REVAMPING CAREER SERVICES: INNOVATIVE MODELS FOR CHANGE December 4-5, 2014 New Orleans, LA
Develop a plan to implement a new model for career services at your institution. OVERVIEW Today s students expect to leave college with a job. Increased pressure from accreditation boards, along with the need to meet the demands of students, is challenging career services departments to revamp their services and explore innovative models to help students successfully transition from college to career. Is your career services department up to the task? If your career services department functions as an optional job placement service, it may be time to complete a 360 degree review and revision your purpose. Join us in New Orleans to gain insight into new models that can help you revamp your career services through three distinct prongs: Restructuring Campus and community partnerships Multi-year curriculum plans We will review staffing, scope, and service considerations for each tenant, and you will walk away with an action plan to implement a new model for career services at your institution. LEARNING OUTCOME After participating in this conference, you will be able to design a new career services model to implement at your institution. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER http:///conference/revamping-career-services-innovative-models-change 2
BRING YOUR TEAM Professionals interested in learning about considerations and models for revamping career services will benefit from this program including career services professionals, student affairs leadership, and academic affairs leadership. To get the most out of the program, we strongly encourage cross-functional team participation. CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact Lisa LaPoint, Assistant Conference Director at lisa@academicimpressions.com or 720-988-1262 if you d like additional information about the program. SAVE $100 ON THIS EVENT WITH AI PRO! Available with: AI Student Affairs Pro AI Pro offers your institution access to over 200 hours of training opportunities on topics that will help you and your team achieve institutional goals and more. Click here or contact kevin@academicimpressions.com for more information about AI Pro. 3
AGENDA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014 8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast (included in registration fee) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Restructuring (includes break) Reorganizing your career services office, functionally and structurally, can be an effective way to increase quality of service to students through the efficient use of resources and information delivery mechanisms. This session will provide an overview of various restructuring models including decentralized, centralized, collaborative and hybrid opportunities. Considerations for your decisionmaking process, as well as sample models and implementation steps will be discussed. Working time will be incorporated into the session to provide you with the opportunity to develop a restructuring model for your campus. 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch (included in registration fee) 1:00-4:00 p.m. Campus and Community Partnerships (includes break) Career services offices can no longer operate in a silo and must utilize effective, strategic partnerships to further student development and learning outcomes. Crucial partnerships to foster include mutually beneficial relationships with employers, faculty, and alumni. This session will discuss potential ways to garner, support, and enhance these partnerships with the goal to create meaningful programs and services for students. Additionally, working time will be incorporated into the session to provide you the opportunity to develop a partnership plan for your campus and greater campus community. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Networking reception (included in registration fee) 4
AGENDA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014 8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (included in registration fee) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Multi-Year Curriculum Plans (includes break) This session will walk through the components of a comprehensive, multi-year curriculum plan to engage students and provide them with the tools they need to increase their employability from day one. Programmatic examples, as well as considerations for student and faculty communication and buy-in, will be discussed. Working time will be incorporated into the session to provide you with the opportunity to outline a multi-year curriculum plan for your campus. POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: STRATEGIC PLANNING IN CAREER SERVICES 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch for post-conference workshop attendees (included in workshop registration fee) 1:00-4:00 p.m. Post-Conference Workshop: Strategic Planning in Career Services (includes break) Once you ve determined which innovation model to pilot on your campus, how will you lay out a plan for success and measure its effectiveness? Our optional afternoon workshop focuses specifically on strategic planning for career services and will help you identify steps to innovate and transition your services using a year-long, continuous improvement model. You will learn more about the following: How to incorporate setting goals and measurable objectives Implementing an ongoing process review and goal/objective refinement Qualitative and quantitative assessment Updating your strategic plan each year and annual reporting CLICK HERE TO REGISTER http:///conference/revamping-career-services-innovative-models-change 5
INSTRUCTORS DEB CHERECK / President Emeritus of National Association of Colleges and Employers & Past Director University of Oregon Career Center and Lundquist College of Business Deb served in a variety of career services leadership roles at University of Oregon Career Center for over thirty years first as associate director of the centralized Career Center, then as director of Career Services at the Lundquist College of Business supporting MBAs and finally as director of the Career Center. In each of these roles she excelled at innovative program development, relationship management both on campus and with employers and teaching/counseling, always putting the needs of students first. She also led the inaugural strategic planning process for the division of student affairs as well as internally at the career center. Although formally retired, Deb has discovered that she is not very good at retirement and remains active in the field consulting with the UO graduate students in the applied sciences and leading review teams of career services operations for two major universities. Deb has had the privilege of serving as president of the National Association of Colleges and Employers and the Western Association of Colleges and Employers where she grew as a leader, led many significant initiatives on behalf of the profession and developed friendships that will last a lifetime. She was inducted into the NACE Academy of Fellows in 2012 as well as receiving a Life Membership from her regional association (MPACE). JERRY HOUSER, PH.D. / Associate Dean/Director, Career Center Willamette University Jerry Houser has been impacting higher education for thirty-five years mostly at the University of Southern California, Caltech, Azusa Pacific, and Willamette. He has directed career services, but he also did stints in residential life, helped launch the USC volunteer center, and taught as an associate. Jerry has taught master s courses in leadership studies in Europe, Asia, South Pacific, Caribbean, South America, and Africa. He s also taught about thirty online courses. He earned a PhD and MA in social sciences as well as an MBA. Recently, his strategy for organizational change took a surprising turn that generated the nationally recognized Roadmap, Passport to Professionalism, and the new Compass program. He contends that we spend too much time marketing to students who ignore us and not enough time experimenting with strategies to engage faculty and administrators who can actually make students do what we want. 6
INSTRUCTORS BETH THRONE, J.D. / Associate Vice President of Student and Post-Graduate Development and Adjunct Professor of Business Franklin & Marshall College Beth leads Franklin & Marshall College s (F&M s) Office of Student and Post-Graduate Development, which prepares students for life beyond college by helping them explore potential career pathways, exposing them to extraordinary opportunities, preparing them to compete for the opportunities they seek, and helping them sustain trajectories of success well after they graduate. Beth also serves as an adjunct professor of business at F&M. Prior to returning to F&M, her alma mater, Beth practiced law for several years with Fox Rothschild LLP, handling commercial, employment and construction litigation matters. Beth s legal career was preceded by a career in the staffing industry. After graduating from F&M, Beth worked for Randstad North America, an international personnel placement firm, where she worked her way up from the role of recruiter to the position of market recruiting manager. While at Randstad, Beth taught career-skills and job-training seminars for workforce development programs, created a training division that provided employment counseling to people looking to make career transitions, and trained the company s Pennsylvania staff on candidate recruitment, placement and retention practices. 7
HOTEL RESERVATIONS The conference will be held at: Hyatt Regency New Orleans 601 Loyola Avenue New Orleans, LA 70113 To reserve your room, call 504.561.1234. Please indicate that you are with the group to receive the room rate of $139 for single or double occupancy, plus applicable tax. A room block has been reserved for the nights of December 3 and 4, 2014. Reservations must be made by November 12, 2014. There are a limited number of rooms available at the conference rate. Please make your reservations early. The Hyatt Regency New Orleans offers you great restaurants, rooms, and unparalleled service. Modern business and meeting facilities, and two restaurants and two bars, plus a full-service Starbucks and 24 hour grab-n-go fresh market means you never have to go outside the hotel for entertainment or business. The Hyatt Regency is located approximately 15 miles from Louis Armstrong International Airport (MSY) and is conveniently located within walking distance of many of the city s most popular historic sites, entertainment and sports venues, including the neighboring Mercedes Benz Superdome. 8
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