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Creating a Blueprint: Position Yourself for Success As a BL/BR Grad Student
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About this Event
The Mentor Collective "The MC" by Navcap
This workshop is an overview of a design-based approach for creating a success playbook for BL&BR graduate students. Attendees will leave with a solid of understanding of all the success domains and specific strategies to begin the process of evaluating and mapping out a plan for success within grad school and beyond.
This workshop is for both Masters and PhD/EdD students in graduate school. It is most effective for grad students in traditional or online degree programs excluding Medical School & Law School.
The FULL MC Collective Suite of workshops is below:
✓ Establish Success Blueprint – Increase knowledge on success domains for graduate students and conduct a gap analysis through a culturally responsive lens. Create a navigational playbook for success.
✓ Navigating The Terrain – Learn effective approaches to survey the landscape, navigate, benchmarks, and manage expectations for personal, academic, and professional success.
✓ Mentee Mindset/Mentor Stance – Discover and use coaching and mentee mindset frames, success cycle implementation tools, approaches for effective communication, advocacy, problem-solving, and negotiation skills.
✓ Career Management Skills – Gain and leverage strategies for building social capital outside of higher ed and how to find opportunities to make significant progress in career positioning.
✓ Maximizing Financial Opportunities – Gain strategies that will help maximize financial opportunities to lesson the level of debt acquired in pursuit of graduate degree attainment.
Who Our Workshops Are For:
GRADUATE STUDENTS & MORE — Our workshops are tailored to meet the needs of both Masters and PhD/EdD levels. and they are designed to address the unique needs of Black and Brown graduate students.
ADVISORS, DEPT. CHAIRS, AND MENTORSHIP SUPPORT NETWORKS — If you support Black and Brown graduate students in an social-emotional capacity, academic capacity, or you are invested in the success of your racially minoritized graduate students, you will find enormous value in our workshops.
PROFESSORS/INSTRUCTORS & ADMINISTRATORS — Gain a greater understanding of the unique challenges within higher education for Black & Brown graduate students to make programmatic improvements and creating optimal conditions for student success.
