Reimagining Minnesota State: Forum Session 3 - Feb. 4, 2019

Minnesota State includes 30 community and technical colleges and seven state universities serving approximately 375,000 students. It is the fourth-largest system of two-year colleges and four-year universities in the United States.

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Session 3: The Nature of Work: Changing Careers, Competencies, and Credentials in the Future The third session will take a look at the changing nature of work and the workforce of the future as the realities and opportunities of technology automation, and globalization impact different industries and professions. Session 3: The Nature of Work will provide opportunities to discuss how organizations are  innovation and capacity building among their workforce in order to meet these changing skills an expectations approaching.
How will Minnesota State reimagine program development and the creation of educational credentials that are more responsive to changing workforce dynamics and demands in order to position our students for immediate and ongoing career success? How will we reimagine our approach to employee development that prepares and supports them as they navigate this new landscape of learning?
Monday, February 4, 2019 8:00-10 a.m. 10:00-11:00 a.m. - optional group discussion following panel presentations 
Normandale Community College Partnership Center, Room 0806 9700 France Avenue South Bloomington, MN 55431 <A HREF="http://www.normandale.edu/directory/campus-maps-and-directions" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Normandale Community College campus map" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Campus Map</A>
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Forum Session Panelists: Heidi Rai Kraemer, Senior Manager for Corporate Citizenship, IBM Corporation Ms. Kraemer leads IBM’s global employee engagement program. In this capacity, she acts as the citizenship manager for Minnesota where she helps connect IBM employees and services and technologies in effective partnerships to bring solutions to the systemic issues that impact the state’s quality of life. One such program, Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools (P-TECH), offer a seamless pathway from high school to college completion and career readiness within six years. P-TECH schools are partnerships among private industry, school districts and higher education institutions, with support from government. She serves on national and local boards that support education and the not-for-profit sectors.
 Chauncy Lennon, Ph.D., Vice President for the Future of Learning and Work, Lumina Foundation Dr. Lennon is the Vice President for the Future of Learning and Work at the Lumina Foundation. Before joining Lumina, Lennon served as the director and head of workforce strategy at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he drove the firm’s $350 million investment in philanthropic initiatives. He previously led large portfolios of work at Ford Foundation related to economic advancement and workforce development. Since 2015, Lennon has served on the national advisory board of the College Promise Campaign, a nonpartisan national initiative to build public support for funding the first two years of higher education for working students, beginning with community colleges. He also serves on the New York City Workforce Development Board, providing oversight of the city's policies and services for youth, adult learners, job seekers, and employers.
 Terry Rhodes, Vice President, Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities Dr. Rhodes is currently Vice President for the Office of Quality, Curriculum and Assessment at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) where he focuses on the quality of undergraduate education, access, general education, and assessment of student learning. He is also the executive director of the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) project, and director of the annual AAC&U General Education Institute. He has received grant support from the National Science Foundation under the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program; the U.S. Department of Education for the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program; and FIPSE for projects related to the use of e-portfolios for transfer among and between two and four-year colleges, as well as collaboration on a Lumina-funded project on barriers to transfer students.

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