National Association of Colleges and Employers
At William & Mary, the Office of Career Development & Professional Engagement (Career Development) has a unique collaboration with our Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI) to co-design a self-paced course for faculty to better understand the importance of career readiness and how to increase elements of competencies into their course design. What started as a series of successful collaborations with faculty has become a collaborative, scalable approach to guiding faculty looking for career readiness support for their students.
Career Readiness in Higher Education provides a self-guided resource for faculty through three modules: They review their current course designs, explore examples of career readiness integration in the academic experience, and work through a scaffolded framework for incorporating and deepening elements of career readiness into their courses. This program takes competency integration to the next level since it is co-owned by an academic unit focused on faculty development.
In addition to faculty-career collaborations, we were inspired to create this course to support faculty preparation in career readiness since the combined report from AAC&U, NACE, and the Society for Experiential Education that stated, “An overwhelming majority (92%) of faculty reported that students in their disciplinary area asked them for career advice in the past year.” After a series of student-led design thinking exercises around career readiness, Tribe Innovation, a student organization, reported, “students are advocating for the integration of NACE competencies into their academic curriculum to make them relevant and impactful.”
This session will be co-presented by the Director of Career Readiness Pathways and the Digital & Professional Learning Program Manager from STLI. We will walk the participants through the design and pilot phases of the course, engaging the audience in group design-thinking brainstorming exercises to help them uncover opportunities for implementation in their own organizations. Attendees of this session will explore examples of resources provided to faculty, including sample assignments and collaboration strategies. We will break down the assignment ranges from smallest to largest lift for a faculty member and the level of support provided for each assignment type. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to connect with each other to review materials and work through some of the sample exercises. After this session, participants will have the resources to begin or expand their own support for faculty ranging from a single workshop on explicit career readiness integration to an outline of a course for their own campuses.
We will then share how we promoted the program to faculty to build out the pilot review and expand the engagement from faculty across all academic departments. Participants will identify similar or new opportunities to connect with faculty on their own campuses. Additionally, this session will address the evolution of the partnership between our departments and how this mutually beneficial collaboration creates a stronger product. STLI inspires and advances teaching and learning across the university through community and collaboration at the intersection of learning, discovery, and innovation. We have paired their expertise in course design, faculty development, and student engagement with our experience connecting faculty with career readiness tools and content relevant to their various courses. Together, we created a resource far more useful than either of us could on our own housed on Academy, an online learning platform for continuing and professional learning opportunities.
Following this program, you will be able to:
Visit the professional development FAQ page, or contact the NACE Professional Development Team via e-mail or phone, 610.625.1026.
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