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The Future of Career Services:Creating Communities & Connecting with Sophomore Students
Presented by: Makesha H. Dockery | Georgia State UniversityCoordinator, Cooperative Education and Internships
Internships
Networking
Mentorship
Co-ops
Overview of Georgia State University
Future of Career Service Centers
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In the beginning….
Student Career Development
Researched
Trends in Higher
Education
What are Other
Institutions doing
Information about the
sophomore student
experience(SYE)
What Georgia
State University was doing
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The Sophomore Year (SYE)
Pattengale’s Four Vectors for
Navigating the Sophomore Year (2000)achieving competence, developing autonomy
establishing identity, developing purpose
Literature Review, Fall 2015
Guiding Principles, 2015
Awareness Connections Engagement
Guiding Principles: The principles that are the foundation of this programming initiative are for awareness, connection and
engagement with students in their Sophomore Year. These principles are based on Pattengale's Four Vectors for Navigating
the Sophomore Year which include; achieving competence, developing autonomy, establishing identity, developing purpose.
Source: Schreiner & Pattengale, (2000). Visible Solutions for Invisible students: helping sophomores succeed
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Investigating Sophomore Student Success: NSSYI and Sophomore Experiences Survey, 2014
DISCUSS/SHARE:What do you do at your institutions?
Investigating Sophomore Student Success: At Georgia State University
Sophomore Career Connections (e-club)
Job LeadsCareer
Events1-on-1 chats
PERSONALIZED, EXCLUSIVE, CAREER COMMUNITY OR RESOURCE
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BUILD A CASE FOR THE SOPHOMORE STUDENT SUCCESS….
• Understand your students
• Increase Attendance & Access
• Measure your Impact
• Connections• Awareness
QEP: College2Career, 2017
• Demonstration
Step 1: Awareness
Step 2: Connections
Step 3: Exploration
Sophomore Career Connections (e-club)
Perimeter College
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Collected Data
Sophomore Career Connections (SCC e-club)Signature Events
Sophomore Career Connections (SCC e-club)Signature Events
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Presented Data
544
469
1013
370
461
831
74 680
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1200
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Semesters
Sophomore Appointment TrendsSpring 2016 to Spring 2019
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Freshman Senior Sophomore Junior Masters Alumni Doctorate
Student Appointment TrendsSpring 2016-Fall 2019
Fall 2019 Appointments Count Spring 2019 Appointments Count
Spring 2018 Appointment Count AY 2017 Appointment Counts
AY 2016 Appointment Counts
Sophomore Career Connections (SCC e-club)
Lessons Learned
Sophomore Career Connections (e-club)LESSONS LEARNED
#5 Evaluate & Celebrate your Accomplishments
#4 Execute Plan & Events
#3: Document Everything
#2: Develop Partnerships & Collaborations
#1: Establish a Goal: Benchmark/Baseline Target
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References
West Virginia Universityhttp://sophomorejunioryear.experience.wvu.edu/list_of_sje_programs
UT Dallashttp://www.utdallas.edu/soye/events/
Minnesota State Universityhttp://www.mnsu.edu/students/sophomores/slump.html
Young, D.G., Schreiner, L.A., & McIntosh, E.J. (2015). Investigating Sophomore Student Success: The National Survey of Sophomore-Year Initiatives and the Sophomore Experiences Survey, 2014(Research Reports No. 6). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition
University South Carolina, National Resource Centerhttp://sc.edu/fye/center/index.html
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