Digging Deep and Being Well: A panel discussion on academic engagement and student well-being

"One of our most striking Duke Social Relationships Project findings is the degree to which academic engagement was related to positive well-being..." http://sites.duke.edu/dsrp/ "[Faculty] aren¿t incentivized. There¿s a clear pressure for them to do research and publish papers and [pursue] tenure track and all that. But there aren't any specific incentives from the administration for them to really interact with undergraduates on a deeper level." Amanda Peralta, DSG Intellectual Climate Committee Report http://people.duke.edu/~asp14/icc/icc.html Drawing on national and local reports about the impact of intellectual and social engagement on student well-being, the Service-Learning Program will present a panel of Duke stakeholders who have taken up this issue, as we imagine ways that community-engaged practices¿including service-learning¿can respond to student calls for enhancing the intellectual and social climate at Duke.Confirmed panelists: Steve Asher, Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience; Bill Wright-Swadel, Executive Director of Duke¿s Career Center; Gary Glass, Assistant Director for Outreach and Developmental Programming, Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS); Beth Fox, Director, Academic Advising Center; Amanda Peralta and Nik Raju, DSG Intellectual Climate CommitteeLunch will be served. RSVPs optional but appreciated: http://doodle.com/8c5v9irrtvk66yy6