Drew Stelljes

Drew Stelljes
  • Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement and Leadership
  • Archived Blogger

About Drew Stelljes

Dr. Andrew D. Stelljes served as the Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement & Leadership at William & Mary until 2023. He provided leadership and direction for an integrated portfolio aimed at enhancing student development.

Stelljes is the author of Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Toward Long-term Developmental Social Concern and his engagement model has been widely published. He has authored an array of journal articles on placing students' intellectual and developmental needs at the center of the learning endeavor, service-learning, community-based learning, education policy reform measures, impacts of alternative breaks and measures of the efficacy of college-based tutoring and mentoring programs.

Posts by Drew Stelljes

Get Up and Dance

Kids are fun, right?  They do not care what they wear and they don’t care who is watching when they laugh, cry, pick their

Becoming Blind by Madelyn Smith

Each morning she is rudely awakened to the sound of an alarm reminding her that life goes on outside of her dreams. Contradictory to

Tree Farming and Raising Students

Tree farmers tell the story about how if you want strong trees you’ve gotta be tough on them when they are saplings.  Don’t water

Finding Orion

Daily problems can seem so large until you go outside and realize how very small we all are.  We are only here for a

Celebrating Engagement

Each April my office sponsors an evening of awards, recognition and fun.  We call it Celebration of Service.  On this evening we recognize and give our most sincere gratitude to

Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship to Educate a New Generation of Citizen Scholars

Fifteen years ago members of the William and Mary Board of Visitors approved a strategic plan.   That plan included in it the recommendation to

Stories of Transformation – Of Thought, Of Life’s Purpose, Of Community

Numbers seem to occupy our minds attention so there is a tendency to report on the number of service hours students complete.  The higher

The Volunteer Generation Comes to College

In 1993, President Clinton signed into law the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 to encourage young Americans to participate in direct

CKI Celebrates 50 Years of Heart, Kinship and Determination

On Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending the 50th anniversary celebration of the chartering of CKI (also known as Circle K the