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Key Steps to Implementing A Career Development Course At Your Institution
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June 21st, 2022| 2:00 p.m. EST - 3:15 p.m. EST | $395
Learn from experts at 2 institutions how to build an evidence-based career development course for students on your campus.
Why This Topic Matters
As of this year, universities in Florida must ensure that each student has access to career planning resources (SB 86). Why?
According to the Institute of Education Sciences (2017), approximately 33% of bachelor degree students change majors at least once before graduation. And, upwards of 50% of students are exploratory majors (Nelson, Martin, and Cunningham, 2012).These statistics help explain why career advising and career development are increasingly prevalent topics in policy and student success conversations.
Yet, too often, we don’t see evidence-based career development integrated into the student academic experience on campuses--as a required or optional course, as part of the advising curriculum or within academic courses. As key stakeholders in preparing students for their futures, academic leaders need to understand how to build a career exploration curriculum for college students.
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Who Should Attend?
This program is ideal for college professionals particularly in the areas of career services and academic advising who are looking to develop or improve a career development course to better serve students’ needs, including:
Vice Presidents, Deans and Provosts
Directors of Academic Advising
Directors of Career Services
Directors and Instructors of First Year Experience Courses
Director and Coordinators of Transfer Student Success
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Overview
In this webinar, our expert speakers will provide perspective from two institutions—public and private. The speakers will begin by discussing their institutions’ models for career development courses. Both University of Hawaii – Manoa and Aquinas College have multiple career development courses that support students throughout their college experience.
You will then learn how to build a career development course, beginning with advocating for the course to developing a course curriculum based on research-based best practices. The speakers will focus on building an introductory career development course—ideal for students who are undecided about their majors and first-year students. You will gain an understanding of a basic career development model as well as career assessments, research, and planning tools that comprise a foundational career development course for college students.
Brief overview of each institution’s career development course model
The case for a career development class for first-year and other college students
Campus partnerships that will help you create a successful course
Best practices in providing career development curriculum to students
Key elements of an effective career development course
Assessing your course and promoting successes
Institutional challenges to anticipate and ideas to overcome them
Pricing and Webinar Connection Information
Live Webinar Site Connection and On-Demand Recording $395
Includes:
5 connections for staff members from your institution with each registration (only during the health crisis)
Connection information sent one week prior to the event and again the day before the event. Any questions can be emailed to the program contact at the bottom of this web page.
An electronic link containing a recording of the webinar and resources emailed to you within 7 business days following the live webinar date (active for 30 days). The link can be shared with your entire staff to view the recording.
Follow-up resources and assignments to help you implement your learning.
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Instructors
Dana Hebreard, Director of Career Services, Aquinas College
As an innovative leader, Dana has expertise in career counseling, academic advising, program planning, and learning management. She is highly skilled in assisting student and alumni with student affairs and a dept at collaborating with students, team members, and external resources utilizing effective communication strategies. She holds certified career coaching skills and job transition coaching, Career Development Network.
Through campus involvement as an college student, she found her passion for student development and completed her masters in college student affairs and leadership at Loyola University Chicago. She came to Grand Rapids in the late 90s to serve as the director of student activities at Aquinas College.
A lifelong learner, she continued her education at Western Michigan University earning a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership in 2011. Most recently, she was a career counselor and director of academic advising at another local institution. She teaches a Career Development class designed for upper-class students and also advises both students and alumni on resumes, cover letter writing, job search strategies, interviewing skills, and other areas related to career exploration and development. Dana also works with individual employers and a number of college consortiums, to develop recruitment strategies and to help broaden the scope of employment opportunities for Aquinas students. She is an active member of the advising communities in the National Association of Academic Advising and also attends NACE and AHRM events to continuous learn how to better serve AQ students.Dana strives every day to be actionable and accountable through timely, accurate, and intentional career coaching and to pursue her passions and purpose to live a life overflowing with peace and joy.
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Matt Eng, M.Ed., Academic Advisor, Mānoa Advising Center, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Matt’s department specializes in assisting exploratory (undeclared) students find and declare their major. He has background in both academic advising and career development at the collegiate level and has designed three academic courses for major and career exploration. Matt currently sits on the General Education Committee for the UH Mānoa campus as specialist faculty. He has written and presented on the topic nationally and internationally. He is the past chair of the NACADA Career Advising Community.
Questions about the program?
Please email Lisa at info@eduology.org.