‘The Healthy Campus’ focus of ETSU Student Success Symposium

JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 19, 2020) – “The Healthy Campus: Well-Being and Your Campus Community” is the focus of the 2020 Student Success Symposium to be hosted by ETSU’s Division of Student Life and Enrollment on Friday, March 27, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. in the D.P. Culp Student Center.

Keynote speaker Dr. Nance Lucas will address “Uplifting Well-Being in Higher Education.”

Lucas is executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University, where she is the co-founder of Leading to Well-Being programs, MasonLeads, and the Leadership Legacy Program, for which she also serves as the senior leadership scholar.  She leads these well-being initiatives in collaboration with colleagues across the institution.

Lucas’ teaching and scholarship interests focus on positive psychology and leadership, well-being and ethics.  She is co-author of “Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference” and contributing author of “Leadership Reconsidered” and “The Social Change Model of Leadership Development.”

She holds a Ph.D. in higher education with a concentration in leadership studies and ethics from the University of Maryland-College Park.  She earned her master’s degree in college student personnel and bachelor’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Pennsylvania State University.

The registration deadline for the Student Success Symposium is March 23.  Registration fees are $50 for faculty and staff and $35 for students through March 12; fees are $100 per person after March 12.

For more information or registration, visit the symposium website at https://www.etsu.edu/students/symposium/ or call ETSU Student Life and Enrollment at 423-439-4210.   For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.