OPCD staff share thought leadership with industry peers
Several members of the Office of Personal and Career Development presented at industry conferences, recently, on such topics as marketing strategies to engage students and how to build a college campus around mentoring. In addition to sharing successful ideas that Wake Forest has implemented, staff members received recognition for their work and assumed leadership positions within organizations.
Presentations:
The International Mentoring Conference occurred on April 22-24. The theme of the conference centered on practical strategies around mentoring.
- Lauren Beam, assistant director of mentoring and alumni personal and professional development, presented “Building Your Toolkit: Engaging Your (Campus) Community around Mentoring.” The presentation focused on ways in which the Wake Forest mentoring department uses National Mentoring Month to engage the campus community with creative marketing materials.
- Allison McWilliams, director of mentoring and alumni personal and professional development, served as this year’s conference chair.
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December 2014: Faculty and staff milestones
Annemarie Buwalda, a faculty assistant in the law school, is celebrating 25 years at Wake Forest! See the complete list of faculty and staff milestones for December 2014.
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McWilliams, Beam produce paper on mentoring
Allison McWilliams, the director of mentoring for the office of personal and career development, and Lauren Beam, the assistant director of programming and outreach for the OPCD, recently had a paper published in The Mentor, which is produced by Penn State University.
The paper, “Advising, Counseling, Coaching, Mentoring: Models of Developmental Relationships in Higher Education,” was based on a presentation that the two delivered last year at the International Mentoring Association conference.
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Students explore working at Wake Forest
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class took a closer look at the work of Wake Forest staff and faculty this semester as part of their study of the history of work in America.
For an oral-history project called “Wake at Work,” students interviewed about 20 staff members and professors about their backgrounds and jobs and how their jobs influenced their perception of the American dream. Transcripts of the interviews are now available on the Z. Smith Reynolds Library website. Audio recordings of many of the interviews are also available at the same website.
Using the University as an example of the contemporary workplace exposed students to a variety of jobs before they began their journey back to colonial days to trace how work — individually and collectively — has shaped American history and expectations about the American Dream today, Gillespie said. Read more
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January 2011 staff milestones
20 Years
Carolyn M. Hall, Administrative Assistant, Telecommunications Read more
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