The �þ���Ƶ Expressive Arts Therapy Summer Institute (EATSI) 2026 is taking place at �þ���Ƶ May 27 through June 5th. EATSI brings experts in expressive arts therapy and art therapy together with students for a unique intensive learning experience. Through experiential learning, self-reflective practices, and collaborative opportunities, participants integrate theories and methods of practice while exploring applications and techniques in a creative and inclusive environment. EATSI is sponsored by the �þ���Ƶ Master of Science in Counseling and Related Programs.

The Summer Institute is a core residential learning component for students enrolled in the Expressive Arts Therapy program at �þ���Ƶ. Held on campus each spring, the Institute provides rich relational opportunities to gain awareness, clinical knowledge, personal growth, and experience in expressive arts and art therapy. 

Participants gain deeper understanding of professional applications while engaging, unmediated, in stimulating creative processes that encourage self-expression and reflection. All EAT enrolled students are required to attend at least once during their program. MS in Counseling students, alumni, prospective students, and community members are welcome to attend all or part of the Summer Institute. 

The Institute is scheduled to be held in person at �þ���Ƶ. A detailed schedule including opportunities for personal growth, reflection, and several breaks each day, will be provided to registrants prior to the Institute. 

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Dr. Dan Garvey is a distinguished educator, administrator, and global education leader whose career spans more than five decades of service in higher education, nonprofit leadership, experiential learning, and social change. He earned his Ph.D. in Education with a focus on Social and Multicultural Foundations from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he explored the moral development of college students through cross-cultural experiences. This work shaped his lifelong commitment to experiential and transformative education. Garvey earned an M.A. in Social Change at the Cambridge–Goddard Graduate School and a B.A. in Sociology at Worcester State University. His professional background includes serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of �þ���Ƶ, Associate Dean and Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire, and Executive Director of the Association for Experiential Education. In addition, he is a recognized leader in international education, with multiple appointments as Executive Dean for Semester at Sea, guiding academic voyages across dozens of countries and leading teams of students, faculty, and staff.

“I am honored and excited to return to �þ���Ƶ,” said Garvey. “The �þ���Ƶ community has achieved so much in its brief 60 years. I’d like to recognize our accomplishments but envision that the best is still ahead of us. There may never have been a time when the values and contributions of our College have been more needed in American education.”

The �þ���Ƶ Board of Trustees appointed Garvey to the role due to his storied history and continued engagement with the College. According to Chair of the Board of Trustees, Kathleen Murphy, “Dr. Dan Garvey returns to �þ���Ƶ, a campus which is home to a building that has long borne his name – the Dan and Barbara Garvey Welcome Center. Dan is a strong leader and truly espouses the values of �þ���Ƶ. We are thrilled to welcome him home.”      

�þ���Ƶ, founded in 1966, has over a half-century of leadership in developing and refining experiential and online educational models that have kept the college at the forefront of institutions seeking to address urgent issues currently facing human societies. Collaborative learning, multidisciplinary studies, and experiential and field-based learning are hallmarks of the Prescott educational experience. Prescott offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees as well as certificate options. �þ���Ƶ students are educators, activists, counselors, researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs—all of whom are eager to make a difference in their local and global communities. �þ���Ƶ is proud to serve a diverse student body that is passionate about making a long-lasting impact on society and the environment.

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Throughout block one, 12 students from the Environmental and Whitewater Perspectives course adventured to the Colorado plateau, exploring both Cataract Canyon and Desolation Canyon. The course is led by three instructors: Angelica Cronin, Joel Barnes, and Kreston Johnson. For 21 days, the group immersed themselves in the rich human and geological history of the Four Corners of Utah. “Getting the opportunity to spend a while on the river is truly a magical experience. It allows you not only to get to know your classmates really well but also to get to know the river as a friend,” noted one of the students. 

During this course, the students and faculty focused on technical rafting skills such as rowing, paddle captioning, and hydrology, making it an excellent experience for prospective river guides and beginner rafters. Students also immersed themselves in the rich knowledge that the land has to offer, providing an excellent opportunity for experiential learning and gaining a sense of place for the outdoors. Everyone on the trip experienced the magic of community, interconnection, and learning firsthand!


Poem Written by �þ���Ƶ Student Who Participated in the Trip

A river is one of flowing mirrors 

Dancing a dance of familiarity

The water hums cries of power 

It seeps into cracks no sunlight would ever dare to touch 

Cradled by millions of years of beauty and hardship, it listens like no other 

engraving marks of wisdom in the landscape it inhabits 

It has lived all lives at once, simultaneously a mother and a child 

It nurtures in an innocent and reckless manner 

Creating and moving beauty beyond anything that could ever be produced by consciousness

And it continues to move through the earth, reflecting the essence of life of its shimmering surface.

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This tuition reset is intended to provide more details upfront regarding the true cost of a �þ���Ƶ on-campus undergraduate education. Recognizing that families may be intimidated by the published tuition price, they may rule out a private college education and miss out on all the benefits that such an education provides. �þ���Ƶ has lowered their on-campus undergraduate tuition to $15,000 per year to align their values of inclusivity, justice, and sustainability with the cost of their education.

According to Michele Peterson, �þ���Ƶ Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Finance, “Pricing in higher education is complicated. Students don’t often know what their tuition bill will actually be by looking at published prices. Our goal with this tuition reset is to be up-front with families and to help them understand the true cost of our education. �þ���Ƶ is offering a world-class education at a much more affordable price.”

�þ���Ƶ believes this tuition reset will encourage families to take advantage of their immersive, experiential and life-changing education. This reset reflects a bold step toward a future where more students can think critically, unite across differences, and uplift communities–without the weight of crushing debt.    

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Dr. Morris began her tenure in July 2021 after serving as the associate vice provost and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the State University of New York (SUNY) System. After serving in higher education upper administration for twenty years, she will conclude her career having served as a president for eight years across two institutions. Dr. Morris cites her desire to spend more time with her family, in the outdoors, and taking to heart experiential, lifelong learning through travel as the impetus for her decision. In partnership with the Board of Trustees, �þ���Ƶ is formulating a succession plan to be shared soon. 

“I began my time at �þ���Ƶ by engaging our community to evaluate our mission. It is no surprise that the result was an updated mission statement that begins with the word “together.” That really is the �þ���Ƶ way,” said Morris. “Together we create interdisciplinary, experiential, and diverse learning environments that inspire future leaders to create a healthy, just, and sustainable world. And I am truly proud of the work we have all accomplished. Together we have nurtured substantial growth in several of our graduate programs and embraced a reinvigoration of our curriculum. We have acted to deepen our connections within the City of Prescott and Yavapai County, and demonstrated that our work at �þ���Ƶ produces an economic impact of $19 million each year. We have invested in the infrastructure of our campus, improving its functional and physical landscape to be beautiful and sustainable. Nationally, we have been a voice in our nation’s capital during troubling times, advocating for academic freedom. And most importantly, we have educated and mentored students who have grown to become educators, activists, counselors, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals who will continue to be the changemakers the world needs. That is our greatest success.”     

In partnership with College Trustees and led by Dr. Pavel Cenkl, Dean of Academic Affairs, and Michelle Relyea, Dean of Student Affairs and Enrollment, �þ���Ƶ is currently preparing its next strategic plan. This 5-year plan, which will begin in 2026, will encompass the College’s 60th anniversary. “Dr. Morris’s work during the last five years has built a solid foundation for �þ���Ƶ’s future,” said Cenkl. “Our authentically regenerative approach to learning nurtures deep connections between knowledge and action, fosters resilience in both individuals and communities, and celebrates the interconnectedness of all life. As we look to the future of �þ���Ƶ, we are continuing to build a curriculum that not only adapts to the world’s complexities but also is responsive to our communities, and actively empowers students to be a catalyst for change.” 

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The Endeavor Lab Colleges (ELC), a national consortium of 10 small liberal arts colleges, proudly announced today the completion of the first phase of its groundbreaking initiative to enhance student mental health and well-being. Endeavor Foundation has generously invested more than $8.5 million to support the project, including $5.22 million over the next three years for Phase 2.

“We are thrilled to move to the next phase of this vital work,” said Dr. Lori Collins-Hall, ELC Project Director. “Thanks to the dedication of our partner institutions and the confidence and commitment of Endeavor Foundation, we are taking meaningful steps to address well-being on our campuses. Our goal is not simply to improve mental health but to transform the way liberal arts colleges engage students in caring, resilient, mission-aligned communities.”

Endeavor Foundation’s transformative investments will empower participating institutions to build on the development and implementation of pilot projects in the first phase by utilizing evidence-based strategies, scaling successful interventions, and deepening cross-campus collaboration. The reality of the ELC vision will be lasting, systemic improvements that support the holistic development of students, strengthening their liberal arts education and college experience by placing well-being, belonging, community care, and purpose at the center of their education and campus life.

Over the last two years, Endeavor provided $3.275 million to the colleges for exploration and development of innovative pilot projects exploring relationships and opportunities to enhance students’ mental health and well-being through the liberal arts curriculum, developing connections to place, connecting purpose and career readiness, and creating caring and resilient communities.

Endeavor Lab Colleges include:

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH;

Bennington College, Bennington, VT;

Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL;

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME;

�þ���Ƶ in Prescott, AZ;

Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA;

St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD;

St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM;

Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT;

Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC

“Collaboration across colleges is enormously difficult, but it holds enormous opportunity for realizing shared goals and catalyzing renewal in service of what students need to persist and thrive,” said Ashley Kidd, Vice President and Co-Program Director at Endeavor Foundation. “In Phase I of this grant, the Endeavor Lab Colleges demonstrated what working together can achieve, developing a truly inclusive model of engagement and commitment to their shared goals. In a time of challenge and change, Phase 2 of this grant offers a hopeful, collaborative path forward for students and the future of higher education.”

In Phase 2, ELC campuses will continue to collaborate on implementing activities developed across five central initiatives, while establishing program sustainability, widely documenting and disseminating information, and paying particular attention to liberal arts institutions.

“This grant reflects Endeavor’s longtime commitment to liberal arts education,” said Isabel Roche, Co-Program Director at Endeavor. “The liberal arts empower students to see themselves, others, and the world with greater clarity, compassion, and hope. This project brings the liberal arts vision for education of the whole person into sharper focus, putting student flourishing at the center. In doing so, it reaffirms the transformative power of the liberal arts for both mind and spirit, preparing students for every dimension of life.”

Five central initiatives in Phase 2 are interconnected and mutually reinforcing in their aims of placing well-being, belonging, and purpose at the center of each student’s liberal arts experience.

Led by a working group with faculty from each ELC institution, the Cultivating Curricular Review and Innovation initiative invites curricular innovation across and within institutions. It considers and connects what the liberal arts teach about the human condition and experience, integrating concepts and skills related to well-being into the curriculum, co-curriculum, and teaching.

Building Models of Community Care and Resilience focuses on creating a scalable, trauma-informed, strengths-based model of community care and resilience centered on the whole person, liberal arts, and well-being that meets the urgent needs of students, faculty, and staff at small, resource-constrained liberal arts colleges. This initiative is reimagining how colleges can embed community care into curricular, co-curricular, and workplace structures to support mental health, well-being, and human flourishing through sustainable, community-based curricula and practices.

Center for Purposeful Life and Work is a virtual, interactive, student-centered ecosystem that offers scalable, evidence-informed programming, self-guided tools, faculty/staff resources, and cross-institutional engagement. The Center will serve as a hub for exploring values, identity, career pathways, and well-being. It will empower students to articulate and pursue purposeful lives and careers during college and beyond.

Mapping Belonging represents an innovative and powerful student-centered approach to fostering well-being, engagement, and resilience by reimagining campus maps as immersive tools for connection to place, history, nature, and community. Rather than serving solely as instruments of navigation, these dynamic physical and digital maps help students orient themselves within the cultural, ecological, and social landscape of their campus.

Nature Rx and Nature-based programming are aligned with the Mapping Belonging initiative to help students identify and connect with the green and blue spaces across their campuses, recognizing the enduring relationship between nature and human well-being, rooted in longstanding practices of healing and connecting to the land. This initiative explores ways to integrate both active and reflective engagement with the natural world in the daily lives of students and the broader campus community.

Small liberal arts colleges cultivate relationships and foster community, buffering students from isolation and loneliness, and emphasizing a strong sense of belonging. These campuses nurture students’ passion, balance, integrity, vision, and collective responsibility, preparing them for wise and ethical stewardship of their world.

About the Endeavor Lab Colleges
With Endeavor Foundation financial support, the national collaborative of small liberal arts colleges is working to advance student mental health and well-being and institutional resilience. Through shared innovation and collaboration, the Endeavor Lab Colleges (ELC) are committed to holistic student development, based on the shared belief that well-being is essential for lifelong success. Visit the ELC website to learn more.

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Prospective students are invited to join us for the �þ���Ƶ river trip led by Adventure Education faculty emeritus, Julie Munro, and current students and alumni. Before our trip, you’ll have time to tour the �þ���Ƶ campus, stay in our residence halls, and meet faculty, staff, and students. Then you will travel north to spend three nights and four days rafting down the stunningly beautiful San Juan River in the desert canyons of Southeastern, Utah.

This trip will be lead guided by Julie Munro, �þ���Ƶ Faculty Emeritus, in addition to student guides Jaden Best and Julia Bricker.

Julie Munro is Faculty Emeritus at �þ���Ƶ. Julie served as a full-time Adventure Education Faculty for 35 years and still collaborates with the college on special projects. She is intimately familiar with the San Juan River and its natural history and loves sharing this environment with students across disciplines. In addition to loving outdoor pursuits and time in wild places, Julie enjoys teaching yoga and bringing that practice to the group experience.

Jaden Best is from Denver, Colorado and in her third year at �þ���Ƶ. She is pursuing a double major as a B.A. in Adventure Education and Environmental Studies. She works as a professional river guide in the summer.

Julia Bricker is a senior at �þ���Ƶ, studying Social Justice Education with a minor in Adventure Education at �þ���Ƶ because she is passionate about connecting people to the natural world while working toward more equitable, student-centered education. So many systems prioritize statistics over real human needs, and she wants to help shift that.

Tuition: $495
(If you enroll, this payment will go directly toward your first tuition payment!)

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