Presented by TxCEIA
July 27-29, 2008
Arlington Hilton * Arlington, TX
This year's conference focuses on making connections- connections with employers, with students, with faculty and peers. It promises to be a fantastic event, packed with useful information and networking opportunities. As we get our speakers and breakout sessions confirmed, we'll post the information to the web site so check back often.
We'll meet at the Arlington Hilton in the action-packed, fun-filled Metroplex. There is a lot to do in the area so make plans for fun as well.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM- Luncheon Meeting of Executive Board
NOON – 5 PM- Registration
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM- Pre-Conference Workshop: “Nuts &
Bolts on Building a Quality Internship or Co-op Program”
Learn all about how to build (or improve) your organization’s program for
maximum effectiveness and success. Includes a handout; pre-registration
required to insure sufficient quantity.
Led by Dianne Markley- Director of Cooperative Education & Internship
Programs at the University of North Texas (UNT)
Dianne helped establish and
develop the co-op program at UNT and led it to becoming fully accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE). Dianne serves in
professional associations at the national, regional, and state levels in a
variety of capacities. She is a past president of both the national Cooperative
Education and Internship Association (CEIA) and TxCEIA, and is currently the
Chair-Elect of the Cooperative Education Division (CED) of the American Society
for Engineering Education. Dianne was the 2006 recipient of CEIA’s prestigious
Dean Herman Schneider Award. Her undergraduate work was at the University of
Houston in English and Theater Arts. Her graduate work was in linguistics at
UNT. For her thesis, she conducted a widely publicized research project on the
effect of U.S. regional accents in the hiring process.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM- Newcomers Welcome
6:00 – 8:00 PM- President’s Reception
Monday, July 28th
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM- Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM -9:00 AM- Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM- Keynote Speaker: Recruiting Trends
& Realities of the Job Market: Dr. Phil Gardner
Information on recent patterns in hiring
and recruiting in the US. A renowned
researcher, Dr. Gardner will also share the results /feedback
from a very large scale
Co-op/Internship survey.
10:30 AM-10:45 AM- Break
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM- Breakout Sessions:
Option 1- What is an External Learning Experience?- Dr. Camille Pridgen
This session will discuss the
different types of external learning experiences, state rules and guidelines,
national usage terms, and other relevant issues. Questions to be addressed are:
* How do internship, coop, practicum, and clinical differ as types of
instruction?
* How should credit hours be assigned?
* Should there be standardization of terms and credit hour assignment?
Option 2- Baseline Techniques, Strategies, Approaches
for Establishing Partnerships with Employers-
Collin County Community College Staff
Sonya Flaming- Coordinator, Co-ops/Internships
Lydia Gober, Director- Career Services & Cooperative Work Experience
Carole Twichell- Associate Faculty, Technology
Seminar will focus on successful, proven strategies used in developing joint ventures with Career Services, Instruction, and Employers to promote "win win" co-ops/internships and other learning opportunities. Informative, interactive session includes information from faculty, employers, and career services regarding the importance of establishing valid collaborations. Learn about the benefits of "Partnerships" vs. job postings in developing potential employment/internship opportunities for students and more! The target audience is faculty, staff, and employers.
Noon – 1:30 PM- Luncheon & Networking
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM- "What Millennial Workers Want: How to Attract & Retain Star Players" presented by Robert Half International
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM- Break
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM- Group Forums: Networking & Brainstorming Sessions with other attendees dealing with similar issues:
· 2 YR Schools session-
WECM External Learning Experiences Update: Dr. Camille Pridgen
Dr. Pridgen will present the Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM) steering committee’s recommended changes to criteria for external learning courses, the issues, and the next Guidelines for Instructional Programs in Workforce Education (GIPWE).
· 4 YR Schools session
· Employers session
Monday Evening Fun Activities- Come join us for a great dinner at Texas Land & Cattle. We'll network, play bingo and enjoy the evening together!!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM- Breakfast Buffet & Business Meeting
9:30 AM- 9:45 AM- Break
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM- Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!: Candy Slocum
Nanotechnology, DNA, Robotics, Data Mining and Holography are but a few of the industries that will shape the future of work. Included in this thought provoking presentation are the types of technology that will influence the jobs of the future and the way we will work. It also provides a snapshot of consistently stable career opportunities which offer good potential for growth and earnings.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Farewell & Door Prizes
* Our conference hotel is the
Arlington Hilton in
Arlington, TX
2401 East Lamar Boulevard
Arlington, TX 76006
817-640-3322
* Room rates are $115 per night
* Come enjoy the Metroplex!
Keynote Address
Recruiting Trends & the Realities of the Job Market
Philip D. Gardner, PhD- Director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University
Phil is a well known researcher specializing in identifying patterns of students transitioning from college to work. His recent large scale studies have identified significant labor market and recruiting trends in the Intern and Co-op student populations. With a background that includes global exposure to economic issues and public policy, Phil has a unique and interesting perspective that provides a broad view of the various impacts on college students and employers in today’s economy.
His research interests include:
1. Transition from college to work and early workplace socialization.
2. Student engagement, learning and competency development.
3. Labor market dynamics for college educated employees, especially early career
development.
4. Impact of the first and second year of college on commitment to learning.
Among his teaching assignments, he works with sophomores in a seminar on career and academic decision-making; effectually referred to "Why Am I Here!".
In addition to membership in various professional organizations, Phil serves as senior editor for an important research publication of our field: The Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships.
What is an External Learning Experience?- Dr. Camille Pridgen
Monday, July 28 from 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Camille Pridgen is a certified medical technologist and blood bank specialist trained at Piedmont Hospital, Georgia State University, and Emory University in Atlanta. Camille has a baccalaureate degree in biology from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, a Master of Medical Science degree in immunohematology from Emory University in Atlanta, and a Doctor of Education degree in educational administration (specialty, higher education) from Memphis State University in Memphis. She worked as a medical technologist and blood bank supervisor with clinical teaching experience, then became a full-time educator. She has been a faculty member and Program Director at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Chairman at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Associate Professor at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and part-time faculty member at San Jacinto College in Pasadena and at North Harris Community College in Houston. She has experience teaching medical laboratory technology (MLT), medical technology (MT), and blood bank specialty (SBB) students as well as teaching ethics to allied health students from many disciplines and an anatomy and physiology course. She has been a member and chair of program, department, and college curriculum committees and been involved in the redesign of the curricula at three institutions. She also served as a consultant to rural hospitals through the Area Health Education Center (AHEC). She joined the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 1997 and is currently a Program Director and health professions specialist in the Academic Affairs and Research Division.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!- Candy Slocum
Tuesday, July 29 from 9:45am to 11:00am
Candy Slocum is recognized throughout North Central Texas and the state, as a visionary and innovator for bridging the gap between business, government, and education.
Candy is Executive Director of North Central Texas InterLink, Inc., a regional non-profit business~education alliance that was named a Model Program by the State of Texas for impacting education programs in North Central Texas public schools. Trained by the State of Texas through the Quality Workforce Planning initiative, she has 20 years experience as a Labor Market Strategist/Futurist forecasting occupations, industries, skill, and knowledge needs that will be in demand in the workforce of the future, and the trends that will change the workforce. Public schools and colleges use the information provided by InterLink to development programs that will provide a skilled regional workforce. Though she has provided labor market services state wide, it is the sixteen county areas of Dallas, Tarrant, and the fourteen contiguous counties where the greatest impact has been made.
A successful entrepreneur, she owned Candy Slocum Realtors in Dallas, which she sold to Merrill Lynch Realty where she graduated from the Merrill Lynch Management Academy. She produced a national sales training manual using strategies she developed which match census data with sales techniques to the meet the needs of the market place. During her real estate career, her peers at the Greater Dallas Board of Realtors nominated Candy as Sales Associate of the Year.
As Assistant Vice-President of Education at the Greater Dallas Chamber, Candy oversaw a business~education partnership that was cited as a Model Private Sector Initiative, by President Reagan. She has developed partnership strategies through which business has impacted education in the State of Texas. Through programs she has administered, the private/public sectors have contributed over $5 million and thousands of volunteer hours to education. Through InterLink’s Skills Task Force, focus groups were conducted throughout the sixteen county region with business, secondary and post secondary educators and administrators, parents, and students during a two year period to determine the skills and knowledge that would be needed for future jobs, and how they might best be presented in the classroom to be challenging and rigorous. The initiative resulted in a comprehensive report The North Central Texas Focus Group Report for Preparing a Skilled Workforce.
Candy currently serves as an elected board member of the College Mound Water Supply Corporation where she serves as the first woman president. Other organizations on which she currently serves are: Texas Counselors Network Board; Board of Directors for North Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium, The Global EDGE Tech Prep; Weatherford College Tech Prep; Career and Technology Advisory Boards for Birdville ISD, Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD, Castleberry ISD, Garland ISD, HEB ISD, Irving ISD, Northwest ISD, Rockwall ISD, Weatherford ISD and; the Small Business Development Board of North Texas, DFW Health Industry Council, North Texas Commission Logistics Committee, and the North Central Texas Workforce Board’s North Texas Supply Chain Logistics Cluster.
She was awarded a Proclamation by the Dallas City Council for her contribution to the City where she served through the years as appointee on the Citizen’s Safety Advisory Committee, the Tax Equalization Board, and the Mayor’s International Education Committee. The Dallas Independent School District recognized Candy for over twenty years of advocacy for the many roles she filled for the district and the Parent Teacher Association which included producing and hosting 26 cable television productions on education and the community for Dallas and Austin cable stations. Two schools in her community awarded her State Life Membership in the Parent Teachers Association after she served as President. The Career and Technology Directors Association of Texas recognized Candy as its Outstanding State Community Volunteer. She was honored as an inductee into the National Technical Honor Society by Collin County Community College. Candy is an Alumnae of Leadership Texas. She served as a state appointee on the Texas State Neighborhood Revitalization Committee, and currently serves as an appointee on the Texas Education Agency, Career and Technical Education TEKS Writing Team.
She believes in the concept of life long learning and makes it a point to learn four new things every day.
Raised a country girl in the Panhandle of Texas, Candy stays grounded on a small ranch where she and her husband raise Black Brangus Cattle and Quarter Horses.
We're looking for presenters for our conference. Want to share the great ideas you have? Spread the wealth and submit a session proposal. Click here for details.
Our annual conference is a great opportunity to get the word out about your program, organization or product to the cooperative and internship leaders across the state. Consider an exhibit or advertisement at the conference.
Sponsorship Packages:
Gold Level: President’s Reception sponsor $1000
Silver Levels: $500
All Silver Level sponsorships include the following:
Bronze Level: Exhibitor package $300 (limited space available)
Program Ads: $250 for full page, $150 for ½ page
Conference Tote Advertisement: $100
Contact Doris Micheaux (doris.micheaux@fortworthgov.org) or Judy Guyer (guyer@utdallas.edu) if you're interested in being a sponsor.
The TxCEIA Mission
The mission and stated goals of our organization are:
* To broaden understanding of the value of cooperative education and
internships.
* To strengthen the functioning of cooperative education and internships through
active the interchange of ideas and experiences among educators, employers, and
students.
* To provide a source of information about cooperative education for the
employment community, staff and faculty of higher education institutions, and
organizations/personnel that may benefit from the philosophy and practice of
cooperative education and internships.
Annual Conference
The annual conference brings
together employers, university representatives and students in an educational
and networking environment.
The conference workshops and general session are specifically designed to
provide the integrated exchange of ideas on the issues of formally integrating
institutionally supervised work experiences with college students.
If you can't attend the conference and just want to join TxCEIA, you can use this Membership Application Form- Click here.
Yolanda Avery
2008 Conference Chair
yolanda.avery@lit.edu
Doris Micheaux
2008 TxCEIA President
doris.micheaux@fortworthgov.org