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Career

The Experience Paradox, And How To Beat It: Using Project-Based College Work to Land Your First Job

When freshly-minted college graduates are looking for their first jobs, many are frustrated by what can best be described as the experience paradox.  Many supposedly entry-level post-college jobs ask for one or two years of experience.  I’ve heard many graduating seniors exclaim, with warranted frustration, “How can I get my first job, if all of these supposedly first jobs want one or two years of experience?”

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Uncategorized

Spring into Design Forward

The CoLab is excited to announce a new PSU faculty development program launching in spring of 2022. Design Forward was first piloted with a group of CPLC participants last summer;

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Information Literacy

Info Lit Partnerships

For University Days (my institution’s internal professional development days) I’m offering a roundtable session on what information literacy looks like and could look like on our campus. I’ll kick off

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Diversity & Inclusion

Inclusive Attendance-Taking

The CoLab asked Dr. Herzig for permission to publish the text of this email, which she sent to our faculty at the beginning of the semester. If you need more

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Interdisciplinary Studies

Everyone Is a Teacher

These remarks were written for the dedication ceremony for the Elizabeth W. Cheney Studio Theatre at Plymouth State University. By some strange turns of fate, I have ended up working

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Surveillance

Against Proctoring Software

(This letter is adapted and expanded from the work of the Contra Costa College Distance Education Committee, which was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This letter

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