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EDGE Program
Team Descriptions 2021-
Career Center
Center for Sales
Leadership
The Career Center is the centralized resource for students and alumni to develop professional skills through internships, student employment, networking, and career and financial planning. The Career Center EDGE Team will get an understanding of how Career Center services and initiatives can benefit 1st year students. In addition, students will participate in job fairs and networking events, while also completing projects and planning events within select teams in the Career Center department. All EDGE student activities will be supported by and completed under the close supervision of the Team Leader and Peer Mentor.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Teamwork, time management, written and verbal communication, interviewing, event management, public speaking and presentation planning and execution. Members will also develop professional networking skills through connecting with DePaul staff and external employers. In addition, members will enhance their understanding of strengths and interests, as it relates to career goals. Center for Sales Leadership (CSL) is a program housed within the business school’s marketing department. We help students Learn. Connect. Grow with classes, community, and finding the internship that leads to full-time jobs. The CSL EDGE team will work on effective business communications in the program that brought it to DePaul. The EDGE team will work on their networking skills both in person and online. The EDGE team will work on their networking skills both in person and online, while learning how to build and maintain those relationships.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Teamwork, time management, written and verbal communications, event management, presentations planning and execution, and research.
Campus
Recreation
Campus Recreation (the Ray Meyer Fitness and Recreation Center) provides students with opportunities to participate in a variety of fitness and recreation activities. The Ray EDGE teams will gain skills in marketing and promotion, participate in event planning and management, increase knowledge about the specific benefits of exercise, and serve as department ambassadors to increase student participation in The Ray. All EDGE student activities will be supported by and completed under the close supervision of the Team Leaders and Peer Mentors.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Verbal communication, teamwork, event planning and management, and social media and promotion. This team is ideal for students who are majoring in Exercise Science, Marketing, Communication, or Business Management, and/or students who are dedicated to recreation, health and fitness.
(Continued) The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) promotes excellence in instruction across the university to enhance students’ learning and success. Each and every one of our DePaul students bring with them valuable strengths and experiences. On our team we embrace these as we work together to identify the current needs of DePaul students and advocate for them by producing relevant academic, professional, and holistic resources that will help all our students succeed at DePaul. Two of our projects this year are continuing to evolve and create diverse content for the DePaul Student Success Website as well as launching the first-ever Student Success social media page.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Social media management and content creation, creative problem solving/critical thinking, teamwork and collaboration, entrepreneurship, professionalism, and adaptability.
Center for
Teaching &
Learning
DePaul Athletics The DePaul Athletics department is home to more than 300 student-athletes, coaches and
staff who represent DePaul on the field of competition in the BIG EAST Conference and in NCAA Division I athletics. DePaul sponsors 15 intercollegiate teams including basketball, cross country, golf, softball, soccer, tennis, track and field and volleyball. Our teams train year round and compete at the highest level both academically and athletically; in all 50 states and worldwide. Our men’s basketball teams have all their games broadcast nationally on the Fox family of networks and also on CBS and CBS Sports Network. Our other teams have broadcast opportunities on those same networks and stream exclusively on FloSports. The Athletics EDGE Team will complete several projects including being Gameday Secret Shoppers, develop and execute a comprehensive single-game marketing plan for DePaul students to attend a basketball game at Wintrust Arena and plan a special event from ideation to execution.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Willingness to be an active participant and contribute at levels to the Athletics EDGE Team is a mandatory. Additional skill development include; time and event management, peer-to-peer networking and interaction with executive level management and coaches. Written and verbal communications along with problem solving, critical thinking, professionalism, collaboration and project management.
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Housing &
Student Centers
Green Team
The Green Team promotes sustainability awareness in the residence halls through information campaigns, tabling events, and programming initiatives. The Green Team will develop our team members through workshops, projects, and programming initiatives. Our students will gain hands-on experience planning and implementing small scale programs and large scale event. They will also educate students through role modeling and information campaigns in the residence halls.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Teamwork, time management, written and verbal communication, event planning, event management, outreach, logistics
Idea Realization
Labs (Loop &
Lincoln Park)
Kellstadt
Marketing Center
The Idea Realizations Labs are DePaul’s student-run makerspaces. Our mission is to facilitate learning through making and tinkering by facilitating access to a wide range of fabrication tools, machines, materials, and knowledge for the entire DePaul community. The IRL EDGE teams will work on fabrication projects to improve the lab environment, create small projects to explore their own interests and capacities, and will research and take part in promotional efforts to help drive use of the lab.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Team work, time management, design, project development, written and verbal communication, public speaking, collaboration, thinking through making. The Kellstadt Marketing Center helps marketing students enhance their college experience by implementing career readiness programs and connecting students with business professionals. The department organizes and promotes new opportunities and events to marketing students within its concentrations in sales, digital marketing and honors programs. The Kellstadt Marketing EDGE team will work with the department to develop potential marketing events and social media campaigns to better engage with students. EDGE students will gain experience in project management and have the opportunity to work closely with faculty, alumni and students. EDGE team members will learn hard and soft skills to include on their resume.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Project management, time management, communication, networking, teamwork, event development, social media marketing, market research, public speaking
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Office of
Multicultural
Student Success
(OMSS)
The Office of Multicultural Student Success (OMSS) seeks to cultivate belongingness, retention, and persistence to graduation for students of color, students who demonstrate financial need, first- generation college students, undocumented immigrant students, and students with marginalized genders and sexualities. The OMSS EDGE team will work with OMSS staff to identify ways for the team to serve as ambassadors of the department to help bring awareness to the programs, resources, events, and opportunities available to students. In addition to supporting the office on that front, students will also engage in several activities related to preparing for post college success including career discernment, professional development, and soft skill building.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Teamwork, event management, multicultural competency, public speaking, career preparation The Connect EDGE Team will focus on building engagement throughout DePaul, targeting students with zero attendance at events, clubs, etc. EDGE students will learn about student involvement, small-scale event planning, and how to connect while building community.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Teamwork, time management, written and verbal communication, event management, and presentation planning and execution
Office of Student
Involvement-
Connect
Office of
Advancement
The Office of Advancement is instrumental to DePaul’s success. It consists of many individual departments that collaborate to meet the fundraising and engagement goals for DePaul University by strengthening the relationships the university has with alumni and community partners. EDGE students that participate in our office will have an opportunity to use their unique experiences to interface our Campaign team. EDGE students will gain basic orientations to the world of Advancement, explore careers in fundraising, assist in micro- targeted fundraising initiatives, and assist with alumni and student-facing donor stewardship. Students interested in marketing, creative writing, video editing, and communications will be at home in the Office of Advancement.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Marketing, creative writing, verbal and written communications as well as public speaking
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University
Marketing
Communications
(Content Crew) University Marketing Communications ensures that the DePaul brand is consistently incorporated across university communication through advertising, digital marketing, social media, creative services, and web and email communication. University Marketing seeks to improve DePaul’s market position and prominence, which in turn helps achieve the university’s enrollment and tuition revenue objectives, through a wide variety of marketing and communication activities. The University Marketing Communications (MarCom) Content Crew will provide social media and content creation support to the Marketing Communications department. Assist with brainstorming, planning and executing content initiatives targeted at prospective undergraduate students. Research and provide feedback on social media trends.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Knowledge of marketing communications, professional use of social media, content creation (writing, photo, video), organization and prioritization, project management, effective verbal and written communication The Admission EDGE team will assist the admission office during the admission recruitment cycle to recruit the next freshman class. EDGE students will communicate with prospective students and their families via email, notecards, and at admission events. They will also collaborate with different project areas in the admission office. EDGE team members will develop written and communication skills while also gaining knowledge of the admission process as well as knowledge of their institution.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Verbal and written communication, time management, teamwork, presentation skills, event planning and varied computer skills.
Undergraduate
Recruitment
and Marketing
Communication
(URMC)
The Undergraduate Recruitment Marketing and Communication (URMC) office works on building strategic outreach to new incoming undergraduate students. The URMC EDGE Team will work with the department to develop potential marketing and social media campaigns and do market research on the college search process. The URMC EDGE Team will examine how their prospective student experience shaped their college making decisions, have the opportunity to create a variety of individual and group marketing projects (including emails, text messages, print, and social media) to engage with prospective students, and be comfortable sharing their experiences with an audience.
SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
Market research, project management, communication, social media marketing, content creation, professionalism, teamwork, time management, written and verbal communication.
Undergraduate
Admissions
