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Career Services

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Matthew Hora’s piece in IHE this week about career readiness is well worth the read. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. So, in that spirit, here goes.

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5 career services to support your professional and adult learners

EAB

Blogs 5 career services to support your professional and adult learners Build these services to aid your current students and stand out to prospects Career services are going to be especially important to your graduate and adult students in 2024.

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As part of this new service, my colleague, Robert Chmielewski, and I have been working on a staff training workshop in the area of blogging for teaching and learning. In preparation, we chatted to a variety of our academic colleagues who are already using great blogs with their students to find out a bit about what they do.

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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. -->.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. We also run an events listing page.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Dr Kay Williams, Study Development Advisor at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), explains the value of working with students as consultants to create the new Study Hub brand, and the Study Hub blog , which offer learning resources for students… How do you solve a problem with learning materials? What do you get?

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. The blogs give enlightening insights into the attachments as they unfold and develop. The blogs are an effective way of recording and reflecting on the challenges, insights and innovations students encounter.