Thinking Beyond the Four Years: Assessing a Program for Coaching Career Success

Cohort: 2015
Fellow: Brad Love

The project is a longitudinal partnership with the Vick Center for Strategic Advising, College of Education faculty, Project 2021 staff, and other Longhorns to measure existing attempts to teach useful skills such as emotional intelligence so that students can make constructive decisions while at UT and then be prepared for the significant life transition that is one’s first career post-graduation. The key activities include semesterly surveys and interviews with students using Vick Center services such as in-person visits and online modules. Surveys about the in-person Vick Center initiatives and online programs will be completed using the university’s Qualtrics subscription. To gather more nuanced qualitative data, randomly selected program users will also be invited by email to participate in semi-structured interviews by phone. Certain students, such as UGS majors, are required to interact with the Vick Center in order to remove a registration bar. The Vick Center staff will use these opportunities to encourage students to participate in our data collection.