Global Career Compass
Leveraging Education Abroad for Student Career Development & Employability
Category: Education Abroad & Global Workforce Development
Best Practice in Creating a Virtual Internship
I’m pleased to have this guest post by a colleague, Kelly Holland, Director of Institutional Relations, Global Experiences, https://globalexperiences.com At a time when the entire education abroad community, on and off campus, has been forced to halt its overseas programs, those sponsoring international… Continue Reading “Best Practice in Creating a Virtual Internship”
How Tulane University Changed the Student Experience After Hurricane Katrina – A Model Now?
I thought to search for documents about what happened to see if there might be a useful template for campuses who will likely need to re-imagine parts of their curricula offerings in the next few years. I recalled there was a complete re-focus on… Continue Reading “How Tulane University Changed the Student Experience After Hurricane Katrina – A Model Now?”
Webinar: Charting New Waters: Lay Offs in the Field of International Education
Here is the link to the Vimeo from the webinar which took place on April 17. I was speaking along with #Tom Millington and #Missy Gluckman: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tommillington_charting-new-waters-layoffs-in-international-activity-6657292249379987456-Ownq/ Our goal was to open a dialogue on the immediate staffing changes being made by academic institutions… Continue Reading “Webinar: Charting New Waters: Lay Offs in the Field of International Education”
An Update: Campus Challenges and Opportunities in Devising Meaningful Processes of Career Integration
In 2014, the University of Minnesota’s Learning Abroad Center in collaboration with CAPA, sponsored the first-ever Career Integration conference. I had already been writing and speaking about this topic for a decade and I was grateful to be part of this program and submit… Continue Reading “An Update: Campus Challenges and Opportunities in Devising Meaningful Processes of Career Integration”
My latest book chapter on education abroad and employability
Coming out in July!! https://lnkd.in/dDuR2eN. My chapter in Education Abroad: Bridging Scholarship and Practice, is with co-authors, C. Matherly & J. Wiers-Janssen on “Employability: How education abroad impacts transition to employment.” This is the latest in a series of chapters I’ve authored since 2012… Continue Reading “My latest book chapter on education abroad and employability”
New Book Chapter: “Linking learning abroad and employability”
Dr. Cheryl Matherly , Vice President & Vice Provost for International Affairs at Lehigh University, and I have co-authored a chapter in the just published volume on Internationalization and Employability by Routledge. Our chapter is on ” Linking Learning Abroad and Employability.” Cheryl and… Continue Reading “New Book Chapter: “Linking learning abroad and employability””
Lisle International Global Seed Fund
This posting is a departure as it does not relate to any of my usual “categories.” However, it does relate to a 40-year commitment to the work of an American nonprofit called Lisle International [aka The Lisle Fellowship at its founding in 1936]…Lisle was… Continue Reading “Lisle International Global Seed Fund”
Purdue’s President Tauts a Selective Yale Academic Program as Means to…Break the Elitist Bubble for Students
When I read this opinion column of President Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-study-abroad-check-out-america/2019/03/11/8c5268a2-3492-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.78a22aaf179a, I was lost in a swirl of confusing thoughts. Could he really be citing a program (https://grandstrategy.yale.edu) which provided a two-month summer sojourn across America as an alternative model… Continue Reading “Purdue’s President Tauts a Selective Yale Academic Program as Means to…Break the Elitist Bubble for Students”
Resources Supporting Student Integration of Education Abroad Experience With Career Planning
Originally posted on Global Career Compass:
Since I began writing and speaking on this topic about thirteen years ago, there has been an uptick in research – both academic and by large companies – and by several large private study abroad organizatons, to examine…
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