Additional Learning Opportunities

Fourteenth Annual Dialogue on Learning

Building a Strengths-based Campus For Engagement and Excellence

April 15, 2011
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Forum

Extraordinary individuals are distinguished less by their impressive ‘raw power’ than by their ability to identify their strengths and then to exploit them.” Howard Gardner

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Our keynote speaker is Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair, writer and speaker with
over 25 years experience in the Canadian college system and recently
retired president of    Nova Scotia Community College

(Bio information below)

How are your colleagues using strengths to impact their students’ experience and their own relationships with colleagues and others?

What is the latest research related to the impact of strengths-based development and education?

Imagine a campus where everyone is engaged in significant discussion of their natural talents and the conscious and deliberate development of those talents into strengths that can be used to achieve excellence in academics, careers, relationships and when facing the challenges we know life will bring.

Enjoy the luxury of a time spent with colleagues sharing ideas to improve learning for our students and ourselves.  Attendees will have the opportunity to network and learn from individuals who have successfully incorporated strengths development in various ways on their campus. 

New and returning participants are welcome - come celebrate your achievements, get updates on the latest research, and discover how StrengthsQuest programs are creating a positive difference in the lives of more than 100,000 college students, staff, and faculty. You’ll hear about “best practices” from fellow educators and learn strategies for using StrengthsQuest and a strengths philosophy on your campus.

• student academic development and engagement
• student personal development
• advising
• residence life programming
• career exploration
• learning assistance and tutor training
• leadership development
• staff and faculty development

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Register by April 11 with the above form or by calling Tracey Brunner at (607) 844-8222 x 4287

$50.00 Includes continental breakfast and lunch. Checks should be made out to TC3 and mailed to Organizational Success and Learning, TC3, 170 North Street, Dryden, NY 13053. Haven’t taken the the StrengthsFinder inventory? We will give you a code to complete the inventory prior to the conference.

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Please forward the announcement about the confernece to anyone you think may be interested.

New to StrengthsQuest?  Gallup's Introduction to StrengthsQuest Webinar
April 12, 2 - 3:30p.m. (EDT)
Register here

Questions?  Contact Khaki Wunderlich, Dean of Organizational Success and Learning, at wunderk@TC3.edu or (607) 844-8222 x4375. 

TC3 is an accessible campus. If you have a need for a specific disability-related accommodation or auxiliary aid, please contact Khaki by April 8. 

Bio of the keynote speaker:
Dr Joan McArthur-Blair is a writer and speaker with over 25 years experience in the Canadian college system and the recently retired president of Nova Scotia Community College. She believes that education is at the core of our social fabric and the work that educators undertake each day is a powerful force for positive social and economic change. Over a broad ranging career she has worked: as a leader in higher education; in faculty development, international projects, women in development; as faculty; and in the mentorship and education of other leaders; as well as volunteering her time on many national and provincial boards. She currently undertakes small projects that create positive generative change and is authoring two books on higher education. The first book is The Quivering Heart: Hope, Despair and Forgiveness in Higher Education Leadership and the second is Learning Magic: AI as a transformative force in educational learning and leading.

Sponsored by The Gallup Organization and the TC3 College Teaching Center. Partially funded by a grant under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act administered by the New York State Education Department.

More information on StrengthsQuest can be found at www.StrengthsQuest.com. Gallup, StrengthsFinder, and StrengthsQuest are trademarks of The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ.