A Pan-Canadian Community of Practice for Senior Career Services Leaders at Colleges, Institutes, and Polytechnics

June 28, 2023, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Calling All Senior Career Services Leaders from Colleges, Institutes and Polytechnics...

CACEE invites you to join a Community of Practice (CoP) that is uniquely tailored to your needs, challenges, and professional learning.

What?

The CoP is driven and informed by the community it serves, with an intent to:

  • Explore emerging trends, issues, and topics identified as a collective
  • Support you in generating solutions and pragmatic approaches to common challenges, opportunities, and what is keeping you up at night
  • Be a space to share resources, exchange ideas, challenge one another, spark innovation, celebrate the wins, and examine common issues in a space focused on leadership
  • Evolve with the college, institute, and polytechnic national landscape

The infrastructure, logistics support, and technology underpinning the CoP will be provided by the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE).

 The CoP will leverage 3 platforms to engage and facilitate dialogue amongst its members:

  1. A national Listerv and e-mail distribution list
  2. A minimum of 2 virtual roundtable sessions per year
  3. 1 in-person roundtable session annually as a part of the CACEE National Conference

** The Listserv will be open to all members of the CoP at no cost as a value-add to the sector.  In order to attend future virtual  and in-person roundtable sessions, members will need to be a part of both the CoP and CACEE.

When?

An inaugural session for the CoP is scheduled for Wednesday  June 28th, 2023 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm Eastern. 

You can register below and there is no cost to attend.  A zoom link and logistics will be sent to you in the days leading up to the session.

If you are interested in being a part of the CoP, but not able to attend on June 28th, please reach out to us at info@cacee.com.  We are happy to provide you with further information and next steps alongside its official launch.

Who?

This CoP will best serve professionals with operational, strategic, and financial accountability for the career services function on their campus, in their faculty or at their institution in any region of Canada.

In the spirit of fairness, it is requested that only the most senior leader from each institution be a part of the CoP. The exception of course being, where there are leaders at a similar job level at an institution with multiple campuses, decentralized operations, or faculty-based career services.

** Please note that the Listserv will be open to all those in roles aligned to the criteria above as a value add to the sector.  In order to be a part of future in-person and virtual roundtable sessions, members need to be a part of both the CoP and CACEE.

CACEE intends to offer additional CoPs as a part of our professional community tailored to the needs of frontline practitioners, disciplines/student identities, and employers.  Stay tuned as these may also be of interest to you or your team!

Why?

It is commonly understood that the professional development needs and opportunities, challenges, and  issues faced by Senior Career Services Leaders at Colleges, Institutes, and Polytechnics are distinct.

In consultation with the sector, it became clear that creating a CoP with a national scope would add significant value, foster greater opportunities for collaboration and best practice sharing, and further professional learning and development across the space.


Join the conversation and share your perspectives on the topics that CoP will explore by signing up for the inaugural session on  June 28th below!  If you have questions or would like to discuss this CoP in greater detail , please reach out to the CACEE National Office at info@cacee.com.