Focus on Student Purpose

WatSEE-aligned Actions

A sense of meaning/purpose can provide stability in a rapidly changing world.

  • Through student interactions, encourage students to reflect on the relevance of their courses to the types of work that they might find meaningful and that align with their:
    • Values and needs
    • Talents and skills
    • Ways of engaging with the world of work
    • Wishes to make impact
  • Increase student awareness about Centre for Career Development workshops and appointments that can help them explore holistic career goals and identify relevant experiences
  • Suggest students talk to people they know (friends, family, instructors, TAs, etc.) to learn more about the types of problems being addressed in different fields and careers, drawing connections to their own self-understanding

Resources

Centre for Career Development
Homepage

Office of the Associate Provost, Cooperative & Experiential Education
Future-Proof Students

Equity Accelerator
Supporting Self Efficacy by Integrating Self-Relevance and a Sense of Purpose into Your Course

Forbes
The Future of Work is Rooted in Purpose