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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

In 2012, I signed up for a professional development workshop and discovered my Top 5 CliftonStrengths are Communication , Woo , Consistency , Discipline , and Includer. Donald Clifton’s decades of research rooted in positive psychology led to the creation of the CS assessment. Liana presenting a workshop to students. “My

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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.

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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The first phase of the primary research involved a series of focus groups held with students (drawn largely from Edinburgh College of Art), supplemented by contextual interviews with relevant professionals and key university staff. Goal setting exercise with short, medium and longer term aims to foster a greater sense of agency and purpose.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Compounded by the wider pressures facing Gen Z, these curricula developments have given urgency to the need for update links between ECA/Music and the University Careers Service , and also to generate new networks and resources that can better serve both students and academic staff.

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Leadership program offers support for underprivileged students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

During winter term, scholars participate in the winter workshop series including a half-day business acumen training, which covers résumé building, LinkedIn profile creation, interviewing skills and professional body language. The next fall quarter, at the start of senior year, SAGE students take another four-credit course.

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Me in the Future (MIT Future): Fall 2024 events series for first years

CAPD

MIT Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) is your hub for all things career, from thinking big-picture about your life goals and career path to researching internships and preparing for interviews. MIT’s Career Advising & Professional Development office (CAPD) is the hub for all of that.

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Faculty Job Search Series & more graduate careers and professional development updates

CAPD

The program brings together expertise from around the Institute via broad overview sessions, faculty panels, deep dives, and hands-on-workshops aligned with the timeline of the faculty job search cycle. What to expect The FJSS hits its high season in the summer in preparation for the start of the academic hiring cycle in the fall.