ARC Press Release 2/8/21. Press Release 2_8_21. Announcement of newly elected Leadership Council and Steering Committee.
Upcoming Publication. The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work, (Penguin Random House, 2021), by ARC member Jessica Bacal, Smith College.
Upcoming Publication. Strengths-Based Resilience, A Positive Psychology Program (Hogrefe Press, 2020), by ARC member Tayyab Rashid, University of Toronto, with co-authors Jane Gillham and Afroze Anjum.
October 2020. Abigail Lipson, ARC Co-director, led a presentation at the national conference of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), along with emeritus colleagues Liz Gong-Guy (UCLA) and Karen Raforth (University of Colorado, Boulder) on Resilience, Technology, and Community: What Helps?
August 2020. Florida State University's Clearinghouse on Trauma and Resilience, part of the School of Social Work's Institute for Family Violence Studies, launched a Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience.
August 2020. ARC members Rahul Bhat and Chad Rankowski were among the speakers at a virtual conference, Integrating Academic and Co-Curricular Resilience Programs on Your Campus, offered by Academic Impressions.
July, 2020. An invited blog post, What Are We Learning About Academic Resilience, by Abigail Lipson and Adina Glickman, ARC Co-directors, appeared in AAC&U Liberal Education.
July, 2020. ARC member Meghan Kennedy is named the director of the Resilience Lab at the University of Washington.
February-March 2020. Great news! In February the ARC secured 501(c)(3) nonprofit fiscal sponsorship with Community Initiatives of Oakland CA, and in March the ARC received a $100,000 seed donation to effect our transition from an informal collaboration to a formal organization.
January, 2020. The ARC was an invited participant in the AAC&U national symposium, Learning to Thrive: The Invisible Skills That Foster Student Success, in Washington DC. Adina Glickman, ARC Co-director, served on the opening panel; Abigail Lipson, ARC Co-director facilitated a lunch table discussion; and Neha Basti, student at Northwestern and a participant in the ARC’s 2018 Symposium on Academic Resilience in Higher Education, presented on the student panel.
[L to R: Martin Van Der Werf, Adina Glickman, Daniel Pascoe Aguilar, and Niesha Ziehmke discuss with moderator Ashley Finley what it means to provide a well-rounded education.]