Strategic Directions for Career Services Within the University Setting (eBook)

New Directions for Student Services, Number 148

Kelli K. Smith (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
112 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-02397-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Filled with strategic directions, practical advice and best practices, this volume delivers an overview of emerging trends for the career services profession.

Hot topics include:
* a blend of research, case studies, and personal experiences that are intended to stimulate a productive dialogue about career services
* how career services professionals should be leaders in creating university-wide, innovative career programs and systems
* discussions of assessment, collaboration with academic advising, external relations, and internationalization.

This is the 148th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.

Autor

Volume Editor: Kelli K. Smith is the director of University Career Services at Binghamton University in upstate New York. Series Editors: Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth J. Whitt is vice provost and dean for undergraduate education at University of California, Merced. Associate Editor John H. Schuh is professor of educational leadership at Iowa State University. He has been recognized by the American College Personnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for his contributions to the literature.

Inhalt

EDITOR'S NOTES 1
Kelli K. Smith

1. Evolution of Career Services in Higher Education5
Farouk Dey, Christine Y. Cruzvergara

Socioeconomic changes, technological advances, and generationaltrends have been the impetus behind every major paradigm shift inthe delivery of career services in higher education during the pastcentury, including the one taking shape today. This chapter willprovide an overview of the changing nature and emerging trends thatare shaping the future of career services in higher education.

2. Value-Added Career Services: CreatingCollege/University-Wide Systems 19
Jeff Garis

This chapter addresses a range of core programs that careercenters can lead in contributing to an institution-wide seamlesssystem of career services.

3. Back to the Basics: Career Counseling 35
Keri Carter Pipkins, Gail S. Rooney, Imants Jaunarajs

This chapter emphasizes that the practice of career counselingshould be the foundation of career centers.

4. Academic Advising and Career Services: A CollaborativeApproach 49
Katherine E. Ledwith

This chapter describes how career services professionals andacademic advising units can partner to serve college students.Observations are also provided regarding the role of advising andbest practices to meet the growing need for a shared approach tothe academic and career needs of students.

5. Framing Assessment for Career Services: Telling Our Story65
Julia Panke Makela, Gail S. Rooney

This chapter provides career professionals with an overview ofcurrent assessment practices and a framework for understanding howto bring practitioner-led assessment activities into dailypractice.

6. Career Services in University External Relations81
Seth C. W. Hayden, Katherine E. Ledwith

The chapter will focus on the role of career services inexternal relations. It will provide the basis for this connectionalong with best practices in developing and maintaining a mutuallybeneficial relationship between career centers and on-campus andoff-campus partners.

7. The Globalization of Career Services 93
Mark A. Kenyon, Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon

This chapter emphasizes the important role career services playsin advising students about global careers.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2014
• Reihe/Serie: J-B SS Single Issue Student Services
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Allg. Bildungswesen (Hochschulen) • Bildungswesen • Education • Education Special Topics • Higher Education General • Hochschulen / Dienstleistungen f. Studenten • Spezialthemen Bildungswesen • Student Affairs & Development (Higher Education)
• ISBN-10: 1-119-02397-1 / 1119023971
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-02397-5 / 9781119023975