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Providing adequate resources for undergraduate students’ career development has been of utmost importance to meet demands from national agencies and industry leaders. At Arizona State University, the size of the undergraduate populations in the School of Life Sciences (SOLS) grew from 1,591 to 3,661, an increase of over 130% from 2003-2017. As of December 19, 2019, SOLS hosted a record 5,318 undergraduate majors on campus and 1,646 students in its online biological sciences program. This steady increase in life science undergraduate student enrollment at ASU attested to the need for appropriate career development education to be woven into the curriculum. Under the framework of higher education’s purpose to provide adequate resources for career success, a career development intervention was designed and implemented as a career planning course for life science students. The purpose of this project was to provide a continuum of job and career information to SOLS’ students to ensure they had appropriate, comprehensive information as they learned about and considered various career opportunities in the life sciences. Three theoretical perspectives guided the research project: Holland’s (1985, 1997) theory of vocational personalities and their connections to work environments, Sampson, Peterson, Reardon and Lenz’s (2003) cognitive information processing career decision theory (CIP), and Bandura’s (1986) self-efficacy theory. Survey results showed increases in all seven constructs—knowledge of career exploration and development tasks, perception of possible professional and career goals and opportunities, goal selection, occupational information, problem solving, planning, self-appraisal—over time among the students. Interview data indicated students noted (a) enrollment in the course for reasons such as determining a career choice that met their needs and preferences while managing expectations and pressures from external sources; (b) broadening perceptions of career options, and (c) developing career exploration and planning skills. The success from this discipline-specific career development course was timely because university leaders were seeking solutions to increase students’ career readiness. The discussion focused on complementarity of the data, connections to the extant research, implications for practice and research, personal lessons learned, and a conclusion.
ContributorsChristianson, Serena L. (Author) / Buss, Ray R. (Thesis advisor) / Fong, Raquel (Committee member) / Reardon, Robert (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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This Project Report documents the accomplishments of an extraordinary group of students, faculty, and staff at the Arizona state University, who participated in a year-long, multidisciplinary, first-of-its-kind academic endeavor entitled “The Making of a COVID Lab.” The lab that is the focus of this project is the ASU Biodesign Clinical Testing Laboratory, known simply as the ABCTL.
ContributorsCompton, Carolyn C. (Project director) / Christianson, Serena L. (Project director) / Floyd, Christopher (Project director) / Schneller, Eugene S (Research team head) / Rigoni, Adam (Research team head) / Stanford, Michael (Research team head) / Cheong, Pauline (Research team head) / McCarville, Daniel R. (Research team head) / Dudley, Sean (Research team head) / Blum, Nita (Research team head) / Magee, Mitch (Research team head) / Agee, Claire (Research team member) / Cosgrove, Samuel (Research team member) / English, Corinne (Research team member) / Mattson, Kyle (Research team member) / Qian, Michael (Research team member) / Espinoza, Hale Anna (Research team member) / Filipek, Marina (Research team member) / Jenkins, Landon James (Research team member) / Ross, Nathaniel (Research team member) / Salvatierra, Madeline (Research team member) / Serrano, Osvin (Research team member) / Wakefield, Alex (Research team member) / Calo, Van Dexter (Research team member) / Nofi, Matthew (Research team member) / Raymond, Courtney (Research team member) / Barwey, Ishna (Research team member) / Bruner, Ashley (Research team member) / Hymer, William (Research team member) / Krell, Abby Elizabeth (Research team member) / Lewis, Gabriel (Research team member) / Myers, Jack (Research team member) / Ramesh, Frankincense (Research team member) / Reagan, Sage (Research team member) / Kandan, Mani (Research team member) / Knox, Garrett (Research team member) / Leung, Michael (Research team member) / Schmit, Jacob (Research team member) / Woo, Sabrina (Research team member) / Anderson, Laura (Research team member) / Breshears, Scott (Research team member) / Majhail, Kajol (Research team member) / Ruan, Ellen (Research team member) / Smetanick, Jennifer (Research team member) / Bardfeld, Sierra (Research team member) / Cura, Joriel (Research team member) / Dholaria, Nikhil (Research team member) / Foote, Hannah (Research team member) / Liu, Tara (Research team member) / Raymond, Julia (Research team member) / Varghese, Mahima (Research team member)
Created2021