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Philadelphia Liberal Arts Leadership Summit [Presentation] - Angela Armour: The Next Level: Strengthening the Partnership Between Career Education and Alumni Relations_June 2018
- 1. | 1 THE NEXT LEVEL: STRENGTHENING THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CAREER EDUCATION AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
- 2. GALLUP SURVEY • Participated in Gallup’s “Great Jobs, Great Lives” survey in 2016 • Examines the relationship between college experience and long-term outcomes. • SMC Alumni results higher than cohorts from other institutions in nearly all elements in Gallup-Purdue Index well-being. • “Lower” scores point to what needs to be addressed: - internships, academic advising and access to mentoring. How are St. Mike’s alumni doing in the world? | 2
- 3. VISION 2020 GOAL 4 Comprehensive four-year student development program that promotes student success through purposeful learning experiences beyond the classroom Life after College Initiative and the Liberal Arts @ Work | 3
- 4. CAREER EDUCATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT CENTER | 4 Students Faculty & Advisor s Alumni & Student Mentors Career & Alumni Staff Co-locating and collaborating to connect students with alumni Mission statement Our mission is to provide career education services that meaningfully connect our students with alumni, families and community partners to prepare them for success after college.
- 5. ON-CAMPUS STUDENT EMPLOYMENT • 665 individual students working • 785 jobs are filled by these students • Overhaul funding structure: no longer financial aid based • Campus-wide needs assessment study | 5 O3O 47% FWS 26% Institutional 26% Grants 1% Payment Distribution O3O FWS Institutional Grants Redefining “work-study” for career preparedness
- 6. FACULTY & PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS • Academic liaisons assigned to departments and major programs • Become “embedded” in department; attend meetings • Work with chairs and faculty members to recruit alumni speakers • Invite CEAEC members to give workshops on resumes, interviewing, LinkedIn | 6 Building a bridge between academics, co-curriculars and advancement
- 7. MENTORING • Establish a multicultural alumni mentoring program • Over 40 multicultural alumni attended Boston and NYC events • Partnered with CMAS to educate students on mentoring • Bringing mentoring online via SMC Connect | 7 Life after College Initiative and the Liberal Arts @ Work
- 8. CAREER-FOCUSED EVENTS Bringing alumni experts and students together in a professional setting | 8 • 10th Annual Career Symposium • 50 alumni and 150 students • 13 industry panels • Keynote speaker • Networking reception • Regional Career Events • Boston, NYC and Burlington • Alumni hosts roundtable topics • Networking reception
- 9. ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS • Recruiting volunteers - Classroom speakers - Mentors via SMC Connect - Internship sites - Job opportunities - Panelists for Symposium and career events - Job shadow hosting | 9
- 10. MIKE TALKS • Like TED talks but with SMC alumni! - Resumés - Interviewing skills - Industry information - Job information - Networking opportunities - Make a request - Louise Gibbs ’15 | 10
- 11. OTHER PROJECTS FOR FY19 • Emerging Leaders Program - Taught by former Trustees and other alumni - January term for students for credit - Develop career skills: networking, etiquette, etc. | 11 • Career Communities - Redefine our Alumni Clubs/Chapters to focus on professional development - Use regional Alumni Engagement rep to make more contacts with alumni, employers, parents, etc. - Leverage Alumni Board of Directors
- 12. CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES What’s worked and what hasn’t | 12 • We have lost 50 percent of our team since last September • Some academic departments slow to engage • Figuring out how to meld our work with new programs; ROI • Scaling proven programs from other schools to fit St. Mike’s • Learning our offices different job functions • We have gained greater understanding of each others’ work. Cross-trained when possible. • Introduced CEAEC to all academic depts. and co-curricular programs • Increased student interaction • Launching SMC Connect and Handshake • Appreciating what Careers and Alumni offices bring to merger Challenges Successes
Editor's Notes
- JJN felt it was important to know how we were doing, Trusted Gallup’s reputation and experience Survey sample was 3,371 or 17% of our alumni from 1950-2015: 56% male to 44% female (women admitted in 1970) with average age of respondents 46. Purpose Well-Being: Liking what you do each day and being motivated to achieve your goals. Social Well-Being: Having strong and supportive relationships and love in your life. Financial Well-Being: Effectively managing your economic life to reduce stress and increase security. Community Well-Being: The sense of engagement you have with the areas where you live, liking where you live and feeling safe and having pride in your community. Physical Well-Being: Having good health and enough energy to get things done on a daily basis
- Two iterations of Life After College committee – faculty, staff and administrators coming together to talk about how we prepare students for life after college and leveraging our alumni Most productive Vision 2020 goal with most significant outcome
- Formed the Center in May 2017. Two offices compose the center. Doing what we have done but with more communication, strategy and intention. This is the way our alumni want to give back. We have always been connecting students with alumni for internships, mentoring, networking, etc. but here we are doing it very deliberately. Vision statement ; As a leading liberal arts institution, Saint Michael’s College has a proud heritage of providing students with the broad context and practical knowledge to address the professional challenges of our time. Helping our graduates secure a rewarding career upon graduation is a charge we take to heart. Developing lifelong relationships with alumni, families and community partners is a priority. Every student will have access to opportunities that challenge and educate them to be productive, engaged citizens. It is our goal to ensure that every student graduate with an understanding and a plan to engage fully as a citizen and have a strong sense of their abilities and interests to succeed in a career. In preparing our undergraduates for life after college, we seek to connect alumni from diverse career fields with our students to engage in an active learning and networking process for the growth of our students and engagement of our alumni.
- Renée has been engaged with a national and regional group of professionals focused on student employment; attending a conference and using a really robust listserv and resources Want to make these positions value-added for both student and offices they work for A big issue moving forward is overhauling the funding structure and part of that is a campus-wide needs assessment. Federal dollars stay the same, of course, but we are removing student financial services from the equation and moving toward a line item in departmental budgets to pay students.
- The emphasis is on building relationships with faculty so we can partner with them. They already have a lot of relationships with alumni but we don’t know about it. How can we get them to share info with us?
- We had 20 percent ALANA for the Class of 2021 and 14 percent for Class of 2022. How can we match this group with alumni when our diversity numbers have previously been so low? Partner with Center for Multicultural Affairs and Services. When we realized our alumni numbers are low but this group needed to be engaged, started with events. What students of color were looking for in a mentor was not what we had in our alumni of color population so putting it on SMC Connect proved important. Gives students ownership over who they reach out to rather than assigning a student to an alum. They were our test group for SMC Connect. This was a pilot project with minimal results but
- Alumni Board brainchild and they still do all of the recruiting of panelists; Board determines which industry panels based on student surveys Keynotes have been