Session 4: Impacting Youth: The Value of Mentoring (On-Demand)
This session will guide you, as a mentor, in communicating with and relating to young people, helping you build the tools needed to support scholars [...]
Session 3: Building Pathways (On-Demand)
Session 3 will focus on how corporate and business volunteers can help students build career/workforce readiness, including developing the Essential Skills, critical not only for [...]
Session 2: Understanding New Landscapes (On-Demand)
Learn how today’s students and the higher education landscape have changed, and what this means in how we support our youth. Session 2 will explore [...]
Session 1: Opening (Live)
This live OPENING session will be led by Dean Garfield, Netflix VP, Rick Dalton, CFES President and CEO, alongside two CFES professionals, Tara Smith and [...]
Session 5: Closing (Live)
The CLOSING session will be led by Greg Muccio, Director of Talent Acquisition at Southwest Airlines, and two CFES professionals, Tara Smith and Ron Rix. [...]
Session 7: Closing (Live)
The live one-hour opening session and five pre-recorded sessions are designed to equip participants with the tools to support students in the areas of mentoring, [...]
Session 6: Topics of Today
The amount of change that has occurred since March of 2020 is unprecedented in modern U.S. history. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional education models, forcing [...]
Session 5: Career Readiness
The U.S. job market is evolving at its fastest pace in history. Emerging technologies are creating new career opportunities that only a few years ago [...]
Session 4: College Readiness & Paying for College
Cost is the No. 1 reason why students from low-income households choose not to attend college and also why they drop out of college. We [...]
Session 3: Essential Skills
Although there are different paths to college and career, certain skills are vital. CFES calls these the Essential Skills: goal setting, teamwork, leadership, agility, perseverance, [...]