A list of links to resources for evaluating the career center....more

Information on The Professional Standards for College and University Career Services and The Professional Standards Evaluation Workbook. ...more

This workbook is designed to be used as a companion to the NACE Professional Standards for College and University Career Services for those who wish to evaluate their program against the Standards. ...more

The use of professional standards in career services is intended to facilitate excellence in the creation, maintenance, and delivery of programs and services. Professionally derived standards, representing the perspectives of diverse practitioners, and promulgated under the aegis of a professional association, provide an exceptional opportunity for practitioners to engage in processes of self-assessment and self-regulation that are internally motivated and directed....more

In higher education, there is increasing emphasis and focus on assessment and accountability, which requires career services practitioners to use meaningful measures to demonstrate the quality and value of their services to students, administrators, faculty, alumni, employers, parents, and other constituency groups. Standards provide fundamental criteria that practitioners can use to judge the efficacy of administrative structure, leadership, resources, and operations....more