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Game Changers: Celebrating Black History Month

• Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
• Competency: Outcome-oriented programming
• Fee: FREE (member); $69 (nonmember)

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• Summary

  "Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."
  --Mae Jemison

  You have the power to effect change for yourself, your colleagues, your organizations, and for the students you serve or recruit. NACE’s Game Changers Series, in celebration of Black History Month, shines a light on game changers who share their personal stories and serve as models for working to bring about positive change.

  What can you do to bring about positive change? Join this session and learn about a new career services initiative bringing positive change through offering University of North Carolina students class credit hours and how an HBCU is included in the process. The session will feature Dr. Tierney Bates, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Special Projects & Executive Director for Career Services, University of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bates will also share his personal game changing experiences and what those have meant for him professionally and personally.

• Presenters

  

  Kacheyta McClellan , Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NACE

  Kacheyta earned a B.S. in Management and an M.B.A. in Human Resources from the University of Southern Indiana. Diversity & Inclusion as well as Career Development comprise 15 plus years of his experience in Higher Education and Associations. As a strategy architect, Kacheyta has developed successful conferences, retention initiatives, assessment tools, and diversity metrics that have earned him honors such as one of the Evansville Business Journal’s 20 under 40 Emerging Leaders and Leadership Evansville’s Individual Leadership Award recipient. He has also succeeded in developing partnerships with employers that have turned in to a variety of opportunities for students including internships, job shadowing, job placement, and more. Kacheyta has served on dozens of boards and committees that are community-focused with special attention reserved for people of color. In his current role as Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for the National Association of Colleges and Employers, Kacheyta focuses efforts to advance the association and profession through a DEI lens. In addition to evaluating internal practices and analyzing all aspects of the association, Kacheyta also works with professionals throughout the nation to identify, investigate, and promote actions that move individuals and employers to be more inclusive. Some of his professional affiliations are with Career Development Professionals of Indiana (CDPI), National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE), NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Kappa Beta Delta International Honors Society (Honorary), Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honors Society, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated (Life Member).

  

  Tierney Bates , Executive Director, [ARCHIVES]

  Dr. Tierney J. Bates has established himself as a national thought leader, speaker, networker, career coach, innovator, and voice on student affairs, the student experience, and GENERATION NOW! He has given more than 120 keynote talks, presentations, and workshops. With more than 20 years in higher education, he has progressed from entry-level to senior-;evel administration providing leadership, vision, and responsibility for strategic initiatives, planning, and solutions in student affairs, diversity and inclusion, career services/workforce development, recruitment, and fundraising. He is currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Special Projects & Executive Director for University Career Services in the Division of Student Affairs and has served in leadership roles at Virginia Union University, North Carolina Central University, University of Louisville, University of Tennessee, and Bowling Green State University. Dr. Bates is from Cleveland, Ohio and received his Bachelor of Arts in mass media communications with a minor in African-American History from the University of Akron, his Master of Arts in higher education administration from the University of Akron, his M.B.A. from Bryan College, and a doctorate from Spalding University.

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