Dr. Julie DeGraw, vice president for student life and dean of students at Bluffton University, will outline “Ways to Encourage Christian Women Students to Political and Social Action” during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 16.

Free and open to the public, her presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

DeGraw came to Bluffton in July after four years as dean of counseling, advising and transfer at the College of Lake County, a community college north of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Michigan, where her doctoral program included a concentration in academic affairs and student development.