Administrative Strategies for Collaboration between Academic and Career Decisions

1. Administrative Strategies for Collaboration between Academic and Career Decisions Mary Beth McCarthy and Robin Stokes mpb1@psu.edu; ras322@psu.edu

3. Advantages and Similarities • NACADA survey, 2007: • 74% of NACADA advisers agreed that helping students make career decisions was important to their roles • 79% wanted to know more about how to effectively help students make career decisions • Shared goal to assist students with self knowledge and effective decision making • Career counselors and academic advisers frequently miss valuable pieces of information

4. Advantages and Similarities, 2 • The number of major and career options continues to change and grow • Shared skill sets: listening, counseling, referring, information giving • Both advisers as well as career counselors are being asked to play a greater role in student recruitment and retention

5. STRUCTURAL STRATEGIES • Where you sit determines where you stand • Organizational Structure • Centralization • Hiring, supervision, professional development • Partnerships • NACE 2009 Future Trends survey – Advising was 3rd most important partner identified (after alumni, faculty) • PSU Brandywine white paper • Shared tools (Brandywine handout)

6. STRUCTURAL STRATEGIES, 2 • Structural benefits of integrated services • Cross-trained, all Master’s degrees professionals • FTCAP, advising, walkins, eve/adults • Brandywine provides Career Staff access to advising notes in elion – allows for more realistic career planning, if student really not able to get into SMEAL • Resume critiques, career fairs, mock interviews • Grad intern – service to the profession – exposure to advising, CS, FTCAP/Orientation • Integrated offices (NACADA info)

7. CONSIDERATIONS • What are the advising and career needs of your students? • Exploratory/undecided advising • Major changers • Access points for career exploration • What is your campus organizational structure? • Formal integration vs. informal collaboration? • Hiring, supervision • Where are your pockets of allies? • Program strengths and weaknesses • Availability of resources? • Financial • Political • Shared tools

8. BIBLIOGRAPHY • NACE, 2009. “Looking Ahead: Highlights from the Future Trends Survey”, NACE Journal, September 2009 (National Association for Colleges and Employers) • Nelson, Dorothy Burton, Alexander, Robert A., Martin, Holly E., and Cunningham, Bradford E. (2012). Academic and Career Advising for Undecided, Exploring, and Major Changing Students. Pocket Guide #13. National Academic Advising Association. Manhattan, KS. • Burton Nelson, Dorothy. (2006). Career advisors: A new breed. Retrieved 9/13/2012  from NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources Web site http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/career-advisors.htm • Gordon, V.N. (2006). Career advising: An academic advisor's guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

9. Bibliography, 2 • Hughey & Hughey (2009) The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic and Career Advising Retrieved 9/13/2012 from NACADA Academic Advising Today, Vol 29 No 3 Web site: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/ePub/AAT29-3.htm • Hughey, Burton-Nelson, Damminger, McCalla-Wriggins and Associates (2009). The Handbook of Career Advising, NADADA, Jossey-Bass • McCalla-Wiggins, Betsy (2000). “Integrating Academic Advising and Career and Life Planning”, in Gordon, Virgina, Habley, Wesley, and Associates (Eds) Academic Advising:  A Comprehensive Handbook, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, and the National Academic Advising  Association • McCalla-Wriggins, B. (2009). “Integrating Career and Academic Advising: Mastering the Challenge” Retrieved 9/13/2012 from NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources Web site: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/M02/Career-Advising.htm