Liz Bruno, director of Counseling, presented “Teaching an Anxious Nation” at Mount Saint Mary College’s Third Annual FYE Conference.
Faculty and staff from Mount Saint Mary College’s First Year Experience (FYE) recently hosted a campus-wide conference to continue improving the program for new Mount students.
FYE welcomes first-year students and fosters success as they transition into Mount Saint Mary College’s community of learners. The conference was spearheaded by Gina Evers, director of the Mount’s Writing Center, and Brianne Thompson, director of Student Advising, with support from Tisha Dunstan, administrative assistant for the Writing Center and the FYE program.
Over the course of three days, presenters from the Mount and beyond gave presentations including “Integrating Information Literacy and Academic Skills into the Learning Community,” “Stocking Your DEI Toolkit for First-Year Students,” and “What I Wish My Faculty Had Known,” a panel talk featuring Mount students.
The goals of the conference were to develop skills to integrate the FYE student-learning outcomes into individual content areas; create strategies to guide students in making genuine and meaningful connections across the curricula of their paired courses; clarify expectations of and provide resources for serving on an FYE Instructional Team; and build a community of professionals who share the common goal of welcoming, caring for, and educating first-year students.