Washington State Apprenticeship Coordinators Association Meeting
VirtualDate: January 19, 2022 Time: 1 – 2 p.m. Location: Zoom (Link to be announced)
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Equity Challenges & Making DEI Work for You
Equity Challenges & Making DEI Work for You Date: 1/26/2022 Time: 3:00 PM CT We will engage in a discussion on what diversity, equity, and inclusion can mean to your organization, including how to tie it back to your organizational goals. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/mrx3x238
Equity in Open Textbook Content
Equity in Open Textbook Content We will share inclusive approaches for OER (Open Education Resource) development, curation, and usage in courses and how creation and review methods can be adapted for a variety of teaching situations. Date: 2/1/2022 Time: 4:00 PM CT Register at: https://tinyurl.com/mrx3x238
Emergency Management Careers Seminar
Thursday, February 3 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST As a student with a degree or an interest in emergency management, you’re invited to join The Walt Disney Company’s Global Crisis Management Team to learn more about the emergency management field and the different ways you can apply your degree! During this seminar, you will hear how The Walt Disney Company conducts various emergency management practices across numerous business segments and around the world including: •Emergency and Crisis Response Framework for a Global Company •Cast Member & Employee Crisis Training and Engagement •Enterprise [...]
Respect and Equity in Digital Learning Resources
Respect and Equity in Digital Learning Resources (Thursday, February 10, 3:00 - 4:00 pm CT) Increasingly, students are spending significant amounts of their learning time engaging with digital learning resources and products, faculty and administrators are increasingly relying on data from those digital learning tools, and the pandemic has only accelerated the process. Understanding how digital learning resources may increase, decrease, or maintain inequity is vitally important for the health of learners, teachers, and society. In this talk we will look at digital learning resources or more broadly educational technology (ed-tech) through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion. We will [...]
DID THE MUON HELP DISCOVER NEW PHYSICS?
February 11, 11:30 am to 1 pm (via Zoom): Dr. David Hertzog, Director of CENPA and Professor at UW DID THE MUON HELP DISCOVER NEW PHYSICS? - This year, Dr. Hertzog and the Muon g-2 Collaboration team of more than 200 researchers reported a single number representing the magnetism of an elementary particle – the muon. It followed more than 10 years of effort and represented an investment of approximately $100 M. In parallel, scientists around the world collaborated to predict what Dr. Hertzog and the Muon g-2 Collaboration team would find. They found something different and the world has [...]
RAIN Presents: Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter discussion and celebration of Black History Month
The RAIN employee business resource group will be hosting a special guest speaker to celebrate Black History Month. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh endowed chair in the Division of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, coined the term #BlackLivesMatter, and author of four books. His research, activism and commentary have been featured in various journals, social media platforms, and news media. Join us as we have a conversation with Dr. Hunter as he discusses the quest for systemic racial equality in America. Auto live captions will be enabled and ASL services provided for this [...]
EDI CARES Event Registration Form (Black, Excellence: Past, Present & Future)
EDI CARES Event Registration Form (Black, Excellence: Past, Present & Future) Hello Raiders! Join us for the EDI CARES Black, Excellence: Past, Present & Future! This event, we will be bringing a group of powerful, uplifting, and resilient Black heroes and sheroes to discuss how they cultivate and utilize their magic and excellence. You do not want to miss out on this event! There will be an opportunity to attend a resource fair featuring local Black businesses where you will get to network! Date: Friday, February 25, 2022 Time: 1pm - 5pm In-person Location: CAS Student Life Performance Lounge, Fort Steilacoom Campus Virtual Location: https://bit.ly/blackexcellenceedicares [...]
Introduction to Implicit Bias with Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.
Introduction to Implicit Bias with Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D. Thursday, March 10, 2022, 11:00a - 12:00p Join us for a series of professional development webinars introducing high-impact implicit bias topics. Webinars are 60 minutes and will be captioned live and posted for easy access. This first webinar is an introduction and broad overview of implicit bias and how it impacts our interactions with others. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/256441321897 The implicit bias webinar series is provided by the Implicit Bias Institute in Workforce Education supported by Perkins funding, and led by the following Washington State Centers of Excellence: Marine Manufacturing & Technology, Careers in Education, [...]
EmPower Women’s Leadership Conference
EmPower Women's Leadership Conference When: March 11, 2022 Time: 11:00 am to 3:30 pm A Free Virtual Event! (with Registration) Celebrating International Women's Week! EmPower Women’s Leadership Conference brings together women in trades careers to celebrate their success as leaders, inspire other women to find and embrace their inner leader, and showcase the possibilities when women succeed in breaking barriers. Hear from industry leaders, current apprentices, and a nutritional expert. The FIRST 150 registrants receive a FREE swag bag! Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ej0tv57zeaab1217&oseq=&c=&ch=