Presentations & Webinars - 2017

Ideas shared by the colleges after Tony presented information about non-traditional enrollment.

• A-B Tech pre-apprenticing as well
• Active and growing American Association for Men in Nursing chapter; they are doing some service learning projects to connect to community
• At Cape Fear Community College we are meeting with middle school PTO's and PTA parents
• At Cape Fear Community College we are starting the "Voc Tech Road Show". Meeting with all high schools in Pender and New Hanvor Counties to promote all programs.
• Career Coach
• Career Coaches; Manufacturing Day activities for 8th and 10th graders
• career exploration camps focused on non-trads
• Career exploration fairs targeted to non-traditional careers by gendar.
• Cummins Lego Event with women engineerings and summer camps
• Gender neutral marketing
• Grit - Angela Duckworth
• Guest Speakers
• Guest speakers. Non-traditional Advisory Committee members to visit students in programs
• High school and middle school tours.  Camp Opportunity
• Hired a male nurse.
• Incorporating NAPE designations into annual program review process to better inform faculty
• Incorporating nontraditional role models into the educational experience - guest speakers, job shadowing, etc.
• Info sessions in community highlighting non-traditional employment
• Male Minority Mentoring Summer Bridge program
• Market non traditional students in programs through marketing materials sent to potential students and high schools
• Mentoring females in CTE STEM fields
• Our Counselors work with non-traditional students in career and counseling (SPCC)
• Our NSF grant  trains chairs and faculty on marketing and promoting success for nontraditional students.
• Promoting through images and using non-traditional students as student mentors to other non-traditional students.
• Stanly also offers a Welding for Women continuing education class
• Stanly Community College has a Women in STEM club
• Started a Women in Horticulture Program
• STEP-UP NSF Grant
• Summer camp with Beaufort County PAL
• Using GRIT at Gaston as well.
• We specifically have non-tradtional instructors participate in recruiting for the program...we have a female machining instructor, a male nursing instructor, a female instructor in Industrial Systems, etc.
• We've use/track data and have junior high school visits to the college.
• Women of Standard Club:  the awareness of standards that business and industries are looking for in the professional arena.