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CSTEM Career Fellows Initiative

The CSTEM Career Fellows are a group consisting of faculty representatives from each department within CSTEM that are being tasked with becoming career readiness advocates in their fields in order to further contribute to a culture of career readiness for students. This initiative has been funded by the HSI-STEM and K-16 Collaborative grants.

AY 25-26 CSTEM Career Fellows

Co-Directors: Jackie Trischman, CSTEM Dean, and Breanna Caso, STEM Career and Internship Specialist

AY 25-26 CSTEM Career Fellow Learning Objectives

1. Becoming the department representative for career readiness by developing as career pathways advocates and experts in their disciplines and serving as their department鈥檚 primary contact for career and internship issues, including a student point of contact.

2. Taking inventory of career readiness materials and practices in your department and producing an inventory report. Establishing regular reporting structures within their departments for sharing updates and and resources with a focus on what faculty are or could be doing to prepare students for their careers.

3. Implementing the necessary centralized infrastructure for academic internships within the college for more consistency and to create a sustainable model.

4. Teaching the internship courses and act as the department liaison for academic internships.

5. Designing a career map that is tailored to each major.

6. Contributing to and spread a culture of career readiness across faculty, staff, and students in their departments.

7. Emphasizing the importance of internships in the classroom and promote enrollment in their internship courses.

8. Developing a plan for how to make this all of this work sustainable after the 3-year grant ends. Consider renewed state and federal emphasis on career readiness.