Implementation Model

Every CLA student develops the ten Core Competencies, but each student does it differently. RATE™ helps a student tell the story of exactly how they did it. RATE™ connects what a student experienced across their liberal arts education and helps them translate its value into any professional context. 

RATE: Reflect, Articulate, Translate, Evaluate

This explanatory video (geared toward a student audience) demonstrates RATE's purpose and how to use it.

The heart of the Career Readiness Initiative is to develop our students' awareness of what they are learning and their ability to articulate the value of what they are learning in a variety of career contexts. RATE is a digital self-assessment tool developed by CLA that helps students practice these reflective skills. RATE coaches them in how to view their course assignments and co-curricular activities as career readiness experiences by asking them to:

• Reflect on the experience
• Articulate how the experience helped them develop competencies
• Translate how those competencies are of value in professional contexts
• Evaluate their level of readiness in those competencies

Using RATE not only allows students to practice articulating their Core Competencies in a clear and compelling way but also provides a log of their career readiness experiences (along with the impact and value of these experiences) for future reference in preparing for job interviews and career networking opportunities. We have conducted a survey about RATE over five years to track the impact of RATE on students' perceptions of their liberal arts education.  

The RATE tool hosts 10 Core Competency Assessment Scales (CCAS) implemented in the E (Evaluate) step of the process. For more information about CCAS, you can download the Ten Core Competencies Assessment Scales (CCAS): Validity Evidence for Measures of Core Competencies in Liberal Arts Education paper by Koerner, Ascan F.; Anderson, Judith; McFadden, Colin; Nickodem, Kyle; Dupuis, Danielle; Abuela, Mohammed A. A. (2025) from the University Digital Conservancy. The validity study has also been published by the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) in Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning as "Development and Validity Evidence for the Liberal Arts Core Competencies Assessment Scales."

RATE as a Tool for Faculty and Instructors

In this video, CLA professors discuss how they use RATE for teaching and learning.

RATE is based on the premise that students are on a developmental path, so asking them to complete a RATE connected to an assignment, in relation to an activity in a course, or about the experience of a course as a whole can:

• Prompt students to reflect on and articulate what competencies they are developing, and help them draw out those connections by giving them practical suggestions on how to continue to build on those competencies
• Provide a stimulus for instructors to have deeper conversations with students about their development, helping them translate what they’re learning in class into critical skills they will employ in other contexts, will describe in an interview, or will list on their résumé
• Encourage students to build a longitudinal record of the breadth and depth of their undergraduate learning experiences and their liberal arts advantage

RATE does not evaluate the instructor or the course. However, our faculty report that the feedback generated from a RATE assignment can help in:

• Understanding what students are taking away from the course
• Finding ways to express course aims and assignment objectives more clearly
• Providing a new perspective on student learning and development, such as by highlighting where in a course or assignment students are struggling and/or discovering important things
• Engaging in reflective teaching practice and considering ways to better support student learning and development

We have developed a RATE Instructor Guide to help faculty and instructors create meaningful RATE assignment experiences in their courses. It demonstrates how to use RATE to strengthen a course, prepare students to complete a RATE, set up a RATE in Canvas, and debrief a RATE with students.

RATE Demonstration

This screen-capture video provides a tour of RATE.

Use RATE on Your Campus!

Interested in using RATE at your institution? The information about licensing RATE and next steps can be found on our Licensing Options page.  

MyCareerManagement is our online recommendation tool that suggests next steps students can take for their career preparation. Students simply answer a few questions, and this tool reports their progress in terms of materials (such as having a résumé), planning, experiences, and practice (such as mock interviews). Then the tool recommends some ideas for what the student should do next (such as attend an internship fair or complete a RATE to reflect on an experience) and can even remind the student to do it by a certain date if desired. Watch an explainer video.

The CLA Career Readiness Guide serves as a manual (100+ pages), covering in-depth all of the career-related topics a liberal arts student should consider. The guide provides an overview of how students can use the Liberal Arts Advantage in all stages of their career management. It is organized based on the 3E’s of Explore, Experience, Excel. All new students receive a hard copy of the guide, which also includes worksheets that students can use on their own (or with their CLA Advisor or a mentor in their life) to apply the content.

The CLA Career Readiness Internship Guide: Making the Most of Your Internship focuses on helping students prepare before their internship begins, guides them through ways to succeed during their internship, and coaches them in how to end their internship skillfully. It is available to all students at any CLA Advising office and at the CLA Career Services office. The guide is also used as a textbook in several of the departmental internship courses.

The Internship Toolkit for Employers is intended as a companion guide for employers to use in designing an internship experience or program that benefits and meets the unique needs of your organization and will resonate with CLA students. This toolkit provides the resources employers need to initiate or strengthen internships at their organization. 

College of Liberal Arts students enroll in an online, 2-credit program during their initial fall and spring semesters (or a one-credit course for transfer students) to connect them with each other and the campus resources that will contribute to their success. New students are introduced to Career Readiness tools and resources during CLA 1001 (or CLA 3001 for new transfer students), and CLA 1002 is structured around weekly themes that align with each one of our ten Core Competencies. 

In addition to a departmental advisor for their major, every student in the College of Liberal Arts has a CLA Advisor to guide them in their academic and co-curricular planning across their entire time in CLA. These advisors are able to integrate and reinforce the common language of the Core Competencies at key touchpoints such as orientation and academic advising appointments, as well as help our students plan their college experiences along a pathway to their future career goals.

As a student-facing office, CLA Career Services is central to the collegewide effort of Career Readiness. It consists of four functional areas that each serve a distinct purpose yet are interrelated in day-to-day work: career coaching, employer and alumni engagement, career management curriculum and assessment, and experiential learning support.

CLA Career Services offers comprehensive, personalized guidance in Career Management—one of the ten Core Competencies that CLA develops in students to help them demonstrate and articulate their career readiness. For CLA students, Career Management is defined as actively engaging to explore possible careers, experience meaningful activities for developing their competencies, and excel by building skills that result in employment or other successful post-graduation outcomes.

Each major or department in CLA has a dedicated liaison relationship with one of our career coaching, which facilitates more personalized referrals from the departments to career services and allows counselors to develop expertise in the unique career needs of students in each major across our 31 departments and more than 65 majors in the college. Career counselors visit classes, consult with departments, plan or collaborate on departmental career events, and develop resources and scalable tools (such as online modules) tailored to the unique needs of each department.

Largely taught by CLA Career Services coaches, our Career Management curriculum includes:

CLA 3002: Career Kickstarter: Finding Internships and Other Career-Related Experiences 
CLA 3201: Career Planning: Preparing for Your Post-Graduation Plans
CLA 3896: Internship Reflection: Making Meaning of Your Experience
CLA 3890: Internship Reflection: Building on your Summer Internship Experience

Co-curricular experiences are essential for liberal arts students to develop their Core Competencies, and we have prioritized helping more students gain experience earlier in their undergraduate years so they can use these experiences to inform their academic and future career decisions. 

Internships: As one of the primary efforts of the overall Career Readiness Initiative, a strategy was implemented to increase the quality of and access to internships for CLA students. Our Experiential Learning Coordinator position is focused on implementing minimum standards for internship sites and best practices for internship activities. The CLA Internship Scholarship provides financial assistance in awards for undergraduate students participating in unpaid internships. CLA has also implemented Pre-Internship Projects to prepare and connect motivated sophomore students with transformative, meaningful, paid internship experiences at local organizations.

Learning Abroad: Participating in a learning abroad experience is one of the high-impact practices CLA promotes to help students develop their competencies and gain experience. Students going abroad can apply the experience to the Career Readiness Certificate if they take the reflective course "Global Identity: Connecting Your International Experience to Your Future," which has incorporated Career Readiness and RATE. Efforts to embed Career Readiness into the learning abroad curriculum offered by CLA faculty and partners abroad are also underway.

Undergraduate Research: CLA is working strategically to overcome institutional barriers to increase the number of students who can participate in undergraduate research. The Career Readiness Certificate promotes undergraduate research as one of the ways students can gain experience and develop their Core Competencies.

CLA leverages the expertise, people, and resources of CLA Career Services and elevates their work across the entire College of Liberal Arts, embedding a framework to help our students think about their educational choices through the lens of core competency development. 

The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities has embarked on an ambitious effort to make career readiness an integral part of the undergraduate student experience through the Career Readiness Initiative. We are a national leader in evolving our approach to serving undergraduate liberal arts students, who make up approximately 40% of all undergraduate students at The University of Minnesota–Twin Cities campus. The College of Liberal Arts consists of 31 academic departments, and 65+ majors and 70+ minors.

Readiness was one of four strategic CLA Roadmap goals formulated under the leadership of former Dean John Coleman in 2014. In its current state, it has been institutionalized as part of the operational structure of CLA positioned within CLA's Office of Undergraduate Education, with oversight by the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, but viewed as being the work of everyone in CLA. The ongoing work is funded by an annual recurring investment by the Office of the Provost of $500,000.

The organizational structure for Career Readiness evolved at the end of the second year of the initiative. The original Faculty Director position has been elevated to become part of the role of Associate Dean, as this position oversees units where Career Readiness is integrated, such as Career Services, Academic Advising, President's Emerging Scholars Program, the Martin Luther King Junior Program, and the Office of Student Experience. A different Faculty Director role focused on the Faculty Engagement Strategy has been created to lead the effort to work with faculty and instructors in the college. The original position of Coordinator of Career Readiness was elevated to a Director-level position to drive the day-to-day responsibilities and opportunities to impact the student experience across the college. Career management courses are largely taught by CLA Career Services counselors, with additional sections taught by teaching specialists who are mostly CLA academic advisors.

The Career Readiness Initiative and CLA Career Services are separate but well-coordinated and interdependent units within the Office of Undergraduate Education (UGE), which also includes units for academic advising and student services; first-year and transfer student experience; curriculum; communication, recruitment, scholarships, and awards; diversity, inclusion, and equity programs and initiatives; individualized degree programs; and the learning abroad initiative. Together, the UGE units provide resources, opportunities, and systems from recruitment through graduation that promote student success, career readiness, and personal well-being so students can leverage the advantages of their liberal arts education to the benefit of society.

Also critical to the success of the Career Readiness Initiative was the support and effort of a dedicated cross-functional committee of CLA faculty and staff, the Compass Team, which met monthly from summer 2015 to summer 2024, to provide a coordinated effort on different aspects of the Career Readiness work that is going on at all times throughout the college. 

CLA approached Career Readiness as being the work of everyone in the college. The responsibility is shared between student services units and academic units, as CLA faculty are key participants in the initiative working to embed the framework of the Core Competencies into the classroom. This integrated model bridges both the curricular and co-curricular experiences of students.

The key focus of the Career Readiness Initiative is to help liberal arts students understand the Core Competencies they are developing in their liberal arts education, articulate how they have developed these competencies through their academic and co-curricular experiences, and translate the value of these experiences into the language of employers. Additionally, the initiative serves to:

• Create a cohesive and inevtiable student experience as it relates to Career Readiness with an emphasis on our Career Management Competencies development
• Help students plan both their academic and co-curricular experiences to develop their Core Competencies
• Provide a proactive approach to defending the liberal arts as a sufficient and even preferential preparation for future career success
• Provide a common language for all staff and faculty to talk about the value of the liberal arts from a position of strength
• Help level the playing field for first-generation students and those from underrepresented backgrounds
• Fulfill our land grant mission and advance the importance of how our graduates shape our communities and our state 

We conducted extensive research and peer review of key reports and articles related to liberal arts education and employers while developing our Core Competencies framework. CLA asked employers what they most valued in recently hired and experienced employees. We also asked our CLA alumni what made them successful in their careers. Overwhelmingly, they reported that the liberal arts education generally and competencies such as thinking critically, communicating clearly, and solving complex problems are what matter more than having a specific major as a career path. In other words, employers and alumni told us that a liberal arts degree, with its emphasis on a well-rounded education, is the foundation for a productive and successful career. Accordingly, the centerpiece of our framework is a set of ten Core Competencies that reflect the very essence of liberal arts education. These competencies were identified through discussions with employers, graduate and professional schools, faculty members, students, alumni, government agencies, and national career development organizations. 

CLA Career Services strives to offer a continuum of increasingly inclusive and high impact career management development that advances readiness for all CLA students. The office has four functional areas: Career Counseling, Employer Engagement, Career Management Curriculum, and Internship Support. Each serves a distinct purpose, but all are interrelated in the day-to-day work of the primary mission for CLA Career Services: To develop our students' competency in Career Management, which is one of the ten Core Competencies for CLA.

Career counseling uses a blended model to support our liberal arts students, by their major or by their intended career field.

• Support by Major: Each major or department in CLA has a dedicated liaison relationship with one of our career counselors. This facilitates more personalized referrals from the departments to CLA Career Services and has allowed counselors to develop expertise in the unique career needs of students in each major across our 31 departments and more than 65 majors in the college.
• Support by Career Field: During the second semester of our required First-Year Experience course, students are asked to opt in to receive one or more of our eight Career Field Monthly Updates. (This is also broadly advertised to all liberal arts students and is integrated into the career management course curriculum.) The eight Career Fields are Arts, Business, Communications & Media, Education, Government & Law, Healthcare & Science, Nonprofit & Advocacy, and Tech. 

Both of these counseling paths are closely aligned with our Career Readiness Initiative, our employer engagement efforts, and our Career Management model (Explore, Experience, Excel).

We do not rely on students to visit our CLA Career Services office; rather, we use every opportunity to integrate Career Readiness tools and resources into the student experience at key moments and touchpoints including recruitment activities, admissions events, orientation, advising appointments, First-Year Experience and Transfer Student Experience Courses, etc. For example:

• CLA’s Career Readiness Guide is put into the hands of every CLA student to provide an overview of Career Readiness and support students in all stages of their Career Management.
• CLA Career Corner is emailed to all CLA students, faculty, and staff on the first of each month to highlight timely career management information, opportunities to engage with employers, and other relevant information primarily for students (and also as a key strategy to build a culture of career in CLA).
• The CLA Career Hub is a student-facing webpage centralizing all of the tools and services for their career preparation, including a section that helps students understand the ten Core Competencies through alumni videos that describe how the competencies have given CLA graduates an advantage in their careers.
• RATE™, our digital reflection and self-assessment tool, allows students view a course assignment or co-curricular activity as a career readiness experience and Reflect on the experience, Articulate how that experience helped them develop competencies, Translate how those competencies are of value in professional contexts, Evaluate their level of readiness in those competencies through a self-assessment. 
• MyCareerManagement, our digital recommendation tool, checks a student's career progress and suggests next steps they can take for their career preparation.

Engaging students in a consistent conversation about the value of their liberal arts education ultimately needs to happen in the classroom. With 500 tenured faculty and 300+ instructors in CLA, providing opportunities for them to engage in the work and to think differently about their teaching has become a central focus of the Career Readiness effort in the college. CLA’s Core Competencies are aligned with the Student Learning Outcomes of the University of Minnesota. Embedding these outcomes into syllabi, assignments, and classroom discussions is critical in order for students to connect what they are learning in the classroom to their future career success.

Our Faculty Engagement strategy has been led by faculty leaders and administrators. This effort has been coordinated with the departmental career counseling model to leverage partnerships with faculty and departments. Key faculty engagement strategies continue to evolve and have included: 

• Creation of the Readiness Teaching Fellows: At its heart, the Readiness Teaching Fellows program supports faculty and instructors in discovering creative approaches to activities and assignments that enhance student reflective learning. Fellows explore how current research on learning and the Core Competency framework can be applied to their own courses, and they become part of a network of Readiness Teaching Fellows who share their experiences and mentor other interested colleagues. We bring faculty together to make connections and have conversations, as well as to experience and explore and do the same things that we want them to have their students do, such as reflection and metacognition. Our process invites faculty and instructors to focus on how coursework can prepare students not just intellectually, but personally and professionally as well. The more we encourage our students to reflect on the competencies they are developing and how these competencies translate into other contexts, the more they understand the benefits and importance of what our faculty and instructors teach.
• Creation of the Faculty Advisory Board to guide messaging and direction
• Building out additional faculty leadership roles and recognizing participation
• Communicating upfront in the initial stages of Career Readiness with departments, and regular updates from the Dean (leveraging the Roadmap goal) and leveraging the voices of involved faculty to tell their story to others
• Building community and providing opportunities outside of departmental silos for faculty to engage around teaching and learning
• Incentivizing participation with stipends for use as professional development funds
• Inviting skeptics to join and responding to their concerns (their voices help to shape the direction of the Career Readiness Initiative)

To help incentivize CLA departments that want to initiate, revise, or expand their ability to support undergraduate career readiness small grants of up to $2,000 to support an event, program, activity or new opportunity related to career readiness.

To recognize faculty and departmental staff who engage deeply in advancing the goals of Career Readiness, CLA confers annual awards. The Career Readiness Teaching Award of $2,500 recognizes an instructor who has made outstanding contributions to undergraduates’ career readiness in the College of Liberal Arts and demonstrated leadership in our Career Readiness initiative. CLA staff who find new ways to incorporate career readiness language and thinking into the daily work of the college, in service of helping students understand and articulate the value of their liberal arts education, are recognized with the Career Readiness Advocate Award of $1,200. 

Fall 2015

Professor Ascan Koerner is appointed Faculty Director for Career Readiness
A college-wide steering committee, the Compass Team, is established
Alumni, employers, and faculty identify 10 core competencies that are inherent in liberal arts education

Spring 2016

A Career Readiness Coordinator is hired to support the initiative
Workgroups are established to identify strategic projects
Opportunities to integrate Career Readiness into the student experience are identified

Summer 2016 

Core Career Competencies are defined 
A college-wide campaign about the value of a liberal arts education is created and “the wheel” becomes the signature visual of Career Readiness, with students at the center and “the liberal arts advantage” as the headline
Career Readiness is aligned with the role of CLA Career Services and the Career Management competency is integrated into the framework (9 competencies that are inherent in the liberal arts and the 10th competency of Career Management that gives students the tools to seek and obtain the career they desire)
 

Fall 2016 

Several faculty groups are invited to participate and department meetings begin
A Career Readiness Guide, as a tangible resource for all CLA students, is identified as a need
A sophomore year career course is proposed
The SuperStrong is identified as a scalable tool to support career infused advising
The RATE process is conceived
The Career Readiness Teaching Fellows program is conceived
Use of the Career Readiness Pathways Administrative (Explorer Tool) begins
The Career Readiness Certificate approval process begins
36 advisors and career counselors are certified in the Strong Interest Inventory (for SuperStrong)

Spring 2017

The Career Readiness Guide is printed and distributed to all CLA students
The Career Readiness model is presented to first-year students in the CLA 1002 First Year Experience course, along with the integration of the SuperStrong
Core Career Competencies & RATE are piloted in a CLA Career Planning course during a research project with Professor Mike Stebleton
An alumni video project is launched
A 50% time coordinator is hired to create a vision for internships in CLA
A Career Course Curriculum Coordinator is hired in CLA Career Services

Summer 2017

The alumni and competency videos are created

Fall 2017

The CLA Get Ready site is launched to support students' understanding of the value of their liberal arts education and to focus on helping students articulate the value of the competencies they develop throughout their education.  
The CLA Internship Summit brings departments together to discuss needs for increasing the number of students completing internships, resulting in a CLA Internships Review Process
The first sophomore CLA Career Management Course is taught
24 faculty members and instructors become the first cohort of Career Readiness Teaching Fellows 
Dr. Phil Gardner, Center for Employment Research at Michigan State, is guest speaker for a faculty event

Spring 2018

The Career Readiness Certificate is approved by University of Minnesota Board of Regents 
A CLA Internship Student Survey is conducted, reaching 2,400 students
The Faculty Director for Faculty Engagement role is established
Career Readiness Faculty Workshops are hosted

Fall 2018

The CLA Internship Guide is printed and distributed
The Career Readiness Guide is updated (version 2.0)
The Internship Employer Toolkit is created
The second cohort of Career Readiness Teaching Fellows begins with a redesigned semester-long program

Spring 2019 

CLA Internship Minimum Standards are implemented
3896 becomes a common course number for all CLA Internship Courses
The third cohort of Career Readiness Teaching Fellows begins

Fall 2019 

The workshop series on Making Excellence Inclusive in Undergraduate Education features Dr. Jeffrey Milem and Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington 
The Internship Insights Dashboard is launched
The Alumni Outcomes Dashboard is launched 

Spring 2020 

A Career Champions site is launched in Canvas for onboarding CLA staff to the career culture of CLA
The foundation for a CLA Career Readiness Consortium is created
The fourth cohort Career Readiness Teaching Fellows is disrupted by COVID-19
The Day of Teaching and Learning is disrupted by COVID-19
The Pre-Health Initiative becomes a focus for undergraduate education

Summer 2020

The Career Readiness Guide is updated (version 3.0)

Fall 2020

The number of students taking CLA Career Management Courses doubles

The number of RATEs completed reaches 30,000

The MyCareerManagement Tool is piloted

Launched Career Hub connecting all the tools, resources and people in CLA supporting a students career journey

Offered Building Capacity for Engaging Diversity faculty workshops led by Dr. Jamie Washington for a year long cohort of 50 CLA faculty and instructors

Strategic involvement and commitment to a system-wide Post Graduation Survey with project stages spanning several phases through Spring 2024

Spring 2021

Won National Association of Colleges and Employers Technology Award for RATE

Key partner in National Competency Symposium Virtual Conference

Career Collective highlights CLA Career Readiness Initiative on “Career Collective Talk”

Highlighted via a case study in “Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Resource,” a report from the National Humanities Alliance

Summer 2021

Created NEW Generic & Customizable version of Career Readiness Guide to share with other institutions

Created NEW Universal version of the CLA Internship Guide to share with other institutions

Created NEW Career Readiness Initiative website

Applied for three grants to fund Pre-Internship Projects

Fall 2021

Conducted validity studies for several competencies - ERDM, ED, and ACC

Pre-Health Initiative becomes a focus of the Career Readiness Initiative

Partnered with CLA’s Office of Institutional Advancement to finalize a Corporate Engagement Strategy for the college focused on talent acquisition needs of corporate partners

First pilot of RATE usage by other liberal arts colleges 

Spring 2022

The Curriculum, Instruction and Advising Committee (C,I,&A) and CLA Assembly pass proposal for required career management course for implementation with NHS admits enrolling in Fall 2022

CLA Career Services initiates new organizational structure to transform service delivery model from a 1:1 to a 1: many model to deliver at scale

Commitment to CLA Career Field model implemented to provide students with a framework for applying their liberal arts education to industry

First cohorts of Pre-Internship Projects (formerly known as Get Ready Projects) implemented funded by a grant received from Target Corporation

Summer 2022

Board of Regents approves required career management course degree requirement 

Director of Corporate Engagement and Strategic Initiatives hired in the Office of Undergraduate Education for a three year pilot

Fall 2022

President’s Emerging Scholars implement a program requirement for a second-year students enrolled in CLA 3002 Career Kickstarter as a program requirement

The “Get Ready Program” renamed Pre-Internship Projects 

Partnered with LATIS LX team to integrate core competency framework and RATE into Canvas template for all instructors in CLA

Presented to Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities about “Future Skilling”

Spring 2023

Planned first Day of Teaching and Learning event with CLA’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with keynotes Dr. Laura Rendón and Dr. Frank Tuitt

Expanded college commitment to Faculty Director of Faculty Engagement role with a three year commitment

CLA Internship Toolkit for Employers adopted and shared by Greater MSP as a regional tool to support expansion of an equitable talent strategy

CLA’s Career Field Model aligned to system-wide career field strategy

Summer 2023

Hired Associate Director of Faculty Engagement to deepen and expand support for faculty and instructors

First licenses for the CLA Core Competency Framework + Graphics + Career Readiness Guide and RATE purchased

MyCareerManagement made available to all Twin Cities campus and system career centers

Fall 2023

Implementation of second year experience career management course degree requirement 

Planned CLA’s second annual Day of Teaching and Learning with CLA’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with keynote Dr. Marsha Lovett

Student Self-Assessment of Core Career Competencies: A Valid and Empirically Proven Method presented at NACE Competency Symposium

Expanded position of Coordinator of Internship to include different aspects of Experiential Learning and hired a Coordinator of Experiential Learning that reports to Career Readiness and Career Services

Spring 2024

Conducted full review of reliability and validity of 10 self-assessment instruments that measure student competency development with Research Methodologies Consulting Center

Number of RATE’s completed by CLA students exceeds 70,000 since inception

CLA Career Success Outcomes (MPACT 2025) from 2015-2022 made available via a system-wide secured dashboard with all Post Graduation Survey data

Invited to participate in a Career Advising: Guiding Students to Success Beyond Graduation panel at The Attaining College Excellence and Equity Advising Summit, presented by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and the U.S. Department of Education 

Number of total participations in the Readiness Teaching Fellows program reaches 144 with 5 instructors participating for a second time 

Student enrollment taught by fellows participating prior to spring 2024 exceeds 70,000

Integrated experiential learning strategy into CLA 3002 Career Kickstarter programming to deepen opportunities for exposure to undergraduate research, learning abroad, and community engaged learning opportunities

Summer 2024

New administrative site launched for MyCareerManagement tool shared with all Twin Cities and system career centers

Compass Team structure sunsetted

Focus of new cross functional teams established to drive innovation and collaboration with units across CLA

Use data to drive expansion of experiential learning strategy and leverage communications channels