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Study: Women in STEM Receive More Job Offers Than Men After Career Services Use

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women pursuing careers in technical fields can benefit from campus career services, according to a joint study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and Cornell Tech initiative Break Through Tech. Judith Spitz, founder and executive director of Break Through Tech.

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How Career Services Can Support Student Mental Health

Symplicity

The Healthy Minds network released a study in 2022 which found that in the last eight years, the mental health of college students has steadily declined with 135percent increase in depression and 110% increase in anxiety from 2013-2021. The challenges of the “real world” will only heighten as students graduate and move onto careers.

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How to Move Latinx Students into High-Paying Jobs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

population is Latinx, and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Latinx workers made up 66% of the workforce in 2021. So, we took a proactive approach and invested in career services. Between 2010 and 2020, Latinx people accounted for over 50% of the U.S. population growth. Currently, one fifth of the U.S.

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New Report Examines Employers’ Understanding of Equity in Recruiting

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, done in partnership with the Center for the Study of Historically Black Colleges & Universities at Virginia Union University, is based on interviews with senior recruiters and leaders from 17 employers done between 2021-2022. It found that companies are experiencing some critical barriers to equity in recruiting.

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Perspectives on international student transitions: Part 1

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Gale and Porter (2021) for example, advocate a model of student transition that goes beyond induction or development to a process of becoming, seeing students as partners in an ongoing process of change and identify formation. At the Careers Service, Ive also noticed that some international students engage less with available support.

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

EAB

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. -->. November 11, 2021.

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Data disaggregation reveals gaps in students served

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Data is driving 100 percent of the decisions we’re making, and it’s really opening up our eyes to gaps that we didn’t know … existed,” says Sean Schofield, executive director of career services at Muhlenberg. What happened: When Schofield began in his role in May 2021, he first turned to the data.