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Again, this strategic priority focuses more on expanding the network from which resources can be pooled and utilized for students.
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color:#ffffe0;">Strategic Priority #7.3 (Shirley Liu 2021): Liberal Arts Consortium</span></span></span>
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One of the most common impressions people have about liberal art college is what students learn in school could not be applied well in industry or life post-graduation in general. Although it's not at all the case, there is indeed a gap between academia and industry faculty and students are concerned about. Alumni resource is very helpful in bridging student's academic work and interest and the industry since they are people who have gone through similar experiences and could provide the most updated insight of a specific industry. There is already an alumni network database students can access via a webpage, which stores alumni's name, occupation, major at Swarthmore, internship/externship opportunities they can provide, interest, etc. However, students at Swarthmore were not the most familiar with this webpage because it is 1) not the most advertised and 2) relatively hard to process and organize the search results. To improve the user experience of the webpage, I'm envisioning a map that utilizes the current alumni information in the database and represents it in the format of a map that shows where the alumni are, what company they're working for, what kind of opportunity they can provide, etc. This idea is inspired by the off-campus studies website, which employs a map to represent all the study-abroad programs and exchange programs while providing information on past participants of the programs.
The stakeholders for this project would be: career service faculties, ITS team, alumni, and students. Some current constraints are:
1) Whether the school would like to invest time and money to better the current alumni network webpage;
2) How busy the career services faculty and ITS staff s and whether we would be adding a huge workload on their plate;
3) How much information does alumni want to provide regarding their current professional life and whether they're willing to constantly update the information;
4) How many people are able to dedicate their time to develope this webpage and how are we going to pay for their work
Suppose we have overcome all the obstacles, these are the steps to realize this project:
1) Consult the off-campus studies office to see what they did/needed for the map representation of programs
2) Hold a stakeholder meeting to set a budget and time frame for the development
3) Talk with spear-headed people from career services and ITS to map out the timeline
4) Secure testers to provide feedback for the prototypes of the webpage
5) Check-in with all parties monthly to monitor the progress
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