UNH Career and Internship Fair spring 2017
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and Career and Professional Success (CaPS) invite faculty members to the workshop “The Classroom Connection to Student Career and Professional Success: UNH’s 2016 First Destination Survey Results and Inspiring Lifelong Learners to Pursue Successful Careers.” The workshop takes place March 21, 2017, 12:30 – 2 p.m. in the MUB, room 156. Registration is requested.
Faculty partnerships are critical to preparing students for successful lives and careers post-UNH. The knowledge and skills taught in the classroom — critical thinking, oral/written communication, teamwork/collaboration and others — are the same career readiness competencies employers look for in new graduates.
The workshop is being presented as part of CETL’s spring series. The session will include discussion of how CaPS and faculty can work together to build an innovative partnership model that integrates career preparedness across the UNH community.
Presenters: Trudy Van Zee, Associate Provost for Career and Professional Success (CaPS); Raul Bernal, Director, COLA CaPS; Lori Dameron, Director, COLSA CaPS; Lauren Haley, Director, CHHS CaPS
Abstract: The mission of Career and Professional Success is to imbue career preparedness across the entire UNH community to equip our students with the experiences, knowledge, and skills to thrive in an ever-changing future. We cannot be successful in achieving our mission without faculty partnerships.
In this workshop we will explore how to build an innovative CaPS and faculty partnership model. We will discuss the classroom experience and the critical role it plays in preparing students with the career skills and personal characteristics required for success in both searching for jobs and in the workforce. The session will examine opportunities to integrate career preparation activities alongside and in support of the traditional components of a classic liberal education. This approach helps to prepare students to apply knowledge to real-world settings and illustrates how skills learned in the classroom — persistence, self-direction, risk-taking, tolerance of ambiguity, critical thinking, listening, and more — inspire students to be lifelong learners pursuing successful careers.
Attendees will hear an update on the Career and Professional Success initiative and will have the opportunity to provide suggestions to CaPS staff about successful faculty partnership models.
Questions? Contact Catherine.Overson@unh.edu or Raul.Bernal@unh.edu.
