This week on Chronversations: A conversation with Columbia Central Counselor Jeff Sanderson about Grad Expo.
TRANSCRIPT:
0:09: This week on Chronversations, Grad Expo was held in the Student Center on Wednesday, April 9th, as well as Thursday, April 10th.
0:17: The event held important information that graduating students need as we head towards the end of the semester.
0:23: All right, and so here at this event today, what’s going on?
0:27: This is the 2nd day of the grad expo, and the Grad Expo is to help our graduating students, get their graduation tickets for the event itself for the ceremony and answer all their other questions to be prepared to graduate.
0:39: So they talk to college advisors if they have advising questions.
0:42: They talk to Columbia Central about financial stuff.
0:45: They talk to the alumni office or the career center or both, they can even talk to the library here, if they have a library fine or a question about the library.
0:53: And then, so here in this line, what are, what are people waiting for?
0:58: So around the outside of the student center is a big line for the graduation tickets.
1:05: The truth is that every student who is going needs to get their tickets and so it ends up being a line every time, but it does move pretty quickly, but it’s still a line.
1:13: And honestly, it looks like people are just chatting and it’s it they’re, they’re killing some time and, and they don’t seem too hard done by because it’s really like the line does move.
1:24: Yeah, usually when I’m going to events like these and I’m looking at the attendance beforehand on Engage, it’s usually really high numbers like 200, 300 people, but usually when I get to these events, there’s not that many.
1:35: So this is the first time I’m actually coming to an event and seeing this many students like in one space.
1:39: Yeah, for sure.
1:41: And what other kinds of things can students learn about?
1:45: I understand that there’s some information on Manifest as well.
1:48: Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard.
1:49: I’m not sure exactly, we don’t work with Manifest in my office that directly, but yeah, as Manifest gets closer, there’s more and more going on.
1:57: And there’s more and more opportunity to be involved and planning that goes on and things like that so they cover that here.
2:03: They even do photography they have like the photographers for our graduating students are here, up on the second floor.
2:10: Awesome and do you also have any information like about commencement?
2:14: That information can be gotten here if a person is asking those kind of questions through the line they go through.
2:21: The people that are giving out the graduation tickets are from the commencement are specialized in commencement and know all those answers.
2:27: All right, awesome, and that’s pretty much all I have for you.
2:32: That’s all for this week.
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2:49: I’m Aaron Guzman, thanks for listening.
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