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By Suzanne Phillips
 Alexander Astin, Keynote speaker April 1, 4 p.m. Whittenberger Auditorium What Kind of Student 'Success' Do We Want To Promote? |
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Campus Life Division, at IUB, and is open to all faculty, staff and students at all IU campuses.
The symposium features the keynote address on April 1 and concurrent interest sessions on April 2. This year's keynote address will be delivered by Alexander Astin, Allan W. Carter Professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles and a Patten Foundation lecturer at IU. Each interest session will be composed of three presentations on a related topic. Presenters are faculty and student affairs staff from several IU campuses.
They will present 46 different sessions. This year's spring symposium is expected to attract more than 500 participants and presenters from all IU campuses.
Astin is slated to speak at 4 p.m. at the IMU's Whittenberger Auditorium. His topic will be: "What Kind of Student 'Success' Do We Want to Promote?"
A keynote response panel will gather the next morning at 9 a.m.
Concurrent "Interest Sessions" will include a number of topics: Reading and Writing; Commuter Campus Issues; Service Learning and Summer Programs; Math, Writing and Research Skills; Recruitment and Retention; Internships and Advising; Boundary Crossing Strategies; Rethinking Teaching and Learning; Achievement and Motivation Research on Students; Building Cultures of Collaboration; Mentoring and Advising; Learning Communities; Academic Support and Supplemental Instruction; and A Focus on IU Bloomington.
Requests for registration forms and questions can
be directed to Suzanne Phillips, associate dean of students, Franklin Hall 206, IUB, or by E-mail philli@indiana.edu or to George Kuh, associate dean of the faculties, at kuh@indiana.edu.
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