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Wildcat Workforce

Scaling Up and Reaching All Stakeholders

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Amplify

Develop

Engage

Community Breakfast

Faculty Fellows

Ongoing Support & Visibility

Engage: Community Breakfast

Build awareness, connection, and shared purpose

  • Create a welcoming space for faculty to explore how the 10 Essential Skills are already embedded in their teaching
  • Highlight faculty examples
  • Share available support and launch Faculty Fellows Initiative

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Develop: Faculty Fellows (Summer 2026-Spring 2027 Wildcat Workforce & Assessment Institute)

Reflect, align, and create evidence

  • Provide structured time to support reflection and alignment of PSLOs and curriculum maps
  • Support the development of meaningful assessments and rubrics

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Amplify: Ongoing Support & Visibility

Sustain momentum and elevate faculty work

  • Revised PSLOs Plans from undergraduate programs
  • Celebrate faculty leadership & student success
  • Ongoing support

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Faculty: Engagement and Sustainability

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TEK Faculty Fellows

Build essential skills into new and existing courses

  • A year-long program facilitated jointly by the TEK Office and CELT
  • Currently facilitating the third cohort of TEK Faculty Fellows
  • High-visibility program that generates faculty champions and instructional resources that scale

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CELT Workshops and Other Activities

Raise visibility of essential skills and methods of teaching, learning, and assessing them across the curriculum

  • Leverage CELT presence and network as hub for instructional development at UK
  • Provide both practical methods and rigorous conceptualizations of skills-based teaching and learning
  • Workshops linked either to specific skills and deep-dive resources (below) or skills-based issues broadly
  • Raise awareness around Graduate Profile in other CELT activities: consultations, presentations, etc.

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Resources for Teaching and Learning

Provide rigorous and evidence-based templates and examples for adapting in any curricular environment

  • One deep-dive guide per essential skill with explanations, rubrics, templates, and examples
  • Guides include AI-enhanced and AI-aware sections connected to the essential skill

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Faculty: Educational Development, Teaching, and Learning

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Faculty: Embedding WW in Courses

Draft: Wildcat Workforce Syllabus Statement

This course has been identified as helping students to gain skills to become a part of the Wildcat Workforce. In this course, you will practice skills in:

{instructor should insert which of the 10 essential skills are included in the course}

To learn more about how you can articulate these skills on your resume, in interviews, and on the job, please discuss with your instructor, academic advisor, or visit the Stuckert Career Center.

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New Programs: Embedding the 10 Essential Skills from the Start

    • Revised PSLO Plan template to align PSLOs and curriculum maps with the relevant 10 Essential Skills
    • Developed Assessment Plan Guidebook that encourages workforce alignment

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Wildcat Workforce Alignment and Assessment Institute

  • OSPIE led faculty development program to assist faculty with aligning curriculum with Wildcat Workforce 

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Existing Programs: Strengthening Visibility of Essential Skills

  • Revised Annual PSLO Report to align PSLOs with  10 Essential Skills

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Programs: Alignment and Assessment

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Survey Question

Pre-Survey

Post-Survey

F 2025 Growth

F 2024 Growth

(for comparison)

Q1 Career Plans

64.8

72.8

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3.83

Q2 Career Skills

63.9

76.3

12.4

9.7

Q3 Multiple Perspectives

70.6

75.5

4.9

2.14

Percentage of students who answered 3 – Quite a bit or 4 – Very Much

Students: FYE Experience Growth

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Strengthening Visibility of Essential Skills

    • Beginning in Fall 2026, all Stuckert Career Center PowerPoint presentations will include a dedicated slide highlighting the 10 Essential Skills.
    • The 10 Essential Skills will be prominently displayed throughout the Career Center for students and external guests.
    • TEK student ambassadors create social media content highlighting the 10 Essential Skills in TEK courses
    • Course syllabi highlight skills developed in individual courses

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Students: Awareness and Articulation

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Spring 2026 Student Survey 

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Extent of student awareness of 10 Essential Skills/Wildcat Workforce

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Which 10 Essential Skills/Wildcat Workforce areas students value

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How instructors and others at UK can enhance student awareness of 10 Essential Skills/Wildcat Workforce and help them articulate these skills when applying and interviewing for jobs post-graduation

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A random sample of approximately 2,000 undergraduate students will receive this survey

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Students: Engaging their Voices and Informing Decisions