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CSTEM Career Fellows Initiative

The CSTEM Career Fellows is a group of faculty representatives from each department within CSTEM tasked with becoming career readiness advocates in their fields in order to further contribute to a culture of career readiness for students. The HSI-STEM and K-16 Collaborative grants funded this initiative.

The Career Readiness Maps created by the CSTEM Career Fellows continues to support students as they build skills and confidence in their chosen fields.

• CSTEM Career Fellows

  Co-Directors: Jackie Trischman, Dean of CSTEM, and Breanna Caso, STEM Career and Internship Specialist

  Fellows by Department

  Departments	Faculty Representative	Email Address
  Biological Sciences	Dr. Elinne Becket	ebecket@csusm.edu
  Chemistry and Biochemistry	Dr. Kang Du	kdu@csusm.edu
  Computer Science and Engineering	Dr. Youwen Ouyang	ouyang@csusm.edu
  Electrical and Computer Engineering/Physics	Dr. Justin Morris	jmorris@csusm.edu
  Mathematics	Dr. Andre Kundgen	akundgen@csusm.edu

   

• CSTEM Career Fellow Learning Objectives

  1. Becoming the career readiness representatives for their department by developing as career readiness advocates and experts in their disciplines and serving as their department鈥檚 primary contact for careers and internships including a student point of contact.

  2. Conducting inventory of career readiness materials and practices in their departments. Establishing regular reporting structures within their departments for sharing updates and resources with a focus on what faculty are currently doing or could be doing to prepare students for their careers.

  3. Implementing the necessary centralized infrastructure for academic internships within the college to create consistency and establish a sustainable model.

  4. Teaching the internship courses and acting as the department liaison for academic internships.

  5. Designing a career readiness map that is tailored to each major.

  6. Contributing to and spreading a culture of career readiness across faculty, staff, and students in their departments.

  7. Emphasizing the importance of internships in the classroom and promoting enrollment in their internship courses.

  8. Developing a plan for how to make this work sustainable after the 3-year grant ends considering renewed state and federal emphasis on career readiness.