This is a brief update on the Agriculture Workforce Training for Collaborative Leadership (AWT4CL) project. Our intent is to send a message like this once a month to keep various stakeholders informed of activities and opportunities related to the project. If this is no longer of interest to you, please reply to let us know. Otherwise, here’s the news…
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AWT4CL Update for February 2023
Career-Readiness Missing the Mark: According to a recent article in Inside Higher Ed, "Career-Readiness Initiatives are Missing the Mark" The writer highlights three problems: “a misunderstanding of the nature of skills themselves, an overreliance on off-campus work-based learning as opposed to more accessible work-integrated learning in the classroom and a lack of guidance to help students navigate what can be a dizzying array of career-related learning opportunities available to them.” The AWT4CL project is working to address these issues.
Resume-Worthy Skills: An AgHires blog post describes “Valuable Soft Skills to Include on an Agriculture Resume,” including adaptability, problem-solving, decision-making, time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills. This advice may be worth sharing with students.
Cohort Blogging: Last month, Dr. Mallory White explored the potential benefits of social interactions and personal buy-in with grading rubrics. In Mallory’s post, you can see an example rubric and student feedback on the experience. All of the AWT4CL project-related blog posts are available at the following URL: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/awt/blog
Advancing the Cohort: The AWT4CL cohort met via Zoom in January to connect and discuss topics of mutual interest, including PDSA projects, opportunities to share key insights with a broader audience, and the potential of incorporating digital badges into a learning management system. We look forward to the presentations and enhancements that emerge from those conversations.
This work is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) 2020-67037-31032 1022287 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Inquiries about the project should be directed to Dr. Eric K. Kaufman, the primary investigator. Additional information about the grant is available online at the USDA-NIFA project portal.
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