2026 COCA National Conference

Presenter: Linda Chan, Showpass

Student engagement is evolving, with campus teams doing more with fewer resources. This interactive peer session connects programmers, student leaders, advisors, and marketers to share successes, challenges, and ideas. Through rotating discussions, attendees will explore ways to improve event access, engagement, and connection, leaving with new contacts, actionable ideas, and fresh inspiration.

At Marianopolis College, a campus of roughly 2,200 students with over 150 student clubs and only two years for students to get involved before graduating, student ambition can grow faster than student capacity. This session explores the challenges that come with highly motivated student leaders trying to do too much, too quickly, and how a newly developed club system was designed to create more sustainable leadership, stronger club continuity, clearer expectations, and healthier long-term student involvement without crushing creativity or initiative.

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