Committee on the Status of Women Summit

Over the last three years the All-University Committee on the Status of Women has hosted a summit where women (and a few men) have come together to discuss and learn from each other.

The main goals of the Summit are to promote a culture of networking and mentoring and offer a significant professional development opportunity for faculty, staff, and students.

The planning committee for the Summit decided that the conference style sessions and an opening speaker were great ways to network and will continue the dialogue of mentoring and education from the previous years. 

Our learning outcomes this year have to do with three areas that women involved in our community can impact one another.

Inspiration

• Participants will recognize personal gifts and talents
• Participants will discern what inspires them in career or personal life
• Participants will learn how to make time for reflection

Influence

• Participants will learn strategies to share gifts and talents to make positive change
• Participants will gain perspective on their sphere of influence within their career or personal life

Innovation

• Participants will begin to recognize their ability to be agents of change for others
• Participants will reflect on reframing the world into a preferred lens

This semester, the Women’s Summit Conference is being held on Friday, March 16th from 8:30am until 4:30pm. The day is focused specifically on women’s development and will consist of featured speakers, breakout sessions on an array of topics addressing the summit theme, Inspire, Influence, Innovate (some that are just for students), lunch, and networking opportunities.   Below is a schedule of events for the day:

7:45 - 8:30am                     Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00am                     Opening/Welcome

9:00 - 9:45am                     Featured Speaker: Mary Pat McCarthy ’77 BSBA

9:45 – 10:00am                  Break

10:00-10:50am                   Conference Session 1

11:00 -11:50am                  Conference Session 2

12:00 – 1:15pm                  Networking Lunch

1:15 – 2:00pm                    Featured Speaker: Barb Braden, Dean Emeritus

2:00 – 2:10pm                    Break

2:10 - 3:00pm                     Conference Session 3

3:00 - 3:50pm                     Conference Session 4

3:45 – 4:30pm                    Closing Reception

Spots are filling up fast, so sign up quick if you are interested in joining us!  Your experience as a student, faculty or staff member would be incredibly valuable at the sessions and we hope you are able to attend.

You can register at www.creighton.edu/women OR email us if you have questions about the schedule.

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Kindly,

Allison Taylor and Desiree Nownes

Co-chairs 2012 CSW Summit

Committee on the Status of Women.

The Other Résumé

I think as college students, we are generally high-achieving, goal-driven individuals. We focus on the grades that are placed on our transcripts at the end of the semester, the lines we can add to our résumé with the endless amounts of activities that we take up in our schedules, and the people we network with to get that stellar letter of recommendation for whatever the next step is in our lives. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of what we have achieved; however, it makes me sad when I see my peers, myself included, get caught up in the lines to add to our résumés.

Merriam-Webster provides the following as one of the definitions for résumé: a set of accomplishments. I think that as pre-professional, pre-graduate, and pre-life students, we focus on the accomplishments that get added to our professional résumés, but what about the list of accomplishments that aren’t added to our professional résumés? Aren’t those just as important as the rest of our accomplishments, if not more?

How about that time you lost track of time in a deep conversation and talked till 4:00 A.M. with a friend? How about the day you reached your weight loss goal? How about the day you were Confirmed? The day you decided to move on from a heart break? Or that you attended a faith-sharing group with a group of friends, searching for support, but you collectively couldn’t find it so created your own? How about the time you scored the highest grade in your class, setting the test curve? Changed your first flat tire… You attended a Women’s Relationship counseling group and learned you weren’t the only one feeling what you felt… The first time you had a conversation completely in a second language… You climbed your first fourteener… Traveled to a foreign country without the support of family… Safely completed your first road trip… Or settled your first true confrontation with a roommate or friend… Learned a life lesson that nobody could ever teach you in a classroom… The random acts of kindness that you perform without expecting recognition in return… 

This list is by no means complete, but I really find value in appreciating all of our accomplishments—the ones we place on our official résumé and the ones on our other résumé. The things that we can’t quite get across on paper. The smaller milestones, but no less important. 

Kindly,

Sabrina Nelson

Senior, Theology