Community Engagement and Student Success: 
Supporting Students in the Early Years 

About the Forum
From first year seminars and scholarship programs to residential learning and senior capstones, a variety of mechanisms exist that are aimed at increasing student success in college.   Many of these high impact practices have also been combined with community engagement to further increase their impact.  The 2014 Engaged Campus forum will focus on the current evidence and practices that connect student success in college with engagement practices, with a focus on how engagement can be meaningfully interwoven into the early college experience.  A panel of innovators will discuss programs their campuses have created (or are creating) that combine community engagement with goals around retention and student achievement; we'll focus on understanding the impact of these programs as well as asking new questions about how we are measuring our success

• Dr. Tom Redden, Professor of History & Politics, Southern Vermont College
      (MODERATOR)
•  Dr. Richard Lloyd, President, The College of St. Joseph
   (discussing the Provider Scholarship Program)
• Dr. Kellie Bean, Provost, Lyndon State College
  (representing the Leahy Center for Rural Students)
• Dr. Nora Mitchell, Faculty Member, Burlington College
  (discussing the integration of community engagement into the core curriculum)
• Kailee Brickner-McDonald, Director of the Dewey House for Civic Engagement at the University of Vermont
  (discussing the Dewey House first-year & sophomore seminar programs and Community Service
  Scholarship)

Following the keynote, audience members will be invited to pose questions of the panelists and contribute their own ideas to the conversation.

Engaged Campus Awards Reception
(12:00 - 1:30pm)

The Engaged Campus Awards are presented representatives of Vermont Campus Compact member institutions who are helping to achieve the vision of meaningful engagement.

• Engaged Students (one from each campus)
• Engaged Educators (competitive award)
• Engaged Partnerships (competitive award).

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  With Grateful Thanks To Our Presenting Sponsors