The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Division of Undergraduate Education are delighted to welcome applications for our year-long Faculty Learning Community (FLC) Amplifying Career Competencies in Your Courses, which will kick off on September 12, 2025!
We strongly encourage that applicants connect with the appropriate leader(s) in their unit as they move forward with submitting their application.
The goals of our FLC strongly align with the IU Indianapolis 2030 Strategic Plan goals to enhance undergraduate employment prospects, students’ career outcomes, and to increase retention and graduation rates. Research has shown that students are more likely to persist and succeed in courses when instructors persuade students of the value of course outcomes to their lives after college.
The FLC will be led by CTL Career Competency Fellows Patricia Turley, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Sydney Kadinger, Clinical Assistant Professor of Paralegal Studies.
Patricia and Sydney were participants of the 2024 Career Competency Workshop Series in the School of Liberal Arts and successfully transformed their courses to amplify career competencies.
The primary goal is to provide participants with time, structured course revision guidance, peer support, and an incentive to enhance and make visible the integration of career competencies in their courses and improve their students’ career readiness.
Your courses can empower students with the skills they need to thrive beyond graduation and apply their disciplinary learning in their future professions. Without calling on you to significantly overhaul your course, this FLC will help you make visible its career-readiness competencies—such as communication, problem solving, critical thinking, technology, and professionalism—into existing curricula, preparing your students to articulate and demonstrate their competencies to future employers.
Whether you're teaching liberal arts, STEM, or professional programs, this community offers a space to reflect, innovate, and support student success in meaningful ways!
In addition to developing a robust course with a career readiness emphasis for your students, all participants will receive a stipend of $1,000 as professional development funds upon successful completion of the FLC.
All instructors of record from IU Indianapolis, IU Columbus, and IU Fort Wayne, are eligible to apply. Eligible Instructors participating in this FLC will be drawn from all ranks and categories (tenured, tenure-track, lecturers, clinical, and adjunct), and from all course types (in-person, hybrid, or online, etc.).
Please note that faculty from the IU School of Medicine are not eligible to apply to this program.
Application decisions will be communicated by September 5.
The FLC will kick-off on September 12. Participants will attend a 90-minute monthly meeting in a hybrid format from October 2025 through April 2026, except for December 2025.
Meeting dates and time: October 17, November 14, January 16, February 20, March 27, and April 17, at 10 - 11:30 a.m.
The synchronous meetings will include a mix of workshops, presentations by guest speakers from Career Services, students, individual work time, and small-group discussions. Course design, instructional technology, and assessment best practices will form the central aspects of the FLC curriculum.
All participants will be enrolled in a Canvas course which will serve as a repository for resources and a platform to submit artifacts, receive feedback, and engage in peer review.
Participants should expect to spend 3 - 5 hours monthly to prepare for and complete meeting activities.
Participants will receive the stipend upon completion of FLC activities successfully. Successful completion entails:
The workshop provided me with valuable insights and opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues, allowing me to enhance my course design to better support my students. Even small changes made a big difference -- my students consistently share how they feel more confident and better prepared to apply their knowledge beyond the classroom.
Sydney Kadinger, Clinical Assistant Fellow and CTL Career Competency Fellow
Identify and integrate career competencies in your courses by strategically revising course learning outcomes, assignments, and learning activities.
Assess the implementation of the career competencies in your course with direct and indirect measures of student learning.
Engage in peer learning and become a part of a community of instructors amplifying career readiness in their courses.
Specifically, you will be asked to:
Explore NACE career competencies and the Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success.
Write relevant and measurable career competency-based objectives and ensure alignment among learning objectives, assessments, and learning activities.
Articulate value of specific career competencies to students in syllabus and how your course will support students in developing those competencies.
Explore different types and functions of assessments.
Use the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework to design assignments.
Create a rubric using templates and generative A.I.
Explore value and characteristics of inclusive and evidence-based teaching practices
Share drafts of assignments, activities, and syllabus; provide and receive actionable feedback
I know how important job skills are and only thought I gained job skills on a job. This class showed me the importance of communication and decision making. It showed me that I learn skills everywhere, not just in an internship. I wish I had more classes structure like this.
Ayo, sophomore undergraduate, Spring 2025
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