2024 Student Engagement Summit – Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Who is the intended audience for the summit?

Penn State faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Why should you attend the summit?

• Are you building a meaningful culture of learning at your campus/college that will be more resilient and adaptive in the future?
• Are you wondering what “success” for your students means in this new world?
• Do you feel like the world has fundamentally changed during the COVID crisis and that a “new normal” may be difficult to define?
• Are you feeling uncertain about potential paths forward for student engagement?

The Penn State Student Engagement Network (SEN) was designed to be inclusive, connective, and broad. Research has shown that engagement opportunities are transformative. Enabling every Penn State student to more easily connect with life-changing engagement experiences significantly enhances the overall student experience. This better prepares them to regularly contribute to their local, national, and international communities in meaningful and impactful ways. A distinguishing feature of engagement at Penn State is the faculty, staff, and graduate students who promote, create, and otherwise support engaged learning.

Join us as we examine the state of the SEN and reimagine the possible futures of engagement at Penn State! Bring your perspective! Make a difference!

What do we hope you will take from this experience?

• A deeper understanding of the tools and practices that will help you design engagement more effectively for the future.
• A clearer sense of what an uncertain future requires of educational leaders.
• A framework for building relevant and sustainable change at your campus/in your college.
• Tools and strategies for building equity, diversity, and inclusion into all aspects of your work.
• Connection to a network of student engagement leaders and others asking these questions on an ongoing basis.
• An opportunity to reflect and recharge, then return to nurture a campus or college culture where asking big questions is encouraged.

Registration for the Student Engagement Summit is now open and will remain open until May 10, 2024. There is no cost to attend the event.