Engagement is...

...a beginning.  As someone who studied and continues to study dialogue and discourse in graduate student research, I know that any conversation and any real change begins with engagement.

 

...people coming together.  When someone says "I'm going to get engaged!" they usually also mean they're going to get engaged with other people.

 

...fun!  From intermurals, to Students Teaching Students dialogues, to Grad Ball, engagement brings joy and self-fulfillment.

 

...hard.  With the help of friends and colleagues, I've built organizations from the ground up based on the principle of engagement.  Student apathy and complacency are real.  The job market is real.  To succeed and flourish in any endeavor; to create the friendships that last a lifetime; to get a job doing whatever it is you love; you must engage!  We must engage!

 

...rewarding.  I think every teacher, faculty member, and administrator at the Faculty of Education agrees on one thing, that engagement is rewarding.  Whether it be through teaching and changing the lives of students, conducting professional research, or whatever you dream up.

 

...a choice.  In order to reap any of the benefits of engagement, you must choose to do it.  Over and above all the other wonderful, thoughtful candidates running for this position, I promise to give you choice and the structures to engage.

 

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