Published: Dec. 18, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 8:30

Career Services (5 people)

Intro by Jeff Cox

  • Intro on teaching and reaching visioning
  • Laying out of fall work
  • Role of Committee and Report

Comment:  We need to attend to student wellbeing

Comment:  Any campus core needs to address career needs.

Comment:  An opportunity for freshman exploration is needed.

Comment:  Employers to not want highly specialized people.  They want students with good writing and communication skills.

Comment:  We should read out to recent alums.  What do they now think they missed here?

Q:  Are we reaching out to employers?

  1.  We have not and welcome suggestions on how to do that.

Comment:  We need to strengthen career development by embedding it in everything the students do.

Comment.  We need more experiential learning—internships, study abroad, research opportunities.

Comment:  We need measures of the community impact of our students—through internships, volunteering and so on.