Career Services

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Career Services

• Presented By
• Sarah Sinclair
• Doug Smith
• Erin Thiel

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Historical Overview of Career Services

• The Early Years
• Career Planning Emerges
• Today and Into The Future
• (Kroll Rentz 1996)
• Comparison of Career Services
• New elements
• Office location
• (Raymen, 1993)

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Comparison Chart
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Institutional Administration and Organization

• Institutional Mission Statement
• Providing students with an education so they may
  lead productive lives
• Committed to a learning-centered environment
• Implementing the most current information in the
  classroom
• (Indiana University of Pennsylvania Presidents
  Office, 2003)

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Who IUP Serves

• Students
• Diverse population
• 96 from Pennsylvania
• Faculty and Staff
• 673 full-time faculty and 80 part-time
• Parents
• Alumni
• Indiana Community
• (Indiana University of Pennsylvania Presidents
  Office, 2003)

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Educational Environment

• Nurtures skills for independent thinking and
  analysis
• Embraces academic freedom
• Respects and encourages the talents and
  contributions of all
• Values diversity
• Decisions made by faculty, students and staff

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Student Affairs at IUP

• The IUP Definition and Basis
• The importance of theory
• Putting theory into practice
• Philosophy
• The importance of experience
• John Dewey

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Career Services at IUP

• Purpose of Career Services
• Mission Statement
• Vision Statement
• Position Statement
• (Office of Career Services, 2003)

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Functional Areas

• Career Services
• Testing Services
• Student Employment
• Internships
• Service Learning

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Career Services

• placement is a 4 letter word
• Counseling
• Mock Interviews
• Job Opportunities Website

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Testing Services

• GRE
• CLEP
• LSAT
• MCAT
• GMAT

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Student Employment

• Assist students on and off campus
• Learning Enhancement Program

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Internships

• The Clearing House of Information
• Provides information for
• Students
• Faculty
• Employers

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Service Learning

• Service study requirement
• Volunteerism

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Strengths and Challenges

• Strengths
• Collaboration with other colleges
• Broad in scope
• Successful programs

• Challenges
• Not actively pursuing more employers to recruit
• Understaffed
• Declining resources

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Assessment and Evaluation

• Student Initiated
• Evaluated quantitatively
• Involved in a self study

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University Involvement

• Faculty
• Administration
• Staff

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Recommendations

• Synergistic supervision
• (Winston Creamer 1998)
• Redefining the mission statement
• Improved needs and assessment evaluation

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ConclusionWhat We Want You to Remember

• Career Services is the coach- serving students
  in their career development needs.
• IUPs Career Services has 5 Functional Areas.