Description:

At Dallas College, institutional change provided a unique opportunity to collaborate across silos to promote student success. The resulting Marketable Skills Initiative brings career readiness to the core curriculum through awareness, connection, demonstration, and reflection of marketable skills. Learning Objectives: Explore how new opportunities for collaboration can be discovered within the challenges of institutional change. Learn how Dallas College worked within familiar assessment requirements for faculty to enhance student awareness, connection, demonstration, and reflection of important marketable skills, and to foster engagement with career services. Brainstorm potential solutions to growing pilot programs, creating administrative buy-in, and continuing the connections between faculty and career services.

Audience:

Career Services

Level:

Intermediate

Track:

Developing a Career-Ready Workforce

Type:

Traditional

Main Speaker:

Sharon Manna, Dallas College

Additional Speakers:

Clark Wilson, Dallas College