Article republished from Lafayette University News By Stella Katsipoutis-Varkanis Showcasing Student Research COVID-19 and social distancing may have prevented the Student Research Poster Session—a biannual tradition—from physically taking place on…
Moving Fund Raising Events Online
School’s and charities have been challenged in 2020 to maintain their connections with donors and their revenues as social distancing measures have driven cancelations of in-person events. Well designed and…
Virtual University Open Houses for student recruitment
With the pandemic, schools have been cancelling or rolling back their usage of Open House’s and campus tours to comply with varying public health requirements for the pandemic. This is…
Keeping students social with Virtual Student Club Fairs
This is a great article published by The Guardian addressing what all higher education schools and faculty are recognizing for this fall. How to enable student’s to continue to mix,…
Legacy Mapping for Nursing (Webinar)
This recorded webinar examines Legacy Mapping as a self-use career guidance tool for nurses and how it works with digital portfolios and the concept of the Life-Long Learning Record. Nursing…
The 6 top needs of faculty to make their teaching portfolio more effective in 2020
Over the last few months we have conducted several focus group sessions with faculty and directors of University Teaching and Learning Centres (TLCs) to gain insight into the special needs…
Talent Marketing for the Nursing Profession
I find it interesting as we at Acadiate dig deeper into particular career fields and professions, that the general principles and best practices we recommend are reaffirmed across all of…
Benchmarking Student Career Development
In our discussions with university program leadership we have found a great deal of interest in getting more involved in their student’s career development. Career development has traditionally not…
The worst advice a parent may give their child in University is ‘just focus on your studies’
Last month we were invited to introduce Acadiate’s student professionalism platform to 600 first-year students at the University of Toronto. In the first half of our presentation, we talked about…
5 mistakes most university students and graduates make in their job search
We’ve had thousands of interactions with university students, unemployed graduates, successfully employed graduates, top recruiters, and career development professionals. Our conversations across these different groups have given us a unique…