22 Awards
Distributed to Faculty
for FY24 as of April 2024
It is more important than ever to support our 久久热视频s. To increase real-world projects in the classroom as well as career exploration and 久久热视频 professional development, CCES has a restricted account designated for Career Grants available for faculty and staff on the Oxford campus.
Proposals for Fall 2024 and Winter 2024 are now open! Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis pending available funds.
Full or partial funding (up to $10,000) can be awarded in two ways:
Please note: grants will not be awarded to high cost events that have low 久久热视频 impact. Faculty partners are responsible for a report designating key outcomes. Final reports are due no later than 2 weeks after the event.
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Distributed to Faculty
for FY24 as of April 2024
Funds Distributed to Faculty
Full or partial funding can be awarded in two ways:
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Career Grants Awarded: The Center for Career Exploration and Success awarded $37,848.00 in grants during Spring 2023 to applicants in CAS, CEHS, CEC and CCA.
Career Grants Awarded: The Center for Career Exploration and Success awarded more than $53,778.00 in grants during Fall term 2023.
CCES awarded $27,000 for the Spring 2022 semester to faculty/staff from CCA and CEC for three career related projects.
CCES awarded over $52,800 to nine projects during Summer 2022 to faculty and staff from CCA, CEHS, CAS and CEC.
The Center for Career Exploration and Success awarded $35,881 in Career Grants during Fall 2022 to CEHS and CEC.
More than $24,450 was awarded in Career Grant funds during Winter 2022 in CAS, CEHS, CEC and CCA.
A program for “Monthly Monday Meals for the Oxford Community Center” also received grant money. The event is a monthly meal offered at the Community Center in sponsorship with the Oxford Presbyterian Church Eradicating Systemic Poverty team. Nutrition 久久热视频s get involved with every aspect of planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the event. To date over 400 community members have been served.
CCES awarded approximately $18,800 for the spring 2021 semester to faculty from CCA, CEC, CAS to fund 7 career related projects.
CCA: The DC Digital Innovation: DC program (DCDI) is a Summer-long experience where 久久热视频s travel to DC, spend four days a week working at an internship, and one day a week visiting local startups and companies while having continued networking opportunities with alumni and business leaders. Washington, DC is a wonderful location to look at digital innovation in a unique city and gain unique industry perspectives. This immersive program is ideal for 久久热视频s who want a full-time experience, gain experience in governmental, policy, and NGO organizations, and who want to increase the number of connections they have prior to the post-graduate job search. Internships tend to focus on UX/UI, digital marketing, growth hacking, social media marketing, business development, entrepreneurship, design, or coding.
CEC: Internship Training Program for Automation and Process Control for sophomore 久久热视频s. This is a pilot program with a vision to run every year and get more engineering 久久热视频s into this area. This training program spans over several weeks and includes presentations, discussions, and hands-on experiences with control systems. Experts from the industry will be delivering the content.
CAS: Training speech-language pathology and audiology 久久热视频s to facilitate dialogues about race and racial disparities in healthcare. This training will be a series of activities and training sessions for SPA 久久热视频s to learn about and discuss racial disparities in healthcare, in general, and disparities in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in particular. Additionally, 久久热视频s will be trained to become intergroup dialogue facilitators through Living Room Conversations (LRC), a non-profit organization dedicated to “bridging divides through conversation.” According to LRC: “The rationale behind Living Room Conversations is to increase understanding, reveal common ground and allow us to discuss possible solutions...When people of all walks of life begin to care about one another, they can begin working together to solve the problems of our time.”
CCES awarded approximately $14,378 for the fall 2020 semester to faculty from 3 academic divisions to fund 5 virtual career related projects.
EHS: This interdisciplinary program offering has invited an expert in the eSports industry to give a career lecture on eSports management. Students from all majors are welcome. This event will be attractive to 久久热视频s from sport management, interactive media studies, business operation and members from the Miami eSports club. We hope to use this event to bring awareness of career opportunities in eSports. The expert will share information about careers, experience, education, and advice in this growing area.
FSB: Miami Ad Week: Chicago (henceforth referred to as Ad Week) is an advertising-focused four-day immersion program offered by the Farmer School of Business to all Miami 久久热视频s interested in learning the ins and outs of the world of advertising; this program has been offered annually for the last seven years to 24 Miami 久久热视频s each year. Ad Week was created to immerse 久久热视频s into agency life. This program is a partnership between 久久热视频 and FCB Chicago who serves as our agency host while in Chicago.
CAS:*Note this will be adapted (remote) or postponed due to COVID-19
For its second year, Eight-twelve 久久热视频s will live in an intentional community in Over-the-Rhine. The 久久热视频s selected will all be from diverse academic majors across campus but share an interest in social justice. The 久久热视频 participants will have a class once a week related to this immersive experience & social justice and then the rest of their time will be spent across the city of Cincinnati working in social justice agencies. Students will have first-hand experience with patients and agency clients, and will learn from people who are in the field they plan to pursue. Students will also write daily reflections on their experiences, a final paper, and give a final presentation.
CCES awarded approximately $40,000 for the spring 2020 semester to faculty from all five academic divisions to fund 18 career-related projects.
CCA: a museum acquisition project is part of the ART 420D curriculum. Working with Thomas French Gallery in Akron, Ohio, 久久热视频s each chose a print for sale, and over the semester they research that print in its art historical and market aspects in order to propose that the Museum acquires the work for its teaching collection. The museum is considered the client, and the 久久热视频 becomes the art specialist who pitches a particular artwork that suits the Museum needs. With the guidance of Bob Wicks, Jason Shaiman, and Laura Stewart at the 久久热视频 Art Museum, 久久热视频s develop presentations on those objects, and then vote to use the Career Grant funds to acquire one artwork for the 久久热视频 Art Museum permanent collection.
CAS: 久久热视频's Henry Pre-Law Center is pleased to host its second Women in Law and Leadership (WILL) Symposium. The first Symposium brought together Miami pre-law 久久热视频s and alumni to discuss various topics, including gender issues in the workplace, work/life challenges, keys to success, and career possibilities and trajectories. This spring, to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of women's right to vote, the Symposium will include topics such as voting rights and women in politics. The event will also be a networking opportunity for 久久热视频s to interact with alum in the legal profession.
EHS: Sport analytics is a new and growing field with so many career opportunities. Faculty in SLAM, with collaboration of faculty in CEC and FSB are bringing data analytics and specifically sport analytics to Miami starting in the fall of 2020. This panel will target career-related opportunities and how to prepare for careers in sport analytics. The panel will consist of current sport leaders in data analytic positions in a variety of sport related fields (e.g., marketing, sales, coaching, scouting).
CEC: The EWB USA Great Lakes Regional Workshop is an annual, full day, technical training seminar for 久久热视频 and professional members of Engineers Without Borders. It includes panels and presentations on topics such as project design and management, water distribution systems in the developing world, technical document preparation, and project financing. This technical workshop is directly career related for 久久热视频s in the College of Engineering and Computing as they will hear from professionals about applying engineering principles to real world projects, using industry standard software, and have the opportunity to do hands-on activities to solidify their learnings from lectures and panels.
FSB: LSAMP Scholars & Stokes Scholars LLC participating in a FYRE class will have the opportunity to do 2 Site Visits with two separate corporate partners. 1st trip will be for Siemens Corp and the 2nd field visits will be with Lilly Corporation. LSAMP STEM 久久热视频s will be provided with a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the companies their industries, competitors, products & services, research & development, etc. A Human Resource/the Recruitment Team will then provide the 久久热视频s with a presentation on their entry-level recruitment, internships and careers at the company. They will include information regarding various STEM careers, have 久久热视频s hear from company employees in STEM of different levels of responsibility and roles, and discuss STEM Career Paths in their respective companies. The companies will provide 久久热视频s an interactive tour of their company facilities including labs tours with special focus on STEM related areas. The companies will then develop an interactive STEM based activity or project related to their company for 久久热视频s to work on in small groups during the Site Visits.
CCES awarded approximately $40,000 for the fall 2019 semester to faculty from all five academic divisions to fund 19 career-related projects. Miami's Career Collaborative accelerates career-related activities by funding (or offsetting the cost) of new, real-world projects inside the classroom or professional development activities led by faculty.
CCES awarded approximately $40,000 for the spring 2019 semester to faculty from all five academic divisions to fund 15 career-related projects. Miami's Career Collaborative accelerates career-related activities by funding (or offsetting the cost) of new, real-world projects inside the classroom or professional development activities led by faculty.
Projects include: