Dickinson College
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Welcome to the fifth issue of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) Newsletter. The newsletter's primary purpose
is to communicate with a wide audience of institutions and individuals about the current activities, programs, research initiatives, and new opportunities supported by the Project. Features of the newsletter include profiles of specific campus efforts and news of conferences and relevant scholarly work.
Flourishing and Student Engagement
Concern over college students’ mental health has increased over the last decade, with reports indicating that substance abuse, self-reported stress, and mood-related disorders are on the rise on campuses. Typically, research on this population has focused on mental illness and its symptoms, rather than on positive emotional states or well-being.
Campus Highlight—Dickinson College: Four Years as a Demonstration Site
In the August 2009 issue of the BTtoP Newsletter, Ashley Finley (BTtoP national evaluator and former project evaluator and assistant professor of sociology at Dickinson) provided the most compelling “nuggets” of best practice for institutional sustainability and support that were adopted as the result of the intensive four-year project Dickinson College undertook as a Demonstration Site in 2005. In this issue, we attempt to delve deeper into the outcomes in the executive summary of the Dickinson 2010 Final Report.
Letter from the Director—Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Among the joys of working with committed and insightful colleagues and institutional leaders is the collective encouragement to look beyond the near term and its inescapable demand for attention and resolution, and to consider the more distant, as it may direct the path of the work and the character of future emphases.
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