This is our living 3-year strategic plan, which we will be revisiting each year to adjust goals and activities accordingly.
Read more about each of our pillars:
- Measure and assess current partnerships & engagement on campus and beyond.
- Create a Career Champion program to scale and embed career development across campus.
- Partner with academic departments to provide opportunities for career exploration and competency development.
- Focus on early engagement: introduce career development education into the first and second year experience.
- Redefine and expand liaison model to proactively and efficiently connect with campus partners (including student groups) on career initiatives.
- Assess career readiness of students to determine how well students are performing in their professional experiences and identify potential gaps.
- Develop and promote set of core Swarthmore career readiness objectives/learning goals that align with College Learning Goals and NACE competencies.
- Increase campus awareness of competencies valued by employers to students, staff, and faculty by connecting current programs, activities and content to competencies.
- Explore development of career readiness courses.
- Foster a welcoming and inclusive space for student career development.
- Adopt new visual identity including name and logo for career center that better reflects updated mission and values.
- Develop a user-friendly website with easy-to-find content and resources tailored for specific audiences.
- Ensure a consistent social media presence by establishing a calendar of content creation/posts.
- Promote an environment where all Swarthmore students have at least one funded internship or applied learning opportunity before graduation across multiple divisions of the college.
- Enhance career exploration and self awareness through mentoring opportunities and experiential learning.
- Adopt DEI lens for all resource development and programming.
- Re-envision specialized community pages on website to more effectively provide targeted information to specific populations.
- Develop meaningful partnerships with key campus constituents to leverage expertise and expand understanding of DEI issues.
- Bolster measurement and evaluation activities that examine access to and usage of resources and programs including recruiting and graduate admissions.
- Assess first destination outcomes for potential achievement gaps by identity groups.
- Map campus partners and possible pathways for connection and collaboration.
- Outline a structured plan for outreach and connections for individual staff or teams to develop goal-oriented partnerships.
- Establish and strengthen partnerships with campus entities with programmatic overlap such as Lang Center, CIL, Student Employment, and Wellness to build career readiness capacities and leadership on campus & beyond.
- Strengthen partnerships with student support hubs on campus to extend reach, accessibility and impact on campus such as with Intercultural Center, FLI Office, Athletics, and Student Engagement.