Designing for Alumni-Student Relationships: Why Core, Required Courses Are the Most Powerful Lever for Civic Engagement and Career Readiness
Sean O’Keefe • Founder & CEO of the Career Launch Social Enterprise and Teaching Professor • Santa Clara University • Santa Clara, CA
May 25, 2026
Skills, experiences, and relationships—not degrees and knowledge alone—drive career readiness and economic mobility. Given the centrality of these elements to student success, access to them cannot remain informal or optional. Core, required courses provide a scalable infrastructure for building alumni-student relationships for all students. Read more >
