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Welcome to Student Success Day (SSD)! One day per semester, almost all classes are changed, 8 or 9 am to 7 pm, to SSD events (exceptions). On this day, you may meet with your teachers, attend sessions, hear a keynote speaker, and eat free. You also may go to SSD Online anytime to find over one thousand virtual SSD sessions. Discover how to be more successful--as a student and person--whether you are starting college, focusing on a major, or working toward a career. The next SSD is
Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 9 am-7 pm.
GENERAL SCHEDULE SUMMARY: Click here to see a short summary of the day.
Click here one week before SSD for a full "SSD Schedule."
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 10 AM, 11:15 AM, 2 PM, 3 PM, & 6 PM: See below.
SSD features the following events:
SSD Keynote Speakers
10:00 am Keynote – Dave Anderson
As a highly sought after keynote speaker, Dave shares his heartfelt optimism
using his life’s story to share valuable insight and life lessons in dealing
with today’s fast changing and challenging world. In Dave’s own life, he has
experienced adversity, frustration, and bankruptcy as well as tremendous
success. Dave’s life story is featured in two New York Times bestsellers.
He has served two Presidents and three governors in advisory positions.
David has provided key testimony before Congress and the U.S. Senate.
Always tackling the impossible, this bottom half of the class high school
student has earned his Master’s Degree from Harvard University.
Tom Gillaspy has served as the Minnesota State
Demographer since 1979. During that time, he has been involved with a
wide-ranging set of issue, applying an understanding of demographic trends
in such areas as the state’s economy, health care for an aging population,
education, higher education, welfare reform, rural population change, labor
shortages, immigration, housing, government spending, and the aging state
workforce. The State Demographer is part of the Minnesota Department of
Administration.
Mark Jacobs is the Director for the Dakota-Scott Workforce Investment Board and the Workforce Services Director for Dakota County. He will talk about
1. - The Current Employment Situation 2. - What the Future Looks Like 3. - What Employers Want 4. - Traditional and Non-Traditional Tools for Job Seekers 5. - Lessons Learned over the Years – or Advice from an Old Guy |
Start in Heritage Hall
Register in Heritage Hall to receive and wear a free admissions name tag that gives you entrance into the events and free food. Also get an up-to-date schedule with room numbers. For more info, see the links on this page. Campus Map
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On SSD, almost all classes on campus are changed to SSD events. However, a few are not. The following meet as usual:
(2) Accelerated courses. (3) Fully-online classes. (4) Some technical classes requiring a preset number of training hours also may meet as usual.
All other classes are changed on SSD to SSD events, and the rooms may be used for SSD purposes. Teachers may also cancel a class earlier or later in the same week and ask you to attend SSD instead--either on campus or at the Web site SSD Online. |
This page revised 16 Feb. 2009
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SSD Web created 1 Oct. 2006 Email Your questions to SSD: click here. SSD home page: http://www.inverhills.edu/studentsuccess
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