Robin Stubblefield
Director of Student Engagement and Co-Curricular Learning, University of Minnesota
Robin Stubblefield is the Director of Student Engagement & Co-Curricular Learning in Student Affairs at the University of Minnesota, where she leads and promotes initiatives that advance student engagement for undergraduate students. She directs the coordination of the university's "Creating a Strengths-Based Campus Initiative," which is designed to help students maximize their undergraduate experience. For the next three years, this program will provide the opportunity for more than 5,300 incoming freshman each year to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment and engage in strengths-based experiences across campus. Starting in fall 2012, more than 2,500 transfer students will also participate in the program.
Robin partners with staff, faculty, and students across campus to promote and integrate a strengths approach into student services, academics, housing and residential life, student employment, leadership development, and student and staff communications. Robin currently serves as co-chair of the university's Strengths Research and Assessment Working Group, which has created a model and assessment plan to measure the impact of the strengths initiative at the university.
Prior to joining Student Affairs in 2010, Robin served as a a career counselor and instructor for the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts Career Center and as a a career counselor at Macalester College. Robin has presented at local and regional conferences and served on many boards and committees in higher education and in the community. Prior to working in higher education, Robin was co-owner of a small business; she also worked in recruiting and human resource roles in the business sector.
Robin received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the College of St. Benedict and her master's degree in counseling and student personnel psychology from the University of Minnesota. Her top five talent themes, as identified by the Clifton StrengthsFinder, are Relator, Communication, Connectedness, Ideation, and Restorative.
