Educators
Strategies for Building Ethical Leadership Competencies in a Co-Curricular Environment
Webinar This webinar will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Employers want to hire graduates who have developed competencies not always taught in the classroom, but often struggle to access data deeper than a student’s resume and GPA. To address this, Alla Hatfi eld (Director of Engagement & Outreach) and Shawn Dommer (Director of Co-Curricular Programs) developed The Smeal Ethical Leadership Challenge (SELC). SELC is a prestigious initiative designed to elevate the student experience by engaging undergraduate students in rich co-curricular and experiential learning opportunities throughout their education. The SELC program focuses on building leadership skills and professional competencies while emphasizing ethics and integrity. Primarily targeted at first-year students. Student participants complete experiences to earn digital badges in Personal and Professional Development, Communication, Collaboration, Service to Others, and Strategic Planning. Tune in to learn more about their program’s structure, dive into their best practices for engaging students in an optional program, and check out core Suitable features that help them perform indirect assessments on their students’ learning.
This event will provide:
- Best practices for implementing a comprehensive co-curricular engagement program and how to foster student adoption.
- An inside look at SELC’s chosen competencies, experiences, and digital badges.
- Insights into how they use indirect assessment to evaluate programming effectiveness.
- Strategies for utilizing Suitable to drive more student engagement and completion.
- Live Q&A with the presenters.
Speakers
Shawn Dommer is the Assistant Director for Co-Curricular Engagement at the Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State. Shawn primarily works with undergraduate students in the Smeal Ethical Leadership Challenge, increasing enrollment from 197 students to 1946 students over 4 years. Shawn also helps develop and cultivate Smeal’s culture of honor and integrity by collaborating in leadership development in Smeal’s student organizations and advising the Smeal Integrity Advocates. In over 15 years of experience in higher education, Shawn has led several teams in areas such as placement testing, transfer of credit, admissions reviews, and academic advising, being named the top academic advising team by Poets and Quants in 2020 at the Scheller College of Business. He has also taught and designed several versions of first-year seminars over his career.
Alla Hatfield has dedicated the past decade of her career to developing co-curricular initiatives focused on supporting and enhancing Smeal College of Business Undergraduate students’ educational experience. Her areas of expertise include peer mentoring, business ethics, student leadership development, professional academic advising, achievement and competency badging systems, students in transition, and student development in general. In her current role as the Director of Engagement and Outreach, Alla leads various programs, including Smeal Student Mentors, the Smeal Ethical Leadership Challenge, Smeal Major Exploration, Commonwealth Campus Outreach, while also overseeing an academic advising team.
Alec Leidy is a Client Success Manager at Suitable, where he guides university partners through product implementation and provides strategic advice on usage and best practices. Alec earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology (2017) and Master’s in Student Affairs in Higher Education (2022) from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Suitable in early 2024, he spent nearly five years in Residence Life and Housing at Kutztown, building a strong foundation in student support and higher education operations.
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