Facilitator 1: Candice Thomas-Maddox, Ohio University-Lancaster
Facilitator 2: Andrea Weber, West Virginia University
While most campuses provide career services for undergraduates, communication departments can take the initiative and begin preparing students as early as their freshman year for success after graduation. This short course provides faculty, administrators, advisors, and students with strategies to revolutionize the approach to integrating “life after college” as an integral part of the ongoing curricular plan. Inviting alumni to be part of these plans provides an added “bonus” by strengthening a strong departmental network. Topics to be discussed in this course include the development of: alumni mentoring programs, speed networking events, electronic portfolios to archive student work, social media to connect students and alumni, capstone course options, an applied discussion of chaos theory of careers as part of advising…and more!