By NICK PERKINS, Student Reporter
The diversity committee is hosting the Achieving Life Balance as a Professional in Higher Education workshop on February 9th at 2p.m. in the NWOSU student center ranger room. This workshop is for faculty and staff looking to get some help in learning how to handle multiple tasks at once and learn from some others in how to go about handling these tasks. This event will allow attendees to discuss and share ideas for strategies in maintaining life balance and self-improvement. Participants will also learn how to maintain multiple roles in life for friends, colleagues, and family while sharing expertise with your students in higher education.
This is a good opportunity for faculty and staff to come and get to know other on a more personal level. Attendants can learn from other people’s thoughts and experiences on how to handle some of the challenges that they might face as a professional in higher education. Attendants might also be able to help some other people learn on how to deal with these challenges from person life experiences and their participation in the discussions. After this workshop the people who attended will hopefully be able to juggle these life challenges without struggle.
Some of the topics that will be up for discussion at this event are how to balance work and providing care to aging parents, how to maintain currency with your profession, how to make time for family and friends, workplace collegiality, how to teach and advise in an age of 24/7/365, terminal degree completion, and stress relief mechanisms. Some of the panelists attending this workshop are Dr. Janet Cunningham, Dr. James Bell, Dr. Kylene Rehder, and Janet Valencia. Some of the discussants will be Dr. Kate Lane, Dr. Steve Maier, Dr. Christy Riley, Dr. Shelley Wells, Dr. Kylene Rehder, Janet Valencia and Tamera Brown.