Virtual Series: Fall 2025 Coalition Conversations: Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed – Dec 5

Posted by Campus Compact on November 25, 2025

Campus Compact invites you to attend our free, final Navigating Uncertainty webinar series for the semester (How Moments of Challenge and Burnout Can Transform into Cultures of Well-Being) on Friday, December 5th, from 12:00-1:00 P.M. EST.

As colleges and universities close out 2025 and reflect on the past year, many campuses are facing increased mental health crises among students and staff, budget cuts and canceled services, and a faculty and administration that are as burned out as the communities they lead. Navigating uncertainty is not only about what we are navigating in this moment but also how we are navigating this new era.

In this upcoming Navigating Uncertainty, we are going to bring together three experts: a researcher, a journalist, and a higher education administrator to help us reflect on the effect the past few years has had on our well-being, discuss trends and strategies we are seeing nationally to fight to maintain holistic campus cultures, and provide a tangible example of how you can begin to face and transform your own campus culture as we head into 2026.

Join us for a conversation where we can honestly acknowledge the toll this year has taken, while earnestly remembering that another way is possible. As we close out 2025, burnout does not have to have the last word. A better way forward is out there, and you can join us to learn more about how we might begin walking towards it together in 2026.

Learn more and register.

Special guests include:

Dr. Sean Flangan serves as the Vice President of Research and Evaluation at America’s Promise. In his role, Sean leads America’s Promise’s research, measurement, and impact evaluation initiatives, including collaboratively developing and implementing an Alliance-wide research agenda aimed at investigating how America’s Promise’s—together with Alliance members, communities, and young people themselves—can bring about the kind of systemic change necessary to meet our national commitment to young people. Sean is passionate about conducting and translating applied youth-centered research devoted toward understanding how to create the conditions for young people to thrive academically, socially, and economically. Marjorie Malpiede is editor-in-chief of LearningWell Magazine. LearningWell magazine is published by the LearningWell Coalition, an organization dedicated to examining how higher education experiences can lead to improved wellbeing both on campus and throughout one’s lifetime. Through news and research reporting, expert opinion, and storytelling, LearningWell provides readers with information, evidence, and inspiration to help young people live and learn well. As a journalist and strategist, she has over 30 years of leadership experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors working with public agencies, campaigns, private companies, and non-profit organizations on policy, communications, and government relations.

Dr. Gwen Cash-James serves as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Eastern Washington University. She oversees professional and leadership development for faculty, weaving evidence-based practice with tools chairs and other faculty can use tomorrow. Her through-line is simple: clear structures, humane leadership, and practical habits that help faculty thrive in the workplace. Outside of her work at EWU, Gwen has served for more than 10 years as a peer evaluator for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Prior to her arrival at EWU, she served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Spokane Community Colleges and as a tenured English faculty member within Washington’s community colleges.