout session, Dr. Bob Orndorff, Senior Director of Career Services, will share some success stories of partnering with faculty and academic staff to infuse career readiness into their respective classes. Then, Bob will facilitate a discussion among the program attendees to solicit a diversity of thoughts and ideas on additional ways to infuse career readiness.

Break – 10:50–11:00 a.m.

11:00-11:50 Session 2 (break out, remote)

Session 2-A: Academic Success Program: If You Teach a Student to Fish

Presenters:

Erin Kitt-Lewis, PhD, RN, Associate Research Professor

Margery Madden Layman MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, Instructor

Description:

The overall focus of the session will include how the Academic Success Program can empower college students with strategies that allow them to take ownership of their learning experiences. Attendees will learn and take away the successes and challenges the college of nursing faces with the Academic Success Program they developed. First, we will share a brief explanation and history of the ASP. Next we will focus on six main concepts: 1) How to identify and refer students who need support, 2) How to integrate the Starfish system as a method to engage students and streamline communication between students, faculty, and advisors 3) How the Academic Success Program can empower students through variety of strategies 4) How to identify and engage students who are at high risk of being unsuccessful and developing a program to facilitate success 5) How to identify resources to match student need 6) How to develop an Academic Success Series, which engages students proactively prior to students being referred for poor performance and developing strategies for student success. Finally, we will discuss challenges we faced and will potentially face and strategies to maximize student engagement and success. Attendees will be able to identify at least one strategy that could be used to engage students and promote success in their department/college.

Session 2-B: Quick Hits: Global Learning + Your Course = Global Engagement²

Presenters:

Brian Brubaker MBA, Assistant Vice Provost, Global Learning

Tiffany MacQuarrie MA, Professor-in-Charge, EDGE Penn State Beaver, Faculty, tls7@psu.edu

Melissa Brun MSA, Graduate Assistant in Penn State Global, PhD. Candidate dual-title degree in Higher Education and Comparative and International Education, mlb6745@psu.edu

Dana Brem MA, Global Engagement Manager

Description:

Global Learning colleagues will offer brief (less than 8 minutes!) sketches on how faculty can engage with their teams to infuse more global engagement in their classroom and courses. The panel will focus on EDGE (Experiential Digital Global Engagement), a Global Learning pedagogy and how to learn more about it, Education Abroad Customized Programs, and Global Engagement workshops & Assessment. After brief explanations, attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and learn how to take next steps with engaging any one of these methodologies to infuse more Global Engagement in their course.

This panel session would address the following summit themes:

• Identifying practices to address societal challenges, both present and future, that incorporate engaged learning
• Addressing University initiatives and/or imperatives

Session 2-C: Living Lab Projects: Engage, Connect, and foster Belonging through campus sustainability Research

Presenters:

Krista Bailey, Sustainable Campus Strategist, Sustainability Institute

Description:

By using campus as a place for active research and learning about sustainability, students can make a difference and develop a stronger connection to campus. This session will introduce how and why to use Living Lab projects in courses and as student research and internship experiences. It will also highlight past, present, and future Living Lab projects. Using campus as a Living Lab provides opportunities to merge academic resources (students, projects, classwork, internship, research, etc.) with campus operations and facilities management. This relationship provides students and faculty with real-world experience and, for Penn State operations, a path to meet sustainability goals. In this session, attendees will learn:

• How Living Labs provide mutually beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders.
• What Living Labs offer for experiential learning that leads to growth in one or more of five core competency areas: multicultural awareness, systems thinking, ethical reasoning, civic responsibility, professional development.
• Ways to use and improve Penn State operations while directly enhancing the University’s academic, research and service activities.
• Flexible pathways for students and faculty to engage in sustainability learning.
• How to help students develop and acquire university learning outcomes such as knowledge acquisition/application, cognitive competency, life skills and self-knowledge, personal integrity and values, and intercultural development, leadership and active.

Session 2-D: From Why to How: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Intention and Engagement

Presenters:

Karen Marosi, PhD., Director of Student Engagement & Associate Teaching Professor College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Laura Cruz, Ph.D., Research Professor, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

Description:

What do we (or could we) say to students to motivate them to participate in engagement activities? This interactive session will focus on a frequently overlooked aspect of student engagement, i.e. moving from intention to action. Session participants will work through a series of inquiry-guided ideation exercises, facilitated through a Jamboard, to achieve the following outcomes:

• Apply an evidence-based framework to generate insight into the gap between student intention (the why) and engagement (the how).
• Exchange current practices for motivating students to participate in engagement activities.
• Work collaboratively to identify new strategies for closing the gap between intention and student engagement with a focus on diverse populations.

Lunch – 12:00 –1:00 p.m. (on your own)

1:00-2:30 Campus Sessions (in person on location)

University Park – Panel Discussion with the 3 Vice President Executive Sponsors of the Student Engagement Network

Yvonne Gaudelius, Vice President for Undergraduate Education

Andrea Dowhower, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs

Larry Terry, Vice President for Outreach

Moderator

Nicholas Rowland, Ph.D, Professor of Sociology