Staff Conference

IMPACT: Cultivating Change through Action to Create Lasting Impact

This two-day event, held on East Campus is designed to foster engagement among participants, encouraging all to become more involved and aware of the power of a unified staff identity and voice. It has the power to inspire university staff to better understand and appreciate their own potential and impact, feel motivated to grow, aspire to excellence, embrace change, advance diversity and inclusion, and seek to innovate. Breakout sessions will feature staff presentations in a variety of formats around the subthemes of:

• Include: proposals to this theme will highlight positive diversity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts on campus and how they might be implemented across campus.
• Mentor: proposals to this theme will illustrate successful mentoring relationships, whether formal programs or informal interactions.
• Partner: proposals to this theme will describe collaborations that solve problems, innovate, and increase efficiency.
• Amplify: proposals to this theme will share how staff are celebrated and their voices lifted on campus, and how these practices may be adopted in other units.
• Creativity: proposals to this theme will focus on ideas about how the workplace can be transformed by creativity and influenced by atmospheric shifts.
• Technology: proposals to this theme will allow presenters to demonstrate how they use technology to simplify and standardize tasks, increase accessibility, and promote a productive hybrid work environment.

Thanks to our Volunteers!

Thank you to this year's conference volunteers: Joe Atil, Pamela Baxa, Mike Bergland-Riese, Brook Berney, Eric Buck, Kate Engel, Anjesa Erickson, Sarah Frankel-Russell, Zac Franzen, Christine Henningsen, Collette McCurdy, Allyn Pella, Gamze Randolph, Julia Remsik Larsen, Sara Roberts, Roxanne Stowers, John Tessalee, and Lisa Vonfeldt.