Strategy 1: Integrating Academic Resources
Goal: Introduce curricular and pedagogical changes designed to build career awareness, deepen engagement, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, increase hands-on activity and problem-solving, integrate academic support, and link more authentically to current workplace practice, thus reducing time to degree completion and non-contributory credit accumulation.
- ENGR 1001 – Exploring Engineering Technology
- ARCH 1205 – Information Design Squared (ID2)
- CMCE 1221 – Introduction to the Built Environment
- Website
- Professional Certifications
- Micro-credentials
Mentors in
first-year courses
- Internship coordinators collaboration
- On Campus Workshops
- External PD Opportunities
- Departments share best practices
- School-wide and Cluster-focused advisory board meetings
Strategy 1 Activities and Accomplishments:
Informational PowerPoint (June 2024)↗
Informational PowerPoint (June 2023)↗
Department Clusters &Meta Major Strategies:
• Exploring Engineering Technology-Departments share best practices
School-wide and Cluster-focused advisory board meetings
• Information Design Squared (ID2) – course submitted and under review by the college curriculum committee
• Introduction to Built Environment- course development in collaboration with ARCH 1101 Introduction to Architecture and ENVC
Peer Mentors:
• Peer Mentors – Mentors in FY Courses in the majors, collaboration with Perkins, RISE, FYP FYLCs
• Internships – Collaborations with CUNY Career Success Fellows, PDC, and academic program Internship Coordinators to share best practices and disseminate opportunities
