Video: Students Take the Stage at ACE2019

April 1, 2019

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During the ACE2019 closing plenary, a student panel moderated by John B. King Jr. discussed a “human-centered” approach to designing public policy and institutional practice from the bottom up to enhance student outcomes. The plenary was titled “Real Students, Real Change: How Students’ Lives Can Transform Higher Education.”

Two of the students on that panel also received the 2018 ACE Students of the Year Award: Sophia Norcott, a communications major and media manager from Vancouver, Washington, and Brendyn Melugin, an Army veteran and psychology student from Cincinnati, Ohio.

 


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