Hevenly Dacus has over 3 years of experience in student affairs roles at Toccoa Falls College, including Campus Life Chair, Resident Assistant, and Academic Tutor. She has led teams, created campus events, mediated conflicts, advocated for students, and adapted to diverse learners. Dacus earned a B.S. in Counseling Psychology from Toccoa Falls College in 2017, and has training in victim advocacy, identifying signs of abuse, and crisis management.
Rwanda: Collaborating with Faculty to Build Student Engagement AbroadCIEE
In 2012, a faculty-staff team from Hamline University led a course in Rwanda. Support from their International and Off Campus Programs later enabled the faculty member to visit a Rwandan university. As a result, in 2016, students from the home institution collaborated with Rwandan students to create a workshop. In Rwanda, U.S. students presented on youth involvement in the 1960s civil rights movement and Rwandan students presented on youth involvement in post-genocide reconciliation. During this session, a faculty, staff, and student team will instruct participants in how to create a collaborative environment that leads to meaningful student engagement, using the Rwanda project as an example. Participants will leave the session with concrete information about successful programs for faculty-staff collaboration and how such programs can build student engagement abroad.
Innovative Approaches to Inuit Learning Webinar, Powerpoint Presentation by Jodie Lane, Education Counsellor for Nunatsiavut Government on April 18, 2013
Rwanda: Collaborating with Faculty to Build Student Engagement AbroadCIEE
In 2012, a faculty-staff team from Hamline University led a course in Rwanda. Support from their International and Off Campus Programs later enabled the faculty member to visit a Rwandan university. As a result, in 2016, students from the home institution collaborated with Rwandan students to create a workshop. In Rwanda, U.S. students presented on youth involvement in the 1960s civil rights movement and Rwandan students presented on youth involvement in post-genocide reconciliation. During this session, a faculty, staff, and student team will instruct participants in how to create a collaborative environment that leads to meaningful student engagement, using the Rwanda project as an example. Participants will leave the session with concrete information about successful programs for faculty-staff collaboration and how such programs can build student engagement abroad.
Innovative Approaches to Inuit Learning Webinar, Powerpoint Presentation by Jodie Lane, Education Counsellor for Nunatsiavut Government on April 18, 2013
Getting Real with Diversity Outreach: A Practical Toolkit for Promoting Study...CIEE
Reaching underrepresented student populations in education abroad is something most universities strive for, but can find difficult to execute in practice. During this session, presenters – who represent the 11th most ethnically diverse university in the U.S. – will help you identify new and creative outlets for outreach to underrepresented populations at your institution. We'll also explore how to foster connections with key departments and identify study abroad program types that draw diverse student participants in the hopes of empowering underrepresented students to overcome actual and perceived barriers to study abroad.
An introduction to the Pacific Islands Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) Program housed within the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Presented by Sharon Ziegler-Chong, Director of PIPES, at the 2012 Hawaii Environmental Education Symposium Green Jobs in Hawaii session.
Engaging Generation Z: Integrating Global and Local Vision, Structure, and In...CIEE
How are universities responding to two recent paradigm shifts impacting global education? First, there is a generational change between millennials and the new cohort known as K or Z. While our current traditional undergraduates may be more anxious, skeptical, and know only smartphones, they also crave connection and are makers, creators, and inventors. (“Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher.” The Guardian, March 19, 2016) The second shift is the increased fluidity between global and local interactions and groups. As classrooms continue to diversify with international and first-generation students, the university community – students, faculty, and staff – must obtain and demonstrate intercultural agility, curiosity, and empathy to navigate the complexities of the contemporary world. This session addresses how the University of St. Thomas has implemented into its administrative structure an innovative partnership between faculty from diverse disciplines and education abroad professionals to address the new realities of global and local engagement that respond to the world’s most pressing needs.
Innovations for Advancing Faculty Engagement and Curriculum IntegrationCIEE
This highly interactive session will showcase a range of innovative data-driven tools, new research, and other initiatives that have been leveraged successfully to advance faculty engagement in U.S. education abroad. Panelists will provide examples from numerous institutional contexts to ensure broad appeal and potential replication including: data-driven approach to curriculum integration (CI); research on leveraging education abroad as a high-impact practice linked to student retention, persistence, and academic performance; and creative ways study abroad providers support faculty engagement and curriculum integration efforts.
Panel Presentation
Ms Danielle Wolf, SDSN Student, Western Sydney University
Asia-Pacific Regional RCE Meeting 2018
25-27 September, 2018, Parramatta (Sydney), Australia
Exploring the Craft of the Educator: Reflections on the Winter 2016 IFDS in B...CIEE
During this session, panelists will share reflections on the outcomes of a winter CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar (IFDS) in Buenos Aires, the first IFDS to focus on the intersection of intercultural learning and language learning. While participants learned how to design activities to help language students learn and grow through intercultural experiences, the distinctive design of the seminar allowed participants to also focus on their own intercultural development and gain a deeper, more holistic understanding of the intercultural learning process. Participants of this session will learn how this IFDS accomplished its goals, as well as how three IFDS participants designed takeaways that are helping them to incorporate intercultural learning in the design of their own and their colleagues’ study abroad programs and their on-campus curricular and co-curricular programming.
SICC is the most reputed among the best B.Com/Commerce colleges in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Here the students get the opportunity to interact with the best brains of the country. SICC students participate in national and international conferences and seminars and broaden their knowledge. It is definitely the best college of commerce in Eastern India that offers 360 degrees practical and comprehensive education.
To know more about SICC follow their Official Website – www. sicc.in
Getting Real with Diversity Outreach: A Practical Toolkit for Promoting Study...CIEE
Reaching underrepresented student populations in education abroad is something most universities strive for, but can find difficult to execute in practice. During this session, presenters – who represent the 11th most ethnically diverse university in the U.S. – will help you identify new and creative outlets for outreach to underrepresented populations at your institution. We'll also explore how to foster connections with key departments and identify study abroad program types that draw diverse student participants in the hopes of empowering underrepresented students to overcome actual and perceived barriers to study abroad.
An introduction to the Pacific Islands Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) Program housed within the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Presented by Sharon Ziegler-Chong, Director of PIPES, at the 2012 Hawaii Environmental Education Symposium Green Jobs in Hawaii session.
Engaging Generation Z: Integrating Global and Local Vision, Structure, and In...CIEE
How are universities responding to two recent paradigm shifts impacting global education? First, there is a generational change between millennials and the new cohort known as K or Z. While our current traditional undergraduates may be more anxious, skeptical, and know only smartphones, they also crave connection and are makers, creators, and inventors. (“Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher.” The Guardian, March 19, 2016) The second shift is the increased fluidity between global and local interactions and groups. As classrooms continue to diversify with international and first-generation students, the university community – students, faculty, and staff – must obtain and demonstrate intercultural agility, curiosity, and empathy to navigate the complexities of the contemporary world. This session addresses how the University of St. Thomas has implemented into its administrative structure an innovative partnership between faculty from diverse disciplines and education abroad professionals to address the new realities of global and local engagement that respond to the world’s most pressing needs.
Innovations for Advancing Faculty Engagement and Curriculum IntegrationCIEE
This highly interactive session will showcase a range of innovative data-driven tools, new research, and other initiatives that have been leveraged successfully to advance faculty engagement in U.S. education abroad. Panelists will provide examples from numerous institutional contexts to ensure broad appeal and potential replication including: data-driven approach to curriculum integration (CI); research on leveraging education abroad as a high-impact practice linked to student retention, persistence, and academic performance; and creative ways study abroad providers support faculty engagement and curriculum integration efforts.
Panel Presentation
Ms Danielle Wolf, SDSN Student, Western Sydney University
Asia-Pacific Regional RCE Meeting 2018
25-27 September, 2018, Parramatta (Sydney), Australia
Exploring the Craft of the Educator: Reflections on the Winter 2016 IFDS in B...CIEE
During this session, panelists will share reflections on the outcomes of a winter CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar (IFDS) in Buenos Aires, the first IFDS to focus on the intersection of intercultural learning and language learning. While participants learned how to design activities to help language students learn and grow through intercultural experiences, the distinctive design of the seminar allowed participants to also focus on their own intercultural development and gain a deeper, more holistic understanding of the intercultural learning process. Participants of this session will learn how this IFDS accomplished its goals, as well as how three IFDS participants designed takeaways that are helping them to incorporate intercultural learning in the design of their own and their colleagues’ study abroad programs and their on-campus curricular and co-curricular programming.
SICC is the most reputed among the best B.Com/Commerce colleges in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Here the students get the opportunity to interact with the best brains of the country. SICC students participate in national and international conferences and seminars and broaden their knowledge. It is definitely the best college of commerce in Eastern India that offers 360 degrees practical and comprehensive education.
To know more about SICC follow their Official Website – www. sicc.in
Presented at the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) 2010 Institute in Napperville, Illinois @ North Central College.
Best practices in learning center management are difficult to define. Learning centers are multifaceted and complex, varying according to student demographics, institutional structures, facilities, funding, programs/services, staff expertise/size, and a myriad of other factors. This presentation will introduce participants to some models of best practices in order to spark conversation, promote reflection, provide insight, and point participants to resources to be explored within their own institutional contexts.
Division Meeting - March 19, 2021
UofSC Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support
"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Achievement Task Force Review Session"
presented by Silvia Patricia Rios-Husain, Student Success; Alisa Liggett, Student Conduct and Academic Integrity; Jerome Scott, Student Government; and Joe Fortune, University Housing
1. Hevenly Dacus
770-773-6248
— Relevant Experience —
|Campus Life Chair | Division of Student Affairs | Toccoa Falls College |
August 2016— Present
Managed a team of 12 members
Lead weekly brainstorming sessions
Budgeted $25,000 for year long campus wide events
Created programming for 700 students
Facilitated leadership opportunities for team members
|Resident Assistant | Division of Student Affairs| Toccoa Falls College |
August 2014— May 2016
Mediated conflict between residents and co-workers
Stewarded college resources
Intervened crisis situations
Created Mentorship programs for residents
Advocated for the needs of residents
|Tutor | Center for Academic Success | Toccoa Falls College |
August 2015– Present
Adapted to an array of learning styles, capabilities, and cultural
backgrounds.
Created an atmosphere of unconditional professionalism
Conveyed the need for correction appropriately
Maintained the knowledge necessary to help others
Education
hevenlydacus@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/hevenlydacus
My overall experience includes crisis management, delegation, policy en-
forcement, budgeting, stewardship, programming, publicizing, and problem
solving.
B.S. Counseling Psychology
Toccoa Falls College
May, 13th, 2017
Skills
Victim's Advocacy Training
Darkness to Light
Training
Problem Solving
Generating Ideas
Anticipating Needs
Crisis Management
