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Jennifer Guyer-Wood to attend Bryn Mawr Institute for Women in Higher Education

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Jennifer Guyer-Wood, assistant director of the Career Development Center, will attend the 32nd Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration June 23 through July 18.

2007-04-25
Minnesota State University, Mankato Media Relations Office news release

Jennifer Guyer-Wood, assistant director of the Career Development Center, will attend the 32nd Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration June 23 through July 18.

The institute, at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn., provides women administrators and faculty members with intensive training in education administration, examining current issues, management and governance in higher education.

“The opportunity to focus on my own professional development for almost four weeks while living and learning with a community of women in higher education will be an amazing, life-changing experience,” Guyer-Wood said. “I’m looking forward to applying the experience at Minnesota State Mankato, and I encourage other women at the university to explore their leadership potential.”

Institute participants look at four aspects of administration:

• Academic environment, including strategic planning, undergraduate learning and teaching, faculty development, student affairs, academic leadership and diversity;
• Institutional environment, including finance and accounting, budgeting, maintenance, employee and labor relations, endowments, sponsored research, fundraising, capital campaigns, higher education law and boards of trustees;
• External environment, including political, social and economic trends; financial conditions; demands for accountability; the media; and technology and on-line education;
• Professional development, including leadership skills, public speaking, self-presentation, strategies for institutional change, professional networks and wellness.

The institute is co-sponsored by Higher Education Resource Services and Bryn Mawr College. Local applications for the institute were reviewed by the President’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Guyer-Wood earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies and Speech Secondary Education and a master’s in Counseling and Student Personnel from Minnesota State Mankato.

After working at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the University of St. Thomas, she returned to Minnesota State Mankato in 2002 to work in the Career Development Center. As assistant director she counsels students on job search issues, connects with faculty and employers, and coordinates student part-time employment.

She is president of Minnesota College Personnel Association and is co-chair of the Minnesota State Mankato Student Affairs Professional Development Committee.

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