2024 Theme: Putting Students First: Creating a Culture of Growth, Inclusion, and Mentorship.

March 7, 2024, 10am-3:30pm in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU)

The 2024 SEE Summit is finally here! We have some excellent breakout sessions lined up, and are excited for everyone to come together and learn more about how to support our student employees. We can’t wait to see you there!

Important Information for Attendees

We request that participants register for each session they plan to attend, and there is no requirement that you attend the opening or closing sessions. If you can attend multiple sessions that’s great. If you can only attend one that is great as well! Time and location information for each session is provided on its respective MyTrack page, linked below.

FOR LUNCH: Lunch is being provided, but food is limited so those interested in attending must pre-register. Once capacity is reached extra food cannot be guarenteed. 

Request for Volunteers 

The 2024 SEE Summit can’t happen without you! There is plenty to help out with– from attendee and presenter check-in and event set-up to room monitoring and photography. All the volunteer slots and responsibilities are listed at the website linked below. We are greatly appreciative for all those who help make the SEE Summit a success, and would be happy to answer any questions regarding volunteering during the summit.

Summit Session Links 

(Click the following links to be directed to MyTrack)

• Mentorship Reimagined, Promoting Mentoring Agency using a Network-based Mentorship Approach 

• Making Handshake Work – Common Issues and How to Fix Them
• From Student Job to Career Ready: Harness the Powers of the Career Readiness Competencies
• Inclusive Leadership in Practice (Not Just in Theory)

• Walk the Talk: Developing Inclusive Hiring Practices
• Skills Required: Adapting Student Employment for the New Skills Economy
• The Student Perspective – Student Employee Panel

Session Descriptions

Session 1 (10:45am-11:50am)

Mentorship Reimagined, Promoting Mentoring Agency using a Network-based Mentorship Approach 
: (Ballroom)

During this participatory session attendees will engage in guided personal reflection and small group discussions exploring network-based mentorship. This session will help participants evaluate their current support structures and mentorship roles; consider what responsive, reciprocal, and adaptive mentorship looks like and interact with mentorship network maps.    

Session 2 (1pm-1:50pm)

Making Handshake Work – Common Issues and How to Fix Them: (Crater Lake North)

Handshake is a fantastic tool to help our on-campus employers find and select student workers. It is the University’s policy for all student positions to be listed on the platform. Just because it is required does not mean the platform always makes it easy.  

For on-campus employers, there are a plethora of common headaches Handshake can cause. Creating a department or unit account can be unintuitive. Setting up individual users can be frustrating. Learning how to communicate and track candidates is arbitrarily limited. Knowing how to get answers to those or any other problem is what this workshop seeks to address.

From Student Job to Career Ready: Harness the Powers of the Career Readiness Competencies: (Crater Lake South)

Employers hiring recent college graduates are seeking candidates who are “career ready”. The National Association of Colleges and Employers has defined career readiness as “a foundation from which to demonstrate requisite core competencies that broadly prepare the college educated for success in the workplace and lifelong career management”.

Supervisors can play a key role in helping students understand and translate how their student job is helping them to develop the career competencies that employers seek.

This presentation will focus on helping supervisors learn what the NACE career readiness competencies are, identify the career competencies unique to their student positions, and help their student employees identify and articulate these competencies to potential employers. Participants will leave with greater understanding of tools available on campus as well as strategies for improving their supervisory practices.

Inclusive Leadership in Practice (Not Just in Theory): (Gumwood)

By now, we are aware that cultural differences exist, and we perhaps even believe they are important to understand and make space for in the workplace so our employees can feel a sense of safety, respect, and belonging. But what does inclusive leadership really look like? It can be hard to make the leap from simply being aware of cultural differences to successfully navigating or managing a diverse team of people, especially when every team is different in different ways.

Having a general awareness of cultural differences doesn’t necessarily help us understand our specific team contexts or identify the cause of a misunderstanding, and in some cases could lead us to oversimplify factors influencing an issue and lean on generalizations for solutions. Gathering more specific information about cultural differences can be useful, but it can also allow us to think we know more about people than we really do. Both approaches, without other strategies, can perpetuate stereotypes, create more misunderstandings, and make our team members feel further unheard and marginalized.

Following up on the Cultural Competence for Supervisors session I presented last year, this session maintains the assertion that all teams are intercultural teams and aims to paint a more concrete picture of what inclusive leadership means—in particular, what qualities, attitudes, and skills inclusive leaders embody and practice with their teams. Some people may be surprised to learn that it has less to do with what we know about culture and more to do with how we engage with what we don’t know.

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on these qualities, attitudes, and skills in themselves, and consider how they can further develop and practice them daily as they lead their own unique teams.

Session 3 (2pm-2:50pm)

Skills Required: Adapting Student Employment for the New Skills Economy: (Crater Lake North)

This session addresses the critical role of supervisors in shaping the skill development of student employees to meet the evolving demands of the modern workplace. Our interactive training aims to equip supervisors with strategies to help student employees identify, develop, and articulate the diverse skills acquired through campus employment. Co-presented by a student supervisor and a current student employee, this session offers a dual perspective on skills development in the context of workplace experiences. This session promises to be a dynamic blend of learning, sharing, and planning for a future where our student employees are well-prepared for the emerging skills economy. 

Walk the Talk: Developing Inclusive Hiring Practices: (Crater Lake South)

Oftentimes during hiring, we believe we want a diverse team of student employees, but our eventual hires don’t reflect this. Our hiring process may be unintentionally throwing up barriers preventing students from applying, or our own internal biases may effect how we select candidates to move forward. Additionally, sometimes while we *say* we want a diverse team, we haven’t fully conceptualized what that would even look like or how to achieve it. The experience that students have in the hiring process sets the tone for their entire experience as your employee. You cannot create a culture of inclusion if your hiring practices are excluding populations of students. To create a culture of growth, inclusion, and mentorship you have to start at the beginning: hiring practices.

In this training, we will look at all stages of the hiring process– from writing your position description, selecting minimum and preferred qualifications, advertising your position, writing interview questions, and analyzing interview responses– to align our actual practice with our stated goal of building a high-quality, diverse team. We’ll talk about common roadblocks students face in the hiring process and how to reduce these barriers so that we can hire and sustain a varied team of student employees.

The Student Perspective – Student Employee Panel: (Gumwood)

Join us for a dynamic and insightful student panel discussion at our Student Supervisor Summit. Our panelists, representing the diverse student body, will share their perspectives, experiences, and valuable insights on various aspects of student supervision. Engage with them as they respond to thought-provoking questions, offering a firsthand look into the student experience and fostering dialogue between students and supervisors. Gain a deeper understanding of the student perspective and contribute to the collaborative atmosphere of our university community. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and enhance the student-supervisor relationship.