Leading from the Middle: Lessons and Tools for Influence and Self-Care

Paula Wilmot, Assistant Dean of Students, Dean of Students Office

Mid-level administrators provide an important level of leadership. We implement policy through our activities and those of staff, students, and families. This presentation highlights skills to manage from the middle emphasizing relationships and policy influence. Participation in case studies and consideration of wellness practices are key to effectiveness and resilience.

Setting Boundaries, Creating Space

Noemi Maldonado Picardi, Director of Student Services, Avery Point

This workshop will explore ways to identify personal and professional goals and how to successfully set boundaries to allow you to create the space to achieve those goals.  We will discuss topics of self-care, finding a healthy life-work balance, managing boundaries, and creating space to maximize your potential.

Teaching Digital Citizens - Performance & Design for the Future of Digital Learners

Luiza Printes dos Santos, Graduate Assistant, Digital Media & Design

As an article published by The Chronicle of Higher Education emphasized, we are dealing with a “stunning level of student disconnection” (McMutrie, 2022) in which academic educators are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and relying much more on their phones or YouTube learning rather than being physically engaged inside their classrooms. In this workshop, we will develop and brainstorm learning methods that will broaden our ways of teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom, with learning tools for a more confident performance inside the classroom, being more creative with multimedia projects for students, and understanding the power of design for PowerPoint presentations. Not only as a methodology, but this workshop will serve to broaden our questions and thoughts related the digital media and society in terms of learning and performance.

Community Organizing in the Latinx Community: Learning More Than Teaching!

Dianisi Torres, Nutrition Outreach Educator, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources 

In this workshop, I will share my experience and my knowledge organizing and educating the Latinx community, ways we have overcome many obstacles and barriers, and offer strategies how to reach the “hard to reach” communities in any area.