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Renewing Learning:
Academic and Student Affairs Partnership Programs

Academic and student affairs collaboration has been championed as a means to enhance undergraduate education in a manner conducive to our current higher education climate. The Boyer Partnership Assessment Project, a FIPSE-funded qualitative examination of academic and student affairs partnership programs at 18, diverse institutions, identified seven principles of good practice for creating and sustaining effective partnership programs. This preconference session will consider the implications of these principles for Student Affairs educators: How do these principles undergird our responsibility to fostering student learning and engagement?  How can partnerships renew educators as well as institutions? How does our Christian faith imbue our commitment to collaboration within higher education?

	Cynthia A. Wells, Ph.D.  Boyer Fellow/Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies/Director of the Core Course
	William McDonald, Ed.D. Vice President of Student Life, Presbyterian College

 

Christian Spiritual Formation

Christian Spiritual Formation is not an option.  Since it already occurs on our campuses, we think it is worthy of an intentional effort.  This pre-conference workshop is designed to focus on the purpose of spiritual formation.  Beginning with the definition used by Robert Mulholland and many grad schools and seminaries, this workshop will present the results of some original research that has significant implications that can help guide our understanding of the formational process.  You will experience interactive presentations and have opportunity to begin to develop a Christian Spiritual Formation model unique to your institution or class.  

Messiah College Ministry Staff:
Eldon Fry, D.Min. Campus Pastor		Evie Telfer Associate College Pastor
Brian Smith, Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies /Teaching Pastor		Douglas Curry Minister of Worship
Richard Piedmont Loyola University of Maryland

 

What’s Your Story?

What’s your story?”  As you prepare to pose that question of your students, it seems fitting to turn the question around and ask, “What’s my story?”  Stories are the very gifts of grace in our lives―interconnected with and rooted in The Story.  Our stories of searching, doubt, disbelief, failure, faithfulness, wonder and mystery help us make sense of our path, illumine our vocation, and provide companions for the journey.  We will explore the theological basis for claiming our own place in The Story, and concentrate on the way that sharing our individual stories―rather ordinary stories by all accounts―clarifies our vision and reminds us of who we are, Whose we are, and who we want to be.

	Richard Hughes Senior Fellow, Ernest L. Boyer Center, and Distinguished Professor of Religion at Messiah College Jan Hughes Storyteller and Adjunct Professor at Messiah College
Jan and Richard Hughes have team-taught for four years an honors first-year seminar on "Learning to Tell Our Stories."

Becoming a Multicultural Educator

Increasingly, Christian Higher Education is recognizing that a multicultural perspective is central to developing a student body prepared to work, live and serve in a global society.  How ever committed to this aim, we often find ourselves, as practitioners, ill equipped for the task.  This pre-conference is designed for Student Development professionals who seek resources to foster cultural awareness and awakening in a vibrant living/learning community.   Participants will discuss key concepts to multicultural education, review best practices and reveal impediments to personal multicultural competency.

 Jacqueline Rhodes

Assistant Dean of Multicultural Student Development at Calvin College

 

 

 

 

 

Julie DeGraw         

    Dean of Counseling, Advising and the Transfer Center at        the College of Lake County in Illinois

 

 

 

 

The following ACSD Diversity Task Force members will also be assisting in the presentation of this workshop:

• Joe Gonzales, Associate Dean for Student Programs, Moody Bible Institute
• Jane Higa, Vice President and Dean of Students, Westmont College
• Rodney K. Sisco, Director of the Office of Multicultural Development, Wheaton College