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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women comprise the majority of English majors – they earned nearly 69% of all English bachelor’s degrees in 2014 – but are generally paid less, according to the report. It is also valuable to get input from people outside of academia, such as from career services centers, about employment trends, the report noted. “[The

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. Back in 2014, the number of women deans was just one.

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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Importantly, it might be that a student reading this piece might need to explore a bit further the array of EDOs at the university and beyond during their studies… Next steps: Find out how the Careers Service can help students find employability development opportunities What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It wasn’t something that was ever taken lightly,” Rasmussen said in an email, recalling a “lengthy” and “deliberative” decision-making process while he served on the board from 2014 to 2018. But doing so might pose new questions for a college that mostly admits students directly from high school.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Working with colleagues from across the Business School and the Careers Service, we have been able to shape a version of the Edinburgh Award in Professional Development targeted at our second year students.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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