Career ideas Festival Watch Party
The MSUM Career Development Center invites faculty & staff to attend the 5th Annual Career Ideas Festival watch party on March 31st at 9 am in CMU 205. The Career Ideas Festival is focused on exploring emerging ideas and trends in the career development field.
This year’s speaker is Dr. Tia Brown McNair, the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, D.C. and author of Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success and recently, From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education.
Translating Our Words into Practice: Ensuring Social Justice and Social/Academic Mobility are Inextricably Linked
Social Mobility measures how likely it is that people will grow up to be better off financially than their parents. Promoting increased social mobility requires reexamining a wide range of economic, health, social, and education policies. Higher education has always been a key way for students to find opportunities to transform their economic circumstances. In a time of rising inequities and low social mobility, improving the quality of and access to education has the potential to increase opportunities for all students. Dr. Tia Brown McNair will discuss how to advance Social Mobility with Academic Mobility. An important topic anywhere, but especially in the Twin Cities metro area which is worst among the nation’s 50 largest in terms of the racial unemployment gap.
The Career Ideas Festival is hosted by the Metro State Career Center and the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Success and Equity, Inclusion, and Affirmative Action.
Questions? Contact Samantha Gust – Samantha.gust@mnstate.edu