Join us for a timely, honest, and reinvigorating conversation about the challenges, possibilities, and hopes for our professional practice in higher education and student affairs.
Geneva College | 3200 College Ave. Beaver Falls, PA 15010
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Associate Professor and Program Director for the MA in Higher Education and Student Development program at Wheaton College, Illinois.
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| 10 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks: Dr. Henrique Alvim, MAHE Program Director, Geneva College |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11 a.m. | Opening Keynote Address: Dr. Olga Dietlin, Featured Speaker |
| 11:10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Breakout Session 1 |
| 12 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | Lunch & Learn facilitated by Dr. Alvim & Dr. Dietlin |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. | Breakout Session 2 |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. | Breakout Session 3 |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Closing Educational Session (Discussion) facilitated by Dr. Alvim & Dr. Dietlin |
This current academic year (2024-2025) marks the program’s 30th anniversary – 30 years of faithful service to Higher Education, contributing to the formation of competent, perceptive, and principled leaders in the profession. The MAHE program takes a foundational approach to learning about higher education and building capacity for practice in the field. Grounded on the Word of God, the program invites graduate students – as it has also prepared nearly 600 alumni – to grow not only in the knowledge of the field and the many disciplines that inform our professional development and practice, but to grow in wisdom, and engage in God’s redemptive activity through their work in higher education. Thus, the integration of faith and learning is central to both what and how we prepare aspiring professionals.
Inspired by the account of the men of Isaachar, found in 1 Chronicles 12:32, we want our students and graduates to understand the times, and to know what to do. Higher education presently faces challenges that require not mere knowledge of the field or simple “tips and tricks.” Our goal as a program is to assist in the development of the kind of practical wisdom that allows professionals and educators to know what they should do in view of what is happening in, and beyond the world of higher education.
Though higher education can offer thoughtful and timely critique that helps us to “understand the times,” this year’s Symposium invites participants to attend to our professional roles in high education with a sense of resilience and hope – most importantly, hope in Christ Jesus, in whom “all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17), and Who is above all challenges we face in our daily professional practice.
It is in that spirit that the MAHE Program invites you to join us at Geneva College for a day where we will gather together to reflect, learn, network, and be oriented to the hope we find in Christ, which informs the work we do from a professional, educational, and ministry perspective. With that, the Summer Symposium aims to promote learning, while providing a time in community to refresh our memory of the larger story that we, in and through Christ, live in.
Cultivate a vision for higher education that is rooted in a Christian view of life in a program that examines the contexts of its theological, philosophical, historical, and sociological foundations
Olga Dietlin is a tenured Associate Professor and Director of the MA in Higher Education and Student Development Program at Wheaton College, where she joins colleagues and students in answering a higher calling in higher education: shepherding college students through young adulthood toward wholeness in Christ.
Before Wheaton, she chaired the Counselor Education Program and directed International and Multicultural Programs at Palm Beach Atlantic University, becoming a mentor and a friend to students around the world. Her most recent peer-reviewed publication reflects her desire to amplify diverse voices in higher education while her interdisciplinary writing wrestles with what it means to faithfully steward Christian higher education.
Born in Ukraine, Olga is passionate about fostering charitable curiosity, building partnerships, and shaping places of learning that are not only safe but also brave, resilient, and hope-filled. She shares life with her husband, Henri, a Swiss native, and their three lively children—Daniel, Sophie, and Marc—who are always ready for adventure and another serving of goldfish.
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