2021 Symposium
2021 Symposium
4th Annual First-Generation Symposium
Adapting Amid Change and Uncertainty
THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL EVENT!
From racial tensions to Covid-19 to political unrest, the impact of changes and uncertainty in our everyday lives has been far reaching, with impacts on mental health, physical safety, food insecurity, academic disparities, and more. This has also demonstrated unimaginable creativity and unsurpassed resiliency while navigating this unique time. First-generation students and their families are learning to thrive in this new, ever-changing, often-challenging, environment while the professionals who work in this environment must stay vigilant to anticipate the best ways to adapt. This year’s theme, Adapting Amid Change and Uncertainty, focuses on the sometimes apparent, but also many unexpected ways that first-generation students and the surrounding systems are impacted by the ever-changing nature of contemporary challenges.
A completely virtual experience, the core of the symposium will remain the same: to educate, share ideas, and work to serve the needs of First Generation students and their families. The symposium will feature presentations, breakout sessions, resources, a roundtable discussion, as well as the return of the Student Panel session! The anticipated audience will include students, faculty, and staff from Rowan University and local colleges and universities.
2021 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Karen Stout
President and CEO, Achieving the Dream, Inc.
The Post-Pandemic Community College
The triple tsunami of Covid-19, the resulting economic downturn, and the imperative to center racial equity in our student-success efforts and confront systemic racism in colleges’ own structures, will have major and lasting effects on community colleges. The most notable impact is to lay bare, and exacerbate, many of the most pressing challenges facing community colleges, including inequity in student outcomes. Successful institutions will need to find creative ways to serve vulnerable students and make their communities’ social, economic, and cultural success central to their missions. Join Achieving the Dream President and CEO, Dr. Karen Stout, as she examines how the pandemic will shape higher education in the years to come and shares her perspective on what the college of the future may look like.
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