Career Pathway Leadership Teams are model community members and leaders within the Career Pathways, who help the Career Advancement Center with mobilizing community members, evaluating services, and implementing best practice career development solutions to support graduates’ ability to prepare for, and attain, productive and rewarding careers. Leadership teams are composed of trustees, alumni, faculty/staff, employers and students willing to serve as engaged, enthusiastic partners to the CAC.
Build Your Own Career Pathway Leader: Colleen Monks
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Colleen Monks is the Director and leads strategic planning and execution of the Lake Forest College four-year Career Pathways program in alignment with the College’s institutional planning priorities and mission to “prepare our students for, and help them attain, productive and rewarding careers.” |
External Community Members: Trustees, Employers, Alumni, and Friends
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Liam Connell ’17, MLS (Trustee) Kevin Considine Emelia Edmondson ’22 David (Sid) Gorter ’81 (Trustee) Donell Harmon-Parker '99 |
Megan Lambert ’15 Kyle Lim '21 Martino Moore '99 (Trustee) Tucker Strang ’20 Steve Strelsin (Trustee) |
Internal Community Members: Faculty, Staff, Students
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Dawn Abt-Perkins Scott Edgar Hayley Headley '24 Bellise Kigozi ’25 Brian McCammack Deja McClellan '20 |
Janet McCracken Jen O'Brien Jeff Sundberg Holly Swyers Anna Trumbore Jones |
Affiliate Membership
There are many more people interested in contributing to the Career Pathways than will be able serve on Leadership Teams at any given time, and supporters who want to be highly involved, but are not serving on a Leadership Team may elect to join the Career Pathways as affiliate members. Privileges and responsibilities for affiliates include:
- Receive regular updates from Pathway Leaders about events and success stories
- Be invited to offer assistance to students in the Pathways – ways to help may include: event attendance, hosting interns, recommending sites for interns we are struggling to place, or networking referrals; some update messaging will be similar to what is provided to leadership teams
- Highly engaged affiliate members can be considered as future Leadership Team members
Leadership Teams are limited to 20 members. All key stakeholders (faculty, staff, employers, alumni, parents, students and other friends of the College) are welcome to become affiliates. All stakeholders will receive periodic updates from the CAC; affiliate members will get more action-oriented, community-building messages, while more passive community members will receive outreach messages more appropriate for their level of involvement. There is no limit to the number of affiliate members associated with leadership teams, and key stakeholders are welcome to join multiple pathways as affiliate members. Join a Career Pathway as an affiliate.