The 3rd Annual Building A Legacy Conference will be held on Saturday, March 20th!
This year's conference will look a little different so stay tuned as we release more info! Below you can see this year's general schedule and our students/guests for this year's conference.
Register today! Head to Eventbrite to reserve your spot.
Learn more about the conference tracks and possible session topics here.
Deadline to reserve your spot is Friday, March 12th @ 11:59pm EST
Students who wish to apply to leadership positions across campus should highly consider coming to the conference.
Attendance will be considered on all applications for the 2021-2022 academic year.
If you have questions regarding the conference, please e-mail us at mpaglicc@daemen.edu.
Committee Members
- Therese Bass, Director of Disability Services
- Kathryn Hammer, Director of Alumni Relations
- Heather Maclin, Director of Student Activities
- Akira McCalla, Student - Health Promotion
- Dr. Greg Nayor, Vice President for Student Affairs and Strategic Initiatives
- Kimberly Pagano, Assistant Dean for Student Engagement & Instructor
- Michael Paglicci, Assistant Director for Student Activities
- Kerry Spicer, Dean of Students
2021 Conference Agenda
9:15am -- 9:45am
Conference Check-In
Location: Duns Scotus Lobby
9:50am -- 10:00am
Welcome
Location: Various
10:10am -- 11:00am
Breakout Sessions #1
Location: Various
11:10am -- 12:00pm
Breakout Sessions #2
12:00 -- 1:30pm
Lunch & Panel
Location: Various
Panel Topics: Self-Advocacy, Empathy, and Adaptability
Moderator: TBA
Panelists: Kiara M. Dreyer, LMSW '20 | Michael Patane, MSPAS, PA-C '05 | Anibal Soler, Jr. '00 | Lucy Turnage '98
1:40pm -- 2:30pm
Breakout Sessions #3
Location: Various
2:30pm -- 2:40pm
Post-Conference Evaluations
Location: Various
2:40pm -- 2:45pm
Conference Wrap Up
Distinguished & Featured Guests
Throughout the conference there will be a number of guests that the committee has invited to speak on relevant topics happening all around us. Below, you can find information on last year's guests.
Student Presenters
Below are last year's incredible student presenters and a brief description of their presentation.
Session Description:
This presentation will explain how clearly defining one’s priorities then managing one's time so it can be spent on those priorities leads to effective leaders. Tips will be given on how to do so, and a handout with a prioritization exercise will provide interaction and personal application for each attendee.
Session Description:
During our presentation titled Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries, we will discuss a variety of topics related to approaching cultural differences. In this session, we will discuss the importance of grounding yourself, the effects of culture shock, microagressions, and most importantly how you as a student leader can create a safe environment for students to thrive in. We will create an engaging and constructive space for our audience through activities and discussions, providing them with the tools to do the same for other students.
Session Description:
During our presentation titled Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries, we will discuss a variety of topics related to approaching cultural differences. In this session, we will discuss the importance of grounding yourself, the effects of culture shock, microagressions, and most importantly how you as a student leader can create a safe environment for students to thrive in. We will create an engaging and constructive space for our audience through activities and discussions, providing them with the tools to do the same for other students.
Session Description:
In my session I want to teach people about afrobeat and how dancing helped me in the long run, coming from where I was born in Tanzania mtabila, where I had to dance to just win a bar of soap or a jug of water to bring home to the family. Dancing helped me become a leader, I now am confident enough to teach African dance and embrace it. I want to influence others to become a leader through their passion.
Session Description:
This presentation is to discuss and explain the roles of a student-athlete, student leaders, and how important it is to integrate these roles on campus. Sometimes there is a disconnect between student leaders and student-athletes on campus. Having a student-athlete be a member of a student-led organization or on-campus group can help nurture the relationship between departments and student-activities, which further encourages collaboration and showcasing all students.
Session Description:
This presentation is to discuss and explain the roles of a student-athlete, student leaders, and how important it is to integrate these roles on campus. Sometimes there is a disconnect between student leaders and student-athletes on campus. Having a student-athlete be a member of a student-led organization or on-campus group can help nurture the relationship between departments and student-activities, which further encourages collaboration and showcasing all students.
Session Description:
In the second Avengers movie, as they will have to battle one of the strongest armies in the universe, Iron Man expresses his concern: “We'll lose,” Captain America responds: “Then we'll do that together too.” This is when a fictional action movie delivers one of the most important philosophies of working as a team: we succeed and fail together. The plots and lines of the movies in this amazing franchise have divulged a plethora of implications for teamwork, resilience, and leadership. Thus this presentation, utilizing scenes and quotes from the Avengers movies, will present strategies to be a student leader based on Psychology books, research, and the presenters' personal experiences.
Session Description:
Budgeting and managing money is difficult to do as a college student; especially when you're budgeting for a club or organization. Many factors contribute to poor money management skills. Managing money might be tough to master but with the money management tips presented in this session I will be giving attendees the necessary roadmap to financial success.
Session Description:
This session will be geared to students who are preparing to graduate. We will discuss the types of leadership skills students develop while holding student leader positions on campus. Additionally, we will discuss how skills from these positions can be used after graduation in a future career path.
Session Description:
This session will be geared to students who are preparing to graduate. We will discuss the types of leadership skills students develop while holding student leader positions on campus. Additionally, we will discuss how skills from these positions can be used after graduation in a future career path.
Session Description:
Everyday we meet new people and have new experiences that shape how we perceive the world and those in it. A bias can be formed within five seconds of meeting a person and that bias shapes how you interact with that person. I plan to go over the different kinds of bias and how they can form. As a person in a leadership role bias can affect our decision-making processes in several different kinds of ways, that I will mention. It is my goal that by the end of the presentation for my audience to take more than five seconds to decide what kind of person they are dealing with and to be able to react in the most effective way as a leader and as a role model.
Session Description:
In my session I will be talking about the creation of Wildcat Media & Entertainment (W.M.E). W.M.E. is a student run and operated organization that strives to engage members of the campus community in activities that promote artistic expression, celebrate diversity, and teach the use of multimedia technologies; covering everything from Daemen Sports, all the way down to Film, Music, and Podcast Production. I will be discussing what it takes to create a student club/organization from scratch and the vision required to take an idea from conception to reality.