Don't miss all the professional development and wellness and activity classes offered on campus. Visit the calendar for course details and registration.

Call for workshop proposals

STAR Day
Friday, May 24
Are you interested in leading a workshop at this year's STAR Day? The STAR Day committee is accepting workshop proposals that support this year's theme, "I Am Because We Are," focusing on the values of community, strength and togetherness. Workshops can also be related to Fresno State's Principles of Community, leadership and professional development, personal development, stress management, health and wellness or technology. Submit your proposal here.

The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, March 22.

Bulldog Leadership Conference
Saturday, March 30
The Center for Leadership is thrilled to launch a new program this spring — the Bulldog Leadership Conference. The conference is open to all Fresno State students, and seeks to help build their leadership capacity by engaging in workshops and offering a keynote speaker during the day-long event on Saturday, March 30. Faculty, staff and community members may submit proposals for 50-minute workshops on one of the following leadership topics: self-development, social justice, community engagement, and group development.

Proposals must be submitted by Sunday, March 17. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit bit.ly/blcproposals.

Navigating Fresno State

Examining Microaggressions and their Impact on Campus Climate
9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday, March 18, Vintage Room

Microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults toward individuals based on one's race, gender, class, sexuality, language, immigration status, phenotype, accent, or surname. This interactive workshop will examine the impact of microaggressions on campus climate, provide tools to effectively address them when they occur, understand the psychological effects on individuals, and tips on how to become a more effective ally to others.

Student Parents Matter: A Panel on Rights, Best Practices and Developing a Family-Friendly Campus
Noon - 1 p.m. Monday, March 18, Library 3212

A panel discussion to inform the campus community of our obligations and opportunities to support student-parents.

Seconds 2 Survive
1 - 2 p.m. Monday, March 18, Library 2108

Seconds 2 Survive is a program designed to help individuals plan, prepare, practice and perform so that they are empowered to make life saving decisions in the critical first seconds of an emergency.

Influencing Change: Data, Power, and Motivation
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, USU 308

On this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Effectively use the five principles of influence
• Overcome common factors that undermine the influence
• Understand the intersection of power and motivation
• Identify the right influence strategy to leverage depending on the situation
• Drive behavioral change on your campus and strengthen longer-term initiatives

Navigating the Multi-Generational Workplace
(CSU's Got Talent webcast)
10 - 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 20, Library 4115

Join Dr. Leah C. Georges, assistant professor at Creighton University, as she discusses key principles to successfully navigating and working within a multigenerational workforce.

*If you prefer to participate in this webinar at your desk, you can join for free at calstate.adobeconnect.com/CGT . Please note, you must also register via CSU Learn for this to count towards your professional development.

Undocumented Student Ally Training
Part 2: 8:30 a.m. - noon Thursday, March 21, USU 309

Undocumented students in American higher education face unique and far more daunting obstacles than their U.S. citizen classmates (Cervantes, Minero & Brito, 2015). Fresno State serves many undocumented students whose educational journeys towards earning a college degree are paved with many challenges. Even so, this student population exhibits resilience and determination to reach their educational and career goals. Learn how you can support undocumented students and become an ally on their journey. This is PART 1 of undocu-ally training; to receive ally training certification, participants must attend PART 1 and PART 2.

Supervising Student Employees: Training Designed to Engage & Motivate A New Generation
10 – 11 a.m. Thursday, March 21, Thomas 110

Ask a room full of college Front Line Services supervisors about their challenges with today's student workers and you will hear things like entitlement, immaturity and no coping strategies. Subsequent discussions usually involve strategies for minimizing turnover, tips on releasing frustration, and descriptions of the compromises necessary to get the job done.

What if, instead, you had a concrete set of strategies that focused on supervisory best practices from business, new methods for facilitating problem-solving that returned the responsibility for effective communication to the workers, and had the tools that enabled you to engage your employees in a way that motivated them to learn and improve? This session is designed to introduce you to these practices, skills, and strategies in a way that is specific to your needs as a supervisor of college student workers.

Objectives are as follows:

• Appraise current business practices in supervision, training and talent development
• Learn innovative methods for facilitating problem solving and communication
• Create models that use service learning for team development and encouraging intrinsic motivation
• Learn the use of technology and social media in team building and engagement
• Discover evaluation and correction techniques specifically chosen for student workers

Faculty using Bulldog Connect
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, USU 311

Bulldog Connect combines technology, research and predictive analytics to help institutions positively influence outcomes with at-risk and off-path students (Educational Advisory Board, 2012). Bulldog Connect aims to increase retention and graduation rates by improving student achievement. Developed by the Education Advisory Board (EAB), the program combines technology and best practice research to help institutions assist students on their educational journeys. The collaborative provides advisers and other pertinent departments with a software system that allows them:

• Enhanced Early Alert System to identify at-risk students early in the semester
• Straightforward Advising Summary Reports
• Tracking of specific groups (freshman, honor students, special groups, etc.)
• Track attendance (class, events, workshops, visits, etc.)

Bulldog Connect uses predictive analytics to alert advisers if a student is veering off path for graduation in the desired major. The tool predicts a student’s successful progress by making comparisons to the pace of students who have successfully graduated in the desired major over the past 10 years.

Creative Marketing: The P.T. Barnum Method
2 – 3 p.m. Friday, March 22, USU 310

If you have watched the popular musical “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman, you were introduced to the American showman P.T. Barnum. His shows were spectacular, but what set him apart was his ability to attract crowds and market his events. In a world of digital media and information overload, what are programmers on campus doing to attract students to their events? This webinar will examine and explore the creative ways Barnum attracted people to his events, and how these concepts can be applied to our own advertising on campus. In addition we will introduce five methods of marketing that can help student affairs professionals and student leaders increase attendance and have fun in the process.

Developing a Healthy U

Winning With A Healthy Lifestyle
Does Size Really Matter? 10 - 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, Family Food Science 105

Do you want specialized nutrition support including individualized meal plans, nutrition coaching, exercise planning, and weekly nutrition workshops to help you reach your New Year's goals? You can learn all this and more at Winning With A Healthy Lifestyle! Join Dr. Lisa Herzig, director of Dietetics, and senior dietetics students for this 10-week program to help cultivate living a healthy and balanced lifestyle and to stay on track to make 2019 your best year yet.

Activity Classes

Pilates
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, ED 360
Utilize non-impact exercises to develop strength, flexibility, balance and inner awareness.

Circuit Training
5:30 - 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, ED 140
Combine interval training, full body weight exercises, and core workouts to strengthen and tone your whole body.

Sculpt
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Thursday, South Gym 134
With a combination of aerobic activity, agility, balance, and strength training, you can shed any unwanted pounds and tone your muscles in this moderate exercise class.

Yoga
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Friday, ED 260
A mind-body practice that combines gentle stretching exercises, controlled breathing, relaxation techniques and restorative poses.