The 2015 Spring Conference Host Committee is excited to announce our Faculty in Residence for the duration of the conference! Rejuvenate 2015 will be made an even more exciting experience for attending delegates, with the opportunity to hear from and interact with Dr. Carney Strange, including the Keynote address, a Pre-Conference workshop, and a mid-week session.

Carney Strange is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Bowling Green State University (OH) where he served as a graduate faculty member from 1978-2012. With a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, he taught courses focusing on student development in postsecondary education, the design and impact of college and university environments, and methods of constructivist qualitative research. He is a co-author/editor of five books: Involving Colleges (1991), Educating by Design (2001), Achieving Student Success: Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education (2010), Designing for Learning: Creating Campus Environments for Student Success (2015), and Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education (forthcoming).

An ACPA-College Student Educators-International Senior Scholar and a NASPA Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education Faculty Fellow, Strange has been selected respectively as a Diamond Honoree (1999) and a Pillar of the Profession (2006) for each organization. In addition, he received the 2010 ACPA College Student Educators-International Contribution to Knowledge Award. He has 20+ years experience as a college and university trustee, first at Saint Meinrad College (IN) and more recently at Saint Xavier University (IL).

His crowning achievement though has been as companion to his life partner for forty years, the farmer’s daughter/creative photographer named Dorothyann, and as guide, guru, and goat to three young adults – Julia (34), a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Uzbekistan, 2003-2005) now serving as a Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Programmer for the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.; Martin (31), an Iraq War veteran U.S. Marine Corporal and former private security contractor in Afghanistan, now pursuing a career in Wildlife Resource Management; and Clare (27), a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Dominican Republic, 2010-2012), now a medical social worker serving clients living with AIDS in Harlem, New York City.

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Dr. Strange’s pre-conference session will be titled “A Primer on Campus Environment Theory: Is There Room for Learning ?” This workshop will engage participants in an overview of: (a) the components and principles that underlie the dynamics of campus environments; (b) how these campus environments dynamics influence the inclusion, security, engagement, and communal experience of students; and (c) how these understandings might be used to address vexing problems facing Canadian postsecondary education today.

To register for this pre-conference session, please visit our Registration Page and follow the instructions listed through to the OACUHO webpage.

OACUHO 2015 SPRING CONFERENCE