Beth Christensen Email & Phone Number

Southeast Minnesota

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Austin, Minnesota/Albert Lea. Minnesota

• Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, and behavioral problems affecting their educational and vocational situations• Confer with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss youth progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law and organizational policies• Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks• Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics using tests, records, interviews, and professional sources• Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage youth/clients to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.• Counsel clients regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning• Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met• Collaborate with colleagues in Vocational Rehabilitation and throughout the school district to refer and co-enroll youth to provide the best services possible• Establish work-experiences for youth with community partners• Create and implement budget for support and training funds provided by numerous grants and programs• Administer, interpret, and communicate tests and assessments to clients• Provide walk-in triage support to general Workforce clients• Advocate for youth

Austin, Minnesota

• Work with a diverse student body of English Language Learners on basic computer skills, typing skills and study skills• Establish and maintain a distance learning platform that caters to the needs of a diverse student population• Counsel and advise prospective GED students about preparation course options, test details and personal and professional goal setting• Coordinate testing sessions for students interested in GED prep, Transition to College courses and other Adult Basic Education programs• Support at risk youth in GED counseling options• Communicate with students and support them in the intake, counseling, testing and enrollment process• Maintain secure, confidential testing data on ABE Students through various online record keeping systems dependent upon the students specific program• Edit and update website for accurate content and easy to use information for a diverse student population• Generate testing documents that support student accuracy and grading efficiency• Create marketing materials for the Southeastern Adult Basic Education Consortium• Disseminate plans for the new GED Series launch in 2014 for Southeast MN ABE Consortium• Serve as the Rosetta Stone Administrator for the consortium• Execute trainings for Rosetta Stone to consortium school members

Waverly, Iowa

• Facilitated individual meetings with students to discuss conduct, classes, and other judicial, academic or social matter s • Communicated and collaborated with various on and off campus constituents to insure the success of Wartburg students• Directly supervised the overall functioning of thirteen residential communities housing 400 students• Oversaw four professional staff members who served as supervisors to 47 resident assistants and 1,100 students• Referred students to other offices as needed for additional support in academics, conduct or social matters • Administered building satisfaction surveys and implement student led initiatives for community success • Modified Residential programs and processes to be as customer friendly and effective as possible • Formed a new programming model to suit the needs of the institution and students• Created and executed Iowa’s Small Private College Drive In Development Day• Collaborated daily with maintenance and housekeeping staff• Managed a budget of $10,000 for the academic year

Waverly, Iowa

• Supervised the overall functioning of two residence hall buildings housing 350 students and 13 RAs• Facilitated individual meetings with students to discuss conduct, classes, and other judicial, academic or social matters• Monitored RA progress in regards to floor community, academic success and extracurricular activities• Administered building satisfaction surveys and implemented student led initiatives for community success • Planed programming and professional development opportunities for resident assistant staff• Served as a professional on call resource for entire campus for one week a month• Collaborated with other campus offices to create and implement H1N1 protocol • Advised hall council in meetings, building programs and budget planning • Planed and ran weekly staff meetings and individual one on ones with RAs• Organized, planed, promoted, and lead all hall programs • Collaborated daily with maintenance and housekeeping staff • Managed a budget of $5,000 for the academic year

While working on my Bachelors Degree in Communication Studies and English at Luther College I was an active member of the Residential Life community. I served for two years as a Resident Assistant and for one year as an Assistant Hall Director where I had Resident Assistant responsibilities as well as the honor to oversee an amazing group of other RAs. At Luther, all of our programming was based off of the Wellness Wheel and my Senior Year I was asked to serve as the Wellness Coordinator for Residential Life. Doing so gave me the opportunity to oversee more residential communities, organize and execute wellness programming campus wide and work with upper administration. Also during my senior year I started the Luther College Senior Series for my senior class that focused on life after college- renting/buying a home, repaying student loans, networking, job searching, etc. There was great buy in by my fellow seniors and the program still runs today!

Master'S Degree, Education: Post-Secondary Student Affairs, 3.96 Gpa

Through the Post-Secondary Education: Student Affairs MAE program at the University of Northern Iowa I was exposed to many facets.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, English

Activities and Societies: Created Senior Series for the class of 2008; Served as a Resident Assistant for 3 years; Served as an Assistant.

Global Career Development Facilitator