2014-15 Assessment Plan
Department: Olinde Career Center/Career Decision-Making
Career Decision-Making
4-Year Career Plan Workshop
Divisional Mission
To recruit, admit, engage, retain, and graduate a diverse student population for success
at LSU and beyond. We enhance learning by fostering critical thinking and ethical
responsibility to create a university experience that transforms lives.
Departmental Mission
To assist students and alumni in choosing careers, obtaining career-related work
experiences while in school, developing job search skills, and securing employment or
admission to graduate or professional school.
Program/Service Area Description (OPTIONAL)
Career Decision-Making.
Student Success Outcome(s)/Strategic Plan Goal(s)
Student Success: Create environments which foster/promote engagement, retention,
graduation and transition to a career.
Persistence & Academic Achievement: By learning how to use the 4-Year Career Plan,
students will have a better understanding of what steps need to be taken to get on the
right track as soon as they enter college. Understanding and utilizing this tool can help
students to be more prepared for the world of work or applying to graduate or
professional school upon graduation.
Project Specifics
Project Title:
Tiger Bridge 4-Year Career Plan Workshop.
Purpose of the project:
To assess student learning outcomes and the impact of the workshop on
participants. Understanding the 4 major areas of the plan will be assessed. These
areas include: Awareness, Exploration, Experience and Transitions.
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Career Decision-Making
Assessment Method:
A survey will be given to all students that attend the Tiger Bridge 4-Year Career
plan workshop.
Staff contact(s):
Arronza Azard aazard@lsu.edu, Gwanette Johnson gjohnson3@lsu.edu
Timeline/frequency:
This is a one time workshop and the survey will be given to students after the
presentation is done.
Population/Sample to be assessed:
Students who are enrolled in the Tiger Bridge Program.
Special challenges to this assessment:
There should not be any challenges with this assessment.
Use to improve current practice:
To determine if learning objectives are being met and to measure the overall
effectiveness of the 4-Year Career Plan Workshop. The workshop content will be
changed based on student feedback. If learning outcomes were met, this
workshop will be used for future presentations.
Plans for reporting results:
The Career Decision-Making team will discuss the results in our staff meeting.
Results will also be reported in the monthly and annual reports.
Campus Labs Used:
Yes
No
Summary of Results:
Outcomes:
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Experiential Education
Experiential Education
Divisional Mission
To recruit, admit, engage, retain, and graduate a diverse student population for success
at LSU and beyond. We enhance learning by fostering critical thinking and ethical
responsibility to create a university experience that transforms lives.
Departmental Mission
To assist students and alumni in choosing careers, obtaining career-related work
experiences while in school, developing job search skills, and securing employment or
admission to graduate or professional school.
Program/Service Area Description (OPTIONAL)
Experiential Education serves all majors by offering assistance in gaining career-related
experience through internships, cooperative education, part-time jobs and volunteer
opportunities.
Student Success Outcome(s)/Strategic Plan Goal(s)
Citizenship and Social Responsibility
Project Specifics
Project Title:
Assessment of LSU Student Preparation for Internship/Co-op positions
Purpose of the project:
To measure the level of preparation of LSU students participating in internships
and cooperative education positions.
Assessment Method:
Survey students via Campus Labs.
Staff contact(s):
Susan Feinberg sfeinbe@lsu.edu and Kayla Kucharchuk kayla@lsu.edu
Timeline/frequency:
Students will be assessed as they obtain an internship/co-op position and after.
Population/Sample to be assessed:
Students obtaining internships/co-op positions through On Campus Interviewing
and Careers2Geaux (and possibly students earning course credit).
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Experiential Education
Special challenges to this assessment:
Number of students completing the survey.
Use to improve current practice:
Results will help us determine future need for further preparation of students
(programming if necessary).
Plans for reporting results:
Provide findings to Manager of Communication to list in Annual Report, on
Olinde Career Center website, and material for the Internship Council.
Campus Labs Used:
Yes
No
Summary of Results:
Outcomes:
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Employment Services
Employment Services
Divisional Mission
To recruit, admit, engage, retain, and graduate a diverse student population for success
at LSU and beyond. We enhance learning by fostering critical thinking and ethical
responsibility to create a university experience that transforms lives.
Departmental Mission
To assist students and alumni in choosing careers, obtaining career-related work
experiences while in school, developing job search skills, and securing employment or
admission to graduate or professional school.
Program/Service Area Description (OPTIONAL)
Connect students and alumni with employers.
Student Success Outcome(s)/Strategic Plan Goal(s)
Student Success: Create environments which foster/promote engagement, retention,
graduation, and transition to a career.
Project Specifics
Project Title:
Summer Career Opportunities Fair.
Purpose of the project:
To gather information about how to improve student participation in the
Summer Career Opportunities Fair (SCOF).
Assessment Method:
Post recruiting assessment given to all students who attended the SCOF as well
as on “on site” informal survey with students in person (via Campus
Labs/Baseline).
Staff contact(s):
Trey Truitt trey@lsu.edu, Courtney Edwards courtney@lsu.edu, Jennifer Gomez
gomezj@lsu.edu, Amy Caillouet amyc@lsu.edu, Jessica Sanders
jsand54@lsu.edu
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Employment Services
Timeline/frequency:
A random sampling of students who are at the fair will be surveyed at the event.
Those names will then be removed and an email survey via
CampusLabs/Baseline will be sent post-event to all other students.
Population/Sample to be assessed:
Students who attend SCOF.
Special challenges to this assessment:
1. Getting a comprehensive list of students who attended the event.
2. Getting those students to fill out the survey.
Use to improve current practice:
We are already asking employers who recruit to fill out a survey about the event.
However, we have not surveyed students who were in attendance and have no history
of student feedback. We would like to gather information to see if this event is
meeting the needs of our student population and adjust as needed for future
SCOF events.
Plans for reporting results:
We will report the results to the LSU Olinde Career Center Director.
Campus Labs Used:
Yes
No
Our post recruiting/posting assessment/evaluation for the program will be done
in Campus Labs
Summary of Results:
In order to get a more accurate attendance list of students attending the event, we are going to give
each employer a sign-in sheet and as that they have each student who visits their table sign in. We will
then make a copy so we can better track who attended the event and follow up with those students
after.
We will do an “on the street” survey to random students asking them the questions to assess the event,
ensuring to collect their name/info so that we can exclude them from the electronic survey sent after.
The post event survey will be sent to students who attended the event (gathered from the employer
sign in sheets and C3M, and exclude the duplicates and those that did the “on the street” survey).
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Employment Services
Questions will include the following (but not limited to):
- How did you hear about this event?
- Why did you attend?
- What types of employers would you like to see?
- How many employers did you speak to today?
- Is this an ideal location for career related events?
- Is this an ideal time for this type of career event?
What type of job were you looking for when you visited today (internship, co-op, part-time, volunteer,
other)?
Outcomes:
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Job Search
Job Search
Divisional Mission
To recruit, admit, engage, retain, and graduate a diverse student population for success
at LSU and beyond. We enhance learning by fostering critical thinking and ethical
responsibility to create a university experience that transforms lives.
Departmental Mission
To assist students and alumni in choosing careers, obtaining career-related work
experiences while in school, developing job search skills, and securing employment or
admission to graduate or professional school.
Program/Service Area Description (OPTIONAL)
Job Search: prepare students with life-long skills to market themselves successfully for
life after college.
Student Success Outcome(s)/Strategic Plan Goal(s)
Persistence & Academic Achievement.
Project Specifics
Project Title:
Direct Measures of a Résumé Review Appointment.
Purpose of the project:
Students have historically cited, through an after appointment assessment, that
they feel comfortable with the knowledge they received after meeting with a
staff member. Through a newly designed rubric and learning outcomes for an
individual appointment, our goal is to directly measure student learning during
an appointment.
Assessment Method:
Rubric for pre and post-appointment review.
Staff contact(s):
Jesse Downs jdowns@lsu.edu, Blake Winchell bwinch1@lsu.edu
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Department: Olinde Career Center/Job Search
Timeline/frequency:
Assessment will run from July 14, 2014 to June 30, 2015 for those students who
schedule a résumé review appointment.
Population/Sample to be assessed:
Students who come in for a résumé review and maintain contact with our staff
to get their résumé reviewed electronically after the changes are made to their
document.
Special challenges to this assessment:
Collecting data for this assessment will be completely dependent on students
responding to our offer to take a second look at their resume after they make
our suggested changes. If a student does not email our staff their document
after the appointment, the direct assessment of their learning cannot easily take
place.
Use to improve current practice:
Our goal is to ensure that we are teaching students in a manner that they are
grasping and able to implement on their own. This direct measure of our specific
stated outcomes will give us tangible proof that students truly understand what
we are trying to teach them in a resume review appointment.
Plans for reporting results:
Results will be discussed at bi-weekly Job Search Team meetings and passed up
to the Leadership Team, if necessary.
Campus Labs Used:
Yes
No
Summary of Results:
Outcomes:
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