Thursday, January 26, 2012

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.


Kindly,







Allison Taylor and Desiree Nownes
Co-chairs 2012 CSW Summit
Committee on the Status of Women.

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