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uConnect Roundtable: Community Colleges

Career center leaders from five community colleges shared how they reach part-time and working students, earn trust from Marketing and IT, partner with faculty, and build employer relationships. Watch the recording for practical, scalable ideas your team can put to use right away.

In this roundtable, community college career center leaders swapped strategies for reaching busy students, building campus partnerships, and making a big impact with a small team.

Recorded: November 12, 2026

Who joined: Central New Mexico Community College, Clovis Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, Highland Community College, and Pima Community College

Roundtable highlights:

  • Reaching busy students: CNM’s virtual career center lets part-time and working students find what they need on their own schedule. It also makes CNM’s promise of lifetime career services possible. CCP reaches evening and online students through happy hours, Saturday workshops, and a new career clothing boutique.
  • Earning Marketing and IT trust: CNM recommends framing your career site as an extension of the main college website. Check in often, meet branding standards, and build a relationship with your web team. CNM’s marketing team now lets the career division own its site.
  • Partnering with faculty: Clovis embeds NACE competencies into required English courses and hosted a faculty resource fair with QR codes and classroom presentation requests. Their tip is to plan with faculty over the summer, before syllabi are set.
  • The 3-2-1 Career Fair Mission: CCP’s index-card assignment asks students to engage with 3 employers, ask 2 questions, and leave with 1 connection. Students explore with purpose, and employers get better conversations.
  • Employer partnerships: CNM gives employers one phone number and one email for the whole college, backed by Salesforce and Symplicity. Clovis advocates directly with employers on behalf of students and is building apprenticeship pipelines.
  • Making the case to leadership: Point to peer and transfer institutions that already use the same tools. As CCP put it, “If it’s good enough for them, why not our students?”

Key takeaway:

Small teams can make a big impact with scalable tools, faculty champions, and strong campus partnerships.

Roundtable Recording: 

Watch the recording in our Career Everywhere Community. 

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