Thank you for participating in the 2013 University Life Professional Symposium. Your attendance and engagement is most appreciated.  Please take a few minutes to provide us feedback regarding your experience.  Your insights and feedback will help us to measure the program’s success and plan for future programs.  To access the survey please click here. If the survey does not open automatically, please copy and paste the following link to your internet browser’s address bar: http://studentvoice.com/p/?uuid=43dba18294dc4c3e8878af59a5b4731b

Please join us for the University Life Professional Symposium:  Innovative Practices, Current Trends and Future Direction on Friday, January 11, 2013, 9:00am – 5:00pm.

The January 2013 University Life Professional Symposium will provide participants the opportunity to experience shared learning to expand our knowledge, understand trends, issues, innovative practices and methods, gain awareness of national trends and research, engage in meaningful dialogue and consider future action.
Through participation in the University Life Professional Symposium, participants will:

• Identify current trends in order to meet the needs of our student populations
• Recognize potential practices for implementation to meet anticipated challenges
• Identify opportunities to engage and collaborate with departments and colleagues
• Recognize the value and importance of professional development and personal enrichment and renewal

More than twenty educational programs: 

• Contingent Faculty and the Future of Higher Education: What Roles Can University Life Play?
• Data Visualization and Infographics: Using Data to Tell Your Story
• Understanding and managing Student Mental Health and Wellbeing: Current trends, practices and legal issues (3-part mini-series)
• Data Driven Decision Making with the EBI
• Practicing Our Values:  The Residential Community Development Model
• The Science of Diversity Project – An Experiential and Multidisciplinary Journey
• MASON Dreamers (Mason’s undocumented student experience, the Dream Act and Deferred Action)
• Housing Selection
• It Takes a Village:  Support students on the Spectrum
• Methodical Systems of Access and Transition
• Twitter Praxis
• Civility Starts with You
• Importance of a Culture of Appreciation
• Using Data to Drive Decisions: How LLCs are Using Collaborative Relationships to Assess our Impact
• Student Leadership Development: how do student learn and what should they be learning to further develop as leaders?
• Tell Your Story, Show Your Value (demonstrating value in the new higher education environment)
• The Preamble:  Writing a New Beginning Through Extended Orientation
• Increasing your Virtual Outreach through Webinars
• Educating for Global Competency in the Co-Curriculum
• LGBTQ student experience
• Student Narcissism and Career Launch
  

Please RSVP online at: http://ulsymposium.onmason.com/registration/

Don’t forget program proposals are due on December 14th.  Click here for more information and to submit your proposal.

Future of Higher Education Opening Remarks from GMU-TV on Vimeo.

Foster Student Success

We believe in the potential of Mason students and strive to be their mentors, allies, teachers and advocates. We create environments and opportunities that are conducive to their learning, development, and success.

Live and Act with Integrity

We are committed to the highest ethical and professional practices. We strive to be respectful, intellectually honest, and personally responsible for our ideas, behaviors and actions and to promote a safe, open, just environment for engaging in honest discourse.

Embrace Our Differences

We believe there is strength in diversity and inclusiveness in our local and global communities. Through our speech and actions, we affirm the dignity and self worth of all individuals and repudiate injustice, discrimination and hatred. We actively recognize, support, teach, and advocate understanding, tolerance, mutual respect, belonging and civility.

Catch the Mason Spirit

The Mason Spirit is the pride and excitement we feel as part of our diverse community. We embrace collaboration, involvement, teamwork and collegiality.

Show You Care

Each of us matters. A genuine ethic of care binds us together and unites our community. We seek to listen and understand with our heads and hearts and to build camaraderie through humor and enjoyment while working to make a difference.

Dream Big

Innovation, invention, and imagination are the cornerstone of the Mason experience. We are motivated to initiate and adapt to change driven by new ideas, processes, and technologies for improving our work and community.

Celebrate Achievements

We acknowledge in meaningful ways the accomplishments and contributions made by students, faculty and staff as individuals and groups. We expect the best, support honest effort, and honor courageous acts even when success is not assured.

Pursue Lifelong Learning

We encourage continuous learning and development for ourselves and others in and out of the classroom.

Lead By Example

We believe that everyone is a leader and that leadership exists in many forms. We empower the leader and the supporter in each of us in order to build a better world.

University Life creates purposeful learning environments, experiences, and opportunities that energize all students to broaden their capacity for academic success and personal growth.  Through innovative programs, partnerships, and direct services, students discover their unique talents, passions and place in the world.

University Life engages students in educationally purposeful experiences resulting in student learning and development, academic success, and degree completion. University Life will:

1. Foster self discovery and teach students to successfully navigate transitions throughout their Mason experience.
2. Create opportunities and communities for student learning, involvement and engagement with peers, faculty, staff and administrators.
3. Engage Mason’s diverse, global and multicultural community to enrich the educational environment, promote mutual respect and civility, and develop global citizens.
4. Foster individual and community responsibility and hold students accountable for ethical practices, academic integrity and high standards of personal conduct.
5. Empower students to be socially conscious leaders committed to democratic and civic engagement.
6. Promote wellness, healthy lifestyle choices, and a culture of safety.
7. Embody lifelong learning