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That smile says it all! Daniel Reza was recognized at the inaugural First-Gen Celebration hosted by @usdfirstgen Action Committee. Daniel is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) Program '22 student and served as a SOLES ambassador for three years. Congratulations and continue to pave the way for many Changemakers! . . . 📷 @hazel_johanne #firstgen #USDSOLES #celebration #classof2022 #graduation #changemaker
Join us Wednesday, May 18, for our third session of this year's Wellness Series! Best Practice for Personal Leadership + Empowerment Featuring Anthony Lê '18 (MA), Leadership Studies Wednesday, May 18 at 12 p.m. PT "It is an honor to be able to share a framework and best practice for personal leadership and empowerment during this pivotal moment of our lives. Join me as I share what has worked for centuries and how we can adapt the repeated wisdom from various spiritual, leadership, and life discipline and lead us to create an empowered and meaningful life." Learn more and register via the SOLES Events - SOLES Wellness Series link in our bio!
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Carli Danaher '18 (MEd), TESOL Can you share a little bit about your Action Research project? My research was unique because I was able to do a project on campus. It also fulfilled my international experience requirement; I didn't travel abroad. Another student in my program worked in La Paloma and was speaking to some of the Spanish-speaking workers on campus. She said that many of the facilities workers on campus had expressed the need and the want to learn English, so that’s where it started. My colleague and I partnered to find food and facility workers on campus. We spoke to their managers and to the facilities workers to create a curriculum based on why they wanted to learn English and, for the manager, what kind of English skills are you looking for your workers to get. Mostly they wanted to understand paperwork better, be able to communicate if there were any issues with pay or vacation time, and really just get some workplace English skills. Once a week, we would teach at the facilities management building in their lunchroom. I did my action research within that classroom and it was unique because we were working on campus with facilities workers that were also working on campus. It was pretty cool to find that need within our own campus and to help meet that need. I loved the facility workers – our students; we developed such a good relationship with them and we even had a mini graduation for them. We brought them cake and they made pozole, and it was a really good experience and a good time. Read Carli's full interview via the News and Announcements - SOLES Alumni Spotlights link in our bio.
Congratulations to SOLES Alumna Jessica Hanson York '13 (MA) on her promotion to Executive Director & CEO for the @MingeiMuseum Jessica is a 2013 graduate of the Master's in Nonprofit Leadership and Management program. She is also the co-creator of the Arts and Culture Leadership Certificate and serves as the program's lead instructor with Dr. Patricia Saraniero '07 (EdD). She will officially assume her new role on July 1, 2022, following Rob Sidner's 29 years in the role. Jessica joined the museum in 2011 and is currently the Deputy Director and Chief Advancement Officer. Jessica joined Mingei in 2011 and played a key role in the fundraising and oversight of the Museum's transformational renovation. 📸 Katie Gardner
Community resources can provide a tremendous amount of support to help community members become self-reliant and maintain their well-being. Yet, it’s not easy to know all types of community resources available. Join us on May 20, 2022, at 4 p.m.for a DLT #BLM Social Justice and Advocacy Series event "Highlighting Resources in Our Community." This will be an opportunity to learn and information and connections to community resources. Register in the link in our bio. here. https://bit.ly/38RXh8Y If you have any resources you would like to highlight, please email Mario Echeverria at mecheverria@sandiego.edu.
The Faculty Grant Initiative supports the scholarly trajectory of tenured (Full and Associate Professors) and Assistant Professors in their 5th and 6th years. Recipients of this grant continue to support scholarly activities that meet SOLES’ mission, vision, and/or SOLES’ strategic priorities and encourage scholarship that deepens the engagement within the scholar’s selected field and promotes growth, visibility, and scholarly influence of the faculty member and of SOLES. 📚Dr. James Fabionar: Comparing Configurations of Secondary Ethnic Studies Courses. 📚Dr. Maya Kalyanpur: Initiative to Increase Recruitment and Enrollment of Low-income Students of Color in DLT’s Dual Credential Program. 📚Dr. Jo Ellen Patterson: Creating a Canadian Clinic to address Legal Issues and Social Disparities. . . . #usdsoles #faculty #grants #growth #visibility #education
@nrotcsd students from the Dept of Leadership Studies in company with @sdarmyrotc placed 26th at the 2022 Sandhurst Competition at @westpoint_usma! Forty-eight teams from each of the service academies, international teams and senior military colleges competed from all around the country. Congratulations Ranger Challenge Cadets: - Joshua Adams - Lukas Nicoloff - Kobe Deutscher To check out the standings of every team and see videos of the intense events that the teams participated in, visit http://westpoint.edu/sandhurst . . . #usdsoles #westpoint #sandhurst #leadership #ROTC #sandiego
USD's Student Affairs division is currently hiring for several Graduate Assistantships! These positions are open to all graduate students at USD, as well as graduate students from neighboring institutions. See the flyer for more information and get your application in ASAP!
Lily has a heart of gold which is manifested in all she does in and out of the classroom. She has the perfect way of meeting us where we are as training clinicians, helping us set goals of where we want to be, and encouraging us every step of the way. Lily’s leadership and guidance has been an invaluable part of my time as USD. Thank you Lily! @meikenalexander  . . . #teacherappreciationweek #Leadership #mentor #thankyou #USDSOLES