TY - JOUR
T1 - Building student employability through interdisciplinary collaboration
T2 - an Australian Case Study
AU - Lin-Stephens, Serene
AU - Kubicki, Josette M.
AU - Jones, Fiona
AU - Whiting, Martin J.
AU - Uesi, John
AU - Bulbert, Matthew W.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the Chief Editor and the reviewers for their thorough review and constructive input, which greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. We also acknowledge the collegial efforts between the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Library, and the Career and Employment Service without which the long-term learning and teaching engagement utilizing multiple expertise for student benefits would not have happened. We especially thank the Macquarie University Strategic Priority Grant 2015 for its support of this project, and Augusta University Libraries for supporting Josette Kubicki in continuing the collaboration of this paper with her former colleagues.
Funding Information:
The authors thank the Chief Editor and the reviewers for their thorough review and constructive input, which greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. We also acknowledge the collegial efforts between the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Library, and the Career and Employment Service without which the long-term learning and teaching engagement utilizing multiple expertise for student benefits would not have happened. We especially thank the Macquarie University Strategic Priority Grant 2015 for its support of this project, and Augusta University Libraries for supporting Josette Kubicki in continuing the collaboration of this paper with her former colleagues.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2019/7/3
Y1 - 2019/7/3
N2 - Given that graduate employment is a clear outcome of education success, there is an urgent need to conceptualize course design strategically to maximize students’ chances of employment. In this paper, we present an Australian case study in which we used a structured career information literacy learning approach to build employability in a biological sciences capstone course, through collaboration between the university library, academics, and career service. We report the context, method, measurement, outcomes of collaboration, and roles of contributors in this partnership. This case study lends itself to potential ways of incorporating career information literacy into an academic context.
AB - Given that graduate employment is a clear outcome of education success, there is an urgent need to conceptualize course design strategically to maximize students’ chances of employment. In this paper, we present an Australian case study in which we used a structured career information literacy learning approach to build employability in a biological sciences capstone course, through collaboration between the university library, academics, and career service. We report the context, method, measurement, outcomes of collaboration, and roles of contributors in this partnership. This case study lends itself to potential ways of incorporating career information literacy into an academic context.
KW - Academic libraries
KW - career information literacy
KW - career service
KW - employability
KW - science capstone
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U2 - 10.1080/10691316.2019.1674027
DO - 10.1080/10691316.2019.1674027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074112980
SN - 1069-1316
VL - 26
SP - 234
EP - 251
JO - College and Undergraduate Libraries
JF - College and Undergraduate Libraries
IS - 3
ER -