Leadership Symposium

The Leadership Symposium is a unique forum designed to engage higher education leaders and other national experts in a panel presentation on a topic strategic to our collective missions. Current challenges facing higher education are addressed to promote dialogue in search of understanding and possible institutional change. To date, this program has attracted distinguished panelists from across the nation. Drawing on their leadership experience and expertise, panelists offer their perceptions of the issue, its causes, implications for learning communities, and possible alternative responses. In addition to Stony Brook faculty, practitioners, students, staff, and alumni the event attracts a broad audience of educators from other colleges and secondary schools in the Greater New York area.

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the School of Social Welfare. Through this partnership, the Symposium has become part of the Student Affairs Professional Development series and has been a featured offering of Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare’s pioneering specialization, Social work in Higher Education: Student-Community Development. This one-of-kind graduate social work specialization prepares new professionals for work in higher education. It partners with student affairs professionals to train social work students to address issues currently facing national student populations.