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An ambitious student, Vlad Cazacu \u201920 was determined to make his mark when he arrived at the University in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow will I stand out?\u201d the Bucharest, Romania, native wondered. \u201cHow will I make the most of my time here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Those questions were answered last June, when the business and psychology dual major attended the Next Gen Summit in New York City. One of the speakers was Eric Koester, a Georgetown University entrepreneurship professor and founder of the Creator Institute, which has guided hundreds of students through the process of authoring a book on a topic they\u2019re passionate about.<\/p>\n

\u201cEric\u2019s speech was about building credibility,\u201d Cazacu says. \u201cAre resumes, cover letters, and even graduate degrees enough to build credibility in the workplace? Eric said, \u2018maybe not\u2014but authoring a book is\u2019. That got me excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cazacu pitched the idea of starting a similar program at Rochester to Barbara J. Burger iZone director Julia Maddox and Mary Ann Mavrinac, vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries. They were on board, and Rochester Creators was born. The inaugural 21-person cohort<\/a> includes students from every current class year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe skills you learn, from interviewing to researching, writing, and editing are what makes this journey formidable.\u201d<\/div>\n

\u201cSince Classical times, libraries have been centers of idea exploration, innovation, and knowledge creation,\u201d Mavrinac says. \u201cRochester Creators is a 21st<\/sup> century expression of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rochester Creators is a collaboration between the iZone,<\/a> River Campus Libraries<\/a>, and the Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections<\/a>. The cohort meets weekly to watch videos, listen to lectures from Koester, and take part in writing exercises. Each student works virtually with an assigned developmental editor at the Creator Institute<\/a> who has some expertise in the topic the student is pursuing. The students will craft a manuscript (minimum 20,000 words) by June, followed by months of revisions and designing book covers, with New Degree Press\u2014a partner of Creator Institute\u2014publishing the books in November.<\/p>\n

Cazacu says the true reward is the confidence and network students build as they gain knowledge from experts while researching a topic that interests them. \u201cThe book writing is 110 percent about the process,\u201d he says. \u201cThe skills you learn, from interviewing to researching, writing, and editing are what makes this journey formidable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cazacu\u2019s says he \u201cquadrupled\u201d his network while researching his book, When They Win, You Win: A More Human Approach to Supporting Entrepreneurship, <\/em>which will be published in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of six months, I talked with 65 experts,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to gain the confidence that you can reach out to very important people, and the takeaway is that you\u2019re always learning and developing your knowledge base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cazacu oversees Rochester Creators with iZone community manager Grant Dever \u201916, \u201917 (T5), who is writing a book on blockchain technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cRochester Creators is meant to accelerate students\u2019 careers by helping them to create credibility through authorship,\u201d says Dever, a former Students\u2019 Association president at the College. \u201cThey leverage interviews of esteemed experts, like our faculty, to establish their own credibility in the field. The skillset of networking, interviewing, and writing stories increases students\u2019 confidence and provides advantages regardless of their future plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students come from seven nations and major in 17 different subjects. Their book topics are just as varied. Dax Emerson \u2018\u201921 is writing about the sociopolitical issues the Sentinelese tribe faces in relation to the Indian government. Edgar Jing Kok Yau \u201920 is researching how young men learn the language of hate through social media. Dominique Dorvil \u201921 chose self help and motivation as her topic \u201cbecause I need the advice and thought others would, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is passionate about something,\u201d Cazacu says. \u201cThis is just the beginning of the learning endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dever said iZone plans to run this program every spring semester, with hopes of it eventually becoming a full-credit course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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