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Among the trends present: More interns are participating in paid internships and earning above minimum wage while doing so, and company culture can influence students’ willingness to return for a full-time position.
Bucher: One of the things that I think is so extraordinary, not only is it that we do have this dedication of truly not having classes that day, and our students know that is worked right into their academic schedule, but also that the career and success expo really reaches beyond just our doors here on campus as well.
The effect can be devastating: Research from Gallup-Lumina found nearly two-thirds (64%) of currently enrolled college students who recently considered stopping their studies said emotional stress or mental health concerns were a significant reason.
Beyond these professional impacts, universities taking the initiative to integrate AI into their curriculum will greatly appeal to prospective students looking for a place to kick-start their education and career preparedness.
“We want our first-generation students to know that they are just as capable, and sometimes that takes bringing the info to them in a designated space so that they don’t have to navigate the large university and unfamiliar lingo or jargon for themselves,” Dempsey says.
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Customers are parties who are viewed as needing to be appealed to by vendors who seek to understand what a group of people are interested in and then set out to, ideally, offer a product at an attractive cost (i.e., price) to gain market acceptance and patronage.
“There’s just a lot of sub-baccalaureate and sub-associate degree credentials out there” of different lengths and costs, called by a variety of names and offered by different kinds of providers, making it “hard to decipher any sort of outcomes or similarities,” she said.
And once colleges are aware of the problem, the process of closely scrutinizing applications and monitoring students’ behavior once enrolled can cost an enormous amount of time and effort for admissions officials, faculty members, IT teams and others.
“The initiative will deepen the CSU’s relationship and alignment with industry partners and benefit California’s workforce by strengthening the pipeline of career-ready graduates to fill critical positions in growing fields,” according to documents from a previous board meeting.
“College campuses are the easiest way to completely run up our numbers with young voters and ensure they’re voting for Kamala Harris, Ruben Gallego [Republican Kari Lake’s Senate opponent] and Democrats all the way down the ballot, including judges, school board members, state legislators and propositions.”
VanDerziel worries about this, too, saying that “higher ed needs to help students with these life skills and provide services that will set them up for future success.” But he says that graduates are taking job security and well-being, including mental health, into account choosing where to work, according to NACE research.