Bluffton University

Neighborhood Quality Colloquium

09/19/2025

Colloquium Presentation: Tools for Assessing Neighborhood Quality

Dr. Walt Paquin, director of social work program and professor of social work at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “Using New Tools to Assess Neighborhood Quality,” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

In his Colloquium, Paquin will share recent research on innovative tools used to evaluate the quality of neighborhoods, with an emphasis on understanding social and environmental factors that impact community well-being and equity.

This event is free and open to the public.