Chair Joseph asks how CUNY connects returning students to career readiness

Because the research showed that students who study abroad develop leadership skills and 21st century skills often sought by employers, how many U.S.

Colleges purposely help their returning students connect students with study abroad experiences to career readiness activities and job search?

Does CUNY do anything like that through advisors or other?

the means.

So I think you hit on something we would like to do a lot more of.

And it is happening at some of our campuses.

But I'd like to revisit an important set of statistics that Stephen first brought up about the sheer number of students that are supported by

study abroad staff at our campuses.

And the focus on advisement and preparation and support while students are abroad sometimes stretches them a bit thin.

So it's really the better resourced, but also just the very ambitious campuses, which is one of the reasons I asked Stephen first to join us today to highlight some of those practices

that make a really serious reentry agenda possible.

And I think another thing that speaks in favor of broadening those types of practices is the fact that our career services offices are becoming.

Much more elevated, there's much more attention to their work.

And it's a very exciting part of what CUNY is doing.

And so connecting with those offices and saying, we can connect our students with you at a very pivotal point in their undergraduate careers when they have a lot to process, but need your support in finding a way to articulate this

in their resumes, in their cover letters, in

interviews is one of the most beneficial things that we can do.

So Stephen can give some examples of how this can work.