LTC: What Do We Know (Need to Know?) About Our Recent Alumni Outcomes After Carleton? (May 20)

Colleges and universities are increasingly asked to account for what their graduates are doing after receiving their degrees. Departments and programs want to know as well. In this session, Institutional Research and Assessment will present some of what we know about what our alumni are doing, in work and in further education, as well as what we find from surveys about what they learned at Carleton. We will try to address public concerns about the monetary value (ROI) of a college degree, but more importantly also show what we know about how a liberal arts education has added value to the lives of our alumni. We will show some results of collaborations among the Career Center and other offices to use the alumni data warehouse to make alumni outcomes more transparent and available, such as the Pathways project and reports on post-Carleton employment and education, fellowships. The Career Center will discuss plans to engage alumni and parents in helping our students seek internships, externships, and jobs. Students are welcome to attend. Jim Fergerson, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment; Kim Betz, Director of the Career Center; Cherry Danielson, Associate Director of Institutional Research and Assessment.