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Roseanne Hello Yeah.

Hi Jim.

Hello Kirsten.

Hi Jim, can you hear Maine?

I can hear you loudly and clearly.

You're welcome.

Good OK thanks.

Oh, let's see how this goes.

It will go well.

Well, it will be fine.

I've been trying to play with the background.

I I wanted my Gator to be clear but then it cuts off my head so I don't know.

I'm wearing a career Ed Shirt, but.

Ah, the logo is cutoff, yeah?

Plus I sit way back here.

All right?

Yeah.

Uh.

No goodness.

So I've met with 2/3 of my class now.

And how they gone, have the meetings gone?

Well, it's really kind of interesting 'cause summer right on top of things. They've chosen topics for papers are all ready to go and then others are like Oh yeah, I haven't thought about that yet.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah, so something.

We have less than a month of classes.

That's right, you better start thinking about it.

Starting to get a lot of questions about, uhm, the credit. No credit business.

Oh

Yeah.

So I've been trying to prepare some some standard answers 'cause I knew this was coming, but.

Hi Rachel.

Hello.

Hello right now.

Awesome.

OK.

Alright, so I can hear him see both of you, so that's good.

Yeah.

That is, yeah.

OK.

OK, I will wait, I know, um, I think either Paula or Meg is gonna jump on just to be tech back up. But I don't foresee any issues and then we'll just wait for Dave. Make sure we can see and hear him and then I'll disappear. I'll still be here but I have my screen will be gone. I'll just talk with you guys in the chat.

Box.

To get that set up.

So we won't hear you, but we will.

See ya requirement.

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Correct, yeah, once it starts all disappear. So it's just you guys that are visible to the audience and then OK, I see Paula is on in the background and you guys both have.

The control slides button clicked on your screens at the top make sure it's green. That's how you will be able to jump through all of the slides. You'll probably see them all then come across the bottom.

Yeah, OK.

Yeah, and you have to physically click on them to make them move like your arrow keys or spacebar. Don't do that on this platform, so whichever one you click on into the one they'll see.

OK.

Yep.

Ah.

How do we get back?

I just could just click on the slide behind it.

Ah.

It's not working.

Missy.

I shouldn't have done that.

Oh, your sound. Make sure that your um microphone is Gray at the top. I know it's counter Intuitive. You want the microphone and the video to be Gray in the control slides to be green.

OK.

They are.

OK.

Still can't hear Jim.

Said that, salt.

So Jim, it should say broadcast video that should be green. And then there's a microphone next to it. Make sure that is Gray.

I won't turn back to great try to, I'm just exit and re log back in and to see if that will resolve it. You should see it will click the same link.

OK, and then Christian you have to change the slides.

Um?

OK.

Hit the controls words again. Cousin, then like, make a grain and make it green again and see if you can click on them.

Can you hear me now Rachel this is Dave?

Yeah, I can hear you and see you yeah.

OK good.

Now.

So we're good OK.

No.

It didn't work OK let me.

Missy Paula has a solution.

Oh maybe.

OK.

Can hear you when you talked?

OK, so Paul is wondering if only one of you can click the slides at a time.

Hum.

And maybe that's why. So, maybe, um, just need to pick someone who's going to control the slides and see if they can move them. That's something we've only ever had one person try at a time, so that would be and you.

Encounter

OK.

Uhm, I can see Jen.

I came to you.

Hello can you hear me too?

Yeah, we can hear you Jim.

OK so I would say uhm.

Yeah, just wanted you wanted to say I'll be in charge of the slides moving them.

Jim, you wanna try moving the slides?

OK, I will do that.

So I can control this. I will control the slides across so when you're ready to advance to the next slide, just let me know. Dave and I'll click on the next slide.

And then Kirsten, when we get to you the same if that's OK.

Yeah, that's fine.

Yeah.

Jim can you hear me now.

I can hear you very clearly, yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah alright so I turned it gets to be Gray the microphone it turned grey when I want to speak is that correct.

Correct and you could uhm. I'm not hearing any residual sound through your computer, so I think if you wanted to just let it.

Stay on you could like I don't hear any echo and the rest of you guys are speaking.

OK.

So you can probably leave it on and then, um.

Uh-huh

What will happen? Um, do you guys see in the top leg left hand of your screen? It says the Allegany Gateway and then it says event scheduled to start in and there's like a little countdown Clock. So as soon as that says 0.

You'll see on the guest habit will just flood. There's like 70 some people registered for the event and they automatically just log in and so that's kind of your cue to go as soon as that counts down to zero. I'm not when you can just start and know that there's people on the other side. Uhm, and then I will. Do you want to do whatever you guys wanna do for introductions, and then I would just make sure someone reminds them that they can type their questions.

Into the chat box on their screams, I'm a lot of them have done some webinars, but this might be some of their first ones and then you'll start to see the questions come in all, approve them one at a time, so I'll wait till you guys finish answering question before I make the next one pop up. If people are kind of slow to start, I'll type some questions in that people have submitted previously so that.

You can do that and then I would say uhm by uh, you know we're not paying for it to be an hour about 4:00 o'clock. At the latest, you can tell people like, Hey, we're going up your question to get answered.

Missions will you no answer it or you know, reach out just kind of you're allowed to shut it down even if questions are still kind of coming in.

So Rachel you want us to start and you're not going to give any introduction at all you're kind of behind the scenes is that correct.

OK.

OK.

I'm going to my little box is gonna go away so I'll still be here but my face in my voice will be up there. Um, I have the ability to pop back in if I need too, but I was going to let it just be you.

OK.

Hopefully we won't and then the other question is do you I don't remember we talked about this earlier but if you want us to repeat the question.

Yes, that would be fantastic.

Yeah and it's going to appear in the little chat box in the bottom right.

Yeah, so you guys are gonna wanna make sure that you had the little tab that says chat as the one that you're seeing. A Nile monitor? The other two tabs and make anything immediate show up on the one that says chat.

Yeah.

Yeah and so I just wanted to know between Jim and KP how we're going to decide who's going to take the question.

I think whatever makes sense.

OK yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That sounds like a good plan.

So you want to say like like people say I'll take this next one and then you read the question and answer it is that sound is that Sonic a plan Jim OK.

Yeah.

All right and then I will I will not introduce the rest of you I'll just introduce myself and go into the overview OK and.

Start with.

Talk about of overview of the gateway obviously not getting any details into itself alright.

Yeah, 'cause I can't kick you under the table Dave.

I can feel it I can feel it.

Sure.

You don't have to, but you're welcome to let them know that admissions counselor is also moderating the chat. Sometimes they like to know that someone is also basically there that they can type 2 if they need to. So I'm going to unroll cast myself, so I'm going to go away.

You can either say my name or um, talk to you through the chat so well.

Yeah alright.

Hola.

Will feel your presence so we appreciate it?

Thank you guys for doing the feel alright good luck.

Thanks.

Break a leg all.

Oh, don't say that.

OK good luck.

Preferably someone else is.

I gotta.

Can come out of the emergency room these days.

I did get a bike ride in so I gotta bike ready and help manage dress so that's good.

Oh, I've had nothing but meetings all day.

Oh my gosh.

OK we're down to 2 minutes 15 seconds so.

I'm gonna run after this.

I don't think so.

There we go you're probably going to run further than I actually bite but.

Very nice.

Yeah.

I did 18 miles.

Nice.

Yeah it was great so I got to the orange trail from the other end.

Yeah so.

Alright I'm going to just leave my microphone on and I have to worry about it so.

OK.

I feel like we should do like a countdown like a blast off a rocket or something so.

We need to good music going on, you know.

Um.

Yeah.

Yeah so we will our word is getting we do good work if we all have to get that in here somehow all right Jim.

We do good work.

We do good work.

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That's right now sorry hidden thing we used to have goofy things like we have Cuba yeah.

Nicaragua.

OK I will try to get kubuntu.

Nicaragua yeah.

OK.

McGraw Hill drag well that's the thing we've all shared not to at the same time but that would be worth talking about for sure so anyway alright.

Have a good work comes from the Terrence days which is another thing we've shared.

Oh my gosh.

I didn't share the Terrence days, thank God.

No.

The.

Yeah.

Yeah it becomes the IT becomes the low point of which Gemini compare just about everything.

I always refer to the barboni years.

No matter how bad things get the artist batters out time was is unbelievable.

And.

Yeah you probably had experiences that were.

Yeah.

The year that we had what 270 incoming freshmen? And that was it. I mean, yeah, right.

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That was a That was a bad one.

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We're almost done.

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That's right.

Sounds great.

How wait for 22 or 3 seconds after it goes and then will start OK just to make sure we're on?

Here we go look at him all coming.

Hello welcome and thank you so much for joining us for this virtual panel today.

My name is David roncolato I'm the director of civic engagement in the alligator gateway and professor of community and justice studies and I'm just one of the panelists that will be fielding your questions here today so to get us started just to say a word about the gateway Allegany college has a reputation of being a college that changes lives and one of the ways that Allegany does that work is through the Allegany gateway we imagine a gate.

If you will that you would come through as you enter Allegany during your first year here and it's also a gateway that will help you launch when you leave Allegany in terms of your career in terms of your vocation in terms of your life beyond your 4 years here at Allegany and it isn't these special one thing that is remarkable about Allegany ever since I was a student here many years ago is the quality of our faculty and their commitment to students they exercise that commitment by working?

Deeply with students one on one and helping their learning but one thing that's very different than when I was here years ago as a student is that.

Learning through faculty in classrooms is necessary but it's insufficient to have a quality education this day and age to add to that experience of the classroom students have to have experiences beyond the classroom experiences out in the real world and that's what the L aghani gateway is all about the Allegany gateways a place where we offer alongside the academic work high impact practices such as internship study away.

Civic engagement opportunities diversity in global learning opportunities undergraduate research all of these experiences compliment the academic work and move students move students through their journey at Allegany college we hope to expand your experience we hope to integrate that have you integrate those experience and then implying apply them to your life after Allegany college yes Allegany college believes that students need to be architects.

Of their own education but we are here in the gateway the college has put resources physical resources financial resources structural resources into a place where you can come to integrate your academic work with real world experiences beyond the campus look forward to fielding your questions here today.

The one area that is the area that I work in is the civic engagement office so we have a staff of 7 and our civic engagement office's best understood as a civic engagement movement and that is a movement of student service leaders any given year there's 80 student service leaders that are mobilizing other students to be involved in the wider community and we can I'm happy to field questions about the types of service experiences you've had in the past that you want to continue at Allegany.

I feel questions here this is a picture of a kick off event this past fall in in which students service leaders get their inaugural sweatshirts to demonstrate their commitment as service leaders and our new president doctor Hillary link is there buried in the middle of this group of remarkable student service leaders happy to field your questions in a few minutes.

OK, I think I'm up next. I'm Kirsten Peterson Uhm. I'm a lifer here at Allegany proud alarm. Just like Dave Um, an I am the director of pre professional studies as part of the gateway and I also do some teaching in the Global Health Studies program so the slide that I'm hoping is up. It's not rotating through my on my screen. So I'm not sure what's up, but who are we?

We are, uh, a number of different offices, so um, civic engagement. Certainly from what you heard from Dave, Um, the career education which you'll hear from later international programs and studies, and which I will talk about in just a moment. Pre professional studies. So pre health and pre law and what am I forgetting? The Earth Scott Office or the undergraduate scholarship in?

Research in scholarly activities. Office that help students figure out how to get an internship, how to get involved in research, how to get it funded, etc. And I'm forgetting 10. The scholarships and fellowships. So Patrick Jackson, who isn't as part of our panel today, help students with the major postgraduate and funding for under graduate fellowships and scholarships.

So.

To um, just well before we get started on that we're not just a collection of offices, that's a pretty common model, but we are more than just a collection of offices. For example, Jim and career education and I. And actually Dave has gotten involved earlier in this have all been involved in an experiential learning trip to Nicaragua. Course things got cancelled with some of the problems in Central America. And now with COVID-19, but.

We've worked together really with the same community over a number of years there in terms that it will take only my area, but in terms of pre health students who want to study abroad, I certainly work with the international office again with pre health students services part of preparing for Medison and so I work with the Civic Engagement office so we work together and I've just given you a few examples. There are many in which we work together as part of the gateway.

In terms of International Education, Lucinda Morgan and an Lenny Mccanless are two amazing people. One of them works primarily with students who come here as international students. The other works primarily with students going abroad and they are some of the nicest, most caring people I've ever met and we've really seen that in spades in the past few weeks. Trying to get students back into the country trying to get students back home to their own countries.

They have put in an amazing amount of work. A man are just incredibly caring people.

So uhm for experiential learning for studying abroad for our students coming here, they are. They are a major part of the Allegheny Gateway in terms of professional studies. My own area.

Free health in pre-law. So I handled the pre health and Christian black handles the pre law but our our job is to help.

Nurture people through the process. And it's not always an easy process, but the picture that should be on your screen right now is a picture of an Allegany alone. Paul Euler, his A Physician Internal Medison physician here in Meadville, who is very generous and having students come and shadow him. The two that are pictured with him. There, Maria and Connor are both actually working in here were before Cobain 19 hit working in his office. So they are learning an incredible amount.

On the job literally on the job.

And at this point I will pass it on to Jim Fitch.

Thank you very much. Kirsten Dave. Thank you. My name is Jim Fitch. I have the pleasure the privilege of being the director of career education. It's known most colleges, his career services. We think of Craig Ducation as being a transformative process in which we're working with students to help them identify, define and achieve success outside of the classroom and in the photo. The slide that I hope you're all seeing.

You can see a photo of the curve education team with chompers at our handshake launch handshake is Allegany College is job an internship search tool and we in the office have three career counselors. You can see Kristen Black on chompers, right are left an Autumn Parker, another Allegany Alumna who works is one of our career counselors. Rhonda hirschelman on Chompers left our right.

And then that's me all the way on the right. We have the privilege of working together as a collaborative team, not only with incorrect ducation, but as as Kirsten and David said. We work collaboratively, so if a student is to come into the office and let's say they meet with autumn, and they indicate that they are interested in going to medical school, autumn will ask. Have you met with Kirsten Peterson or have you met with KP? And if not then shall walk that student to Cape's office, which is.

Roughly 8 feet from her door to Kirsten's and will introduce the students. So we do a lot of warm handoffs throughout the gateway to help students connect so that they they get to know us. We get to know them and they can see that we're going to be here as part of their support system as coaches to help them along their way. So as Dave said, we hope that they'll come into the gateway when they come to Allegany and that will have the privilege of working with them throughout the four years.

Outcomes seem to be a big interest in natural interest to parents and a college students. The class for whom we have the most comprehensive set of outcomes is the class of 2018. So the slide that is on the screen now reflects outcomes for the class of 18, and you can see that over 92% of our graduates of the class of 2018.

Eight months after graduation were either employed or were in Graduate School. Where in graduate programs we are very proud to know that for the last three years, Allegany has ranked within the top 20% of all colleges and universities in the United States when measured by starting salaries. An midcareer salaries of our graduates. We also.

Are very proud of the distinction that roughly 70 to 75% of our students complete at least one internship while they're at Allegany. The national average hangs right around 50%, so L aghani students tend to outpace their peers when it comes to completing internships and when it comes to earnings.

Thank you I. I think we're going to open the floor now or open the chat box now for questions.

I'll take this first one. It says how is the gateway experience related to the first year experience? A man? I think it's related in a number of ways. First of all, if the student happens to be pre professional, they hear from me before or they hear from Kristen. I assume before they even get here we have.

I'll pick it up here as part of the first year experience. Also we have.

Um?

Gateway 100 classes. It's a one. It's a course in which or class in which students earn 1 academic credit.

The big meeting, uhm, where they're introduced, they and their families, uh, more are introduced to the expectations. I know career education certainly reaches out. Maybe I should passov at this point to Dave and Jim.

We focus on who are you and why are you here to help students think about.

The choice that they've made to come to college. Why they're here at Allegany College. It gets them thinking about what they would like to get out of their experience, and Dave referred to students being architectures of their education. So it's one of the classes. It's one of the ways in which we seek to work with students to get them thinking about how they are taking ownership and authorship of their education. We also, as part of the first year experience.

Are invited in by a number of the FS instructors, either into the 101 or the 102 classes to introduce ourselves, we try to wait till that second semester so that students can figure out where they're going to eat with whom they're going to eat. Workout all their roommate problems or roommate challenges, and then in the second semester once things have calmed down, then they're more likely to remember who we are and why we met with them and what we have to offer.

Jim, I think this ones yours.

I can take this one and I'm talking about internships in the process of getting into companies know I'm as part of core education. One of the things that we do is we bring employers to campus throughout the year, typically will see 40 to 50 employers coming to campus to meet with students to recruit students for jobs and for internships. Many of those employers are employers with whom we've had relationships for a number of years, so this might.

20th year working in the area of career services. Correct location. The first 14 years I served as the employer relations person so bringing employers to campus has been a large part of what we do. Those visits take place as early as September that we have.

AUPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which is the largest employer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They seek to be on our campus first each year and they want to be first because they want to have first crack at engaging students for paid internships. And although it's a Medical Center and this is part of the education work that we do, although it's a Medical Center, 85% of the positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Are those types of?

Support positions on finance, supply Chain Management, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Corporate Communications, all sorts of roles that help to support the medical mission of UPMC. So they typically UPS. He will typically send 5 to 9 Allegany alumni back to campus to meet with current students and talk about roles and how those students can apply to land an internship the following summer so.

This is September. They are looking to recruit for May, uhm, UPMC plans to bring five students on for this. Current summary. An although we're navigating the uncharted waters of COVID-19, they still look to bring those five students on for internships and plan to have them working remotely. They're ramping up to figure out how they're going to do that with the hundreds of students they bring on during the summer. You, PMC is just one.

We invite all students to a meeting the night before classes start in which we run a program looking at the following summer. So here we are is typically late in August. Once again we're looking at the following. May the.

The seminar is focused on finding an internship and many of the the reason we do it in August is that many of the financial institutions that institutions complete their hiring for the following summer. By the end of October. So we want students to be aware, and although it's still warm and they attempted to be outside and hanging out, we want him to be thinking about it and be proactive about looking for those opportunities because we know that.

If the window closes, it's too late for that year. We take students to two large regional job fairs each year, so were part of were part of a number of different consortium. One is the western Pennsylvania career services consortium. As part of that consortium, we put on two large regional job fairs. Though the largest in western Pennsylvania.

And we will take students to that event. There's no cost for students to attend that event. If they pre register for it, we use social media to let students know when it's going to take place, as well as all of the employers who are coming to campus. So we do our best to connect with students so that it's very easy for them to find out about who's coming to campus when they're coming, and how they need to prepare.

Finally, handshake is probably the most widely used job and internship search platform in the country. Currently with roughly 900 colleges and universities serving as or handshake customers.

One of the things that we're able to do with handshake is to flag which employers are elegantly connected through our alumni and flag specific job and internship opportunities as being Allegany connected so that students can reach out to the alumni who are there. Let them know that they have applied and maybe ask some questions about how they can better prepare. I'm going to end with just a short story here. Recently we had.

Oh, an elegant connected opportunity post for communications firm in Washington, DC. We flagged it as being elegantly connected. We identified the name of the alumnus working at the organization. There was a student who saw the opportunity she applied. She reached out to the alumnus who is there. They ended up having a phone conversation. The phone count in the phone conversation. The alumnus asked for a copy of her resume.

He walked it to the hiring people. As a result, she got a phone interview. The phone interview resulted in a second interview and currently of over 400 applicants for the position for one position. She is one of the top two candidates, so her reaching out to the alumni.

Potentially elevated her in the position of candidates and has landed her as one of the top two candidates for that position. Thanks for that question.

How do you apply to study abroad? Typically our students are studying abroad in their junior year that it isn't necessarily then, but the bulk of them do apply during. During that time, they typically work about a year ahead of time to make sure that they are eligible to do that an they have the right visas and they have they have thought of all the things that they need to do. If you're not interested in studying abroad for a full semester, and there are quite a number, I think there are 27 or 28 sites.

That are Allegany sponsored sites. Uhm, if you're interested in studying abroad, but maybe don't want either have the language skills for, uhm?

Uh, a semester abroad somewhere where they don't speak English. Uhm, or your schedule is just such that it's going to be difficult to do that. There are a number of other ways of studying abroad. There's the experiential learning terms that I mentioned that Gemini and the date has been involved in. So those are three, typically three week.

The intern sort of internships, study, study tours. So there is preparation there. Is there usually meetings ahead of time. These things take place in May typically and you are traveling with the faculty or staff member, often more than one and taking a group going with a group. Iris went to Nicaragua. We were hoping to go to Belize this year that got cancelled of course, but other places have involved China.

From Japan, Um Mexico, Ukraine. A number of places in Europe. Uhm, a couple of places in Africa, so quite a number of places. But those are two primary ways of studying abroad.

Research opportunities. Who wants to take this one gym you wanna take this one and and while I'm well, I have the the microphone here. Hi Julie, one of our alums. Uhm, and someone who's on the on the call or on the web and R right now, said hello earlier so high Julie Bolin Barras, your son Jimmy. You wanna talk about research?

I will talk about research, yeah, um, each year for a number of years now, L aghani has provided an opportunity for students to complete paid research on campus with a faculty member. L Aghani was identified as being the top College in the country at providing collaborative research between students and faculty, so students will.

Students will reach out to faculty, ask faculty if they're going to be.

Providing research over the summer, if they have an on going research program or faculty members may see a promising student in a class an ask that student if they'd be willing to stay over the summer. Housing is provided by the college for those students in the students get paid. Typically, the students will go home for a couple of weeks after graduation and return at the end of May, maybe around Memorial Day or the week after that, and will complete a 8 to 10 week.

Paid research experience over the summer.

During that time there are activities for them. In the evening, students tend to group together anyway and and do things we the elegant gateway tend to meet with the students early on in that experience, to let them know who we are and that we're still here and that we can help them support them while they're here over the summer and typically will see about 101 hundred 120 students, will stay and take advantage of those opportunities.

Those opportunities tend to be extremely, extremely reasonable. Excuse me extremely helpful, useful for 1st and 2nd year students. They can take and scaffold those opportunities. So if they have a successful research experience after the first year, they're developing their skills, their gaining intangible experience, and then the faculty member with whom they have completed research will be able to write a strong letter of recommendation.

For them as they look to complete research in another location. I know one of the ways that we work with students is they may have completed the research experience on campus after the first year and they'll come and meet with the career add team and Kirsten. You may work with students in this way also. I'm Dave. I don't know if you have but will work with students to help them find research experiences for undergraduates at Cru program.

Run through the National Science Foundation. The research experiences that the students gain on Alleghenys Campus. Set them up really nicely to be strong candidates for the National Science Foundation. Are you program and were able to help students find those opportunities and apply for those opportunities?

We have a partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge is one of the sites for off campus study program. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a lab that sets aside one spot. It's designated one spot. Foreign Allegany student every summer to go into complete paid research. So there are lots of opportunities for students to do research in the Sciences.

Yep.

The natural Sciences in the social Sciences. Well through urska students from any discipline can be completing research over the summer on Alleghenys campus.

Please do, I'll have enough today.

And Jim Carrey add a word to that then yeah, yeah great. So the direct are our colleague. The Directive Oresko Amy can upski coordinates a luncheon every week during this summer where the students doing the research over the summer have a chance to present their research to their colleagues and to the faculty that are here. So it's not just an isolated research experience but something that.

Is a educates the wider community as a whole. One of the areas that is we're growing in the gateway is.

Summer research projects connected to our local community, so over the last few years, we've been piloting a program where community partners raise a question that they would like answered or researched over the summer, the gateway staff identifies a faculty member to take on that project, and a student or two to partner with that. Again, it's a paid summer internship that this is through the Gateway Network, which is an area that's just growing here in our work.

Part of it is coming out of the recognition that our local community and the college have a shared origin and also a shared destiny that we're working to be citizens, not just once we graduate, but also citizens. While we're here and even these summer research projects that are community based have opportunity to present this research during the luncheons that Amy could upset coordinates.

Yeah.

I guess the only thing I would add here is that one of the things that Allegany does best is it senior research project. So regardless of what discipline you are in, uh, everybody has to complete a scholarly piece of research, whether that's in art or in chemistry or in psychology, it doesn't really matter. Everybody does. The senior research project and a lot of students do independent studies. Prior to that time. So even if you're not thinking about doing one of these big major summer research projects.

Uhm, you will get a research experience. You can't graduate without doing one, so.

Question is about pre law advising and I mentioned earlier that Christian Black is our pre law advisor. She she Co leads the advising with Brian Harward who is a faculty member in the Political Science Department. There is a pre law club and there is certainly programming that's very appropriate for pre law students but she does a lot of work in terms of preparing students for the LS 84 preparing them for.

Interviews at the law schools. A man working on their pre law applications. We also have the Center for political participation which is.

Uhm, I don't know. There is technically part of the gateway, but it certainly coordinates with the gateway and they do a lot of programming in both political science in practical politics and certainly by extension in the pre law area.

Talk about the three 2 program well which 3 two program are you talking about? 'cause we have a number of them up in and I'll let you type in your yeah.

Oh, with Carnegie Mellon. OK, Uhm, Jim, do you wanna talk about that one?

I I can talk about that. We have a really nice partnership with Carnegie Mellon University for the three 2 program. Once again, that's a place that we have an alumni connection though.

Jackie speedy and David Eber work as part of the Heinz College. David, who's an alumnus, will both Jackie and David are alumni an David will return to campus each year in the fall to meet with students and tell them about the three 2 program and what they need to do to apply, how they can apply so that they can prepare students who complete that program will.

Dumb matriculate at Carnegie Mellon University after their third year at Allegany College. So successful.

Students who successfully complete the three 2 program in five years have earned a Masters degree from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a bachelors degree from Allegany College. There is an internship component that's part of the three 2 program between the two years at Carnegie Mellon University. All students complete an internship related to the Masters program.

That they are completing in many cases if not most that internship can be viewed as a test drive. A 10 Week 13 week test drive between academic ears that ends up landing an opportunity or landing a full time position for the student who is completing the three 2 program.

Here's what you do.

Local, you are def. Definitely you wanna take this one.

OK, 'cause I'm happy to do that. The question is what are the local community service opportunities in Meadville that students who are service minded pursue? Does Allegany College have a relationship with the local EMT squad? So we have had students work in EMT.

Yeah.

Before and the community EMT operations are open to our students. Getting the training and being a part of that KP can actually add to that as well in terms of just, you know, the connection to, I'll just follow us on my mind is one of our most powerful community outreach programs. Is a health coaching program where students study how to be part of a team, responding to individuals in our community that.

Are high risk for re admits to the hospital and our students partner up and they take a seminar taught by qualified local coordinator of the community Healthcare Network. And then they actually replaced and have work with a patient in obviously in the context of a team. But our service opportunities arrange from I can describe it in two ways we have.

In one sense, whatever folks want to do in terms of areas of impact, whether they like working with youth, working with individuals with disabilities, working with senior citizens, working with animals, working with nature, we have lots of partnerships out there. And if they if students come and they have not found what they're looking for in terms of the type of work they want to do, we will help them create that here. We work very closely with our local United Way office in terms of meeting.

Critical home we need home needs repairs, building ramps putting on roofs that kind of work. So that's one of our major collaborative. We also work very closely with the school district through a collaboration called partners in Education where we meet regularly with the school district and work on mentoring, tutoring after school programs with the school district. So whatever area or type of work you've experienced, it had positive experiences with. Please know that.

That's available to you. The other access, if you will, that I'd like you to consider, would be to think about how much time you want to invest in service so we have opportunities for students that just who are real busy with other things, other commitments to kind of do a little bit of service when they can on Service Saturdays.

About once a month during the semesters, we have a one Saturday morning, three to four hours of service meeting needs that bubble up from our community. So that's a possibility. We also have you wanted to do something different over spring break. We have. We offer every year at least 4 alternative spring break trips, which students of sign up for this student LED with an advisor and these trips work on urban plunge experiences.

Habitat for Humanity type experiences, environmental cleanup experiences and that is also been a very powerful positive piece of service that we do beyond the community. So and then, as I said earlier, our program is driven by student service leaders. Student service leaders like are bonerz. We have Bonner Service leaders who put in eight to 10 hours a week leading programs in our community. We have the Davies community service leaders who work.

On projects that community partners come to us and asked to do, and so that's like a hybrid internship slots, community service leader position and those are very important. We also have Allegany volunteer service leaders. These are students who say you know what our service is important to me. I can't commit to this being my job, but I really want to make a commitment and one of the example of that would be equals MC squared, which is a program that happens on Sunday afternoons on campus, coordinated under the leadership of Doctor Carol Waggett.

In which you from the area come on campus and have stem related. Educational experience is a coordinated by student leaders under carols, leadership. So whatever you're looking for please come see us. We will be able to find the place for you and I say over and over again is always a place. There's a place for everyone in this service movement at Allegany College.

To add on to that in terms of the EMT certification and the health coaching. For example, there is an Aero Club Allegany emergency response organization is what it stands for. They do CPR training every fall. They also host an EMT class, so through through one of the local ambulance services they do remote learning. That's one of the few places where that's normal here.

Uhm and then go to. I believe it's Butler where they do their clinical piece of the training, but a fair number of students get certified as EMTs through through the Aero Club I noted I was meeting with one of my classes today and one of my students couldn't be there because she's working 40 hours a week since she's back home as an EMT in the some of the stories are pretty hair raising in terms of the.

Health coaching, certainly. We've I, I'm treating my or Tooting our horn here because a number of schools have adopted this model, but the undergraduate health coaching program started at Allegany College and others have followed suit. But we're very proud of that. We have over 250 students who have been trained. This health coaches and I'll be quite honest. That's one of the things that they talk about when they go to their professional school interviews. It's one of the things that has really improved the personal statements of our pre health students. So we're.

Really very proud of that.

So next question. Sports related internships at Allegheny students have participated in. I'm assuming Jim wants to take this one.

I would like to take this one and we can we can follow on the health related down each year we are proud to be able to offer in opportunities at the Centers for rehab services so Sam I don't know where you're from if you're from western Pennsylvania and you've driven North or South on I 79 you probably passed this wonderful you PMC facility it's a big sports rehab facility and doctor Paul rocker.

Is someone on Allegany UM alumnus who provides opportunities for Allegany students each year to complete paid internships in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy? Along with, that's the rehab work with athletics. We've had a number of students who have completed internships related to baseball, football, and hockey. Many of those are alumni connected. The director of baseball operations for the.

Washington Nationals was an Allegany graduate he's since gone to law school and is pursuing another career but we have Allegany graduates who are connected with a number of the pro sports teams well we have.

Students who this summer had hoped to an may continue to complete internships that are related to athletics did you have something specific in mind.

While Sam might be talking I mentioned the Washington Nationals we are able to.

Grant or award students roughly a half $1,000,000 in funding each year to help them complete opportunities away from their homes. So typically we would send a group of 15 to 20 students to Washington each summer with COVID-19 were not able to do that. This year we partner with George Washington University and they just announced this morning that they're they're canceling all of their summer housing, but typically we would send.

15 to 20 students to DC and those students would live in the housing that Allegany provides for them at no cost to those students. If the students are completing an unpaid internship, which Fortunately are becoming more and more rare than the college, would also provide a modest stipend for them. We also provide housing for a smaller group of students in New York City so that they can be there during the summer and complete opportunities. Teams that we've had students work with.

The pits Burgh Penguins uhm.

The Washington Nationals Buffalo Sabres the Cleveland Browns, the Green Bay Packers.

They Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Erie seawolves those are just a number of teams that come to mind and there are different functions we have an Allegany grad who is the stadium manager for the Green Bay Packers so if someone is interested in stadium management or some of the stadium support opportunities they're able to apply and network for those opportunities but we would work with students to help them find opportunities to help them find alumni with whom they could connect.

And hopefully to help them prepare their application materials so that they are strong candidates.

For those those opportunities.

Sorry asks about talking about the Osteo osteopathic programs with Lake Erie in Philadelphia colleges. What's the difference between the three four in the 4 four programs? I mean the shorten glib answer is a year. The longer answer is that, at least for the Lecom, the Lake Erie College of osteopathic medicine, there are 3 + 4 program you have to apply, either as a high school student or a first and 2nd year student in college at Allegany.

An the three, four, and four for programs at at Philadelphia are much less structured, and it's more on a more on an individual basis. Lake area is very structured.

They're just a difference in the two programs. One of the issues that you have to think about with a 3 + 4 program is.

Getting all of your requirements in within the three years and that can be a challenge that you know from the Allegany POV, means that you aren't going to. You'll have to wave, get your senior research requirement waived, but you have to fulfill all of in order to get the Allegany degree. You have to fulfill all of our requirements. So distribution requirements the minor some of the requirements for the major are waived, including the senior project.

But it you know you don't get to do one of the things that we do particularly well, and that is the senior project. But of course it also lops off a year of your education in that might for a number of reasons, be appealing so.

We have probably at this point we have not had in the past a huge number of students doing this at Lake Erie, but that is quickly changing. We probably have four or five students in each class right now who are in that 3 + 4 program. The 4 + 4 is the more popular one with Philadelphia and it really just gives priority in the application process. Lake area is taking the vast majority of their students now through the either 3 + 4 or 4.

Plus four program, so if that's the school of interest, that's definitely something you want to look into.

You're undecided in the major. Where should you go?

Career education

I was thinking the learning Commons also.

Well, true.

Um?

If you're undecided about your education or your major.

You could get speak with any one of us in the gateway if you come in and you meet with the current team. Typically, we have a series of three meetings. The first one, is more of an air it if we want to get to know the individual find out what that individual what that individuals interests are what some of their activities. Some of the activities. They've been involved with things that they like they dislike things they're good at things that they're not good at.

Then we have them do a couple of exercises. One is a card sword exercise where we have a stack of about this. This many cards, each of which has a career title on one side and information about that career on the other, and will have the student sort those cards into a multi into multiple piles and we use that to try to.

Identify interests, passions or interests. Area of that student will follow that up with a number of inventories. We use both the Holland types with the self directed search and the Myers Briggs type inventory. Simply as tools not to put students in boxes but as tools to try to ferret out information and learn more about the student and help the student hopefully learn more about her or himself.

Typically after they've completed the inventories, will meet with the student for a debrief, and often there's this. This a ha moment this moment of Epiphany, where sometimes you can almost physically see the hair is going back. Going up on the back of a student's neck when the cards that they've sorted in that card, sword, exercise, align with careers that are suggested for them, both by the outcomes of the Myers Briggs type inventory and the self directed search.

When those three areas overlap, sort of like a Venn diagram. The students sometimes get this look on their faces. If we're doing magic and one.

Opportunity or one experience in which the student almost bolted from the room because it was like, whoa, this is 2 entrance, a time. Hopefully that helps too.

Identify or clarify a direction for the student. If it's a first year student, we might suggest them.

Networking with some alumni that we have over 16,000 engaged alumni who, many of which most of which are looking to connect with students and provides some mentoring so will help students make that first contact with alumni. It cannot connect with alumni for conversations, do some shadowing. Know Kirsten Anne. I have collaborated for 20 years on a health professional shadowing program.

And one of the purposes of that program is to help students early on getting experience that will help them clarify and hopefully confirm or offer arm the choices that they are making in terms of their, their vocational development and their education. And we want to do it early because sometimes those opportunities.

Provide information that will tell a student that maybe I want to do something different and that way they still have time to switch gears and choose another direction. I hope that was helpful.

Yeah, I'd like to just add 2 real quick things to gems. Great work. That good work that he's doing. And certainly in KP was doing great work. I would like to suggest that maybe that question could be switched if you undecided about in your major, is there somewhere you should go? I would say this somewhere you should come come to Allegany because here is at a school at this size where folks are willing to work with you individually. This is a great place.

To explore and you do not need to come the Allegany, having already figured everything out. In fact, we find it really helpful if students come with a degree of openness like interest, expertise, or areas where they really strong and as strong studies but an openness to explore and to grow and change and to be transformed during their time here. And one mantra that we use over and over again is that U turns are permitted here. You may come and think you're going in One Direction.

And realize that is not the right place for you and U turns are allowed. In fact, we support students in making that turn when necessary.

Yeah.

The next question is I'm interested in legal topics, unsure if I want to pursue a law degree. Can I take related courses anyway? Absolutely yes. A man. I would suggest looking into the law and policy program which some of our pre legal students to participate in. But other students who are more policy oriented more politics oriented than law oriented certainly are participate in that. So definitely there are.

You know?

But if you want a constitutional law and you don't want to go to law school, that's fine. Absolutely. This individual is part of the global scholar program, Dave. If you want to speak to that.

Can't hear you Dave.

Yeah, can you hear me now?

Yep.

OK, I'm sorry I I hit the button the wrong way so Sasha. Thanks for putting that into your question. I'm thrilled that you're going to be a part of this competitive cohort program coming in. You know, we're still in the process of growing, growing this this cohort for this incoming class, but if anyone else who's on this call is interested, the Global Citizen Scholars program is a four year cohort program focusing on a theme coordinated by two faculty.

Doctor Ashida Roy and the Communication Arts and Doctor Kera waggett are the two faculty leading next year's theme for the global citizens collars on global women empowerment. Working on the theme that and the idea that if we empower women in local communities throughout the world locally in otherwise we're empowering the whole community when we empower women. So Ashita Roy Ancara Wag, it will be leading this cohort program that is both.

Academic and Co Curricular. As we move into this next year, so Sasha welcome. I'm glad and thrilled to have you check back in with us.

For those interested in global health, are there opportunities to serve abroad? Yes, there are, uhm, and since I'm part of the global health program, I will speak to that. But Jim and Dave are welcome to chime in as well, certainly.

There are two major programs, one in Moldova and one in India, and students participate in those. Those are full summer. I think their eight week program, so you have multiple students going to each of the sites and doing service doing work, real work there. So those are probably the two major programs the El experiential learning term that Jim and I coordinate is definitely.

Service oriented and very definitely a global health oriented program.

There are, I think, the bonerz have a uh and abroad program that they need to sedate if you wanna in gym. If you want to chime in.

Dave, go ahead if you want to jump in there.

OK, can you hear me? Yeah so right the Bonner Program is another cohort program that we coordinate out of our office and it built into that. There's 2 Summers of service, one locally here in Meadville, and the second summer the students can do their service anywhere in other than their hometown or in Meadville. And they go. We've had students have very powerful experiences studying and putting in their summer service in.

Foreign countries, and throughout the entire globe. So yeah, that's another program that supports students serving abroad, and you know, our students come back and.

Call

Very powerful way. So yeah, I think our times, but I could share a couple stories there, but I think I'm going to stop so we can make sure we get this last question handled before we wrap up.

I want to quickly jump in their day from a number of the bonerz have completed. Bonner students have completed global health experiences through an organization called you belong and you can. You can find that I think it you with the letter U is in uniformbelong.org and L Aghani as part of that half $1,000,000 in funding.

Has been able to support those students by providing some of the funds to help them complete the programs in countries around the world. So there's a lot of support, an opportunity for global health students to complete experiences abroad.

And following up on that time, could we talk about the requirements for a semester year long study abroad experience and we have. So I think roughly 34 destinations and more partners that sends students to destinations around the world and I have one point in my time with our organization was the liaison for James Cook University in Australia an Lancaster University.

In Great Britain at students typically will complete those. Typically, but not always, complete those experiences during their junior year. They work with their academic advisors to ensure that the classes that they take at the abroad or off campus institution will transfer back so that they complete their Allegany education within four years, and the coursework that they complete at the host institution off campus or internationally.

Will transfer back and meet Allegany requirements so we have what roughly 140 students who will complete.

Off campus experiences each year, so along with international site some we also partner with an institution in Washington, DC for students to study there with the New York Arts program for students who may be interested in careers in the arts and video production in theater in New York City.

The Philadelphia Center, which is one of our partners, have students in all types of organizations.

All three of those in Philadelphia, New York and Washington are internship based, so the central component for each of those programs as a practical application of the students knowledge. I hope that that provides a little bit of information and Kirsten Dave if you want to jump in with more about study abroad.

Thank you.

I, I think that's about it and we're we're about out of time here, so I would thank you for joining in. Uhm, I would also encourage you if you do have additional questions to either contact the admissions folks who can direct you in the right direction or find one of us on the website, I shouldn't speak for everybody else, but I'm certainly happy to field questions if you if you want to send yours to KP torso at allegany.edu.

And we really thank you very much for tuning in this afternoon. We hope it was helpful. Take care.

Yep, thank you and I'm Jay Fitch at allegany.edu.

I'm Dave, Ron. Cloudy roncola at allegheny.edu and I hope this has been helpful for folks again, don't hesitate to reach out to any one of us and by way of a conclusion, I hope you have hurt some experiences from all of us, clearly by participating in multiple significant gateway offerings, Allegany students refine their career aspiration's clarify their vocation, and indeed, with the help of our professionals in the gateway.

They graduate as professionals who are much more than their professions, so thank you and we hope to see you at Allegany in the fall. Have a good day.

Signing off.

Thank you, Rachel. Thank you Paula.

Thanks.

Dave hirston great working with you.

Yeah, we serve a few folks hanging on here.

I think we're just about wrapping up here then. OK, so.

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