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CONFERENCEHosted by Ivy Tech Community College – Richmond

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President’s Welcome
Welcome to CDPI’s Fall 2015 Conference: Coming Together for Change – Topics on Diversity and Inclusion! I
hope that you come away from Richmond with a broader understanding of the influence of cultural identity
in students’ career development.
Multicultural awareness is fundamental to forming authentic working relationships with our students, as
they have all experienced (consciously or unconsciously) the impacts of power and privilege in our societal
structure. As an organization of career development professionals committed to the highest standards of
ethical and professional practice, I challenge all of us to continually examine our own biases and prejudices
with an honest, critical eye, and to seek to understand the unique cultural identities of the students, faculty,
employers, and others with whom we work.
Diversity and inclusion are not simply “buzzwords” that can be addressed from a neutral distance. These
are values that must be lived and exemplified to truly enact positive change in our communities. It has been
my experience that the role of diversity in career development theory has often been greatly undervalued;
I believe this to be a gaping hole in our collective understanding of how individuals thrive in their vocational
lives. So many students I’ve met over the years have felt out of place in the predominantly white, male-
dominated strata of the American workforce. Whether related to the gender gap in compensation, or the
frequent micro-aggressions individuals of color experience, the process of successful career development is
fraught with barriers and obstacles for people who don’t fit the privileged mold.
Let’s advocate for a more equitable workplace.
It starts with me. I am responsible for educating myself, and seeking out experiential understanding of other
cultural identities. So, let’s venture outside our comfort zones, and in so doing, make our communities safer
and more inclusive for all.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only
thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
Thank you,
Matthew Wells
President
Career Development Professionals of Indiana, Inc.
Conference Schedule
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast Johnson Hall Main
Lobby & Bennett
Lounge
8:30am - 9:00am New Member Orientation Johnson Hall 2321
9:00am - 9:10am Welcome & Announcements - Chad Bolser - Ivy Tech Stidham Auditorium
9:10am - 10:00am Keynote Address - Dr. Ben Young Stidham Auditorium
10:10am - 10:55am Breakout Session #1
Building and Assessing Successful Internship Programs at IUPUI
Best Practices in Career Development – Share Yours!
THE IVY TECH GLOBAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE: A Degree-Enhancing
Option With Lifelong Career Benefits
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11:05am - 11:50am Breakout Session #2
Creating a Diversity Awareness Certificate
Career Coaching in a Multigenerational Workforce
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12:00pm - 1:15pm Business & Lunch Johnson Hall Main
Lobby & Bennett
Lounge
1:20pm - 2:10pm Breakout Session #3
Counseling Techniques any Career Counselor Can Do:
Activities That Get Beyond Talking
The Coded Language of Diversity and Inclusion
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2:15pm - 3:00pm Closing Ballroom, 2nd
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Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker Dr. Benjamin Young
Dr. Benjamin Young has over 43 years of professional administrative experience working in a variety of higher
education institutions from regional state colleges to multi-campus community college systems. He recently
retired his from service as Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Ivy Tech. Prior to this position,
he served as Vice President for Student Affairs from 2007 to 2013.
Dr. Young also served on many critical College wide decision-making bodies including Focused on Student
Success 2025 (the College’s strategic planning vehicle), the IIS Banner Steering Committee, President’s
Council, and Achieving the Dream Core Team.
Before he came to Ivy Tech, Dr. Young served as the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services/Dean of Students
at Indiana University East, from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Young holds membership in numerous professional
organizations and is an active member of The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association
of Colleges and Schools, as a consultant evaluator, team chair, and member of the institutional Actions
Council. Dr. Young resides in Richmond.
Breakout Session #1
Tim Scully
Colleen Rusnak
Lecture/Interactive
Building and Assessing Successful Internship Programs at IUPUI
Starting and assessing an internship program isn’t easy. Struggling with where you
should begin? Does your internship program need fresh ideas? Start with this session!
We’ll show you how to launch, design, and assess an internship program that works
well for you, your employers, and most importantly your students! What will you gain?
You’ll gain knowledge of the internship program that will be launched Spring 2016 in
the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at IUPUI and how internships are
tracked and assessed in the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis.
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Chris Klein
Interactive Session
with Audience
Participation
Best Practices in Career Development – Share Yours!
How do we best serve marginalized students? Are you meeting your students where
they are at? These questions affect all career development professionals and we’d like
to tackle this issue together.
This breakout session will be an open forum on best practices in career development,
moderated by Chris Klein. Bring your innovative ideas, your engaging events/programs,
and your words of wisdom on how to connect best practices in career development
with diverse student populations.
Those interested in sharing their best practices will be given about five minutes to share
their idea and why it worked on their campus. There will be time at the end of the
forum to share contact information so you can bring these awesome ideas back to your
own campus.
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Dr. Michelle
Henderson
Lecture/Interactive
THE IVY TECH GLOBAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE: A Degree-Enhancing
Option With Lifelong Career Benefits
The Global Learning Across Indiana project is in its third year of implementation and
resulted from a unique and very successful partnership between Ivy Tech and Indiana
University. The project involves the integration of global learning outcomes across Ivy
Tech’s 14 regions in Indiana, and the development of a Global Studies Certificate which
can be earned in conjunction with an Associate’s Degree in many program areas at
Ivy Tech Community College. The newly developed Global Studies Certificate is being
promoted as a valuable option to increase students’ chances of being hired after
earning an Associate’s Degree. Many U.S. businesses are expanding their operations
into different areas of the world, so employees are very likely to interact with people
from other countries and cultures on the job, whether they stay in Indiana, move to
a different region of the United States, or conduct business abroad for an American
company. Students who choose to earn a Global Studies Certificate in conjunction
with their program of study will be exposed to cross-cultural perspectives and crucial
intercultural communication skills which will guide them towards becoming employees
with an appreciation for diversity and an interest in engaging with the world beyond
their hometown.
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Breakout Session #3Breakout Session #2
Rosemary
Cheek-Walthour
Lecture/Interactive
Creating a Diversity Awareness Certificate
Our program seeks to generate holistic development for students who have The
Diversity Councils and Retention Committees in Lafayette and Kokomo have been
collaborating to create more opportunities for employees to participate in diversity
related activities, events, and training. In light of the recent merger of our campuses,
we have endeavored to pool our relative resources and the talents of our employees
to create a Diversity Awareness Certificate, which works to meet the needs of our
students and community involvement.
The goal of the Diversity Awareness Certificate is to keep the College’s employees
connected with the diversity-related needs and resources in the community and at
the same time have a baseline understanding of diversity principles to be conscience
of the needs of our students in higher education.
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Theresa Green-Ervin
Lecture/Interactive
Career Coaching and the Multi-Generational Workforce
For the first time in history, we are living in an era where the workplace is comprised
of five generations inclusive of: (1) Veterans/Traditionalist; (2) Baby Boomers; (3)
Generation X; (4) Nexters/Millennials and (5) Generation Z. The multigenerational
workforce will see differences as a lens through which to view skill sets, diversity,
personality types, and many other areas. Effective leadership must understand the
generational characteristics of these students and they must assure that advisors,
career service professionals, recruiters and employers understand and respect one
another’s differences as they advise, coach, interview, prepare and retain students. In
addition, they must foster open discussions of how generational difference influence
attitudes towards coaching, work and organizations. Moreover, they must provide
opportunities for multigenerational students to contribute their best skill set and
meet university and organizational goals. Generation Z represents the greatest
generational shift that colleges and universities, along with the workplace, has ever
seen.
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Jan Van Dyke
Yunshan “Amanda”
Zhao
Lecture/Interactive
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This program will discuss current services, resources and programming for
international students at the Career Development Center, Indiana University’s
Bloomington campus. We will discuss challenges and suggestions for improving
services. We will discuss the challenges faced by international students in the career
development process, job interview, and the internship and job search. Questions
and discussion will be encouraged throughout the presentation.
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Karen Campbell
Lecture/Interactive
Counseling techniques any Career Counselor can do: Activities
that get beyond talking
Through a review of the NACE Competencies and assessing where our office stood for
each career-development competency, a number of action items were brainstormed
and initiated. An overview of how to evaluate your office against NACE competencies
will be discussed, and then we will focus on the “Career Coaching, Advising, &
Counseling” functional area and the brainstorms that came out of our desire to achieve
the “Advanced” level for all relevant competencies. This functional area had a strong
theme with developing action plans, working with students in a variety of formats,
providing diverse interventions, and staying current within the profession.
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Dawn Rodney &
Robert Smith
Panel/Discussion
The Coded Language of Diversity and Inclusion
This roundtable discussion will examine some of the coded language that surrounds
topics related to Diversity and Inclusion. How do we, as individuals and representatives
of institutions, support diversity on our campus and in our lives? How do we create
meaningful action steps after discussions of race and violence? Are we having conver-
sations with recruiting employers regarding diversity? We aim to cover many of these
topics, and hope you can join us for some candid and purposeful conversation as we try
to “de-code” these important topics.
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Conference Notes
Keynote
Breakout Session #1
Conference Notes
Breakout Session #2
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2013-2014 Board of Directors
President: Matt Wells, Valparaiso University
Past President: Holly Starr, Ball State University
President Elect: Rachel Landis, Indiana University-Bloomington
Director of Member Services: Andrea White, Indiana University-Bloomington
Treasurer: Latoria Thomas-Lee, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Secretary: Lauren Little, Indiana University- East
At Large
Veronica Rahim, Purdue - West Lafayette
Erin Bruce (Virtual Career Fair), Indiana University Alumni Association
Richard Coleman (Mentor Program), Vincennes University
Willow King-Locke (Intern Supervisor), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Ex-Officio
Past Treasurer: Scott Feeny, Independent Colleges of Indiana
Webmaster: Kyle Moore, Indiana State University
Public Relations Chair: Justin Zuschlag, Indiana University- College of Arts & Sciences
Professional Development Coordinator: Sarah Wild (Grants), Indiana State University
2014 Spring Conference Planning Committee
Chair
Paul Luttman, Ivy Tech Community College - Richmond
Marketing
Vashon Broadnax, Ball State University
Programming
Gauri Bajpai Dronamraju, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Registration
Chris Klein, Indiana University-Bloomington
Networking
Jaime Frey, Ivy Tech Community College - Terre Haute
IndianaINTERN.net
CDPI Would Like To Thank
Gold Sponsor

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Virtual Career Fair
State of Indiana Collegiate Talent Search – Virtual Career Fair
Save the Date
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Getting Started:
Employers create an employer page – much like you would find on LinkedIn.
Students and alumni will register and upload their resume.
In Advance:
Employers can view registered attendees’ resumes and can search them by specific criteria. They can also invite
specific candidates to come to their chat room.
During the Fair:
Recruiters will set chat hours. During those hours, there are three ways to interact:
1. One-to-many chats – An employer can chat with a group of attendees, much like an information session.
2. One-on-one chats – If an employer would like to know more about a specific candidate, they can engage in a
one-on-one chat, similar to a live career fair.
3. Employers and candidates can interact through a video chat to have a true face-to-face conversation.
2015 Statistics:
16 Colleges Participated
1276 Students Participated
53 Employers Recruited
Questions?
Contact Erin Bruce at virtualcareerfair@cdpi.org
CDPI Would Like To Thank
IVY Tech Community College - Richmond
Wayne County Convention & Tourism Bureau

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Save the Date
SPRING 2016
CONFERENCE
April 22, 2016
Want To Get Involved!?
CDPI is in search of members interested in being a part of the conference planning committee for the Spring 2016
Conference at Ivy Tech in Marion.
Will you be a part of the next conference? Everyone involved in planning will receive support and materials along
the way. This is a great opportunity to build your resume and leadership skills. Ways to get involved include
marketing, programming, and registration. Time commitment is minimal with a full conference planning
committee, usually phone conferencing once a month starting in January and weekly a month out from the
conference.
Please contact Rachel Landis at landisr@indiana.edu.
Hosted at Ivy
Tech,
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