<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="" size="4"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">CTE invites you to j<font style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">oin us for </font></b><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">our guest speaker today:</font></b></font></div><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4" style=""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal"><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="color:black">Thursday, September 7 </span></b><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">G<span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">uest</span> S<span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">peaker</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></span></b><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41)"><b>Michele Thornton</b></span><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41)"><br>12-1 p.m. “</span></b><b style="color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67)">A Business Professor's Teaching Tools for Increasing Students' Understanding of Diversity”<span style="font-weight:400"> </span></span></b><span style="font-weight:400"><font color="#212529">Everyone is invited to this Zoom presentation and discussion facilitated by </font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><font color="#212529">Michele Thornton, Associate Professor of Health Services Administration at SUNY Oswego.</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">T</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">he </span>Zoom<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span>link and
password </span><font color="#000000">are</font> available on the CTE Brightspace schedule.</font></p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;color:rgb(85,85,85)"></p><ul><li><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="" size="4"><span style="color:black">Michele Thornton attended Illinois Wesleyan University for her undergraduate studies in Psychology. After that, Michele returned to her hometown of Chicago, IL to complete her M.B.A. in Health Sector Management at DePaul University in 2010. Michele then went on to her doctoral studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago – School of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration.  She enjoys teaching both in person and online – classes ranging from Health Insurance and Employee Benefits, Health Economics, Health Policy and Public Health Administration. Before joining SUNY Oswego in 2017, Michele worked as a health insurance and employee benefits consultant, focused on the small business and individual sector.  In addition to continuing this work with small employers, Michele enjoys tackling independent health policy consulting & training engagements. Recent projects include: The Small Business Health Collaborative with Health & Disability Advocates; Developing and delivering the ACA Navigator Certification program for Get Covered Illinois; and an appointment to the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) National Legislative Council.</span></font></li></ul><p></p>
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