Document Type
Annual Report
Publication Date
7-2022
DOI
10.25776/4c1x-qk78
Pages
1-26 pp.
Abstract
Career Pathways launched in August 2017 as the university-wide initiative to provide graduate student professional development. Career Pathways prepares graduate students for successful transition into thriving careers. It is a gateway to resources, programs, events, and planning tools for ODU graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Career Pathways encompasses both the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and the Preparing Future Professionals (PFP) Certificates. The Preparing Future Faculty Certificate was an existing program, started in 2007, while the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate was launched in 2017 concurrently with Career Pathways. With the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate, specifically, the emphasize has been on filling the existing gap in career and professional development for master’s students and doctoral students with career plans outside of academia. With the broader recognition of the need to support post-doctoral scholars at ODU, Career Pathways has also focused on connecting post-doctoral scholars with the program and supplementing their training with career development programming. Career Pathways was suspended for AY 2020/21 and revived in AY 2021/22.
While Career Pathways was temporarily suspended in AY 2020/21, professional development content was available to graduate students via the Career Pathways website, video repository, and YouTube channel. Graduate students were able to complete the PFF and PFP Certificate, but the program was not actively promoted. For AY 2021/222, Career Pathways focused on (re)introducing Career Pathways as the university-wide initiative to support graduate student career and professional development. This included disseminating information about Career Pathways to graduate program directors, graduate faculty, and hosting informational sessions. A monthly professional development newsletter was circulated to all graduate program directors for dissemination to their students, through the Career Pathways listserv, and via University Announcements (see sample newsletter in Appendix C).
Original Publication Citation
Yusuf, W. (2022). Career Pathways Program Annual Report for AY 2021/22. Old Dominion University. https://doi.org/10.25776/4c1x-qk78
Repository Citation
Yusuf, W. (2022). Career Pathways Program Annual Report for AY 2021/22. Old Dominion University. https://doi.org/10.25776/4c1x-qk78
ORCID
0000-0003-3599-1417 (Yusuf)