Central Indiana Corporate Partnership’s Post

🌟 Please join us in welcoming Jasmyn Robinson, M.Ed. to JCU! 🌟 Jasmyn is originally from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but came to Ohio in 2017 to go to Kent State University. She received her Bachelor's degree in psychology in 2021, making her the first in her family to obtain a degree. After a year off of school working as a registered behavioral technician, Jasmyn decided it was time to go back to get her Masters degree. She was accepted into the Kent State Higher Education and Administration program in 2022 and started as a Graduate Assistant in the Career Exploration and Development office, where she had the opportunity to provide career advising and teach a course called Career Navigation. Her second year in the program, she had another opportunity to be a Graduate Assistant for Student Success Programs. Jasmyn is grateful for all the experiences she had at Kent State, as well as all the wonderful people who have helped her along the way. She believes all her experiences have led her here to JCU, and she is thrilled to be here! Jasmyn's new role at JCU is as an Academic Success Advisor for the Boler College of Business. She is really looking forward to working with the first- and second-year students and helping them feel comfortable and confident in their educational journey here at JCU. Being her first week, she still has a lot to learn, but everyone has been so welcoming and helpful that it makes her excited to see what is in store for her career here at John Carroll University! #newhire #welcome #employeeonboarding

Over the last week, I’ve chaired our promotion panels at Buckinghamshire New University. In many ways, it’s the most important meeting that we hold in universities. Not only do colleagues spend a great deal of time preparing, these panels pass judgement on careers, on achievements, on successes, on educational lives that demand so much. What stood out, what I’ve never experienced at other universities, is the seriousness, the gravity, with which we considered individual circumstances. We considered caring responsibilities, parenthood, illness, myriad other contexts that interrupted careers, with care, with compassion and with an understanding rare in the metric-heavy world of higher education. Most importantly, we attached *weight* to life-circumstances, counter to the normative patterns that reproduce normative promotions. All work histories are not the same. All lives are not the same. All interactions and intersections and interrelations between life and work are not the same. When we make these judgements, about careers, about promotions, about salaries, we need to remember that.

Over the last week, I’ve chaired our promotion panels at Buckinghamshire New University. In many ways, it’s the most important meeting that we hold in universities. Not only do colleagues spend a great deal of time preparing, these panels pass judgement on careers, on achievements, on successes, on educational lives that demand so much. What stood out, what I’ve never experienced at other universities, is the seriousness, the gravity, with which we considered individual circumstances. We considered caring responsibilities, parenthood, illness, myriad other contexts that interrupted careers, with care, with compassion and with an understanding rare in the metric-heavy world of higher education. Most importantly, we attached *weight* to life-circumstances, counter to the normative patterns that reproduce normative promotions. All work histories are not the same. All lives are not the same. All interactions and intersections and interrelations between life and work are not the same. When we make these judgements, about careers, about promotions, about salaries, we need to remember that.

Over the last week, I’ve chaired our promotion panels at Buckinghamshire New University. In many ways, it’s the most important meeting that we hold in universities. Not only do colleagues spend a great deal of time preparing, these panels pass judgement on careers, on achievements, on successes, on educational lives that demand so much. What stood out, what I’ve never experienced at other universities, is the seriousness, the gravity, with which we considered individual circumstances. We considered caring responsibilities, parenthood, illness, myriad other contexts that interrupted careers, with care, with compassion and with an understanding rare in the metric-heavy world of higher education. Most importantly, we attached *weight* to life-circumstances, counter to the normative patterns that reproduce normative promotions. All work histories are not the same. All lives are not the same. All interactions and intersections and interrelations between life and work are not the same. When we make these judgements, about careers, about promotions, about salaries, we need to remember that.

Over the last week, I’ve chaired our promotion panels at Buckinghamshire New University. In many ways, it’s the most important meeting that we hold in universities. Not only do colleagues spend a great deal of time preparing, these panels pass judgement on careers, on achievements, on successes, on educational lives that demand so much. What stood out, what I’ve never experienced at other universities, is the seriousness, the gravity, with which we considered individual circumstances. We considered caring responsibilities, parenthood, illness, myriad other contexts that interrupted careers, with care, with compassion and with an understanding rare in the metric-heavy world of higher education. Most importantly, we attached *weight* to life-circumstances, counter to the normative patterns that reproduce normative promotions. All work histories are not the same. All lives are not the same. All interactions and intersections and interrelations between life and work are not the same. When we make these judgements, about careers, about promotions, about salaries, we need to remember that.