Enhance your conference experience and add an Advanced Learning Workshop to your conference registration! All workshops will be held on Monday, July 29, 2019.
Pricing:
Midwest ACE Members: $49.00
Non-Members: $59.00
Advanced Learning Workshop — Employers
Choosing Target Campuses Location: Atlanta This workshop will present findings based on a new dataset of target campuses for over 70 firms and nearly 15 years. I will highlight important patterns in the data, including the choice of local versus national target campuses, the roles of selectivity and size of the student body, and number of target campuses. I will then discuss potential implications for recruiters, and considerations for how to evaluate which target campuses are effective and which campuses might be potential new targets.
Learning Outcomes
Engage with key insights from target campuses of 70 firms over 15 years
Frameworks for deciding how many, and which campuses to target
Using data to evaluate which target campuses are yielding strong applicants and employees
Presented by:
Russell Weinstein is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
Using unique data, Weinstein's research studies how and where employers search for new workers, and the impact of geography, screening costs, and business cycles on these recruiting strategies. Much of this work focuses on recruiting entry-level workers on college campuses, with implications for firms, students, and universities.
Weinstein’s research has been covered by the The Harvard Business Review, Inside Higher Ed, MarketWatch, and The Washington Post, and has been referenced by the White House’s Economic Report of the President, and the US Senate.
Weinstein was awarded an Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2014, where he was a Dean's Fellow. He graduated with an A.B. degree in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard University.
Advanced Learning Workshop — Career Service Professionals
Mission-Driven Assessment in Career Services: Understanding Outcomes, Gathering Evidence, and Communicating Value Location: Columbus
What difference do career services professionals make in students’ lives? How do we best contribute to the educational missions of our institutions? How do we know? Advocating for and continuously improving the work that we do as career professionals begins with compelling responses to these questions. But, who has time to answer them well?
This preconference session frames assessment as a powerful tool to help career services professionals “tell the story” of the impact of their programs, services, and resources in the lives of the students that they reach. We explore different types of assessment strategies (e.g., needs, participation, satisfaction, outcomes) that inform the development and enhancement of career development programs. Then, we discuss ways to make assessment activities both meaningful and manageable, as we connect them to day-to-day activities of our career services offices.
We delve specifically into learning outcomes assessment, as it helps us connect to the educational mission of the institutions in which we serve. Examples of completed assessment projects are shared – from design, to findings, to effective use and communication of results. Additionally, participants are invited to engage in assessment design discussions around a project from their own experience. Guided opportunities are provided to draft learning outcomes statements and outline potential assessment strategies during the session. Resources are provided to facilitate translating presentation materials into your own work setting.
Learning Outcomes
Career professionals who participate in the Mission-Driven Assessment in Career Services pre-conferencewill be able to…
Describe the value of assessing career development programs and services, acknowledging both the potential to enhance student experiences and to celebrate successes.
Understand a variety of assessment strategies (e.g., needs, participation, satisfaction, outcomes), and the unique contributions that each makes to the story of career services.
Gain experience interpreting data samples and crafting stories from outcomes assessment projects.
Enhance their confidence to engage in assessment projects by actively writing learning outcomes statements and engaging in assessment design discussions related to projects drawn from their personal experience.
Presented by:
Julia Panke Makela, PhD, is the Associate Director for Assessment and Research of The Career Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Julia has more than 15 years of experience in career development and higher education, embracing counseling, research, assessment, and program evaluation roles. Her work explores the outcomes of career interventions, focusing on how career development programming influences student learning, career exploration, decision making, and educational and career destinations. She specializes in leading practitioner-engaged assessment projects that gather evidence to inform and continually enhance career development practice, as well as to communicate the value of career services.
Julia is dedicated to sharing resources and building community around program assessment in career services. She is the lead author of the National Career Development Association’s program assessment monograph, Learning outcomes assessment step-by-step: Enhancing evidence-based practice in career services, as well as a variety of assessment-related articles in academic journals and professional association publications.
Advanced Learning Workshop — Employers & Career Service Professionals
If You Build It, Will They Stay? Building an LGBTQ+ Mentoring Program at IUPUI Location: Austin
Being an LGBTQ+ student, faculty or staff member in Indiana can be a challenge. Add to that the complexities of being a college student or higher education professional and even the most emotionally stable person could have a hard time completing their degree or continue to work in the Midwest.
In 2014, our university completed a Climate Survey which established that there are significant differences in the perceptions and experiences of LGBTQ+ faculty, staff and students from their heterosexual counterparts. Based on these survey results and the conversations taking place between faculty, staff and students, we knew that there would be benefits to connecting these people through a mentoring program.
For the student participants, we wanted to help them by teaching them how to navigate being LGBTQ+ on their resumes, provide networking opportunities with LGBTQ+ professionals at IUPUI and in Indianapolis, increase their sense of belonging and increase their academic success and graduation rates.
For the second group of stakeholders, the faculty and staff of IUPUI who identify as LGBTQ+, we hoped to increase retention rates and employee satisfaction, improve campus climate for this population, strengthen ties to the gay community in Indy, and provide professional development opportunities. We believe we did accomplish these goals. This program has had more than 100 participants since 2017 and the positive effects of that are still being seen.
This dynamic and interactive session will highlight the challenges LGBTQ+ students, faculty and staff face in their daily lives, the background of the program and the outcomes of this work.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this session, it is the presenter’s hope that participants will:
Know more about issues that LGBTQ+ Faculty, Staff and Students face at the university level
How connecting this community to itself is beneficial
The details of starting a mentoring program
How they might begin similar programs on their campuses.
Presented by:
Shelly Snider (she/her/hers) is a Career Services Specialist for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Prior to joining IUPUI in 2012, Shelly worked for more than a decade as a Recruiter and Human Resources Manager in both the corporate and non-profit sectors.
As a lesbian, wife and mother, Shelly is passionate about ensuring that students, faculty and staff who are LGBTQ+ at IUPUI feel connected to each other and are provided with equitable opportunities. She is the first Woman Chair of the LGBTQ+ Faculty Staff Council and has served on multiple campus-wide committees and work-groups focused on the needs of the LGBTQ+ community at IUPUI.
Shelly has proven to be a dynamic and informative speaker on LGBTQ+ topics such as Career Development for Queer Students and Understanding the LGBTQ+ Community at IUPUI. She currently serves on the Chancellor’s Diversity Cabinet as well as the Engineering and Technology Diversity Committee, coordinates an LGBTQ+ student and staff mentoring program and serves on the leadership team of IUPUI’s LGBTQ+ professional development program.
In her spare time, she likes to read for the IUPUI LGBTQ+ Book Club and is a founding member of Pride of Indy Bands, Indiana’s only LGBTQ+ instrumental ensemble.
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Russell Weinstein is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
Julia Panke Makela, PhD, is the Associate Director for Assessment and Research of The Career Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Julia has more than 15 years of experience in career development and higher education, embracing counseling, research, assessment, and program evaluation roles. Her work explores the outcomes of career interventions, focusing on how career development programming influences student learning, career exploration, decision making, and educational and career destinations. She specializes in leading practitioner-engaged assessment projects that gather evidence to inform and continually enhance career development practice, as well as to communicate the value of career services.
Shelly Snider (she/her/hers) is a Career Services Specialist for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Prior to joining IUPUI in 2012, Shelly worked for more than a decade as a Recruiter and Human Resources Manager in both the corporate and non-profit sectors.
