Disruption = Change: Advancing Equity for Marginalized Students

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Competency: Fostering global and diverse connections
Fee: $29 (member); $49 (nonmember);

Summary

First-generation, low-income, and students of color (underrepresented students) are much more likely to be underemployed (occupy jobs inadequate with respect to their training or economic needs) in their first job, and to remain underemployed.  Furthermore, first-generation students earn less than their peers, primarily due to variance in the job sectors, types, and locations.

Colleges and universities have a shared responsibility to mitigate the perpetual class and income disparities among their graduating students. Ideally, career services as well as campus and community partners are perfectly situated to improve economic opportunities for students.

Meleani Bates, Clark College, and Jonathan Stoll, Oregon State University, will share how their work centers on disruption, equity, and innovation at their respective career centers. Through dialogue and storytelling, we invite you to co-create knowledge, examine how professionalism is steeped in whiteness, and interrogate current inequitable practices in the field. The webinar goes beyond the conversation about the need  for a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework within our career centers, and introduces participants to how we do this.
Presenters

Jonathan Stoll, Director of Career Education, Oregon State University - College of Business
Jonathan Stoll is the director of career education at Oregon State University. Stoll is also co-founder of Soul Force Education, a minority-owned nonprofit organization that provides organizations and the people leading them with tailored DEI trainings that empower them to manage change; respond to change; and become agents of organizational, institutional, and individual change that drives social change. Stoll is also the co-host of Soul Force Ones, an out-of-the-box podcast that explores work and our inner workings; the alignment of our role and soul; and how spiritual development, leadership development, and career development are connected.

Meleani Bates, Work-Based Learning Program Manager, [ARCHIVES]
Meleani Bates (she|her|hers) is a first-generation, Black professional. She serves as a program manager in Clark College career services in Vancouver, Washington, where she works alongside students to co-design their employment journeys. Her work recognizes and centralizes the experiences of BIPOC students; she believes that her students' liberation is tied to hers, which makes her intentional about her practice.