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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Consider the following predictions: Tomorrow’s college graduates will likely hold 20 to 30 different jobs across 8 to 10 industries (McGowan & Shipley, 2020). In the future, graduates will be rewarded for movement and agility (Cadigan, 2021), rather than stability and loyalty. How do we prepare students for these changes?

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

After years of industry-wide debate about who should ‘own’ career services, our organizational chart review revealed that about 90% of institutions today have career services reporting to VPSAs. Ten percent of surveyed institutions have also moved academic advising under the oversight of the VPSA in the last 18 months.

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How are these schools boasting such strong placement rates for students?

University Business

While NACE’s “First Destinations” 2021 report found some promising increases, several schools have bucked the national trend, averaging bachelor’s student placement rates well over 10% than average. Industry partners are hiring Penn College students for full-time positions after graduation.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting granting universities.

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How Well Do You Know Your Prospective Students?

Campus Sonar

From August 1, 2018 to July 1, 2021, 7,318 mentions from 5,445 students were collected and analyzed to see how their college-going perspectives changed from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic through the height of it. Post-pandemic shutdown (March 2020 through June 2021) the sentiment ratio shifted, with 1.1

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. In Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, the average course load for Latino students was 14.5

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Team Growth: Get to Know Kathryn and David

Campus Groups

In 2021 we welcomed 17 unique professionals to the CG team. During this time, I also worked full-time in the field supporting students through academic advising, orientation, and first-year experience programs. David: In addition to EdTech and Higher Education, I’ve worked in a wide variety of industries!

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