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Effective Monday, July 14, 2025 MATC faculty, staff and students will log into Blackboard using their MATC email address, password and now DUO.
All students aspire to succeed in their first post-graduation role. Everything they're learning now, including their interpersonal interactions, will be crucial. By emphasizing the development of soft skills—core abilities employers seek in new hires—we can help them avoid unintentional missteps as they embark on their careers.
What are Career Essentials?
What are Career Essentials?
MATC's institutional learning outcomes are known as Career Essentials. These are the skills, knowledge, habits, and attitudes that all students will demonstrate by graduation, workforce entry, or transfer.
All MATC programs teach and assess three Career Essentials:
Effective Communication: Communicate effectively through writing, listening, and speaking to convey ideas clearly and respectfully in various contexts
Effective Problem Solving: Solve problems efficiently and creatively by applying technical knowledge and structured problem-solving methods
Professionalism: Demonstrate professionalism by being reliable, responsible, respectful, ethical, and accountable in all interactions and tasks
How to Assess Students?
How to Assess Students?
Faculty integrate Career Essentials into each program’s curriculum and identify courses suitable for introducing, practicing, and assessing each Career Essential. This is typically done through an assignment in Blackboard. Career Essentials are also reinforced through cocurricular activities.
Aggregated assessment data is updated every semester and available to faculty via myMATC.
Questions?
Questions?
For more information about Career Essentials, please visit our Assessment of Student Learning page.
If you have questions about Career Essentials, email the Quality, Planning and Assessment department at learning-assessment@matc.edu.
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