Helping Student Employees Understand Their Role in Creating a Welcoming Space
- Mindy Heggen (Iowa State University)
Abstract
Fall 2017, I decided to take Iowa State University’s Principles of Community and create a student employee professional development series. Our student employees are professionals in the workplace and need tools to be a successful employee; but they also witness discrimination first hand in classes, across campus, and in their communities. The thought is, if I take one principle each semester and help our student employees understand what each principle means to them, what small changes can be made, and the impact that they can make; then they can grow and share this information with their spheres of influence. This session will discuss what I created in the spring and fall this year, the feedback I received, and lessons that I learned. I will have copies of the “lesson plans” that I have created for those who are interested