Pre-Meeting Design Session: Designing Partnerships for Thriving

How would you create a flourishing community at the intersection of wellbeing, civic engagement, and career preparation? Take part in a series of interactive design conversations with a community of diverse stakeholders to develop action steps for engaging sustained partnerships, on and off campus, that actualize a true ecosystem approach to facilitating care and collaboration within colleges and universities.

Higher education’s public purposes have historically been linked with providing the skills needed for students to thrive in their careers, communities, and lives. Yet, the ways in which these public purposes are achieved remain highly siloed endeavors across colleges and universities. This design-centered workshop, co-created and facilitated by AAC&U's Office of Research and Public Purpose and the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network, will engage participants in strategic exercises to identify, develop, and sustain the partnerships needed to more fully realize their institution’s public purposes.

Participants will:

• Gain insight into the barriers to and opportunities for increasing partnerships for thriving on campus and beyond, including connections with community partners
• Explore how “emotional intelligence” skills and tools can support faculty, staff, and students to authentically connect thriving across career readiness, community engagement, and individual wellbeing
• Apply learning to create actionable strategies for advancing partnerships within their own campus context and in connection with broader institutional strategic priorities.

Cost:
$250/Member
$300/Nonmember

Preregistration is required to attend.