BEYOND COLLEGE TO CAREER
Students from all backgrounds deserve the opportunity to achieve their full potential in their career and life. Georgia State University prepares diverse populations of undergraduate and graduate students across the life course to pursue their chosen fields with adaptability, agility and creativity. Our students are primed to be engaged citizens, community leaders and innovators, and effective collaborators who give back to society.
Georgia State University recognizes that organizations are seeking graduates with a combination of high-demand skills and competencies, unique learning experiences and a passion for positively impacting the world. Over the next 10 years, we will become the university that is “moving at the speed of change” to both anticipate the needs of employers and equip our students to reach their full potential in careers and life. Georgia State graduates will be leaders in Georgia’s workforce and beyond. They will enjoy greater opportunities as a result of their immersion in experiential learning, high-demand competency and skill building, and a diverse community of learners. An enhanced infrastructure to facilitate collaboration between faculty, staff and external partners will provide accessible postgraduate opportunities for our students.
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 micro-credentialing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
1.3 Expand 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 Become 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 Two: Increase opportunities for experiential and service-learning for every Georgia State student to help prepare society’s changemakers of the future.
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.
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