Presentations

Career Everywhere at EMU is a retention initiative led by the Career Development Team of the University Advising and Career Development Center. The goal of the initiative is to increase EMU student career readiness through academic and student affairs programs and ensure positive student career outcomes post graduation. Through Career Everywhere, the UACDC Career Development Team encourages all EMU stakeholders, no matter their role, to join us in increasing access and equity to career development for all students, including underrepresented and marginalized populations.

The Career Everywhere initiative consists of two programs: The Career Champions Program and The Work+ Student Employment Program (name will change). The session will include a detailed overview of each program, how each faculty member or department may join the initiative with implementation ideas, and activities designed to highlight reasons students need to receive more consistent messages about career development across all of campus. 

Regardless of which dimension of climate change we are aware of, there is an imperative to move the dial forward, aka, do something! Beyond commitments to alter habits and activities at individual, community, and global levels, academics are also called to actively include a climate change and sustainability component in our teaching, scholarship, and service. This session aims to find commonalities and discover opportunities to collaborate across disciplines in the coming year. It includes three components: (1) lessons learned from a recent Fulbright Hays seminar to Colombia related to interdisciplinary climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability with students, faculty, and community members; (2) sharing of an EMU case study of SEMIS Southeast Michigan partnering with youth, schools, and community to focus on climate resiliency, sustainability, and environmental education; and (3) discussion with participants about what EMU and faculty already have in place: specific course/unit offerings, research projects, community/agency involvement, and where there are opportunities and challenges. 

Instructional Design is a growing area of interest across many industries and is increasingly recognized as a key component of sound pedagogy. We will offer a brief outline of what Instructional Design is and where we think it might fit into faculty development. More significantly, we hope to hear from participants how they would value training in instructional design — what they would most like to learn from the field, what they would be most likely to use, and how they would want that training to appear among their professional qualifications. We aim to generate interest in an instructional design community or working group to continue pondering these questions over the coming year. 

Through a unique collaboration between Eastern Michigan University, University College Cork, and the University of Limerick, 11 faculty and 115 nursing, occupational therapy, and social work students conducted an interprofessional case study. This international learning experience aimed to enhance students' global healthcare awareness by engaging with peers from another country to learn more about how different healthcare systems and cultural values influence care. The use of technology further amplified this opportunity, demonstrating that international work can be accessible and enriching without being cost-prohibitive. 

 The IPE event met virtually via Zoom, where students were asked to work through a case study of an Irish student experiencing a mental health crisis while living in the United States. Students met in interprofessional breakout rooms to learn from and with one another about professional roles and responsibilities and to develop a treatment plan for the simulated client. Plans and interprofessional perspectives were queried in a student and faculty debriefing.