Pilot programs from the Topic Seminars
Both Sides Now: Agreeable Disagreement and the Life of the University
An annual series of public discussions, guided by a specific model of reconciling dialogue, will enliven the campus by presenting differences of viewpoint as essential to
University life and not as disruptive of community.
Jim Weiss, Theology
Road to Rewards
The Road to Rewards retreat will consist of a three day, two-night off campus experience for a small number of students who are in severe disciplinary situations. The retreat will hope to draw students back into a responsible relationship with the community.
Chris Darcy, Residential Life
Sisters, Let’s Talk
This program is a series of conversations and reflections on entering young adulthood among AHANA women. Female AHANA faculty and staff from across the university will facilitate the dialogue and be available for informal conversations.
Adaline Mirabal, Learning to Learn
AHANA Connection
This program will bring together AHANA first-year students and AHANA alumni, as well as faculty and staff, once a month throughout an academic year to provide the opportunity for AHANA students and alumni to focus on topics of concern for AHANA students on campus.
Janet Costa Bates, Career Center
Dan Bunch, Learning to Learn
Magis
Magis is a four week breakfast program to assist students in appropriating new priorities and values gained on intensive service and immersion programs. It addresses four areas through faculty speakers: self-care, vocational discernment, theological reflection, and political implications.
Dan Ponsetto, Volunteer and Service Learning
Academic Companions
The goal of this program is to match senior Perspectives majors with Perspectives sections and train these Academic Companions to not only help the faculty person with the course, but more importantly, train these students as peer advisors and conversation partners.
Brian Braman, Perspectives
Building Social and Cultural Capital for Business
The project envisions a two-week summer program to increase the “cultural capital” of first-generation, AHANA, and other targeted incoming freshmen entering the Carroll School of Management. Students will participate in sessions with management faculty and go off campus for corporate events.
Richard Keeley, Carroll School of Management
What’s Next? First Generation College Students Talking about Career, Graduate School, and the Future
This program would identify 20 first generation college students and invite them to participate in two-day workshop at the beginning of their sophomore year. They will interact with a panel of first generation faculty and staff and then follow up with professors and alumni over lunch sometime in the fall semester.
Erin Curtiss, University Counseling