Synopses & Reviews
Sweeping changes in work and academe are threatening placement centers with irrelevancy. The rise of entrepreneurial firms, the prevalence of career change, the shifting structure of knowledge, and the changing student body demographics demand a creative response. Present proposals for change, however, ignore basic questions and instead focus on technology, programs, and publicity. This book presents a new approach, a nine-part paradigm aimed at creating a more entrepreneurial, proactive, empowering, multidisciplinary future. Freeman presents specific ideas for invigorating old programs and creating dynamic new ones, offers a redefinition of the external relationships, applies process reengineering to strategy, and presents a vision of placement centers linked with learning. Devoted to serving students, Freeman brings a humanistic perspective along with models from state-of-the-art business practice to a new vision for college placement centers.
Synopsis
Shows how the placement center can be the most exciting place on campus, how the internal operations of the center can reflect levels of trust, creativity, and performance, and how student needs can be served.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-186) and index.
About the Author
JOEY FREEMAN is Associate Director for Student Affairs at the Atlanta, Georgia campus of National-Louis University.
Table of Contents
Preface
A Gathering Storm: Setting the Context
Blind Alleys and Bromides: 18 Approaches That Will Lead Nowhere
A Systems Perspective of the Placement Center
The New Paradigm for the Placement Center
A Process View of the New Paradigm
The People of the Placement Center
A Word from the Author - Summary and Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index