{"id":58,"date":"2024-06-05T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/core-to-career\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:55:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/core-to-career\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-hero wsu-width--full wsu-pattern--wsu-light-radial-left wsu-hero--vignette-pattern wsu-hero--size-small \">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wsu-image-frame wsu-image-frame--fill\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg\"\n\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 2100w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/core-to-career_fall-2023_plan-sharing-session_IMG_8570_2100w1400h300ppi.jpeg 198w\"\n\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px\"\n\t\talt=\"Core to Career attend a plan sharing session in fall 2023.\"\n\t\tstyle=\"object-position: 28% 27%\"\n\t\t\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wsu-overlay wsu-pattern-after wsu-overlay--none wsu-pattern--none\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wsu-hero__content\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-hero__caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\" typeof=\"BreadcrumbList\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\">\r\n\t<!-- Breadcrumb NavXT 7.2.0 -->\n<span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"Go to Core to Career.\" href=\"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/core-to-career\" class=\"home\" ><span property=\"name\">Core to Career<\/span><\/a><meta property=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/span> &gt; <span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"Go to News.\" href=\"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/core-to-career\/news\/\" class=\"post-root post post-post\" aria-current=\"page\"><span property=\"name\">News<\/span><\/a><meta property=\"position\" content=\"2\"><\/span><\/div><header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tAbout\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-font-size--large\"><strong>Faculty<\/strong>&nbsp;transforming undergraduate teaching to prepare students for career readiness and launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-heading--style-marked wsu-spacing-before--large\">Championing Career Readiness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in 2021 through the generosity of Professor Emeritus Carl Hauser, Core to Career supports faculty interested in intentionally incorporating career readiness into their general education courses. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/\">UCORE<\/a> remains committed to its central mission of providing WSU undergraduates with a broad general education to complement the depth of knowledge gained in their major areas of study. Too often though, students fail to see the connections between this broad education and post-graduation employment prospects. Yet employers repeatedly cite <a href=\"https:\/\/daesa.wsu.edu\/undergraduate-learning-goals\/\">WSU\u2019s undergraduate learning outcomes<\/a> such as thinking critically, understanding diversity, and adept communication in multiple modalities as among the most important qualities in potential hires. To this end, Core to Career aims to close this awareness gap by helping faculty intentionally scaffold career-readiness competencies identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naceweb.org\/career-readiness\/competencies\/career-readiness-defined\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.naceweb.org\/career-readiness\/competencies\/career-readiness-defined\/\">National Association of Colleges and Employers<\/a> (NACE) into course and assignment design.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-heading--style-marked\">Learning Outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column  wsu-color-background--gray-0\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-font-size--large\">Core to Career prepares faculty to empower students to&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Recognize<\/strong> why career readiness is an essential marker of a college graduate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Describe<\/strong> in explicit ways how their coursework translates to career competencies sought by employers. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Build<\/strong> sets of portable evidence and stories that show how their coursework is relevant in contexts outside of the classroom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Apply<\/strong> career readiness to the pursuit of professional and personal endeavors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/nace-career-and-self-development-crimson-gray-792x792.png\" alt=\"Graduation cap symbolizing NACE the career readiness competency of career and self-development.\" class=\"wp-image-90\" 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class=\"wsu-section__inner wsu-width--content\">    \n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-triangle-crimson-wsu-steep-right\" style=\"top:35vh;right:-160vw\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-heading--style-marked wsu-heading--mark-top\">What Employers Are Telling Us<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1614\" height=\"1149\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/AACU-2023-Employer-Report_Page_27-gaps.jpeg\" alt=\"A chart showing the gap between student preparedness and importance of a skill, as reported by employers.\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-daesa\/uploads\/sites\/3464\/2024\/06\/AACU-2023-Employer-Report_Page_27-gaps.jpeg 1614w, 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employers identify as very important.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta wsu-spacing-after--none wsu-spacing-padding-right--xxmedium\" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/research\/the-career-ready-graduate-what-employers-say-about-the-difference-college-makes\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--style-action\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tDownload the 2023 AAC&amp;U Career-Ready Graduate Report\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div><\/section>\n\n<section  class=\"wsu-section wsu-color-background--gray-85 wsu-spacing-before--large\"  >\r\n        \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-heading--style-marked\">What Faculty Are Telling Us<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row  wsu-color-background--gray-85 wsu-row--sidebar-left\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p>A total of 100 WSU faculty completed the 2023 Career in the Classroom survey, a partnership between the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and the Society for Experiential Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about ways they integrate career readiness\/career information into their courses, faculty selected the responses shown in the following table.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta \" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.naceweb.org\/store\/2024\/careers-in-the-classroom-findings-from-the-survey-of-us-faculty\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--style-action\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tDownload the Career in the Classroom survey\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table wsu-color-background--white\"><table><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Career Readiness\/Information Integration Method<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">WSU Faculty<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">National Faculty<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Align course assignments with career readiness skills and competencies to help students identify\/translate skills<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">62%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">58%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Align course outcomes with career readiness skills and competencies to help students identify\/translate skills<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">60%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">55%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Bring in guest speakers from professional and career fields<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">56%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">52%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Have students complete a career-related project<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">40%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">39%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Attach a career-related reflection to an assignment<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">43%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">38%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n<section  class=\"wsu-section wsu-width--full wsu-position--relative impact-section wsu-spacing-after--large wsu-spacing-before--large\"  >\r\n    <div class=\"wsu-section__inner wsu-width--content\">    \n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson wsu-decorator--style-upper-miter\" style=\"top:0;left:0;height:4.375rem;width:4.375rem\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson wsu-decorator--style-lower-miter\" style=\"bottom:0;right:0;height:4.375rem;width:4.375rem\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson\" style=\"bottom:2rem;left:0;height:1px;width:10%\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson impact-section__left-angled-line\" style=\"bottom:2rem;left:10%;height:1px;width:5%\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson\" style=\"top:2rem;right:0;height:1px;width:10%\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-decorator  wsu-decorator--style-block-crimson impact-section__right-angled-line\" style=\"top:2rem;right:10%;height:1px;width:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wsu-heading--style-marked wsu-heading--mark-top\">What Students Are Telling Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:54px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--halves\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wsu-stat wsu-stat--style-round wsu-stat--decorator-layout-bar-value-after-center wsu-stat--wider-caption wsu-spacing-before--xmedium wsu-spacing-margin-left--auto wsu-spacing-margin-right--auto wsu-text-align--center wsu-stat--width-small wsu-spacing-after--xxlarge\" >\n\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__decorator\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__value-wrapper\">\n\t\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__value\">63<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__unit\">%<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__caption\">of students said professors should prepare them for a career<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wsu-stat__citation\">2023 Inside Higher Ed survey<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wsu-stat wsu-stat--style-round wsu-stat--decorator-layout-circle-bottom-right wsu-stat--decorator-layout-bar-value-after-center wsu-stat--wider-caption wsu-spacing-before--xmedium wsu-spacing-margin-left--auto wsu-spacing-margin-right--auto wsu-text-align--center wsu-stat--width-xmedium wsu-spacing-after--xxlarge\" >\n\t<span 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