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What’s it like to live at Saint Anselm? Here you can lead, sing, play, volunteer—do whatever it is that you love to do. There’s great food, nature to explore, the city of Manchester, unique people to get to know, and more than 80 clubs and organizations to join!
80 +
clubs and organizations
84 %
of students are involved in at least one club, organization, or committee
94 %
of undergraduate students live on campus
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Anselmian Events
August 4-6, 2026
Grappone Hall, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
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Program Description:
School nurses play a critical role in supporting the health, safety, and academic success of students with increasingly complex medical and psychosocial needs. As the scope of school nursing practice continues to expand, there is a growing need for both foundational knowledge and advanced clinical and leadership skills.
This three-day conference, From Essentials to Excellence: Advancing School Nursing Practice, is designed to support school nurses at all stages of their professional journey. The program begins with a full-day immersive workshop focused on Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), offering hands-on, skills-based learning to enhance confidence in managing students with diabetes in the school setting.
Days two and three feature a dynamic mix of plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and interactive workshops. Participants may follow an “Essentials” track tailored for nurses new to school nursing or select from a variety of sessions addressing complex clinical scenarios, emerging health concerns, and practical skills such as injury triage, emergency response, and care coordination. Additional topics include mental health, chronic conditions such as POTS, and the integration of new tools and technologies to support practice.
The conference includes nationally recognized speakers, including keynote presenter Wendy Wright, along with opportunities for hands-on learning, peer connection, and engagement with industry partners. This program is designed to equip school nurses with the knowledge, confidence, and practical strategies needed to provide safe, effective, and student-centered care in today’s school environments.
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Target Audience:
This program is designed for registered nurses practicing in school settings, including elementary, middle, and high school nurses. It is also appropriate for nurses transitioning into school nursing, substitute or per diem school nurses, and nurses working in roles that support school health services. The program offers content relevant to both novice and experienced school nurses, with dedicated sessions for foundational knowledge as well as advanced clinical topics and hands-on skill development.
Learning Outcome:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will increase their knowledge of school nursing practice related to clinical care, care coordination, and student health management, and describe one evidence-based strategy they can apply to support safe and effective care in the school setting.
Keynote Speakers:
- Joe Solowiejczyk, RN, MSW, CNE
- Wendy L. Wright, DNP, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP
- Erin Harlow-Parker, APRN, PMHCNS-BC
Pricing:
- 3 day price $399 / Early Bird $385
- 2 day price $319 / Early Bird $ 299
- 1 day price $249 / Early Bird $229
Early Bird Pricing Ends 06/15/2026
Contact Hours: 17.5
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10am-1pm
Join us for an exciting TAP WORKSHOP designed for dancers who want to grow, move, create, and have fun in a supportive environment! Three hours a day for three days! We will really grow.
This workshop will focus on:
• Learning interesting tap choreography
• Improving rhythm, clarity, musicality, and technique
• Building confidence in improvisation
• Breaking improvisation down in a simple, creative, and FUN way
• Exploring movement, expression, and personal style
This workshop is designed to inspire, challenge, and encourage every dancer.
Come dance, learn, create, and make some music with us!
Single Day Pass: $119
Three Day Pass: $299
* Please note: This wrokshop is for intermediate and advanced dancers.
Event details for Aaron Tolson Institute of Dance Presents: Summer Fun Tap Workshop
10am-1pm
Join us for an exciting TAP WORKSHOP designed for dancers who want to grow, move, create, and have fun in a supportive environment! Three hours a day for three days! We will really grow.
This workshop will focus on:
• Learning interesting tap choreography
• Improving rhythm, clarity, musicality, and technique
• Building confidence in improvisation
• Breaking improvisation down in a simple, creative, and FUN way
• Exploring movement, expression, and personal style
This workshop is designed to inspire, challenge, and encourage every dancer.
Come dance, learn, create, and make some music with us!
Single Day Pass: $119
Three Day Pass: $299
* Please note: This wrokshop is for intermediate and advanced dancers.
Event details for Aaron Tolson Institute of Dance Presents: Summer Fun Tap Workshop
Event Description:
- Monday August 17, 2026
- 8:00am - 4:30pm
- Contact Hours: 5.75
- Format: Live, In person event
- Location: Grappone Hall, Saint Anselm College, Manchester NH
- Cost: $289
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Program Description:
This interactive one-day workshop is designed for nurses transitioning into or currently serving as clinical faculty in academic and healthcare settings.
Participants will gain essential skills and strategies to enhance their effectiveness as clinical educators, including methods to foster clinical judgment, effective communication and evaluation techniques, the art of debriefing, and best practices for delivering constructive feedback.
Through scenario-based exercises, group discussions, and guided reflections, attendees will engage in hands-on learning to build confidence in managing common clinical teaching challenges. The program will also provide access to valuable resources, including toolkits and templates.
Learning Outcome:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to articulate the core responsibilities and expectations of clinical nursing faculty in academia, describe strategies to foster clinical judgment and critical thinking skills in nursing students, apply effective debriefing techniques to facilitate reflective learning, compare constructive and ineffective feedback approaches, access resources for continued development such as toolkits, templates, and mentor relationships.
Event details for Clinical Faculty Development: An Interactive Workshop
The practice of holistic nursing calls for deep integration of knowledge, presence, and intentional practice. In today’s complex healthcare environment, nurses are increasingly challenged to sustain their well-being while providing compassionate, patient-centered care.
The conference, again, is being held at The Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport, Maine.
This immersive, multi-day conference, Embodied Holism: Living Knowledge, Presence, and Practice, invites participants to explore holistic nursing as both a professional framework and a personal practice. Through a combination of didactic sessions, experiential learning, and reflective activities, participants will examine foundational theories such as Watson’s Caring Science, explore integrative approaches to supporting patient and caregiver well-being, and engage in practices that promote self-awareness, emotional resilience, and professional sustainability.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in hands-on learning, including techniques to ease suffering through therapeutic touch, reflective practices such as journaling and creative expression, and strategies to foster empowerment, boundary setting, and holistic approaches to care.
Set within a supportive and restorative environment, this conference is designed to nurture the whole nurse—enhancing the capacity to lead, care, and practice with presence, intention, and impact.
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This is a four-part course. All four courses are required to earn the certificate. You do not have to sign up for all four courses at once. The four courses can be taken in any order.
DESCRIPTION: This innovative online certificate program is designed to explore the various components necessary to develop and run simulation scenarios within an academic or clinical setting.
WHO: Any nurse practicing in an education role who is interested in developing or working in a simulation program. This would be applicable to nurse educators in academia or healthcare facilities, preceptors, mentors, or staff nurses who are interested in learning more about this teaching pedagogy.
WHY: The content will provide the nuts and bolts of simulation to include how to assess educational needs, develop, implement and evaluate simulation experiences.
WHAT: In order to receive this 60-hour certificate (equal to 60 contact hours), completion of the four modules is required. Each module is 15 contact hours and is taught in an online format: 6 hours virtual live webinar, 9 hours online utilizing discussion boards and case studies, and required reading over the course of 4 weeks in an asynchronous manner.
Module 3: Desiging and Implementing Simulation Scenarios
Topics: nursing education simulation framework incorporating roles of facilitator and participant, educational practices, simulation outcomes and design characteristics.
Learning Outcome: Upon successful completion of this module, the participant will be able to discuss the important components of simulation design and important aspects to consider for simulation scenario implementation in both the hospital and academic settings
Agenda for Live Day:
- Session 1: Components of the NLN/Jeffries Simulation Theory and the INACSL Standards for Best Practice: Simulation Design
- Session 2: Fidelity in Simulation: The physical, conceptual, and psychological components of fidelity
- Session 3: The constructs of participant, facilitator, and educational practices as they relate to simulation scenario design and implementation
- 4 weeks of Readings and Discussion Board Posts and Responses on the Canvas LMS platform
September 30- October 27, 2026, live virtual webinar on September 30, 2026
Cost: $350
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Event details for Healthcare Simulation Educator Certificate
Make yourself at home
More than 90% of the student body resides on the Hilltop, which makes sense because campus is where all the best stuff happens.
Some of our favorite traditions
With over 130 years of history, time-honored traditions are a part of everyday life on the Hilltop.
• Your class banner will hang in Davison until commencement week
• Enter the annual Gingerbread House Competition
• Help raise over $100,000 annually by participating in Relay for Life
• Spread holiday cheer by dining with friends during the Christmas Feast
• Honor the bard with a day of sonnet reading on Shakespeare’s Birthday
Out and About in the Queen City
Less than 3 miles away, downtown Manchester offers students all kinds of fun from concerts and baseball games to taco tours and coffee shops.
Facing Mental Health
Moving out of a pandemic and into a post-pandemic world, where uncertainty is often the only constant, a group of dedicated students and their advisor help peers recognize, navigate, and discuss the many layers of mental health.
