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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

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Known for her pedagogical and administrative vision and creativity, Westfields dynamic leadership focuses upon teachers who want to improve their teaching and have a more balanced teaching life. Nancy Lynne Westfield is director of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion.

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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

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What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

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I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We We have a whole new generation of young leaders that need supports like ATD,” she says.

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Pride in the Halls

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noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

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Dr. Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. “I Washington is the president and co-founder of Washington Consulting Group (WCG).

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

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A transformative college president Prior to becoming the leader of ATD, Stout spent 14 years as the president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, beginning in 2001. Curry explains that ATD puts him and the colleges in spaces where they can engage in national conversations about student success.