From Soup to Nuts: Constructing a Faculty Fellow Summer Institute

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM EDT

Location: 120 B

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Panelist(s)

Kaitlyn Anderson, MEd (she/her/hers)

Career Readiness Curriculum Designer
Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills, University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, United States

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Nancy Bilmes (she/her/hers)

Director
Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills, University of Connecticut
Amston, Connecticut, United States
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Danielle DeRosa

Assistant Professor in Residence, Sport Management
University of Connecticut, United States

UConn’s Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills enhanced career equity in the classroom through a Faculty Fellow Summer Institute, by providing 14 faculty from various disciplines with strategies to integrate career readiness into their curricula. This session will cover the program’s development, logistics, and data informing its’ future.

Learning Objectives:

Identify faculty engagement opportunities and partnerships that currently exist and how it can be leveraged to strengthen the bridge between academics and career.
Discuss opportunities and challenges of the integration of career readiness into the curricula.
Explore aspects of the Faculty Fellow Summer Institute or methods for faculty engagement that could be scalable within your institution.