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The Center for Career Develoment and Community-Based Learning

337 Morehead Hall
Telephone: (973) 655-5194

The Center for Career Services and Community-based learning provides students with the opportunity to advance both their career
and civic development. Through one-on-one counseling, interest testing, online tools, workshops, internships, job fairs, and credit-bearing
experiential education courses, the Center helps students focus their interests, explore majors, apply classroom learning to the workplace,
and attain the knowledge, skills and motivation to productive and engaged citizens. The Center's extensive web site at www.montclair.edu/CareerServices serves the Center's varied constituencies with links relevant to current undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty and employers.

Career Services

The Center assists undergraduates and graduate students with all phases of their career development, from choosing a major and finding a part-time work to planning long-range career goals and obtaining full-time work after graduation. In career planning and job hunting workshops and through individual counseling and vocational testing, students learn to set career goals, write effective resumes, and conduct successful interviews and job searches.The library has extensive information about careers, employers, employment trends, and graduate and professional schools. Other services include a computer lab where students can create their resumes, and attend Internet based workshops on career topics. Each year the office lists thousands of full-time, part-time and summer jobs area employers who also participate in our annual career fair and visit the campus to interview graduating seniors for full-time employment. In addition, the Center serves the campus community by listing all on-campus student jobs.

Experiential Education Courses

The Center offers students applied learning opportunities that foster personal and professional growth through cooperative education and service learning courses. Within the University curriculum there are work-based and service-based courses designed to prepare studennts for professional and civic engagement. Arranged and monitored by faculty and staff, students go off-campus to experience applied learning in community settings, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. Professional staff enters into educational partnerships with business and non-profit organizations that assist students explore how classroom theory translates to effective workplace practices, Since its inception, Over 11,000 MSU alumni from all Schools and Colleges and 900 business and non-profit organizations have participated in the copperative education courses of study. Both full and part-time, paid and stipend internships positions are available to students. These positions meet co-op work-learning criteria and are arranged for a minimum of one full semester. Service-learning fosters the development of informed and involved citizens through the integration of service to the community with academic coursework. This interdisciplinary, issue-oriented approach enables faculty and students to address the complex nature of community problems, and to provide community organizations with service that is responsive to their needs. Current service priorities include: literacy; service to older adults; leadership; substance abuse prevention; and at-risk youth.

The Service-learning Faculty Fellows Program

The purpose of this initiative is to develop a cadre of faculty to integrate the philosophy, pedagogy, and process of service-learning into their teaching, research and professional service. This Program is expected to increase the quality of the service-learning, institutionalize service-learning as a pedagogy by increasing the number and variety of service-learning courses, and lend greater legitimacy to service-learning when reappointment, tenure and promotion evaluations are made.

Supporting Faculty Scholarship