Driving Campus Innovation: remaking career services
Presentation overview Institutional background/context & career services at UI Strategic integration of data to evolve career services effectiveness Improving student service & engagement through utilization of data Evolving nature of career services
High-research land-grant institution founded in 1889 Branch campuses (4), a research park & a multitude of extension offices statewide. UI operates 8 colleges with more than 80 masters program Serves over 12,000 undergraduate & graduate students UI & Career Services: Structure and philosophy
How do we utilize marketplace data to guide career services? Framing career services strategic effectiveness Identification of meaningful data sources & points. Academic principled research Data driven goal establishment & programming
How to we Improve student service & engagement? Service, Engagement & Opportunities Market Trends Executive Leadership & Faculty Employers & Org. Students Incorporation of real time data and predictive analytics to demonstrate and inform opportunities for students, employers and university. Engagement: Go to where the students are: philosophy & structure. Engagement of students (and others) in constructed understanding of services and opportunities. Create structure to the concept “career readiness” and what is looks like institutionally.
Evolving nature of career services Creating a healthy data ecosystem Articulating the value and relevance of career services Integration of internal and external partnerships Utilization of sliceable data
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