BulletinFall 2018 HIGHLIGHTS • Center for Career Development News & Events • School of Education News & Events • MFA in Creative Writing News & Events • Manhattanville Athletics News • School of Business News & Events • School of Arts and Sciences News & Events • Center for Inclusion News & Events • and More Welcome, Class of 2022! The Manhattanville community welcomes 451 first-year students making up the class of 2022. The class of 2022 represents 26 states, including Texas, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, with the largest factions from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, and California. We have over 120 new student athletes. We are delighted that students in this class also come from over 20 countries, including Honduras, Greece, Costa Rica, China, Ecuador, Japan, France, Brazil, Spain, Ireland, Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, and the Dominican Republic. We welcome you to our community and look forward to getting to know you! Manhattanville College | Bulletin | Fall 2018 1 Center for Career Development News & Events Diversity in the Connect for Workplace Success Diversity in the Workplace provides Join the Center for Career students with the opportunity to Development and The interact, discuss, and understand Alumni Relations Office for the dimensions of diversity with a fun night connecting with individuals with varying experiences students, alumni, and industry from all different walks of life. professionals in your career The founder of the event, interest area! Expand your Roselande Louis, had started this professional network or get summit with the intention “to help WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018 advice on breaking into a career field. A photographer will be West Room | 1pm-4pm Brought to you by the Women's Leadership Institute. the Center for Career Development, Center students become more conscious for Inclusion, Center for Student Involvement & Leadership, Center for Student Accommodations on-site to take professional headshots for your LinkedIn profile! and the Student Government Association and inclusive of the many different Visit alumni.mville.edu/ConnectforSuccess2018 backgrounds that Manhattanville College embodies. In turn, the for more information. objective is for students to be able to move forward and embrace 10/18, 7–9pm @ West Room inclusive practices on campus and beyond, especially when entering a diverse workforce. Professionals who have made strides in their career will share their personal and professional experiences and Résumé Labs thoughts. Specifically, they will share their journey from college Join the CCD team and peers into their current roles.” The Summit will be a safe space that to work on your résumé! We’ll start fosters candid dialogue between professionals and students, while: with a brief overview and then help you create, tailor, update, or revamp • Defining Diversity/Diversity and Inclusion and building your résumé; stay however long you awareness to related issues when interacting with others need. We’re focusing on getting • Promoting leadership and diversity of thought things done in our labs, so come prepared with your résumé draft • Discussing the value and challenges of diversity and inclusion (email it to yourself or bring it on a flash drive), and come away in the workplace with an updated document, not a list of edits to make later. Even • Navigating misconception of self and others if you need to create your very first one, we can help! • Providing best practices and tips to take action in order to 10/23 and 11/6, 6pm @ Brownson 115 advance in a diverse workforce Featuring: Maria A. Stolfi, SPHR ’15, Managing Director at Launching of Weekly Hot Jobs Stolfi Group; Kathy Meaney, Director and Founder of the Just before the start of the semester, we launched our Hot Jobs & Women’s Leadership Institute, Manhattanville College; Natalia Internships e-mail campaign to keep all Valiants apprised of Pedroza, Senior Manager, Diversity and Inclusion at Nestlé great internship and job opportunities in varying career interest Waters; Roselande Louis ’16, Program Associate, Women’s areas within the tri-state area. Every week students receive Economic Justice at Ms. Foundation; Carin Horowitz, LMSW, a listing of the top 10 jobs and internships of the week based Transition Services Director at The ARC Westchester; Pauline on submissions we received through Handshake, our on-line Sobelman, Senior Vice President at Risk Strategies Company; recruiting platform. Seann Kalagher, J.D., M.S.Ed, Chief Compliance Officer/Title IX Coordinator at Manhattanville College; and Melissa Windecker, COMING SOON M.A., Program Manager at U.S. Department of State. Career Development Guidebook! 10/17, 1–4pm @ West Room We are happy to announce that we have partnered with the Library to provide a comprehensive guidebook to help you every Walk-In Hours: step of the way during your time here at Manhattanville. This No Appointment Needed guidebook will include: Meet with a career counselor or Peer • Finding your career Career Advisor during a drop-in session. • Skill development and job search strategies Drop-In Sessions are 10-15 minute meetings • Network and personal branding available on a first-come, first-served basis. • Professional correspondence: résumé and curriculum vitae No appointment necessary. tips and examples Mondays, Tuesdays, and • Choosing and applying to graduate school Wednesdays, 1:30–2:30pm • Interviewing: salary negotiation and evaluating job offers Thursdays and Fridays, 10–11am • Strategies for success Manhattanville College | Bulletin | Fall 2018 2 Center for Career Development News & Events Continued WORKSHOPS Valiant Networking Made Easy Wellness Networking is an effective way to learn about career options, connect with other people, and gather advice for achieving The Valiant Wellness your goal. Program (V-Well) 10/11, 11am @ East Library is a wellness 10/7, 11am @ Ophir Room workshop program that encourages Interview Skills students to “be well.” The purpose of this program is to develop Brush up on the skills you need to ace your next interview student awareness, knowledge, and practice in activities that and stand out in the crowd. promote health and well-being. 10/25, 2pm @ BR 131 11/15, 11am @ Ophir Room V-Well will focus on the emotional, nutritional, psychological, physical, and social dimensions of wellness. Students are invited to attend a series of workshops that cover best practices and ALL THINGS INTERNSHIPS research on how emotions, thoughts, food, physical health, Leveraging Your Internship physical activity, and our social lives affect our well-being. Discover how to successfully end your internship, build your network, and leverage what you learned to get your This program can benefit students and the larger college next job opportunity. community because of the numerous academic, physical, and 11/13, 2:30pm @ President’s Dining Room social benefits wellness-based programs provide. Ultimately, we are hopeful that by learning and incorporating wellness practices into their lives, students will find themselves experiencing higher levels of academic and social success. V-Well will be offering a workshop series this fall, on the following topics: V-Well Yoga, Exercise Fraud, Running Group, Stress Management, Healthy Eating on Campus, Am I Okay? (a workshop about identifying feelings of mental illness), and Alcohol and Drugs. For more information, please contact [email protected] Fall Fest 2018! Family & Friends Weekend Fall Fest FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 Visit mville.edu/fall-fest for more details on registration, local accommodations, and schedule of events. Manhattanville College | Bulletin | Fall 2018 3 MFA in Creative Writing News & Events Manhattanville MFA Fall Fall Writers’ Weekend “Meet the Writers” series Want more of Sigrid Nunez? Register for the Fall Writers’ Weekend! GREGORY PARDLO Join us for three days of reading, writing, and workshopping Winner, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in poetry with novelist Sigrid Nunez. Participants will join in an immersive 10/10, 6pm @ West Room workshop Friday afternoon, attend Nunez’s reading that evening, and then work together all day Saturday and Sunday to craft and revise a work of fiction or nonfiction. SIGRID NUNEZ Ms. Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather Author of seven novels, including on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, A Feather on the Breath of God and The Friend most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: 10/19, 6pm @ East Library of Reid Castle A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Believer. Her work has also NIA AND NESS appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize A dancer-poet performance art duo volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. based in Brooklyn, NY. Join the author in a small workshop setting, October 19–21. 11/6, 6pm @ Reid Castle Registration is required for this weekend-long event. Cost for non-credit registration: $250. Space is limited. Visit mvillemfa.com for more information. All events are free and open to the public. Receptions at 6 pm. Readings at 7 pm. Daughters for Life Foundation please join us Daughters for Life Scholarship Dinner and “I Shall Not Hate” Awards TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018 AT REID CASTLE, WEST ROOM