To help Keene State students develop a sense of belonging and connection with our college community, a diverse group of KSC administrators, faculty, and staff have created a program aimed at helping our students’ college years serve as a positive rite of passage into healthy adulthood.

The Keene State College Rite of Passage Initiative will begin in August 2010 as a campus-wide effort to engage first-year students and their families, student leaders, administrators, staff, and faculty in conversations, trainings, and presentations on creating an environment that fosters meaningful life choices.

Through the support of a strategic prevention grant from Monadnock Voices for Prevention, we’ll develop and deploy comprehensive strategies to guide students’ natural impulses to invent rites of passage experiences to test and affirm their transition from adolescence to adulthood. The focus is to guide those impulses towards safe, productive leisure-time activities.

If you have insights that might contribute to the success of this program, please give us your comments.