SFSU Receives $60,000 to Fund Career Services Assessment
San Francisco State University College of Business recently announced that the Eustace-Kwan Foundation made a donation to the school to support Career Planning and Development services. The Eustace-Kwan Foundation supports educational initiatives in the Bay Area. The College of Business will use the donation to hire a consultant with industry experience to create a business plan for the college’s career development programs.
The consultant will begin with a market assessment to determine what skills companies need in new recruits, and then create programs that will ensure that SFSU graduates can meet the needs of the companies. The new programs may include professional presence and awareness training, job search servces, consulting projects, job readiness and retention programming, or other activities. The consultant will perform research, develop related recommendations, and set up a test group to evaluate the benefits of changes to the program.
Linda Oubre, the Dean of the College of Business, said in a statement: “As part of our year-long curriculum renewal study of our graduate programs, we have determined that there is a great need to develop programs that connect the educational experience in the classroom with the career development needs of our students, as well as the hiring needs of our corporate partners. The Eustace-Kwan gift gives us the means to strategically develop programs and initiatives that build upon classroom experience by making our business graduates career-ready.”
