Panel Discussion
08/22/2025
Drawing on personal and professional experiences, panelists will introduce the 2025-26 civic engagement theme, which focuses on how to serve and understand the diverse communities around us.
University Panel to Discuss Civic Engagement Theme
A panel of СŴý faculty, staff, alumni and current students will present “Who is My Neighbor? Knowing, Loving, and Serving Our Neighbors” during Bluffton’s Civic Engagement Theme Introduction Forum at 11 a.m. on Sept. 2 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Panelists will include DeLaney Begley ’28; Christy Garmatter ’07, MAEd ’04, director of student success and tutoring coordinator; Dr. Sarah Lehman, associate professor of biology; James Grandey, athletics director and head baseball coach; and Dr. Walt Paquin, director of social work program and professor of social work.
Drawing on personal and professional experiences, panelists will introduce the 2025-26 civic engagement theme, which focuses on how to serve and understand the diverse communities around us.
This Forum is free and open to the public. Forum at СŴý provides a public space for interdisciplinary discovery about the personal, local and global challenges faced by students, faculty, staff and the Bluffton community.