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In fall of 2022, we launched a partnership with the John Chambers Center for Career Development. Throughout this partnership, we’ve collaborated with Director, Sarah Glenn, and her team on a variety of content creation, one-on-one coaching sessions, classroom integration, and workshops. In addition to strengths and purpose work in the classroom, we’ve also partnered to create strengths-based communication and conflict resolutions sessions for classes studying abroad as well as a new strengths-based salary negotiation workshop.
In fall of 2023, we partnered with Teaching Professor of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Dr. Crystal Smith, to embed purpose and strengths-based work throughout her required core classes in the equine studies program. Students experience three Purpose Center touchpoints throughout their journey including Strengths 101 and Strengths for Teams, Strengths-Based Communication with an equine-assisted activity, and a Personal Development and Networking workshop.
In fall of 2023, we partnered with First-Year Experience Director, Rhonda Black, to create a toolkit and train-the-trainer program for first-year experience instructors across campus. By taking feedback from instructors in the spring on what students needed in those classes, we built a variety of workshops and tools both purpose-focused and strengths-based for instructors to access and help students build essential skills including coping skills, goal setting, motivations, study skills, time-management and how to leverage their strengths through their initial college transition. We continue to take feedback, update the digital toolkit, and help by teaching in the First-Year Seminar classrooms for a variety of majors.
All of Student Life went through Strengths 101 at the Student Life Retreat in December of 2022. We partnered with Student Life on a Week of Purpose Speaker in Fall of 2022.
Full UREM staff training with Gallup in December of 2023