Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers
Our collaborative research with Sociedad Latina was featured on BU Today. Click here to read the full article.
Author: Chong Myung Park
Diversifying Exposure to Occupations in Elementary School
Diversifying Exposure to Occupations in Elementary School by Cecilia Voetsch, Efe Shavers, Sara Langtry and Kimberly A.S. Howard Have you ever heard of an ornithologist? Don’t worry we hadn’t either. In school, many of us might have been introduced to a wide array of occupations such as doctors, lawyers, even engineers. But, there are so […]
Equality Can’t Wait: Financial Literacy Is the Key
by Betsy Kelder Executive Director, Invest in Girls Trust Your Gut, Trust the Data It seems obvious that financial literacy enables young people and adults to make better-informed decisions in their lives than those who are not taught the basics of personal finance. Study after study proves that to be true, including the analysis of […]
Blast Off! Into STEM Career Pathways
About Authors: Yanling Dai and Yajing Chen are completing their Master’s Degree in School Counseling in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Yanling is interested in developing positive youth development programs, with an emphasis on developing a career identity. Yajing is interested […]
International Trends and Innovation in Career Guidance
Angela Andrei, a member of the SEL IRN and also an exchange scholar in 2019, is one of the leading authors of this two-volume work by the European Training Foundation. The report discusses the mega trends in career guidance in the 21st century with country specific examples. To learn more about her work, click here […]