October 30, 2014 Page 1 Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:00 9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00 9:15 a.m. Large Group Opening Session: Welcome Dr. Blanche Hughes Vice President for Student Affairs, Colorado State 9:15 9:50 a.m. Large Group Keynote Speaker: D. Wayne Robinson CEO/President of Student Veterans of America, Army Command Sergeant Major (Retired) 9:50 10:00 a.m. Break 10:00 10:50 a.m. Large Group 10:50 11:00 a.m. Break 11:00 11:50 a.m. 1A 1B Featured Speaker: Millenials Veterans' View: Campus Ecology (Campus Technology supports/solutions (Campus Dr. Steve Abt Kristyn Emmer Marla Roll, Shannon Levy Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Scientist, Colorado State ; U.S. Army Major General, (Retired) Student Affairs Higher Education Graduate Student and Career Center graduate assistant, Colorado State Director, Assistive Technology Resource Center; Service Coordinator/ Assistive Technology Resource Center, Colorado State 1C 1D Veterans: Advising Strategies (Campus Veteran Service Organization Panel (Campus, Community and Career Melanie Nichols Academic Support Coordinator, Colorado State Marc Barker Assistant Registrar, Colorado State 11:50 a.m. noon Break 12:00 1:00 p.m. Lunch 12:30 1:20 p.m. Large Group Panel Session Veterans' Stories Student Veterans, Melanie Nichols, Dan Turnbeaugh Academic Support Coordinator, Colorado State ; Director of Veterans Services, of Northern Colorado October 30, 2014 Page 1
October 30, 2014 Page 2 1:20 1:30 p.m. Break 1:30 2:20 p.m. 2A Combat Stress in Higher Ed (Campus Heidi Stuckert, Anne Hudgens Coordinator for Military and Veterans and Student Affairs in Higher Education Graduate Student, Colorado State ; Executive Director of Health Network, Colorado State 2B 5 Keys to Leveraging Your Veteran Workforce (Community and Career Dawn McDaniel President Bravo Delta Consulting 2C 2D Resiliency: Falsifying Myths (Community New Start for Student Veterans (Campus Dr. Kaily Cannizzaro, Steven Pote Cathy Schelly, Erica Schelly, Joshua Burns and Dr. Aaron Eakman Psychologist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Ph.D. Student, Counseling Psychology, of Northern Colorado Director, Center for Community Partnerships and New Start for Student Veterans Program, Department of Occupational Therapy, Colorado State ; Student Veteran Coordinators, Colorado State ; New Start Research Director, Colorado State 2:30 3:20 p.m. 3A Veteran Employees Discuss Transitioning into the Workforce (Career Veteran Panel, Erica Schelly and Josh Burns New Start Student Veteran Coordinators, Colorado State General session Rally Point 6 (Community Anna Sprute Founder and CEO 3B Navigating "Organized Lesley McBain Ph.D. Student, Higher Education & Organizational 3C Anarchy" (Campus Change (HEOC) Division, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, of California at Los Angeles October 30, 2014 Page 2
October 30, 2014 Page 3 General session 3D Developing a Strengths Based Pedagogy (Campus Dr. Lisa Langstraat, Dr. Sue Doe Associate Professors of English, Colorado State 3:30 4:00 p.m. Break 4:00 4:50 p.m. 4A 4B At War with Words: Accommodating Student Veterans' Literacy Practices (Campus The Stigma of Getting Help (Community Mariana Grohowski Jason Sydoriak Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing Program, Bowling Green State Colorado State Student, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Leadership Fellow 4C Leveraging Data, Trends and Tools to Create Successful Student Veteran Programs at Institutions of Higher Education (Campus Tanya Ang, Wendy Lang Director, Veterans' Programs; Director, Operation College Promise 4D Veteran Friendly Employers Panel (Career Jenny Pickett Director of Adult Learner and Veteran Services, Colorado State 5:30 p.m. Networking Poster presentations Comparing Psychosocial and Health Related Characteristics A.M. Eakman, K. Henry, Samantha Dutra and Cathy Schelly Occupational Therapy Assistant Professor, Colorado State ; Colorado State ; Occupational Therapy graduate student, Colorado State ; Assistant Professor and Director of Center for Community Partnerships, Colorado State Poster presentations Translating Military Skills Cathy Schelly, Joshua Burns, Erica Schelly and E. Tohtz 6:30 p.m. Campus Tour Mystery of CSU History RamTrax Assistant Professor and Director of Center for Community Partnerships, Colorado State ; October 30, 2014 Page 3
October 31, 2014 Page 1 8:00 8:30 a.m. Continental 8:30 9:20 a.m. Large Group Joshua Burns, Jenny Pickett One Team One Mission: A collaborative approach (Community Friday, October 31, 2014 Student Veteran Coordinators, Colorado State ; Director of Adult Learner and Veteran Services, Colorado State and Veteran Panel 9:30 10:20 a.m. 5A STEM as a Career Option (Career Christine Grauer, Anne Walker, Elizabeth Evans Getzel Project Coordinator, Co Principal Investigator, Virginia Commonwealth ; Director, State Approving Agency for Veterans Education and Training, Virginia Department of Veterans Services; Director of the Center on Transition Innovations (CTI), Virginia Commonwealth s Rehabilitation Research & Training Center 5B 5C PTSD and Selfless Service (Campus Creating a Veteran Safe Zone (Campus David Fohrman Dan Turnbeaugh, Eric Gorecki Psychiatrist, Creator Traumatic Stress Recovery Training Director of Veterans Services, of Northern Colorado; Graduate Assistant to Veterans Services, of Northern Colorado 10:20 10:40 a.m. Break October 31, 2014 Page 1
October 31, 2014 Page 2 10:40 11:30 a.m. Legal Services: Deborah Wagner Managing Attorney, Colorado Legal 6A Challenges for Veterans (Community Services 6B Supportive Veteran Communities (Campus Bradley Bayer, Dr. Phillip Morris Executive Director of Student Life and Leadership, of Colorado Colorado Springs; Director of Office of Veteran and Student Military Affairs, of Colorado at Colorado Springs 6C 6D Reshaping the Narrative (Campus CSU as an Employer of Choice (Career Jeremiah Gunderson Lorie Smith, Catherine MacGowan and Chris Mullen Coordinator of Student Veteran Services, of Texas Director, Organizational Development and Initiatives, Colorado State ; Human Resources, Colorado State ; Assistant Director, Office of Equal Opportunity, Colorado State 11:40 12:30 p.m. Large Group Closing Session: Military Support & the Land Grant 1:30 3:00 p.m. Campus Tour Mystery of CSU History Dr. Henry (Hank) Gardner, Dr. Tony Frank RamTrax Associate Vice President for Research; President Colorado State October 31, 2014 Page 2