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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (5 - 6:30pm) -- You are invited to attend the Women's Mentoring Network Book Award and Graduation Reception on to be held in the Student Services Building, room 375.
This is a potluck dinner celebration and food will be provided by the Mentors. This event is a chance to have our members (Mentees, Mentors, and their families) meet up one more time this academic year and to celebrate the accomplishments of our December and our upcoming May graduates. We will also be recognizing our WMN Book Award recipients. You are welcome to bring guests (your family).
Please RSVP by March 28th by calling 438-2156 or emailing mmschul@ilstu.edu.
Be sure to check your mentor/mentee listserv for more information about these and other events and meetings.
If you have any questions or need an accommodation, please contact Michelle Schuline at at 438-2156 or mmschul@ilstu.edu.
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 (8:00am - 1:30pm) 4th Annual Women's Mentoring Network Conference (Student Services Building 375) Breakfast and lunch will be provided with a Keynote Spekaer after lunch as in past years. Mentors and Mentees will have the first two sessions in their own tracks, then coming together for the third session. Click here to download a poster.
Come and join us for the 4th Annual Women's Mentoring Network Conference on Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 8 am - 1:30 pm at the Student Services Building, room 375. The cost for the conference is $10. Click here to download a registration form (due back to us by Feb. 22).
We have wonderful women presenting on how you can "Put the Pieces
Together!" Our
presenters are:
Nikki Brauer, Illinois State University Wellness Program;
Donella Hess-Grabill,
Wayfinder Solutions: Professional Coaching for Empowered Living;
Pam
Cooper, Illinois State University Career Center,
and our Keynote Speaker
is Terri Ryburn presenting, "Risk-Taking
101: 10 Scary Things to do with a College Degree."
Draft Schedule (click
here to download the schedule):
8 – 8:20 Check in
8:20 – 8:50 Welcoming Remarks
9 – 9:50 Session 1 (Nikki Brauer – Wellness
for Faculty and Staff at Illinois State University)
9:50 – 10:15 break
10:15 – 11:05 Session 2 (Donella Hess-Grabill
- Wayfinder Solutions: Professional Coaching for Empowered Living)
Title: “It’s
In Everyone of Us”
Description: When we operate from the place of
our core selves, we are more confident and healthy, and are better able
to serve others. This interactive session will help you to find your core
within and strengthen it.)
11:05 – 11:15 break
11:15 – 12:10 Session 3 – breakout
sessions (Mentors have one session and Other Attendees are in the other
session)
WMN Mentors - (Donella Hess-Grabill - Wayfinder Solutions: Professional
Coaching for Empowered Living)
Title: “Where I Sit is Holy”
Description: Holy means health
and wholeness. In this interactive session, we expand the meaning of health
and wholeness, and enjoy and celebrate them together.
Other Attendees – (Pam
Cooper – Career Center at Illinois
State University)
12:20 – 1:30 Lunch and Keynote (Terri Ryburn, Emerita Illinois
State University)
Title: Risk-Taking 101: 10 Scary Things to do with a College
Degree
You do not have to be an ISU employee or student to attend! This event
is open for everyone!! For more information, go to
http://www.mentoringnetwork.ilstu.edu/ . If you have any questions, please
email Michelle at mmschul@ilstu.edu .
We hope you can join us for a morning of fun, food and friends!
Michelle Schuline and Becky Mentzer
Co-Chairs for the Women's Mentoring Network
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 (4 - 6:00pm) WMN Pizza Social to be held at the Women's & Gender Studies Study Room, Rachel Cooper 237.
Friday, September 7, 2007 (3:30 - 5:30pm) AAUW-BN Women's Resource Expo as part of the University Club Discussion Series) to be held at the Bone Student Center's Faculty/Staff Commons Room (on the first floor, North East end of the building). There will be 26 women exhibitors representing and providing guidance in the areas of law, health, education, green living, etc. There will also be a Keynote Speaker at 4:30pm addressing the topic of pay equity and AAUW's recent national research titled "Behind the Pay Gap." There will be refreshments. The event is free and open to the public. Download a poster by clicking (here for a poster in pdf format)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 (11 - 1pm) WMN Mentor Meeting about Mentee Matching to be held at the BSC Private Dining Room in front of McAllister's. We'll be reviewing the profiles of mentees who need to be matched with a mentor. If you can't make this meeting and need to review them at another time, please contact Michelle at mentoring@ilstu.edu or (309) 438-2156.
Sunday, August 19, 2007 (1 - 3:00pm) WMN Kickoff Picnic to be held at Underwood Park on Jersey just East of Linden Street. Food and drinks will be provided by WMN. Guests are welcome! To help in our food planning, please let us know: if you are able to join us, and how many people you will be bringing with you by August 16, 2007 by contacting Michelle at mentoring@ilstu.edu or (309) 438-2156. Download a flyer for you and two guests by clicking (here for MSPowerpoint format) or (here for PDF format).
March 29, 2007 Women's Mentoring Network Student Book Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to Spring 2007 WMN Book Award Winners recognized:
Alicia Haywood, Terry Patterson, and Kai Ping Wong
Women’s Mentoring Book Award Contest
We know that purchasing books for classes can be a big expense for students. The purpose of our book award in Spring 2007 was to help defray a portion of those expenses for women who were actively participating in the Women’s Mentoring Network, and who met the eligibility requirements. Those requirements were that applicants must have been enrolled for part-time or full-time study at Illinois State University for at least two semesters including the one at time of application; must have had at least a cumulative GPA of 2.5; and financial need had to be verifiable through the Financial Aid Office. Those mentees who met these criteria in Spring 2007 were invited to apply for a Book Award. They completed the application form along with a one-paragraph summary of how they had benefited from participation in the Women’s Mentoring Network. On the application form, they also were asked to identify the amount of textbook expenses for the semester along with a copy of
Many excellent applications were received; among those applying, three Book Awards were made along with several Honorable Mention certificates. The following were excerpts from the winning applications:
Alycia Haywood, Senior, MQM – Entrepreneurship & Small Business
The Women’s Mentoring Network has been a lifeline to me… Through their picnics, conferences, and other events that they sponsored, they created an environment where non-traditional students like me could come and get refueled. However, the most significant thing has been having a mentor [Nancy Bragg]. Having someone that you can bounce things off of and who can give you relevant information because they, too, have traveled the same path that you are on has been invaluable.
Terry D. Patterson, Senior, Sociology
My mentor [Becky Mentzer] and I have an increasing connectedness. Her dedication and follow-up (almost on a weekly basis!!), comforting, advising, and feeding me during my first year at Illinois State University was so greatly appreciated! She weaned me well and she mentored me into an independent, career-minded, acclimated and involved student. Thanks to everyone involved for the visionary endeavor we refer to here at Illinois State University as the Women’s Mentoring Network.
Kai Ping Wong, Senior, Financial Accounting
I really appreciate my mentor’s [Pam Walden] helpful advice. She always answers my questions when I encounter difficulties. Meeting with other WMN members make me feel I am not alone. The little library at Rachel Cooper provides me a quiet place to study. I am encouraged by other members and my mentor. I truly appreciate the WMN providing our non-traditional students a great opportunity to learn how to cope with our situation.
Click here for a picture of the awardees (Kai,
Alicia, & Terry)
, the Haywood
Family,or the awardees and their mentors
(Mentor
Pam Walden, Kai Ping Wong, Terry Patterson, Mentor Becky Mentzer, and
Alicia Haywood). If you have any questions,
please contact Michelle Schuline at at 438-2156 or mmschul@ilstu.edu.
The social connected newly enrolled nontraditional students with
various campus resources, two of them being
the Nontraditional Student Association and Women's Mentoring Network.
Third Annual Women's Mentoring Network Conference
is Saturday, September 30, 2006 (8 - 1:00pm)
Please join us for this wonderful career professional development programming
for Mentees and Mentors. There will be a continental breakfast and lunch
included in the registration costs: $5 for Mentees and $15 for Mentors.
The Conference Itinerary is posted below.
Monday, March 20th, 2006 (9:00am) Women's Mentoring Network
Board Meeting
We will meet at the Physics Department Conference Room (MLT 311).
Monday, February
20th, 2006 (9:00am) Women's Mentoring Network Board Meeting
We will meet at the History Department Conference Room.
Monday, February 13th, 2006 (11 - 1:00pm) Women's Mentoring
Network and Non-Traditional Student Association Lunch at the Professional
Development Building
About
30 women enjoyed the Spring Social hosted by the Women's Mentoring Network and
the Nontraditional Student Association held in the Professional Development Building
on February 13th. A scrumptious lunch from Heavenly Ham was provided along with
fabulous company! See pictures below.
Wednesday, November 30 2005, 5-6 p.m., Holiday/ End of Semester Social
Program in SSB 375
Discussions by a panel of nontraditional students involved in campus
activities
Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5-6 p.m., College Funding Workshop
in Fell Hall (2nd Floor Conference Room)
Financial Aid and Scholarship Workshop by Shawn Rigsby, Financial
Aid Specialist
Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 3:30-4:30 p.m., WMN Library Workshop
at Illinois State's Milner Library 164
Technology, The Library and What Students Ought to Know
(Presentation by Jennifer Hootman, Assistant Professor, Milner Library)
Saturday, September 17, 2005, 8 a.m. 4 p.m., 2nd Annual Women's
Mentoring Network Conference at Illinois State's Bone Student Center
(link for more info) -- It was a great day (link to program booklet with sponsor thank yous)
Sunday, August 28, 2005 (1-3 p.m.) Family Picnic, at ISU's People's
Park
(on University Street just south of the tennis courts)
Women's Mentoring Network Welcome Back Picnic for mentees, mentors & families. This was a fun event. The weather was gorgeous. Thanks to Women's Studies who paid for most of the food and to mentors who brought food to share. (pictures pending)
Yoga Workshop April 28, 2005 (5 - 6:00pm)
The session will be lead by Ann Beck, Director of the ISU Speech and Hearing Clinic (she is also a yoga instructor). Please wear loose fitting clothing. Bring a yoga mat (or a towel) for the floor and a pillow. No food, but water bottles will be available. Quote from Ann: "The physical benefits of yoga include increased flexibility, strength, and balance. Through the practice of yoga people can increase their mental focus and clarity as well as their ability to manage stress more effectively."
Location: lobby outside of the Women's Studies Program Office (RC 231) (RSVP to: Becky Mentzer, 438-2559 or rementz@ilstu.edu)
ISU's Relay for Life, April 22-23, 2005
Location: on ISU's Quad (Website: www.acsevents.org/faf/home/ default.asp?)
LUNCH March 31, 2005 (from 11:30 - 1:00pm)
Food courtesy of the Women's Mentoring Network (sandwiches, chips, drinks, and dessert from Jimmy Johns)
Location: Women's Studies Program office, 231 Rachel Cooper.
Contact person wasNancy Spangler at njspang@ilstu.edu
Nontraditional Student Association Meeting and Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, March 22 (11:00am--note new time)
Location: ISU's Bone Student Center Atrium (north end of Prairie Room). Michelle Schuline from EMAS and Steve Klay from Student Life will discuss nontraditional student initiatives.
WMN Feb. 23, 2005 Pizza Party
About 25 people people attended this dinner hosted at the Women's Studies Library and Reading Room. Although the digital camera glitched on several pictures, here is a photo that illustrate the relaxed social networking atmosphere for you.
