In his chapter for the forthcoming NetVUE volume, Andy Chan calls us to rethink the work of the traditional college “career services” office. While many students (and most of their parents) think of that office as a job placement center, its true mission is to help students recognize how their entire college education, in all its breadth and depth, has prepared them not only for the (likely several) careers that they will have throughout their lives, but also for life as a whole. In this workshop, Chan will describe his vision for infusing career services with vocational exploration; in addition, he and his co-panelists will describe how this work is being carried out at their own institutions, with the goal of attending both to employability and to questions of meaning and purpose. Participants in this session will have the opportunity to brainstorm how their own institutions might carry out a similar process of re-envisioning the career services office as a central locus for vocational exploration and discernment.
Andrew R. (Andy) Chan, Vice President, Personal and Career Development, Wake Forest University (NC)
Michelle McGrath, Senior Director of Psychology Programs, Bay Path University (MA)
RJ Rapoza, Co-Director of the Manresa Program and Associate Director of Career Advising & Development, Le Moyne College (NY)
Adrienne L. Wyatt, Vice President for Student Academic Success, Southwestern College (KS)