MPSEOC Summer Conference
speaker & session overview
July 29 - 30, 2024 | Fairmont Hot Springs Resort
Goals For The ConferenceGOALS FOR THE CONFERENCE ARE SIMPLE!
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| Overview of presenters
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THIS CONFERENCE OFFERS GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT!
casey j. cORNELIUS
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WEBSITE: Casey J. Cornelius - ForCollegeForLife
LINKEDIN: Casey J. Cornelius - ForCollegeForLife | LinkedIn
Founder and President of ForCollegeForLife, Casey J. Cornelius has been a leading national voice on the topics of healthy masculinity and personal development for more than a decade. He travels the country, both physically and virtually, to work with campuses and organizations who aim toward the extraordinary. Casey is not interested in average!
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio Casey is a first-generation college graduate holding a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees despite once being advised “college isn’t for everyone.” A proud fraternity man and inductee of his chapter’s Hall of Fame, Casey is the creator of The Cornelius Scholarship for First-Generation Students and was named a University of Toledo Distinguished Alumni in 2023.
He has been recognized with national and international awards for educational content development and delivery and as a “Spokes-Mo” (their word, not his) for his work with the Movember Foundation.
Fun fact: Casey is also a person of great contradiction. A lifelong fan of summer and long walks on the beach, he now resides with his wife, daughter, and parents in Michigan. His proudest titles are father, husband, and son.
Press & Articles
Casey Cornelius Honored with Innovative Initiative Award - Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
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- New Student Orientation/Convocation
- First Year Experience
- First-Gen Programming
- Leadership
- Building Community
- Professional Development
- Community Colleges
Tiffany Gusbeth
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American Indian College Fund
Vice President, Student Success Services
Tiffany Gusbeth Bio | American Indian College Fund
Tiffany Gusbeth, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, is Vice President of Student Success Services at the American Indian College Fund. Her team is responsible for the development and implementation of student support systems and strategies for Native student success. Tiffany oversees scholarships, college access, career readiness, student engagement, strategic enrollment management, and the development of an organizational student and program management database. Her passion is ensuring this work is accomplished with respect and with a cultural match to those she serves.
Tiffany understands the students and communities she serves because she shares a similar educational and cultural background, which informs her understanding and is vital to her work. A first-generation college graduate and former American Indian College Fund scholarship recipient, Tiffany first earned her GED at Chief Dull Knife College, an accredited two-year tribal college located on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Western Colorado University.
Prior to joining the College fund, Tiffany served as a financial aid and scholarship advisor at several community colleges and four-year higher education institutions. In these roles, Tiffany was responsible for helping students and their families understand and obtain federal student aid. Her background in financial aid and student services provided the perfect foundation for supporting American Indian College Fund scholarship applicants and recipients.
In early 2022, Tiffany was selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of Leading for Equity Fellowship program through the National College Attainment Network. The fellowship program is expanding the number of leaders of color represented in the C-suite within organizations in the college attainment field and strengthening their capacity to address systemic issues of power, privilege, oppression, and equity within organizations, communities, and systems.
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A Montana Education Story - Highlighting Education Stories in Montana
jason gulya
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LINKEDIN: Jason Gulya, Ph.D. | LinkedIn
We are so excited to have Jason with us for our conference! Jason Gulya, Ph.D. (He/Him)
My life changed when ChatGPT was released in November of 2022. I came across the program, played with it, and immediately announced to my wife: "The most awful thing just happened. I saw the future of cheating." After hundreds and hundreds of hours with ChatGPT and other AI programs, I no longer think that. I am optimistic that the correct use of AI can encourage more critical thinking, improve the accessibility of information, and personalize education.
This optimism has fueled my most recent work. I teach English and Writing at Berkeley College, a career-focused college. I also consult faculty, community colleges, universities, and school districts on how to incorporate AI into their classrooms and lives.
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Sharing My Experiments With AI & Impacts on Education, Marketing, & Beyond
I help educators create AI-enhanced, human-centered learning experiences
AI + Education Coach
Professor | Learning Expert
Host of the "EdUp AI "Podcast
ChatGPT Coach
SHANNON O'BRIEN
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Montana Senator / State Legislative Leader
Dean of Missoula College
School Administrator
Classroom Teacher
Montana Education Policy Advisor
Shannon is the mother of a high-schooler and understands that parents want safe and secure schools that have a high-quality teacher in every classroom. She has fought her entire career to make sure that every student has a fair shot at a quality education.
Shannon has a wide range of experience in public education with roles spanning from K-12 to college to state-level policy making. She has been a classroom teacher, school administrator, Governor Bullock’s education policy advisor, the Dean of Missoula College, and now a state legislative leader in education committees.
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A Montana Education Story - Highlighting Education Stories in Montana
JOe Theil
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Montana University System / Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education
MUS Director of Academic Policy & Research
"Rural communities, where one in five Americans now lives, are recording significantly lower rates of graduation in higher education, compared to urban Americans. Only 19.5% of rural adults have obtained a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with 29% of urban adults. This reflects a history of focusing education and workforce development policies toward the nation’s urban areas — and the impact of these policies is obvious in U.S. workforce development. Rural adults have accounted for less than 3% of national job growth since 2001.
With rural industries like mining, millwork and farming in steep decline, postsecondary degrees are increasingly important for social mobility. This means the nation can no longer afford to overlook the challenges faced by rural states and their colleges and universities. Communities are not receiving the skilled professionals they need for jobs because students are not getting the education they need. Creating sustainable workforces and healthy communities across the nation depends on addressing the problems of rural access to higher education.
The question of how to do this has been a driving focus of my work. As director of academic policy and research for the Montana University System, I am acutely aware of the nation’s need to better support rural institutions, students and communities. Vast in size but small in population, Montana has built a proud academic system of 16 campuses, including six four-year and 10 two-year institutions, serving approximately 40,000 students over 147,000 square miles. Yet the need for more sustainable, cost-effective methods to support rural communities, institutions and students has grown, as enrollment, resources and state funding come under increasing pressure."
Quoted from: Expanding Access to Higher Education for Montana’s Rural Students | Montana University System (mus.edu)
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Montana Student Landscape | A closer look at the data from MUS/ OCHE
Kelly Palmer
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Montana High School Counselor - Recently Retired
Kelly Palmer began his career as an Admissions Representative at Northern Montana College in 1987. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to Director of Admissions. He held that position until 1995 when he became the school counselor at Troy High School in Troy, Montana. He retired from that role after 28 years in June of 2023.
During his tenure, Kelly served as the President of the MPSEOC from 1990-1992. He has twice served on the executive board of the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admission Counseling, once as a college delegate and then as a high school delegate to the national convention. He was named the Sister Shawn Marie Barry Distinguished Service to Youth award recipient in May of 2022 and is the only Montanan to date to ever be selected for this award.
From 2019 until his retirement in 2023, Kelly served as a college admissions coach for the University of Southern California's Bovard Scholars Program. This program targets high achieving, first-generation college students from low-income households and assists them to access to the nation's top colleges, generally with full-funding.
Kelly and Jeanie (his bride of 40 years) live in Troy, Montana. They have four adult children. When he's not wrangling grandchildren, Kelly spends his summers as a fly fishing guide for Kootenai River Outfitters. Kelly has served Montana education and students for many years, and we are so grateful to have him with us for this great event!
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A Montana Education Story - Highlighting Education Stories in Montana
Firsthand Advice from a Montana HS Counselor - How we better help students together!
Tricia Seifert
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Dean of MSU Education, Health, & Human Development Department
Professor
Success Prints Crash Course Game - Creator / CEO | Success Prints Crash Course - Games for College Success
Tricia Seifert is currently the Dean of the MSU Education, Health and Human Development Department and Professor.
Tricia also created the "Success Prints Crash Course Game" for students. DEVELOPED WITH STUDENTS, FOR STUDENTSWe make games that give students the tools to draft their unique blueprint for success in higher education. Transitions are hard, and there's often no roadmap. College can feel like a game. There’s rules of how to play but students do not always know them (like the Student Code of Conduct) or even those who are on the board to help them succeed (like their academic advisor and student success coach). Success Prints Crash Course gives players the chance to practice how to ‘do college’ so that they do not feel like they have been ‘done in by college’. It’s fun to play, lose, learn, play again and win!
- Previously, Tricia has been "an associate professor in the Adult & Higher Education program at Montana State University and maintains a status only appointment in the Higher Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She uses sociological theories and principles to examine issues related to post-secondary student learning and success. Her interest in understanding how colleges and universities organize to support student success stems largely from her administrative background working in orientation and transition programs, residence life, student leadership programs, and fraternity/sorority life. Having worked at both large and small post-secondary institutions, Tricia witnessed the interplay between organizational structures and culture with respect to how campuses support student success."
Quoted from: Tricia Seifert featured on The Best of Our Knowledge - The Academic Minute
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Game Theory For Students - How to Incorporate Into Marketing & Recruitment
James Broscheit
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MASFAA President
Montana State University Director Financial Aid Services
James Broscheit serves as director of Financial Aid at Montana State UniversityBozeman. James has come to Montana from Colorado in 2017. James began his work in financial aid in 1986 at a proprietary school for auto and diesel technicians. Finding an affinity for the work, he pursued the challenge of work in the four year public sector where he has worked primarily since 1992.
James has worked at several universities over this time and has come to an appreciation that each campus has an identity and in that identity, there is a place for every student to find a home. Helping students and families navigate the path to affordability and value is rewarding. Part of our mission in the aid office is to support that student and family to a successful investment in degree attainment.
Financial aid work engages a balance of working with people along with an element of business as we work with federal and state regulation. The mix is challenging but finding that sweet spot where it blends together is rewarding. Colleagues working in this group have become very special in the mission and work that we share. While it is different on each of our campus’s, networking across the state, the region and nationally is both work and personally fulfilling.
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FAFSA & Financial Aid Updates From MASFAA
Open Discussion and Q&A
Zachary George
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Director @ StriveScan
StriveScan is student scanning technology for College Fairs and High School Visits. With StriveScan students register on their phones and are texted and emailed a barcode. Colleges use the StriveScan app to scan students and instantly export their data.
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How To Be Successful At Fairs | StriveScan Tips & Inside Look @ The Scanning Technology & Data
& many more speakers / Topics
the latest technology for marketing, recruitment, & education
MASFAA & FINANCIAL AID UPDATES
COLLEGE & CAREER OUTLOOK
MONTANA STUDENT DATA & OUTLOOK
MONTANA TRIBAL COLLEGE TEAM
Dual Credit, GEAR UP, & THE MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
annual mpseoc membership meeting
new professionals training & resources
middle management supports
director's gathering continued
partner resources & relationship building
dinner social & more!
- THIS CONFERENCE OFFERS GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT!
- NETWORKING & RELATIONSHIP BUILDING ACROSS MONTANA & BEYOND
- UNDERSTANDING & CONNECTING WITH TODAY'S STUDENTS
- ADMISSIONS BEST PRACTICES & ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
- RECRUITMENT, MARKETING, & SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS
- MOTIVATION, TEAM WORKING SKILLS, & NETWORKING
- NEW PROFESSIONALS INSTITUTE
- MONTANA TRIBAL COLLEGE TEAM & NATIVE AMERICAN / INDIGENOUS STUDENT RELATIONS
- MONTANA CAREERS, SEARCH TOOLS, & FUTURE OUTLOOK
- TRAVEL TIPS, HIGH SCHOOL VISITS, ORIENTATIONS & CAMPUS VISIT PROGRAMS
- HELPING STUDENTS & FAMILIES WITH FINANCIAL AID
- EDUCATION PARTNER RELATIONS | A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO: MONTANA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, MONTANA GEAR UP, OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, REACH HIGHER MONTANA, MONTANA YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP, AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND, MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY, & MONTANA COLLEGES.
- CONFERENCE SOCIAL, RESOURCES, NETWORKING SESSIONS, & MUCH MORE!
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