Description:

Families with high school and/or college-aged children are invited to a panel discussion about choosing college “Jewishly.”  Panelists include local professionals in college admissions and in campus Jewish life, along with Jewish students currently navigating college themselves. This program is particularly timely given recent developments on college campuses, and their impact on Jewish students. Brief presentations will precede a Q&A session, during which teens and parents may ask questions regarding the intersection between Judaism and the college experience.  The evening will be informational and fun, an opportunity to socialize and learn.  A vegetarian dinner will be served.  Please join us, whether you are experienced with the college search or are just beginning to ponder it.

Panelists:



Jodi Rosenshein Atkin, MA has been an educational consultant for over ten years. She is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, as well as a member of the American Institute of Certified Educational Planners. Jodi has guided hundreds of students and families through the ever-changing college admissions process and is a popular speaker at professional conferences and on national podcasts.




Joy Getnick, PhD is the Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Rochester. Her prior role was as the Senior Director of Programming and Jewish Life at the Louis S. Wolk JCC of Greater Rochester, including as the founding director of the Camp Seneca Lake (CSL) summer program in Israel for teens.  She is an ADL "Words to Action" Facilitator, and in her capacity at Hillel at the University of Rochester is often involved in equity, inclusion, and justice-related education and policy work around antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and conversations about Israel and the Conflict.  A historian by training, she is the author of the Melton “Beyond Borders” course on the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and spent many years teaching part-time in the SUNY Geneseo Department of History.  She lives in Pittsford with her husband and two sons and loves to bake and celebrate her way through the four seasons and Jewish year.



Julianne H. Miller, MA, Assistant Director, Hillel Advisor and Interfaith Programs in Center for Spirituality at Nazareth University, works with emerging adults to help them form an independent Jewish identity, find and build community, and explore the intersections between their Jewish identities and their academic and co-curricular interests.  Julianne was formerly the Hillel Adviser and Director of The Abbe Center for Jewish Life at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.