1. Evaluating Your Career Center: 10 Ways to Recognize if Your Career Center is “Working”
Will Simpkins, Ed.D.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Monday, March 5, Convention Center, ROOM 124
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2. ABOUT WILL… 8 Years as Career Center Director
15 Years Career Services Experience, Public & Private
Former President, Career Services Association of CUNY
External Reviewer for Career Centers
Student Affairs Generalist
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3. WHAT’S AT STAKE? Institutional Accreditation
Admissions & Enrollment Targets
State & Federal Policy
College Transparency Act
White House Scorecard
NY State Experiential Learning Mandate
Alumni & Donor Cultivation
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4. WHAT IS THE MISSION OF YOUR CAREER CENTER?
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5. WHAT DO CAREER CENTER STAFF SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME DOING?
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6. WHAT DATA DOES THE CAREER CENTER REPORT OUT?
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7. WHAT IS THE CAREER CENTER’S LIVED MISSION?
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8. ERAS OF CAREER SERVICES
Placement
Job Matching (Strong Interest Inventory, GI Bill, Baby Boomers)
Notecards, Binders, and OCR, oh my!
Development
Counseling (One-on-One Services, Advisement)
Computers, Gen X, and a Booming Economy
Engagement
Education (Experiential Learning)
Virtually Millennial & the “Me” Generations
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9. STUDENT CENTERED vs. EMPLOYER DRIVEN
Career Center staff know and utilize scholarship on student development and student engagement.
Career Center foundational documents and staff cultivate programs, policies, and procedures based in social justice and inclusion.
Career Center meets students where they are rather than expecting students to be consumers of services.
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10. STUDENT CENTERED vs. EMPLOYER DRIVEN
What are ways that your Career Center demonstrates student-centered practice?
What are areas where the Career Center might fail?
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11. CONNECTED vs. CENTRALIZED
Career Center works hand-in-hand with faculty and academic programs.
Employers are engaged throughout the institution – not just through the Career Center.
Career Center is known as a willing and good campus partner.
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12. CONNECTED vs. CENTRALIZED
What evidence can you provide to demonstrate that the Career Center is well-connected on campus?
Where could those connections be stronger?
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13. ASSESSMENT vs. EVALUATION
Career Center is concerned with scale.
Career Center uses direct measures of assessing student learning.
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14. ASSESSMENT vs. EVALUATION
What data have you seen from the Career Center? Does it include direct student learning assessment?
How is this data used to inform institutional practices?
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15. LEADER vs. MANAGER
Career Center Director is passionate about technology and has opinions about what works for their students.
Career Center Director is known as a campus leader or “coach” in all things career planning-related.
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16. LEADER vs. MANAGER
Does the Career Center critically embrace new technology?
What is the reputation of the Career Center director?
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17. QUESTIONS? ACTIONS TO TAKE CAS Review External Review (Cost)
Strategic Planning Process
Student Focus Groups
Faculty Focus Groups
QUESTIONS?
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18. Thank you for joining us today!
Please remember to complete your online evaluation following the conference.
See you in Los Angeles in 2019!