CSTEM Career Fellows Initiative

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

AY 25-26 CSTEM Career Fellows

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

AY 25-26 CSTEM Career Fellow Learning Objectives

1. Becoming the career readiness representatives for their department by developing as career readiness advocates and experts in their disciplines and serving as their department’s primary contact for careers and internships including a student point of contact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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