BEYOND COLLEGE TO CAREER

GOAL ONE: Ensure that every student has continuing exposure to career services, high-demand competencies and emerging technologies.

1.1 Strategically enhance and organize Career Services and College-to-Career initiatives and increase engagement of alumni, external partners, local communities and prospective learners in career-readiness programs.

1.2 Develop students’ digital skills through an infusion of content into the general education curriculum and through certificates or microcredentialing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

1.3 E xpand faculty’s use of educational technology tools and practices to broaden students’ exposure to career-relevant simulations, emerging technologies, collaborations with diverse teams (including local, national and international exchanges and partnerships) and applied work.

1.4 B ecome a lifelong learning partner by extending career guidance and access to training for advancement and skill development to alumni, community members and prospective students.

Goal

2.1 Support faculty to increase the use of high-impact practices, such as experiential, project-based and service-learning opportunities across the curriculum that promote leadership, teamwork, civic engagement and problem-solving.

2.2 Promote Georgia State’s core curriculum as one that prepares every student to be a lifelong learner and engaged citizen by developing skills and competencies needed by employers, such as the ability to think critically, communicate effectively, lead, collaborate, understand and solve complex problems, research independently, analyze complex data, consider different perspectives, engage civically and reason ethically.

GOAL THREE: Expand mutually beneficial partnerships with state, national and international industry, government and nonprofit organizations that leverage Georgia State’s expertise and create opportunities for research, scholarship, learning, creativity and innovation.

3.1 Form a university gateway for external organizations to connect with multiple areas within the university and develop co-branded satellite work/office spaces to foster learning opportunities on GSU campuses.

3.2 Extend continuing and professional education opportunities through external partnerships and programs that are responsive to employer needs and enable all to thrive in the workforce of the future.

3.3 Establish central coordinating structures to connect students with Georgia’s local, regional and international internship opportunities, and enable their participation.