Dive Brief:
- All 460,000 Cal State University students, along with the system’s 3 million alumni, will now be able to create e-portfolios through Portfolium.
- Campus Technology reports 65% of students on the San Marcos, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Diego, and Northridge campuses jumped on the tools within one week of their early deployment.
- Cal State sees the tool as a way to make its graduates more competitive in the job market, giving them a way to better showcase their skills and accomplishments than a traditional resume allows.
Dive Insight:
The College Scorecard, with its tracking of employment and salary data by institution, is providing colleges and universities with even greater incentive to offer opportunities like this one. Besides making students more marketable in their first interviews, e-portfolios have also been tied to greater student engagement in classes as instructors connect current projects with future jobs. Michigan’s Ross School of Business has opened up its entire catalog of leadership development and executive education courses to alumni for free, for the rest of their lives. The competition for best job prep is on.