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MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2017
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Volume 70 | Issue 8
Christine Johnson, chancelor of Community Colleges of Spokane, speaks about her unspoken strengths on the panel during the event. Michelle Mills/Sentinel
Day of Dialogue spotlights women’s unSpoken Strengths Michelle Mills Managing Editor “I don’t think you’re going to make it as a nurse. You know, might be able to be a teacher, but in all reality, probably what you should be is a secretary like your mom.” Dr. Lita Burns, NIC’s Vice President for Instruction remembers when her high school counselor told her those words when she told him she wanted to be a nurse. “Well don’t listen to him,” her mother said when Burns told her what the counselor said. “He doesn’t know what you’re going to do. You’re going to be a nurse. Go be a nurse.” So she did. Burns went on to speak about the things that kept her strong during the harder parts of her life-- her unSpoken Strengths, the topic of focus for the fourth annual Day of Dialogue. The audience consisted of both men and women, but the speakers were all strong women who have made an impact in the
lives of others. In addition to Burns, the event also featured a panel of four women who also spoke about their “unSpoken Strengths.” Burns said her strengths included her roots, relationships, core beliefs, respect and faith. She said it was her roots in having strong matriarchs to look up to and encourage her that led to her moving ahead with her plans to become a nurse. Along with her roots, relationships played a large part in Burns’s success. When she first decided to get her doctorate’s at Gonzaga, her professor went throughout the class, took the student’s hands in hers, looked them in the eye, invited them, welcomed them and told them what an important role they would play in the class. “Thank God I had that experience my first night of class,” she said. “I have a funny feeling, had I not had that, there would not have been a second class.” As Burns began to develop her leadership skills and problem solving as an administrator at NIC, she said it was
But it was her faith, that Burns said was her core beliefs such as ethics and integrity her greatest unspoken, yet perhaps most that she would fall back on when encounobvious strength. She gathers strength tering difficult situations. from her faith in God to be able “When I get into those to handle situations with her chilplaces, I need to always dren, crucial conversations or be able to look back on, to tough meetings. look internally, into what “I know that I need extra is most important as I’m help and if I don’t get it from a addressing situations,” stronger source, I know that I’m she said. “And what is probably not going to be able to most important to me is get through that situation; so I that I address everything call upon that stronger strength.” from a very ethical stand Burns said. “And I would urge point and that I maintain you to figure out what that stronnot only my personal inLita Burns ger strength for you. It might be tegrity, but that I maintain NIC Vice your body, it might be your best the integrity of the instituPresident for friend, it might be your spouse, it tion and those people that Instruction might be your significant other. I represent.” But make sure that you call upon And in these difficult it.” situations, Burns said that A panel of four speakers supplemented respect, another of her unspoken strengths Burns’ speech with their own unspoken instilled in her by her father, is crucial to strengths, but from varying backgrounds communication, especially when she holds and perspectives. an opposing opinion. The panelists were Christine Johnson, “I think about what language I’m going chancellor of Community Colleges of Spoto use to convey respect for whoever it is kane, I”m talking to,” she said.
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Left: Betsy Conery chooses from a buffet of food that was offered during the event. Right: Audience members socialize before the dialogue began. Michelle Mills/Sentinel
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