Experience

• Buffalo State College

  Research Assoicate

  •Develop a course syllabus for a course titled: Professional Development and Social Justice in Student Affairs
  •Assist with the development of a literature review on issues of social justice, action theory, reflection and multicultural competence
  •Co-present findings at the Annual Student Personnel Administration Conference
  •Team taught course: CSP 594 –Moral Reasoning in Higher Education

• Buffalo State College

  Intake/Monitor/Tracking Coordinator

  • Review all applications for the program
  
  • Interview prospective students in person and over the phone
  
  • Facilitate the flow of information to the Director and Academic Coordinator
  
  • Maintain program’s database in Access and create various queries in Microsoft Access and
  Microsoft Excel for data analysis
  
  • Perform comprehensive tracking of 200+ students from acceptance to exit
  
  • Prepare, collect and compile data for Annual Performance Report (APR), as well as submit
  APR electronically
  
  • Managed budget, distributed and maintained records (in excel) for Supplemental Pell Award
  monies, $34,000 per year
  
  • Provide Academic and Personal advisement to 100+ students
  
  • Experience with Banner and Banner INB
  
  • Established and developed a mentoring program (“Mentored Towards Success”), that includes
  mentor selection and training
  
  • Established the programs “Mentored Towards Success” workshop series
  
  • Represent and present for the program at various functions within the institution and
  community
  
  • Established, organized and planned our first and now annual “freshman orientation meeting
  during freshman orientation week
  
  
  • Work with the Admissions office staff, the Associate Director of Financial Aid and Computing
  Services in order to identify qualified students for the program.
  
  • Assisted incoming students and their parents in order to ensure that important items are in
  order, for example: financial aid (FAFSA and TAP), freshman orientation fee, health records
  and insurance proof provided, and a host of other issues that arise
  
  • Work with principals, guidance counselors and pre-collegiate program staff (local and
  non-local) in order to provide and receive information
  
  • Recruit, interview, select, and monitor graduate interns
  
  • Design programs newsletter
  

• Buffalo State College

  Counselor at Educational Opportunity Program

  Shelly A Inniss worked at Buffalo State College as a Counselor at Educational Opportunity Program

• Buffalo State College

  COMPASS Program Coordinator

  Shelly A Inniss worked at Buffalo State College as a COMPASS Program Coordinator

• Buffalo ReUse Inc

  Youth Coordinator

  •Co-established pilot Mayor’s summer youth mentoring program for the organization
  
  •Supervised and motivated youth ages 14-20 on work projects
  
  •Maintained a safe and productive work environment
  
  •Collaborated with community organizations and organized for the attendance of guest speakers
  
  •Engaged with members of the community

• Gateway Longview

  Residential Counselor/Changing Attitudes and Behaviors (CAB) Counselor, December 2002- August 2007

  •Motivated youth to develop better decision making skills to establish better chances of success in their lives
  
  •Counseled/mentored youth in ways that were responsive to their needs and in accordance with the established treatment plan
  
  •Collaborated with colleagues in solving conflicts and problems for at risk youth related to school, substance abuse, placement and negative behaviors
  
  •Organized daily and special activities for youth in care
  
  •Trained new employees to therapeutically service the youth in care
  
  •Adhered to strict confidentiality on client backgrounds and self-disclosures