February 23, 2023
8:30am - 1:00pm
Douglass Student Center, Trayes Hall
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor-Provost and the New Brunswick Faculty Council
Access Week 2023
Access Week
Access Week aims to create campus awareness of the need for an equity mindset to help all students thrive.
This annual, week-long initiative features a range of public lectures, faculty, staff and student workshops, and student programming. Access Week highlights the academic, social, and cultural resources essential for the success of first-generation, low-income, and other underserved student groups.
Access Week Overview of Events
Register for Access Week 2023 events
Chancellor-Provost Conway's Commitment to Access
Access Week 2023 Chancellor-Provost Message
I Am College Bound Fair
The IamCollegebound: College Fair & Youth Summit, hosted for Pre-College Outreach and Upward Bound Math-Science high-school participants and friends, provides dynamic workshops, speakers, and trainings led by Rutgers undergraduates to aid in preparing students for college.
The 2023 summit will include a college fair inclusive of 20 institutions, interactive workshops led by community partners and Rutgers student organizations, and concluding with a student leadership day party.
Student Success Forum
The Access Week 2023 Student Success forum will bring together faculty and staff from around RU-NB who engage in student support programming for an equity data walk illustrating the outcomes of first-generation, limited-income, and underrepresented student populations.
Following the equity data walk staff and faculty will have the opportunity to connect with fellow student support colleagues who serve similar populations and create cross-communication, networking, and community building amongst the groups.
Our goal is to create space to allow for the sharing of information, resources, and ideas to maximize our impact as we work together to support current and future students in New Brunswick. Light refreshments will be provided. Presented in partnership with the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement and Undergraduate Education.
James Carr Lecture with Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan
An annual public lecture named in honor of James Dickson Carr who was the first African American graduate of Rutgers University. Public intellectuals invited to campus to discuss pressing issues of diversity, access, and equity in an open dialogue with the Rutgers community. Dr. Weiston-Serdan will deliver the talk entitled "It's the Action Fa' Me".
Dr. Weiston-Serdan is the Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, MA in Community Engaged Education & Social Change at Claremont Graduate University. She has 15 years of teaching and youth programming experience.
An emerging leader in the youth mentoring field, she wrote Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide, which has become the handbook for culturally sustaining youth work in the discipline. Outside of teaching and research, Dr. Weiston-Serdan runs the Youth Mentoring Action Network, a non-profit dedicated to leveraging justice and equity mentoring.
Alumni Mixer with McNair Research Symposium
Alumni and current students of RU-NB are invited to attend an evening event at the Zimmerli Museum with a keynote talk from young alumni speaker, Ryan Webb, about her journey as a student who persevered through the pandemic to finish strong and be successful post-graduation.
She will share her experience and following the question and answer conversation, we will invite attendees to participate in two micro workshops: 1) Tools to engage in professional self-discovery and 2) Transformational Skills: Campus Leader to Workplace boss. Following the micro workshops participants will be able to walk through and engage with the invited employers offering interviews and information about job and internship opportunities in the Exhibitor Hall - First Floor.
Concurrently in the Connection Corner, we will offer light food fare and space for conversation, networking (introducing attendees to the mentoring platform PeopleGrove), and the opportunity to explore the innovative research projects presented by our McNair Scholars at the McNair: Student Research Symposium. Presented in partnership with the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement; Rutgers Career Exploration and Success Office; and Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Program.
Thrive SSS: Empowerment Hour – “Rescript Your Story”
Our Thrive Student Support Services team is hosting a two hour interactive workshop focused around empowering students to rescript the narratives they tell themselves. Positive Psychology coach, speaker, educator, and author, Dr. Colleen Georges will facilitate this interactive workshop helping students work through how to change their internal dialogue to transform their lives.
Equity Mindset Workshop
Attendees will learn best practices and gain skills in building an equity mindset in service of student success to facilitate retention and increase timely degree completion. Light refreshments will be served.
Speaking Up: Bias Awareness & Intervention in the Workplace
PowerPlay Interactive Development is a professional applied theatre company that utilizes applied theatre techniques to safely engage participants in challenaging conversations around bias, harrassment, communication, collaboration, and leadership.
Dr. Stephanie Goodwin (Incluxion Works, Inc.)— a published DEI scholar and nationally recognized expert in bias intervention training— will provide evidence-based content and facilitation to: 1) promote knowledge, skills, and awareness of the phenomenology of witnessing bias, and 2) strategies for effective intervention with an emphasis on promoting constructive dialogue.
Light Refreshments will be served.
Access Week Highlighted Events
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
9:30am - 1:00pm
Busch Student Center
Friday, February 24, 2023
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Friday, February 24, 2023
2:00pm-3:00pm
Virtual
Monday, February 27, 2023
4:00pm - 8:30pm
Livingston Hall, Livingston Student Center