A Manager's toolbox:
Leading Successful Efforts to Recruit, Retain and Accelerate Success of Students Pursuing Gender Nontraditional Occupations
It Takes a Village: Regional Collaborations for
Transformative Impact
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2021
This session focuses on evidence-based practices in developing collaborations and cooperative agreements with post-secondary and secondary institutions as well as partnerships between these institutions and industry. The session examines challenges and opportunities for building and sustaining solid arrangements for formal and informal collaborations that are designed to strengthen outreach, career integration and career goal attainment of students who are members of “Special Populations” as designated by Perkins V; including those pursuing gender nontraditional CTE programs.
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Roundtable: Case Studies of High Preforming Institutions in Recruiting and Retaining CTE Students Pursuing Gender Nontraditional Fields of Study
Thursday, march 11, 2021
This session examines five case studies of high performing Perkins institutions who have met or exceeded their targets in recruiting and retaining students to gender nontraditional CTE fields of study. The discussion will highlight lessons learned and best practices that peer institutions utilize to ensure success of students pursuing gender nontraditional CTE occupations. Theoretical underpinnings of CTE student success are examined. Successful strategies are mapped to conceptual models of student success in occupational programs.
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Innovative Outreach Strategies
FRIDAY, MAy 29, 2020
This workshop focuses on innovative strategies to successfully engage hard-to-reach populations, specifically "special populations". The webinar will highlight regional information regarding the current special populations residing in NYS counties and best practices of reaching and engaging them in CTE programs.
Case Management Tools and Best Practices FOR recruitment and retention of gender nontraditional students
Thursday, April 30, 2020
This case management workshop will focus on a variety of case management tools. We will discuss application of innovative strategies of case management that exist in other fields to CTE programs and gender-nontraditional students. The webinar will also showcase models of case management that have been proven successful in the field and will feature interviews with case managers who will provide on the ground testimonials of case management.
We are thrilled to announce that we have two guest speakers from Dutchess Community College:
We are thrilled to announce that we have two guest speakers from Dutchess Community College:
- Domiana Cotter, Academic Coach, Behavioral Sciences Department, Dutchess Community College
- Martin Schneider, Director of Grants, Dutchess Community College
Work-based Learning for CTE Gender Non-Traditional Students
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Are you looking for new ways of engaging local businesses, local government units, other higher education institutions, and not-for-profit organizations?
This workshop will discuss best practices on how to initiate and cultivate partnerships for your CTE programs; and how to expand them to provide opportunities for your gender-nontraditional students. This webinar will share evidence from research and practice on building and sustaining mutually beneficial partnership arrangements that advance the mission of CTE gender nontraditional recruitment and retention.
This workshop will discuss best practices on how to initiate and cultivate partnerships for your CTE programs; and how to expand them to provide opportunities for your gender-nontraditional students. This webinar will share evidence from research and practice on building and sustaining mutually beneficial partnership arrangements that advance the mission of CTE gender nontraditional recruitment and retention.
PARTNERSHIP TO ADVANCE CTE GENDER NONTRADITIONAL RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
MARCH 19, 2020
Are you looking for new ways of engaging local businesses, local government units, other higher education institutions, and not-for-profit organizations? This workshop will discuss best practices on how to initiate and cultivate partnerships for your CTE programs; and how to expand them to provide opportunities for your gender-nontraditional students. This webinar will share evidence from research and practice on building and sustaining mutually beneficial partnership arrangements that advance the mission of CTE gender nontraditional recruitment and retention.
Targeted Communication: Effective Strategies for Sustained Engagement with Millennials
February 27, 2020
Millennials constitute the largest (35%) generation in the current u.s workforce (PEW Research, 2018). Recent research studies show that effective modes of communication, expectations from workplace, nature of returns on higher education differ from generation to generation.
Understanding priorities and dominant worldviews of this generation, what they consider important to them and what they value in their professional and personal lives and the pressures and challenges they face will go a long way in devising strategies to engage them as potential gender nontraditional career & technical education (CTE) students. This webinar focuses on recruitment and retention of millennials and discuss best strategies to maintain sustained engagement with this generation. It will provide a synthesis of the research and practice literature on best practices and proven strategies.
Understanding priorities and dominant worldviews of this generation, what they consider important to them and what they value in their professional and personal lives and the pressures and challenges they face will go a long way in devising strategies to engage them as potential gender nontraditional career & technical education (CTE) students. This webinar focuses on recruitment and retention of millennials and discuss best strategies to maintain sustained engagement with this generation. It will provide a synthesis of the research and practice literature on best practices and proven strategies.
Thriving in a Gender-Nontraditional Career & technology education (cte) Program
March 14, 2019
A panel of leaders and role models from various fields that are gender-nontraditional will discuss how they overcome various challenges as nontraditional students, and will offer words of advice to the current and potential nontraditional students. The panel will be followed by a questions and answers session from nontraditional students from the field. The purpose of this webinar is to discuss the pressing issues that gender-nontraditional students at CTE programs are facing; and create an environment where they can discuss issues following a panel.
Panelists:
Panelists:
- Savy Dunlevy, RF and Communications Audio Technician for Broadcast Television
- Samuel Payzant, PTA, CES, FNS, Horseheads Comprehensive Physical Therapy, Payzant Corrective Exercise, 2017-18 Vanguard Awardee
- Daniela Tabares, Aeronautical Science, Vaughn College, 2016-17 Vanguard Awardee
- Bilge Avci, Research Associate & Program Coordinator, NET Program
- Michalina Kulesza, Program Assistant, NET Program
NON-TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT TRAINING CONFERENCE & VANGUARD AWARDS, April 17th, 2018
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker
- Randy Webber, National Association of Women in Construction & Director of Project Management, Kleeberg Sheet Metal, Inc., Slocum-Webber Group, LLC.
- Emily Frantz, New York State Capital District Society of Women Engineers & Nuclear Engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
- Kristin Gordon, 2014-2015 Vanguard Awardee & Audio Engineer
- Melinda Larson, Women in Science and Health (WISH) UAlbany & Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
- Mark Wahl, New York Capital Region (NYCR) Chapter of the American Association for Men in Nursing & Faculty and Program Director, School of Nursing at Excelsior College
SUCCESS STORIES SERIES, April 13, 2018
Women in Engineering: Strategies and Practices in Retention
This webinar highlights the practices that have enabled Jacobs School of Engineering's success in retaining female students in Engineering programs.
Presenter:
Dr. Michelle Ferrez
Executive Director
IDEA Engineering Student Center
Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Women in Engineering: Strategies and Practices in Retention
This webinar highlights the practices that have enabled Jacobs School of Engineering's success in retaining female students in Engineering programs.
Presenter:
Dr. Michelle Ferrez
Executive Director
IDEA Engineering Student Center
Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION, March 05, 2018
Online Panel Discussion with American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN): Increasing the Number of Men in Nursing
This panel discussion centers around strategies to improve recruitment and retention of male students in nursing programs.
Panelists:
Brent MacWilliams, President, AAMN
Bob Patterson, Immediate Past President, AAMN
Bonnie Schmidt, Board of Directors (Member), AAMN
SUCCESS STORIES SERIES, October 31, 2017
Increasing Recruitment and Retention of Female Students in Agriculture Programs: THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
This webinar provides the Purdue University's success story in recruiting and retaining female students in Agriculture. You will learn about the strategies for successful recruitment and retention of Female Students in Agriculture; enabling factors that helped propel success at Purdue; challenges faced in recruitment and retention goals; and replicating the Purdue model at other institutions of higher education.
Presenters:
Dr. Tracie Egger, Assistant Director of Academic Programs, Undergraduate Student Recruitment, Purdue University
Ms. Amy Jones, Plant Science Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator , Purdue University
Strategic Planning & Program Evaluation, March 25, 2015
This webinar provides an overview and application of strategic planning methods and processes as a tool for strengthening your recruitment and retention systems and planning integrating them into your overall organizational systems.
Best Practices & Promising Models
This webinar showcases best practices and promising models of recruiting and retaining students to CTE programs that are nontraditional for their genders. Those models include: tutoring and mentoring programs; case management models; building learning communities; role modeling programs and forums; and Tailored Recruitment Messaging.
This webinar showcases best practices and promising models of recruiting and retaining students to CTE programs that are nontraditional for their genders. Those models include: tutoring and mentoring programs; case management models; building learning communities; role modeling programs and forums; and Tailored Recruitment Messaging.
Building Sustainable Community Partnerships
This webinar showcases the nuts and bolts of building effective, strategic and sustainable partnerships with community based organizations for the purpose of strengthening your recruitment and retention of students who are pursuing nontraditional CTE programs for their gender.
This webinar showcases the nuts and bolts of building effective, strategic and sustainable partnerships with community based organizations for the purpose of strengthening your recruitment and retention of students who are pursuing nontraditional CTE programs for their gender.
Using Information and Communication Technologies as a Recruitment & Retention Tool
This webinar provides information on creatively using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance your outreach efforts and to build learning communities for students who are pursing CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
This webinar provides information on creatively using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance your outreach efforts and to build learning communities for students who are pursing CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
Human Resource Development
The webinar targets faculty who teach CTE programs. It provides an approach of thinking critically and analytically about bias that may already be embedded in course curricula and the pedagogical tools teachers use to deliver instructions. It also covers the building blocks of cultural competency as it applies to tailoring instructions to students who are pursing CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
The webinar targets faculty who teach CTE programs. It provides an approach of thinking critically and analytically about bias that may already be embedded in course curricula and the pedagogical tools teachers use to deliver instructions. It also covers the building blocks of cultural competency as it applies to tailoring instructions to students who are pursing CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
