8:00am

Continental Breakfast 

Silver Maple Ballroom: Maple yogurt, granola, fruit, donuts, tea & coffee.

Connect. Eat. Enjoy. (Opening remarks will begin around 8:30am.)

8:30am 

Opening Remarks by President Marlene Tromp

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Welcome by Dr. J. Dickinson, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success.

Digital Accessibility Roadmap  

Williams Family Room (403) | Pillar 4: Invest in Modern Systems and Processes

Join the Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) for an overview of UVM’s Digital Accessibility Compliance Roadmap, covering auditing, education, remediation, and sustainability. OAS will provide updates on institutional expectations and progress, as well as opportunities to support accessible digital content and services.

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Deciding to go: Influencing Student Help‑Seeking Behavior

Chittenden Bank Room (413) | Pillar 1: Ensure Accessible Student Success

Join the Writing Center staff to explore how faculty, advisors, and staff can influence students’ choices to use academic support—or not. In Spring 2026, undergraduate writing tutors conducted research into student decisions to use the writing center by focusing on how students and faculty view writing and writing support and how the writing center promotes itself. This session will highlight the insights from their findings and offer recommendations for encouraging resource seeking habits and de-stigmatizing use of academic supports.

iCATS: Supporting Academic Success with Study Skills Tutoring and Digital Tools

Williams Family Room (403) | Pillar 1: Ensure Accessible Student Success

Dani Comey, Director of the Center for Academic Success and UVM Study Skills Tutors will introduce the iCATS Pilot Project* and share:

• An overview of how Study Skills Tutoring supports student learning and academic growth
• Perspectives from a panel of graduating study skills tutors on their tutoring experiences and digital tools that contributed to students’ academic success
• A preview of a student-leader–developed guide highlighting strategies for using an iPad to improve academic success

*The 2025-26 iCATS Project involved students in Upward Bound, FirstGen@UVM, Student Accessibility Services and Tutoring programs. It was co-sponsored by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success, Tutoring Center, and College of Education and Social Services, with technical support from ETS and Apple Technologies.

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Ikigai & The Politics of Career Choice

Chittenden Bank Room (413) | Pillar 1: Prepare Students to Navigate Life Beyond UVM

Career choices are loaded—even in the best of times, which these are not. Identity, values, family expectations, labor market narratives, and societal norms all shape what students perceive as possible, realistic, and desirable. 

Join Career Center staff to tango with this complexity through the Japanese concept of ikigai—often described as a “reason for being” that lives at the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. Used as a reflective lens, ikigai helps illuminate tensions alongside curiosity and hope. Leave this session with some fresh thoughts on how you can help students prepare to navigate a chaotic world post-graduation with authenticity and agency.

An Insider’s Look... 

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• Career Readiness Inventory | Pillar 1: Prepare Students to Navigate Life Beyond UVM

  UVM has contracted with Career Launch to make assessing career competencies easier, and more impactful, than ever. In this "speed session" we'll introduce you to the Inventory from both the student and staff perspectives and talk about how you can set up an instance specifically for your class, cohort, club, student staff, advisees, etc...  

  Learn how the Inventory can collect feedback from supervisors and generate LinkedIn badges backed by the National Association for Colleges & Employers.

• Ask UVM | Pillar 1: Ensure Accessible Student Success

  UVM is debuting a new integrated student service referral hub, Ask UVM, in Fall 2026. Learn more about Ask UVM and the technology infrastructure that will support it in this overview session. Jennifer Fath, Associate Registrar, Veronika Carter, Registrar, and members of the Navigate team will offer insights in the goals for this project and the work done thus far.

• Q & A

  We'll wrap up with time and space for your ideas and questions...