BACKGROUND

Many college students don't know what they want to do with their lives, even after graduating. University alumni departments support their graduates with services intended to lead to a career or an internship.

It is well-documented in findings of Gallup, and others, that 70% of the workplace is dissatisfied. High levels of career stress are consistently found to lead to physical and mental illness.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Challenge: Throughout the United States and Canada, a surprisingly large percentage of university graduates and alumni have not found placement in a satisfying career or internship matching their degree. How can we support university graduates, and those approaching graduation, to achieve a career placement that will be fulfilling, long term.

Specific Project Objective: Experiential student outcomes derived from conducting student research about student attitudes and beliefs related to how they engage their college opportunity, and how their college serves them

Potential Specific Activities of University/College Student Interns

• Overall: This project is imagined as an experiential opportunity to engage the theories learned from relevant university coursework and to then manifest these learnings into specific recommendations for actual project implementation. Additional student research, to support the Project Objective noted above, to focus on understanding the Passion Spark Retreat.

Many educational institutions measure their student successes in part, based on employment rates, income their graduates earn, and “Work-life balance."

• Implementation I: Prepare a salient and well-organized summary of the research findings about their fellow students, detailed data tables and graphs that support their summary, and, optionally how they believe the Passion Spark Retreat would support their college's students accomplishing their career goals.

• Implementation II (optional): [See a description of this optional "Implementation II" below.]

WIth it's mission of guiding students to "do what you love and earn a good living," Passion Spark staff is committed to supporting students with a Socratic Method to project success.

To learn more about how Passion Spark staff relates to and supports its students, please see student postings here on the Riipen site which contain their feedback related to this topic.

• Implementation II (Optional): Based upon the findings of the student-conducted research noted above, prepare a detailed sequential set of steps for implementing Passion Spark at your college to serve either one or all of these three populations:

1. new students to the college; 2. students who are near-graduation; and 3. students who have graduated. Steps to be rooted in actual realities present at the college, to whom should the first call be made, or email be sent, to this colleges administrator in order to explore implementing Passion Spark (and what initial information should be provided during this initial contact).