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"When the Economy Recovers, Will You Be Ready to Take Advantage of New Opportunities?"
WANCHE held its spring conference on March 18, 2010. The conference was delivered via video-conferencing and was broadcast across North Carolina to 21 institutions.
The conference challenged women to prepare themselves for new opportunities. The budget has been tight and positions have been frozen, but as the economy recovers, opportunities will open up for women in the state. Sessions were held on Assessing the Educational Landscape in Preparation for Career Advancement, Professional Etiquette, and Promoting Yourself. Each of these sessions delivered professional tools and provided information to help women administrators and aspiring women administrators prepare for new opportunities that will appear over the next few years.
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Conference Sessions, Materials, and Recorded Video
Session #1: Assessing the Educational Landscape in Preparation for Career Advancement
This session focused on the progress women have made in senior management positions in higher education and included issues on decision-making and career mapping strategies for planning your career trajectory.
Presenters:
Jean Jackson, Vice President for College Programs, Meredith College
Stephanie Helms Pickett, Director of Assessment & Professional Development, Duke University
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Session #2: Professional Etiquette
Etiquette is not just about the individual employee but also leads to collective expectations about the manner in which all individuals in a workplace interact and work with each other. As such, it is important for organizational leaders to be aware of professional standards for etiquette, especially given the continually evolving technological advances in communication tools and strategies. The focus of this session was to share best practices related to social networking, email, and other communication and collaboration methods used in the workplace today, and discussed ways that leaders can effectively disseminate expectations for the use of these best practices.
Presenters:
Julia Jackson-Newsom, Director of Research, School of Education, UNCG
Kelly Reimer, Coordinator in Teaching and Learning Technologies, Elon University
Charletta Simms Evans, Associate Director Student Development Services,
NC Community College System
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Session #3: Promoting Yourself
This session included information on preparing a profession vitae and portfolio, preparing yourself so you have things to put on your vitae and in your portfolio, reading job advertisements, and using social media.
Presenter:
Terri Manning, Associate Vice President for Institutional Research Director, Central Piedmont Community College
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