Dear Colleagues —

As many of you know, the Career Center and the Office of Institutional Research, advised by a cross-campus taskforce, undertook a major effort to update and strategically deploy the First Destination Survey (FDS) (fka Survey of Recent Graduates).

Now, I can report that the first phase of the deployment is complete and we successfully achieved a record high response rate at both the undergraduate and graduate levels (see previous year response rates).

• 55% undergraduate response rate
• 79% graduate student response rate
  does not include grad business and law

The results of this survey will give us unprecedented level of insight into our students' post-graduation career outcomes at time of graduation. The Office of Institutional Research will begin to clean and sort the data, and we will make available the results (internally) as soon as possible. 

Thank you to Conor Roycroft, the entire Career Center team, and all who have supported this historic effort: Amelia Fuller, Amy Eriksson, Amy Randall, Brenda Versteeg, Brett Solomon, Britt Cain, Cary Watson, Casey Robertson, Christelle Sabatier, Cory Gong, Daniel Press, Daniel Turkeltaub, Diane Idemoto, Ed Grier, Elaine Scott, Frank Farris, Jana Hee, Janice Jorgenson, Jessica Gopp, Jia Seow, Jim Bennett, Jo-Anne Shibles, Joseph Morris, José Ortigas, Kathy Stoehr, Katie Williams, Katy Korsmeyer, Lee Panich, Lisa Swendsen, Lisa Whitfield, Melissa Brotherton, Pauline Phuong Nguyen, Ruth Mikusko, Sarah Hays, Scott LaBarge, Shane Wibeto, Stacey Tinker, Toby McChesney, and Takeshi Moro.

As always, I am excited to work together to deliver on the promise of higher education for all of our students: a good job, social capital, and economic mobility in pursuit of a more humane, just and sustainable world.

Thank you,

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Our Summer Workshop Series continues! More than 200 Santa Clara students and alumni have registered. And because these workshops are free and open to the public, other registrants and participants have included people from Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, North Carolina State University, Vanderbilt University and more. Just one way the Career Center continues to deliver value far beyond our campus.

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The Career Center is pleased to announce that Vania Tong has been selected to represent Santa Clara University on the Career Pathways for our Profession Committee convened by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

This committee, which will include senior representatives from companies and institutions such as Johnson & Johnson, Uber, Spelman College, Chapman University, and more,  "will articulate the job architecture by which members of our profession are organized and will include characteristics like job titles, levels and typical responsibilities."

Recently, Vania, along with Colleen Withers, presented at the NACE Annual Conference in Orlando. By joining this committee, Vania continues to build her reputation nationally as a thought leader in our field. 

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Andrew Gupton, Assistant Director of Employer Relations for STEM and Innovation, was recently invited to co-lead a Career Launch course as part of the "Healthcare Innovation and Design Experience — Career Paths in Biotechnology" pathways program led by Professor Prashanth Asuri and supported by a grant from the Genentech Foundation. This summer, alongside Marieli Rubio '21, Partner and Director of Impact at Career Launch, Andrew has been helping high school students learn how to build strategic social capital using the Career Launch method.

Learn more about the "Healthcare Innovation and Design Experience — Career Paths in Biotechnology" pathways program.

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Questions, concerns, ideas, suggestions?
Please email careercenter@scu.edu.