Staff Senate Panel Discussion*
Staff Senate Exploratory Committee Members
Location: Auditorium B
The Staff Senate Exploratory Committee seeks to fulfill the N2025 aim of creating and allowing access to a university-sponsored staff council for staff to provide input on relevant issues to university leadership.
This session will provide follow up from listening sessions held earlier in the spring semester, an overview of the nominations process, and timeline for elections of senators to be held in summer of 2022 with the inaugural senate commencing in Fall 2022. Members of the exploratory committee will be present to facilitate the presentation and dialogue. All three of the sessions will have the same content. Multiple opportunities have been included to aid in participation. Further information may be accessed at https://www.unl.edu/chancellor/staff-senate-exploratory-committee
Effective Staff-Student Cross-Cultural Communications
Mia Azizah, Project Coordinator, Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives
Liz Khalil, Office Associate, Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives
Location: Room 010
Cultures, languages and norms of our countries affect the way we communicate with each other. The age of globalization and digital communications highlight the importance of effectively interacting communicating with staff, especially those from international backgrounds and multicultural heritage, and the impacts it can have to staff success and working experience. This presentation will discuss the definition of cross-cultural communications, staff to staff cross cultural communications improvement, and how staff in various roles, from managerial, administrative, student-facing and housing, can grow into their roles and professional development.
B is for Barrier: Creating Content That Doesn’t Exclude Your Audience
Jeremy Sydik, PhD, Director of Accommodation Resource Services, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Ryan Fette, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Institutional Equity and Compliance
Location: Room 018
Are you interested in ensuring that your programs, communication methods and materials are accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities? The training will focus on accessibility of electronic resources such as documents, webpages, and multimedia products, but with introduction to accessibility of presentations and processes. While the focus will be on accessibility in technology, you do not need to be an Office or Adobe expert, a web developer, or have a degree in computer science to benefit from the information. We will be discussing the broader concepts that you can communicate to those who help you create and use such materials. The training will provide you with a big-picture understanding of accessibility on campus and in university programs, common barriers that individuals experience, and strategies for removing those barriers.
Participants will develop:
- A 10,000-foot view of accessibility, as it relates to the campus community.
- An understanding of common barriers to accessibility, generally media and technology such as electronic documents, presentation programs, webpages, and multimedia sources.
- A familiarity with common strategies and resources for removing those barriers.
STAR Interviewing
Mary Couture, Research Manager, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families & Schools
Location: Room 032
Do you get nervous for interviews? Learn how to shine in this interview prep workshop using the STAR method. Well start off with a simple grounding technique to help us calm down before an interview. Then well cover how to prepare for possible questions, what to bring with you to the interview, and outstanding action words to use. Finally, well end by practicing the STAR method with sample questions. Use the skills learned in this workshop and you’ll be receiving glowing reviews after your next interview!
The How and Why of Diversity Statements
Rik Barrera, Associate Dean of Student Services & COO, College of Business
Location: Room 040
Many companies are now requiring diversity statements as a part of an application packet. This presentation will cover why these are important and how we can develop our own diversity statement.
Where’s The Beef?! Let’s Beef Up Your Linked-In Profile*
Holly Smith, M.S., Career Coach, College of Education & Human Sciences
Dr. AnnMarie Gottner, Senior Director of Student Services, College of Education & Human Sciences
Location: Room 211
So many higher education professionals see Linked-In as “not for them.” If you have even a slight notion that you might switch jobs someday or try your hand at bursting into a parallel industry, this presentation is for you. If you work with students and would love to be able to support them, stay connected and share resources beyond their time at UNL, this presentation is for you. Even if it’s not you, but someone you know that is seeking new employment, connecting with them on Linked-In, recommending them and endorsing their skill sets is crucial to their success. Bring your laptops or media devices. We’ll spend time on our Linked-In’s (NO MATTER how rough they are now!) beefing up photos, headlines, featured and about sections, experience, recommendations, skills and endorsements. This session will provide you with not only recommendations and strategies to increase your visibility on Linked-In but will also be time and space for you to sit back and put these ideas into action on your own page. If you can help and support your colleagues in this session with their profiles too, that would be a plus. Because, heck, your mom isn’t going to tell you how awful your photo is but Jenny from accounting just might! (Disclaimer: I have no idea who Jenny is, and I am not in the business of offending mothers.) If there’s time, we’ll create space for open discussion about our career paths, career questions, upcoming career trends, and available resources. (NOTE: Presentation content is referenced from Career Coach Madeline Mann’s YouTube channel “Self-Made Millennial” and can be found there if you are unable to attend and/or for later reference to content.)
*Hybrid presentation