Impact Lab
The CPP Impact Lab will bring together deep student desire to learn by doing. Students will participate in group and individual project building, personal career coaching, experience workshops centered on the focus field that are guided by the Impact Lab Professional-in-Residence.
The Impact Lab will bring together innovative work from across the campus by allowing students to complete interdisciplinary research and networking along with programmed events, informal dinners and excursions, as well as applications for internal funding dedicated specifically to the Impact Lab participants. The Impact Lab will enroll 20 students each semester.
Impact Lab & Affiliated Professionals and Faculty
CPP Impact Lab will provide a physical space, dedicated integration into the GEP in the form of academic credit, and appropriate funding for students and faculty mentors to work together with deep idea thinking in their fields. The Impact Lab will be linked to the GEP (General Education Program) in ways that entice students to consider interdisciplinary connections to their career communities by bringing in as much external insight as possible – including sessions with alumni in all sectors, long term external partnerships in Newton County and Decatur, professionals in the non-profit sector as well as entrepreneurs, lifelong philanthropists, and many other partners in the Oxford College community. The co-learning and co-teaching space will be extraordinarily unique by combining multiple opportunities for insight and innovation centered around a shared project or theme.
The Impact Lab will be supported by the Impact Lab Professional-in-Residence, who will be a visiting expert in a field, qualified to offer courses but to also engage with our students in ways outside of critical content delivery. The Impact Lab Professional-in-Residence will guide our students towards new ways of thinking and doing, will provide multiple experiential moments tied to personal pathways for our students but more importantly will offer students a human story that may challenge the well-laid plan that most arrive with at our doors. Deep experiences with the PIR will encourage intellectual nimbleness in our students and help personalize what a life dedicated to the core field can look like – and hopefully that story is one that also illustrates balance and readiness, grit and resilience, but most importantly, purpose. Impact Lab Professional-in-Residence will primarily work with the Impact Lab but will also serve the campus community at large with strategic programming and engagement with the students and faculty.
Meet The Impact Lab Professionals-in-Residence
The Fall 2024 - Pathways in Film, Media, & Business
Scott Garner
Scott Garner is a senior programming and brand strategist with 25 years of experience in content curation, marketing, and research for leading Fortune 500 companies.
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Lea Anne Jackson
Lea-Anne Jackson has worked in television for three decades, launching newscasts, news talent, marketing television brands, shows, and news including CBS, FOX, NBC, and the CW.
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Impact Lab Student Benefits
- 1:1 Coaching on Class to Career transitions within the Impact Field of the AY.
- Seed money to realize projects related to the field that immediately benefit the Oxford community or external partnerships.
- Monthly dinners with FIR as well as other external partners to network, share insight and build relationships.
- Shadowing opportunities with Oxford alumni that deepen curricular experience.
- Dedicated workspace on campus.
- Hands on work that cements connections from the Lab to the world.