From kmmccreedy at chartermi.net Thu Jun 30 17:29:32 2011 From: kmmccreedy at chartermi.net (KM McCreedy) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:29:32 -0400 Subject: [Career_sig] AHEAD Career SIG Invite- Join us Thursday, July 14, 12:30-2:00 for informative panel, STEM & Disability - A Match Made Outside the Box Message-ID: <003101cc376c$cd117210$67345630$@net> The Career Planning SIG invites all meeting participants to attend the Career SIG meeting which will include a panel discussion on STEM careers for students with disabilities and 3 concurrent sessions focused on career issues for students with disabilities. Career Planning SIG Special Panel Presentation - Thursday, July 14, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm STEM & Disability - A Match Made Outside the Box Open panel discussion addressing how to help students pursuing STEM degrees be successful in obtaining challenging internships and professional positions at top companies. Please attend the SIG meeting and share your own experiences supporting students pursuing STEM careers. What are the challenges? Where are the successes? Panel members: Scott Bellman - International DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center Kathy McCreedy - DiverseAbility LLC Jean Morrell - Entry Point Internship Program A student who has done it! Concurrent sessions focused on career issues for students with disabilities #7.4 Increasing Federal Employment of Individuals with Disabilities Starvis Smith, US IRS Recruitment Office President Obama's Executive Order 13548, "Increasing Federal Employment of Individuals with Disabilities" underscores the importance of providing increasing employment opportunities college students, and other young people with disabilities. Each federal agency will be submitting its proposal on how to implement the EO, and the Department of Labor is expected to name the Workforce Recruitment Program as a pipeline for quality applicants. This session will highlight what is being done on a national level for the employment of people with disabilities, as well as an agency perspective of what the Department of Labor plans to do in order to meet the expectations of the President's EO. Audience: All #8.7 Access to Employment: The Wrap Around Experiential Education Model for Success Veronica Porter, Northeastern University Diane Ciarletta, Northeastern University Marci Shaffer, Northeastern University The unemployment rate for college graduates with disabilities is extremely high. A college graduate with a disability is much more likely to be unemployed than a nondisabled peer. This presentation will focus on a holistic systemic approach to working with students with disabilities based on collaboration, advocacy, feedback, knowledge of disabilities, partnerships with employers and available resources. Participants will learn strategies for collaborating with professionals both inside and outside the college campus to support students toward obtaining access to the world of work. Audience: All #8.10 Symposium on STEM Education (Includes both presentations) Community Partnerships for Enhancing Access to STEM Education for Students with Disabilities Ronda Jenson, University of Missouri-Kansas City Alexis Petri, University of Missouri-Kansas City A community approach involving DSS coordinators, faculty, administrators, and campus resources from 2-year and 4-year colleges can lead to improved access to STEM education. The presenters will describe how KC-BANCS (Building an Alliance for New Careers in STEM) has employed strategies of collective inquiry to plan for and implement universal design solutions for students with disabilities. Through hearing and viewing examples, participants will learn strategies for facilitating collaborative problem-solving among community partners on the topics of access and universal design. AccessSTEM and AccessComputing: Creating Sustainable Partnerships at Local and National Levels Lyla Crawford, DO-IT, University of Washington Sheryl Burgstahler, DO-IT, University of Washington Project personnel will explain how they applied methods grounded in multidisciplinary knowledge management, collaboration, and social network theory and practice, to create and evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-tier organizational structure of local and national partners, collaborators, and affiliates. Project partners implemented systemic change in the organizations they represented; undertook recruitment, retention, and training activities; and furthered capacity-building with stakeholders. At this session participants will increase their knowledge of strategies they can use to create sustainable partnerships with local and national collaborators Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Career Planning SIG! SIG Co-chairs Kathy McCreedy DiverseAbility LLC kmmccreedy at chartermi.net Ronnie Porter Northeastern University v.porter at neu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: