Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison.

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Symplicity

MARCH 24, 2023

Higher education career services are facing unprecedented challenges in today's rapidly changing job market. As the economy continues to shift towards automation, globalization, and digitalization, traditional career paths are disappearing, and new fields are emerging.

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Symplicity

APRIL 12, 2023

Since the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted more traditional means of engaging students, career services staffs have had to adapt. No matter the size of an institution, nor one’s resources, vying for students’ attention is always a challenge. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from our conversation.

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Symplicity

AUGUST 16, 2023

College students with disabilities face unique challenges when it comes to finding employment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Lakeland Community College board members voted recently for the unexpected 66-employee cut – part-and full-time workers, janitors, career services specialists, IT techs, groundskeepers, and others – which will take effect Jan. And some of those who will be cut will not receive benefit packages.

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Symplicity

APRIL 28, 2023

According to the World Bank , one billion people, or 15percent of the world's population, experience some form of disability, and persons with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as less education, poorer health outcomes, lower levels of employment, and higher poverty rates.

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Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Symplicity CSM is constantly innovating based on the career services needs of our university partners. Check out the latest updates to help provide your student job seekers more opportunities and career preparation tools than ever before.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Big Ambitions, Small Teams Sarah Bray Mon, 10/02/2023 - 03:00 AM Roshni Rao explores the challenges of scaling career services to meet the needs of thousands of grad students with diverse backgrounds, disciplines and career aspirations. Byline(s) Roshni Rao

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Lakeland Community College board members voted recently for the unexpected 66-employee cut – part-and full-time workers, janitors, career services specialists, IT techs, groundskeepers, and others – which will take effect Jan. And some of those who will be cut will not receive benefit packages.

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CAPD

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One of the study’s key findings is the impact college career services can have in leveling the playing field for women in general and in particular, for women pursuing tech careers. Read the full report

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

The proposed regulations also include changes to financial protection for ED, career services and financial aid information requirements for colleges, and federal aid access for students. The proposals will be published in the Federal Register May 19, and open to public comment for 30 days.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Exclusive: one university cites the industry as a ‘fundamental barrier to a more just and sustainable world’ Three more UK universities have banned fossil fuel companies from recruiting students through their career services, with one citing the industry as a “fundamental barrier to a more just and sustainable world”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Previous gifts from the Marsal family have established new career services for education graduates, provided scholarships for future teachers, and supported professional training of teachers, UM officials said. Kathleen is a UM School of Education alumna and has served on the school’s Dean’s Advisory Council for over 10 years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2022 Student Survey found that graduating seniors who used career center services received more job offers on average, compared to their peers who did not. Create career services champions across campus. Translate coursework into career preparation.

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Symplicity

JUNE 29, 2023

If you, like me, are a career services professional just making your way through this crazy, high-tech world to stay connected to your students, Application Programming Interface (or API) probably doesn’t mean much to you!

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Career Services 77

Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability.

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EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

Large or small, public or private, almost all VPSAs manage between six and seven direct reports, almost always including the director of career services. Most student affairs divisions now own career services. of institutions today have career services reporting to VPSAs. -->.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careers services for young people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The report’s authors also suggested investing in career service departments and training staff for matters such as cultural competency and certification process knowledge. -style resume and how do I best position my international experience and credentials so that they'll be recognized and valued within the U.S. job search?"

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 6, 2023

As institutions place more focus on guiding students toward the best possible postgraduation outcomes, career services offices are getting extra funding and attention, data show.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

It can be frustrating to dedicate time, money, and effort to career services in higher education and see headlines like “ Colleges get F for career prep ” go mainstream. . And yet, the current approach to career services is lacking in impact. Ready to boost the career services support you’re providing to students?

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Symplicity

JUNE 22, 2023

Symplicity is excited to announce the launch of Community for CSM, a place where our CSM clients can interact and learn directly with one another about Symplicity CSM and career services work more generally.

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Career Services 60

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

In partnership with the Career Services and Cooperative Education Office, RIT students can explore their motivations to learn and work, as well as plan for a future of values-based living. Career counselor Chris O’Connor focuses on connecting students’ values to their career goals, he says.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. […]

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond.

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University Business

APRIL 17, 2023

Equally important is creating a supportive campus environment with resources for student success including campus engagement, tutoring, mentor programs, career services and physical and mental health services. Nearly 70% of students surveyed indicated that their career outlook and career options are very important to them.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities. Last year, Advance HE conducted a thorough […].

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Fine-tuning: The workshops are a collaboration between departments, including career services, the Academic Support Center, financial aid and student success. In January 2022, 2,155 students participated in the workshops (with 98 percent reporting they were helpful), and 1,772 students participated this past January.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before […]. In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The first half of my career was spent in Alumni Relations, and then I spent the last 7 in Career Services. I also really enjoyed the opportunities I had over those years to attend Symposium and interact with staff and other career services offices around the country.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

To tally the ROI ratings, researchers analyzed school-reported data on academics, cost/financial aid, career services, student debt and graduation rates. These institutions have earned the company’s highest return-on-investment rating. Read more from Think Advisor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

With efforts like these gathering steam across the postsecondary landscape, it looks like higher education is in the midst of a mission shift that positions career readiness as a strategic, campuswide priority. This may be one reason why only 16 percent of students reported that visits to career services were very helpful.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

Because of historic underfunding, career services centers at HBCUs and PWIs are often staffed by a single person juggling many responsibilities. Gasman thinks that things are changing, however, and echoed the report’s recommendation that corporations look to build relationships with Black colleges.

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Symplicity

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In its annual Job Outlook Report, the National Association of Careers and Employers (NACE) (available to NACE members) has some interesting insights for recruiters and career services staff to be mindful of as we begin to make plans for 2023. Here are some takeaways for those in the "too long didn't read" (TLDR) camp.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Along with the report, EAB offers recommendations for universities and colleges on how to better recruit and address the concerns that families are facing when deciding on attending college.

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