1. U of I First Destination Initiative Introduction for IlliAAC Advisors November 12, 2015 Julia Panke Makela Associate Director for Assessment & Research, The Career Center

2. What is the First Destination Initiative?  A response to demands for information on where U of I students go after graduation  Considerable pressure to know from many sources…  Parents and families  Current and prospective students  State and federal government  Accrediting boards  Yes, another survey… but not just that  Also an opportunity to condense surveys across campus, and  A way to “tell the Illinois Story”  A career exploration tool for students + a data resource for faculty, staff, and administration Presidents and alumni Grant funding agencies And more!

3. What are the Main Components?  Survey for all bachelor’s degree graduates  as well as a few participating graduate degree programs  Annual reports for the University and individual Colleges  Career exploration data portal for current and prospective students  To answer the question: “what have graduates before me done with their Illinois degree?”  Custom queries can be run, returning aggregated results where at least 20 graduate responses are available  Faculty, Staff, and Administrator data portal  To assist with accreditation, program review, and continuous improvement data inquiries  Custom queries can be run, returning aggregated results where at least 20 graduate responses are available  Full IRB approval for the initiative, and future connections to national benchmarks

4. What does the First Destination Survey Look Like?  Four main components  Contact information  First destination  Contributions of experiential learning (online version only)  Invitation to stay in touch with career services and alumni affairs (See the paper version handout.)

5. How does the First Destination Survey Work?  First contact is “At Graduation” (actually, shortly before)  Via email approximately 3 weeks prior to graduation  With additional opportunities to fill the survey out  during class time in SOME capstone courses, and  at cap and gown pick-up  Paper surveys are used as a backup when technology not available or students not on our list of graduates with survey accounts  Opportunities to update responses via email invitations at:  3 months post-graduation  6 months post-graduation  12 months post-graduation  Participation incentives raffled at each data collection time, such as:  $25, $50, $75, and $100 Visa Gift or Amazon cards  Variety of Starbucks gift cards  Diploma frame (at May graduation)  I-Pad Air (at 12 month invitation)

6. What might a Data Portal do?  The idea: provide instant access to custom queries of the first destination data set at appropriate levels of detail.  Career Exploration Portal: Students and their families will be able to use the data set as a career development tool, entering search criteria to learn what outcomes U of I graduates have achieved following their degrees.  Admin Reporting Portal: Faculty, staff, and administrators will be able to search the data at greater detail to gather de-identified statistics for reporting needs and to consider outcomes of their programs.  We only know of three similar systems that are open to the public:  University of Texas System (SeekUT): http://www.utsystem.edu/seekut/Terms.htmhttp://www.utsystem.edu/seekut/Terms.htm  Purdue University: https://www.cco.purdue.edu/data/https://www.cco.purdue.edu/data/  American University: http://www.american.edu/weknowsuccess/http://www.american.edu/weknowsuccess/

7. Types of Data in the First Destination Data Set

8. Some Very Preliminary Data for May 2015 Undergraduate Degree Graduates 3-Months Post-Graduation

9. Current Response Rates Graduating Class Number of Graduates Number of Respondents Response Rate August 2014 59721636% December 2014 1,09564058% May 2015 5,8724,09770% Total 7,5644,95365% Graduating Class Number of Graduates Number of Respondents Response Rate August 2015 565 23341% December 2015 1,384* Emails sent Tuesday, November 10, 2016 May 2016 Total * Based on initial “pre-graduation” expected graduates list. Actual graduates will be confirmed 8 weeks after graduation.

10. Primary Destinations (Categories Planned for the U of I Annual Report) Primary Status Number of Respondents Percent of Respondents Percent Secured First Destination Employed 213250% 76% Continuing education 108626% Volunteer / service 18<1% Seeking employment 62915% Seeking education 2746% Other 1153%  As we designed the annual reports, we decided to condense the survey categories. Otherwise the pages, tables, and graphs look cluttered and unwieldy for a broad, external audience. Data portals will still allow faculty and staff to access information at the finer level of detail.  Only two status categories contain combined scales. Employed contains: “working full-time,” “working part-time,” and “military service.” Other includes “not seeking,” “I’d rather not answer,” and “no response to question.” Other than “working full-time” percentages the number of responses in these other options tends to be small. This is the case across the data set for all Colleges and Departments that we have tested. We will continue to monitor this.

11. Primary Destinations Selected 76% of graduates report securing a first destination at 3-months post-graduation

12. Sample Employers of May 2015 Graduates Abbott Laboratories Accenture Aerotek AIG Allstate Aon Hewitt Boeing Capital One Cargill, Inc. Carle Hospital Caterpillar. Inc. Citgo Petroleum Corporation Deloitte Earn & Young Enterprise Epic Systems ExxonMobil Facebook Northwestern University PepsiCo Pinnacle AIS PricewaterhouseCoopers Protiviti Consulting PWC Sandia National Laboratories Sage Environmental Consulting Scribe America Shell State Farm Teach for America The Hartford University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign West Monroe Partners Yahoo Yelp …. (and many more) … FBI General Electric General Mills Google Honeywell Huron Consulting IBM Illinois Student Assistance Commission Indeed.com Intel Corporation JP Morgan Chase Kohl’s Corporation KPMG Meijer Microsoft Corporation Mu Sigma Inc. NASA Nestle

13. Initial Salary Analysis for Full-Time Employed May 2015 Undergraduate Degree Graduates Number of Full-Time Employed Graduates Full-Time Employed Graduates Reporting Salary Mean Salary Lower Quartile (25%) Median Salary (50%) Upper Quartile (75%) 1,8951,440 (76%) $56,942$44,000$58,000$66,000 Note: Salary calculations exclude outliers two or more standard deviations away from the mean. Also, to date, 565 graduates working full-time reported receiving signing bonuses, averaging $5,408 (median = $5,000).

14. Graduate School Acceptances – May 2015 Grads Adler University Bradley University Brown University Boston University Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University DePaul Duke University Eastern Illinois University Florida State University Georgetown University Harvard University Illinois State University Indiana University Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Loyola University Chicago Marquette University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Midwestern University New York University Northern Illinois University Oregon State University Rush University Stanford University UC Berkeley UC, Los Angeles (UCLA) UC, San Diego (UCSD) University of Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Iowa University of Michigan University of Missouri University of Pennsylvania University of Texas at Austin University of Washington University of Wisconsin- Madison Vanderbilt University Washington University at St. Louis …. (and many more) …

15. Graduate School Areas of Study- May 2015 Grads More than 150 Graduates Engineering Health professions Business, management, marketing, and related support services 65 Graduates Biological and biomedical sciences 33-36 Graduates Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences Psychology Physical sciences Social sciences 20-29 Graduates Mathematics and statistics Architecture and related services Education Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities Health-related knowledge and skills 10-17 Graduates Computer and information sciences and support services Engineering technologies and engineering- related fields Communication, journalism, and related programs

16. Involvement in Experiential Learning Type of Experiential Learning Percent of Respondents Percent Indicating Experience Led to Post Graduation Employment Internships 57%36% Assistantships (teaching, research, etc.) 21%8% Study abroad/away with internship or practicum component 17%3% Service learning or other academic volunteering 15%5% Field experiences / practicums 13%10% Clinical experiences 10% Student teaching 8%5% Co-ops 2%27% No, I did not complete any of the above 11% I’d rather not answer 5%  84% of graduates indicated some type of experiential learning during their degree programs.  Internships and co-ops were highlighted most often as leading to post-graduate employment.

17. Staying in Touch  The survey asks graduates if they would like to “stay in touch with Career Services and Alumni Relations offices at the University of Illinois…”  To date, 65% of respondents have replied “Yes” and provided contact information

18. Finally, a Preview of Our New Look!

19. Core TaglineTailored TaglineExample Resource Individual achievements. Global Impact.Experience our points of pride.Annual report Share your story.Survey requests Get to know our grads.Success stories Discover their journeys.Faculty/admin portal

20. Annual Report Templates are currently in Development…

21. U of I First Destination Initiative Please stay in touch – There is much more to come from this initiative! For additional information, visit: www.careercenter.illinois.edu/research/ firstdestination www.careercenter.illinois.edu/research/ firstdestination Or contact Julia Panke Makela at jpmakela@illinois.edu jpmakela@illinois.edu

22. Primary Post-Graduation Destinations Selected 76% of graduates indicated that they have secured a first destination at graduation Primary Status Number of Respondents Percent of Respondents Percent Secured First Destination Working full-time 189545% 76 % Working part-time 2105% Engaged in military service 271% Engaged in volunteer service 180.4% Enrolling in additional education (accepted) 108626% Seeking additional education (not accepted yet) 2746% Unemployed and seeking employment 62915% Unemployed and not seeking employment 180.4% I'd rather not answer 972%