Hesston College will host a complimentary half-day professional development event Thursday, Nov. 1.

Registration includes meals, a career advising tool kit and a copy of Your Leadership Edge by Ed O’Malley and Amanda Cebula.

This event will qualify for professional development points for license renewal. A certificate will be provided upon completion.

This is our way of saying “Thank you!” for sending your wonderful students to START their college experience with us over the years. Our only request is that you RSVP prior to Oct. 26.

Schedule

8:45 a.m. – Continental breakfast and gathering, Keim Center for Performing Arts Education

Please park in the north parking lot at 301 S. Main.

9 a.m. – Welcome

9:15 a.m. – Career Advising Resources Workshop

Deb Roth

10:45 a.m. – Break

Deb Roth

11 a.m. – Leadership Workshop

Rachel Swartzendruber Miller

11:45 a.m. – Networking Lunch, Dining Hall, Bontrager Student Center

12:45 p.m. – Campus Tour (optional) or departure

Registration

To reserve your spot for this professional development event, email Brandy Quinn at brandy.quinn@hesston.edu or call 800-995-2757. Space is limited to the first 25 registrants.

Presenters

Deb Roth, Career Advising Resources Workshop

Deb Roth thoroughly enjoys teaching a one hour Career Development course for students who are changing or deciding on a major. In the ten years of teaching this course, she has accumulated a collection of favorite activities, assignments and interactive ideas that she is excited to share in this session. Because the best educators make a practice of sharing ideas, we invite you to BRING YOUR FAVORITE CAREER ADVISING IDEA with you to our session! Either email your document to debr@hesston.edu or make copies and bring them with you to share!
     Deb is the campus career advisor and Dean of Student Success at Hesston College. She defines her role as a mix of an academic cheerleader, caseworker and assistant principal. With a master of science degree in adult occupational and continuing education from Kansas State Univesity, she loves working with young adult learners who are deciding on a major, challenged with a disability or discovering what it means to live and learn away from home for the first time.

Rachel Swartzendruber Miller, Leadership: Creating a Culture Change

Hesston College recently partnered with a local high school to offer leadership training to student-athletes who demonstrate leadership potential and the ability to change their school’s culture from passive to active, apathy to initiative, and blaming to ownership. The training gave participants a common understanding of leadership and how to apply the competencies within their context. As co-creator of the leadership training, Rachel will walk you through a time of learning and interaction of the definitions and competencies and explore a customized training with your students and context. Hesston College utilizes the leadership curriculum provided by the Kansas Leadership Center through, Your Leadership Edge, by Ed O’Malley and Amanda Cebula. Each guidance counselor will receive a free copy of this book as our gift to you.
     Swartzendruber Miller, vice president of enrollment at Hesston College, is an energetic speaker and storyteller who has a passion for equipping young people to take advantage of the leadership opportunities in front of them. She holds a master’s degree in communication from Wichita State University and a Ph.D. in educational leadership studies from Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Mich.).