Don’t Cancel That Class

Academic Integrity 101
Academic Integrity 101 provides students with an overview of academic integrity expectations, common academic misconduct mistakes, and how to be proactive in lasting academic success. Students will learn how to build positive relationships with faculty, how to ethically use Artificial Intelligence (AI) when permitted, and become familiar with campus resources.

C2 Hub Overview
Provide an overview of the C2 Hub at MSU Denver and the resources and services available to support students. Discuss the process of career planning. Students will understand that career planning is a process that should begin their first year of college. Students will know what steps to take now to prepare for the future careers and how the C2 Hub can support them.

Design Your Career
This interactive workshop will help students take steps toward planning their careers. We will discuss career decision making, participate in Challenge Cards, and experience mapping to learn about various ways to take a degree that is meaningful to them as an individual. This presentation can be adapted for first year students all the way to graduate students.

Dialogue Sparked by Contemporary Art Exhibitions at MSU Denver, Center for Visual Art
Exhibitions at the Center for Visual Art are designed to be a starting point for conversations about what is happening in the world. Tours of exhibitions can be scheduled with a guide who will facilitate conversations about topics explored in the artwork and how they relate to any area of study. Each exhibition has multiple entry points of subject matter, process, and discipline. Discussions often lead to surprising connections that can be brought back into the classroom. See CVA’s schedule for the changing exhibition themes. Students will meet at the Center for Visual Art at 965 Santa Fe Drive, just under a mile from campus.

Effective Resumes
This workshop will help students create a skills-based resume that is ATS (Applicant Tracking System) friendly. We will discuss best practices when writing a resume that is aligned with the job(s) you are looking for.

Essay Planning
This workshop will help students learn how to effectively conduct research and write quality papers through proven techniques.

Graduate School 101
This presentation provides an overview of what to expect in a graduate program and how to navigate the application process. Topics covered include different paths to pursuing a graduate degree or certificate, the steps involved in researching schools and programs, and how to prepare application materials.

Guest Speaker – Roadrunner Roster
Work with our Industry Navigators to connect with guest speakers from the Roadrunner Roster, our directory of alumni and industry experts. Speakers can bring real-life industry knowledge and tips for career success into the classroom. Requests must be made one month in advance in order to coordinate scheduling. Faculty should indicate their industry or field of interest when making request.

Learning Styles
This workshop will guide students in understanding which learning style they have and also how to utilize tools/techniques for effective learning and studying.

Major and Career Exploration
This workshop will support students that are in the early stages of major and career exploration with different tools and resources to explore.

Note Taking & Active Reading
This workshop will ease student minds by showing them strategies for organizing their thoughts, building outlines, and getting essays started.

Prepare for a Job and Internship fair
We will discuss what to bring to the job and internship fair, questions to ask employers, how to learn about employers who will be there, elevator pitch practice, resources that will be available and what to do if you need accommodations during the fair.

Overcoming Test Anxiety
This workshop will teach students how to manage the anxiety often embedded in preparing and taking exams and succeed.

Owning Career Fairs: So Memorable, They’ll Google You Later
Students—here’s your career fair cheat sheet: Having your Resume ready is just the beginning. With a little pre-event prep (that’s mostly free!), you can really stand out. We’ll cover how to tailor your resume and cover letters for specific employers, making a strong impression using the clothes you already own, ask memorable questions, network with confidence, take notes like a pro, and follow the right way. Questions are welcome any time- we’re here to help you shine.

Technology Basics
This workshop helps students to understand both how to access Student Hub and how to navigate its various tools, including Canvas and Microsoft Outlook. Students will also learn how to download Microsoft suite – provided by MSU Denver – as well as learn how to format professional emails to professors.

Technology in the Classroom
This workshop will eliminate the confusion around Outlook, CANVAS, and Teams and encourage students to use technology to support their educational success.

Interview Practice
This workshop will help students prepare and feel confident for for an interview. We will review different strategies to prepare responses, reduce stress and have time to practice responding to tough questions.

Time Management
This workshop will share tips and tricks on how to juggle your busy student life by efficiently managing your time.

Addressing Food Insecurity on Campus
1 in 3 students on college campuses experience food insecurity. Rowdy’s Corner, MSU Denver’s Food Pantry, is addressing the basic need of healthy and accessible “Food for all” for MSU Denver students. This presentation will look at supports, services and resources available at Rowdy’s Corner and how they are addressing food insecurity for our students, one day at a time.

Bystander Intervention
Have you ever seen someone being harassed and not know what to do? This presentation creates space for participants to analyze how social identity and unconscious biases influence our decisions around intervention. An overview of Right To Be’s 5 D’s of Intervention is provided to participants to give them tools on how to intervene when they see violence and harassment. Participants will be given the opportunity to practice applying these 5 D’s with different real-world scenarios.

Conflict Management
This foundational workshop sets the stage for understanding the dynamics at play during a conflict. Participants will explore effective communication in conflict situations in three parts: a) know thyself, b) know the situation, and c) know how to respond. The workshop first focuses on one’s individual approach to conflict, as we know that it is different based on our experiences and identities. The workshop will then explore conflict types and includes time to practice skill-building to start a difficult conversation. This workshop is provided by Restorative Justice & Student Conflict Resolution Services and can be tailored to your needs.

Developing Facilitation Skills
A facilitator’s role is multifaceted – they help groups navigate difficult situations, lead meetings, find solutions to problems, manage action items, move groups toward consensus, and much more. Effective facilitators develop specific skills that help to keep the group on track, while also managing normal disagreement that emerges in group discussions. This workshop will cover facilitation tools, such as consensus building strategies, generative listening, reframing a problem, and redirecting challenging comments. This workshop has both content to learn and opportunity to practice skills. This workshop is provided by Restorative Justice & Student Conflict Resolution Services and can be tailored to your needs.

Healthy Relationships: What’s healthy? What’s hurting?
An interactive discussion in which Violence Prevention Educators and participants work to create a shared definition of healthy relationships (intimate or otherwise) by placing emphasis on the importance of our personal values, boundaries, and needs. The group will also explore healthy ways love is expressed, harbingers of relationships in trouble, and power and control dynamics. In this way the course works to empower participants with the knowledge and ability to differentiate among healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships.

Interpersonal Violence 101
This session will provide a general overview of all aspects of interpersonal violence and will include interactive activities to help folks think about the dynamics of violence and issues such as consent, healthy relationships, and how to help a friend.

Interpersonal Violence 301
This is a graduate-level workshop addressing interpersonal violence in our society through collaborative discussions regarding identity and privileges and the intersections with interpersonal violence, effective bystander intervention, media literacy, and developing professional and empowering responses to survivor disclosures.

Introduction to Restorative Justice
This workshop provides an overview of the restorative justice philosophy, its origins in indigenous cultures and lifeways, and the various processes and contexts it is practiced. This dialogue-heavy workshop will lead participants to explore different theories of justice, reflect on their own notions of accountability and justice, and will introduce the spectrum of restorative practices that exist within the justice system, k-12 education, higher education, workplaces, and within communities.  This workshop is provided by Restorative Justice & Student Conflict Resolution Services and can be tailored to your needs.

Media Literacy & Interpersonal Violence
This workshop provokes discussion about what interpersonal violence is and how media and pop culture messages contribute to the normalization of it in our culture. Through activities, images and video clips the concepts of sexual objectification and gender construction in the social media age will be illustrated. The discussion will also look at intersections of race, class, and power as they relate to interpersonal violence. This workshop is intended to help participants think critically about a media heavy society and how it can affect views on interpersonal violence and what individuals and groups can do to create social change.

Peer 2 Peer: Mental Health
This workshop aims to increase students’ knowledge, capability and confidence when trying to support a peer that is struggling, emotionally, or experiencing suicidal thoughts.

Phoenix Center Overview
The PCA Overview presentations reviews the services available to students, faculty, staff, and resident of CU Denver, CU Anschutz, MSU Denver, and CCD.

Stress in College
This workshop aims to normalize the stress the comes along with being a student and educate students on how to identify and manage daily stressors.