Post-Graduation Success: Exploring the UA’s Graduating Senior Survey
Bartlett Academic Success Center 316 | Student organizations and campus employment can serve as powerful career development experiences when approached intentionally. This session explores how to help students recognize and articulate the professional skills they gain through involvement and on-campus work.
Bartlett Academic Success Center 316
This session introduces attendees to the University of Arizona Graduating Senior Survey (First Destination Survey). The session will discuss the logistics of the survey as well as how we leverage the data to inform the progress of the academic student success goals such as HIPS engagement, graduation, and post-graduation outcomes.
Session Outcomes
Recall the data collected as part of the Graduating Senior Survey
Specify the experiences and connections that support students’ post-graduation success
Outline how to apply or support post-graduation data collection in their own practice"
Presenters
Megan Forecki
Lead, Institutional Assessment Professional, Center for Career Readiness
University of Arizona
Emily McCarthy
Executive Director, Center for Career Readiness
University of Arizona
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From the Classroom to Career: Embedding Career Development Into Curriculum
Bear Down Gym 210 | Explore how institutions are integrating career readiness into curriculum through faculty partnerships, course design, and cross-campus collaboration. Panelists will share real-world successes, challenges, and practical advice for scaling this work.
Bear Down Gym 210
Career readiness cannot live solely within the walls of the career center. Increasingly, institutions are exploring ways to embed career development directly into curriculum, courses, and the broader student learning experience.
In this panel discussion, presenters from multiple institutions will share how they have integrated career readiness into academic environments through faculty partnerships, curricular initiatives, and student-centered programming. Panelists will discuss lessons learned, challenges encountered, strategies for gaining institutional buy-in, and practical advice for career services teams beginning this work. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas and a deeper understanding of how career development can become a shared institutional responsibility.
Session Outcomes
Identify strategies for integrating career development into curriculum through faculty and academic partnerships.
Recognize common challenges and institutional barriers related to embedding career readiness into academic experiences.
Apply practical approaches for building buy-in and advancing career readiness initiatives across campus.
Presenters
Lyndsey Edmonds - Moderator
Director, College of Science Career Center
University of Arizona
Deb Ruiz
Manager, Career Services
Chandler-Gilber Community College
George Lopercio
Career Advisor
Chandler-Gilber Community College
Korrie Brown
Associate Director
Arizona State University
Colin Eischeid
Career Development Coordinator
Arizona State University
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From Involvement to Impact: Rethinking Student Engagement as Career Development
Bear Down Gym 266 | Student organizations and campus employment can serve as powerful career development experiences when approached intentionally. This session explores how to help students recognize and articulate the professional skills they gain through involvement and on-campus work.
Bear Down Gym 266
“From Involvement to Impact” explores how student organizations and student employment roles function as powerful, underutilized career development spaces. This session will equip career development professionals with tools for transforming student involvement and on‑campus employment into intentional, competency‑building career development experiences
Session Outcomes
Reframe student organizations and student employment as meaningful career development experiences that cultivate transferable competencies.
Apply a competency‑mapping approach to identify and articulate the skills students gain through leadership, involvement, and on‑campus work.
Coach student leaders and working learners to translate their experiences into career‑ready language that strengthens resumes, interviews, and professional narratives.
Presenter
Brittany Black
Assistant Director, Career Readiness
Arizona State University
Maria Leon
Program Manager, Career Services
Arizona State University
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Supporting the Whole Student: Trauma-Informed and Culturally Responsive Career Services
Bartlett Academic Success Center 306 | Mental health, systemic stress, and lived experiences all shape how students engage with career development. This interactive session explores trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches that help career professionals better support connection, trust, and student success.
Bartlett Academic Success Center 306
This interactive session explores how mental health, systemic stress, and intersectionality shape how students engage in career development spaces. Participants will examine how behaviors often labeled as disengagement may reflect deeper barriers and will learn practical trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies to better support student success. Through reflective discussion and real-world application, attendees will leave with actionable tools to implement within their own institutions.
Session Outcomes
Identify how mental health, systemic stress, and intersecting identities can impact student engagement in career services.
Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches to reframe assumptions about student behavior.
Implement practical strategies to foster more supportive, equitable, and student-centered career development practices.
Presenter
Hailey Dukart
Career Development Coordinator/MSW Student
Pima Community College