WorkFuture Academy for Colleges & Universities
WorkFuture Academy helps colleges and universities build practical career-readiness experiences that connect academic learning, workforce expectations, and the capabilities students need to move into work.
Why WorkFuture Academy
Students need more than information about careers. They need to understand changing roles, practice durable capabilities, and apply what they are learning.
Institutions are already doing important career-readiness work. WorkFuture adds practical learning that helps students translate their experiences into evidence employers can understand.
The Academy
WorkFuture Academy works alongside academic, career, and student-success efforts, helping students move from exploration to evidence through structured, practical learning experiences.
Explore
Build
Practice
Translate
Capability Model
Career readiness is more than knowing what jobs exist. Students need to understand changing work, build durable capabilities, practice them in realistic contexts, and translate what they can do into evidence employers can recognize.
Help students make sense of how industries, roles, technology, and employer expectations are changing.
Core Capabilities
Develop the durable capabilities students need to succeed across roles and workplaces.
Core Capabilities
Give students opportunities to practice those capabilities through realistic, employer-informed experiences.
Core Capabilities
Help students turn learning and experience into clear evidence of capability.
Core Capabilities
Student Stages
Career readiness looks different across a degree. WorkFuture programs can be designed around the decisions, experiences, and capabilities students need at each stage.
First Year
Early college experience
Help students connect their interests and studies to industries, roles, and how work is changing.
Mid-Program
Second and third year
Support students as they build capabilities, pursue experiential learning, and understand employer expectations.
Final Year
Senior year and graduate programs
Help students translate their experiences into evidence and prepare for the transition into work.
Program Design
Every WorkFuture Academy program is built around clear learning objectives and practical student experiences, designed around the institution's goals rather than sold as a generic workshop.
Every Program Includes
Customized for Each Institution
Designed around the career-readiness outcomes the institution wants to strengthen.
Adapted for the specific students, programs, majors, or cohorts being served.
Connected to the academic or co-curricular setting and existing campus programming.
Informed by what employers increasingly expect from early-career talent.
Adjusted based on session length, term schedule, cohort size, and implementation model.
How a Program Comes Together
Every engagement follows a clear path from understanding the student population and institutional priority through program design, delivery, and measurement.
Define the student population, institutional priority, existing programming, and desired outcomes.
Identify the capabilities and career-readiness outcomes the program should build.
Build the curriculum, activities, learning objectives, and delivery structure.
Facilitate practical learning and support student participation across the program.
Capture participation, learning evidence, feedback, and documented outcomes.
Delivery Formats
From a single workshop to a campus-wide initiative, WorkFuture Academy can scale the experience to the institution's goals.
Focused
60–90 minutes
Target one career-readiness topic, student need, or learning objective.
Best For
Focused student development
Series
Multi-session
Build capability over a term through connected learning experiences.
Best For
Sustained student development
Embedded
Course or co-curricular
Embed learning in a course or program, or connect it to employer-informed sessions.
Best For
Academic and employer connections
Custom
Multi-cohort / campus-wide
Build a broader career-readiness initiative around a student population, program, or institutional priority.
Best For
Larger institutional initiatives
What Colleges & Universities Receive
WorkFuture supports both the student learning experience and the structure institutions need around implementation.
Larger Engagements
For multi-session, cohort, or campus-wide programs, WorkFuture can also provide implementation support, program coordination, cohort tracking, and outcomes documentation.
WorkFuture Workspace
WorkFuture Workspace can support program administration, participation tracking, resources, student engagement, and outcome documentation in one organized place.
For larger programs, it gives institutions a clear view of implementation from setup through closeout — without coordinating the engagement across spreadsheets and email threads.
Available for qualifying multi-session, cohort, and campus-wide engagements.
WorkFuture
Spring 2027 – Career Readiness Cohort
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WorkFuture Academy is designed to complement career centers, academic programs, experiential learning, employer relations, and existing student-success initiatives.
The goal is not to replace that work. It is to add capacity, specialized workforce content, practical learning experiences, and employer-informed programming where they can help.
Potential Uses
Build a focused experience for first-year, transfer, or final-year students who need more support.
Add practical instruction and applied practice around communication, collaboration, and judgment.
Connect students to what employers increasingly expect from early-career talent.
Help students build readiness before internships, co-ops, research, or employer projects.
Bring current workplace change into career-readiness programming.
Deliver a common student experience across colleges, majors, or cohorts.
Funding Your Program
WorkFuture Academy programs can be purchased directly by colleges and universities and may also align with funding used for career readiness, student success, experiential learning, employer engagement, workforce development, and other institutional priorities.
Colleges and universities can fund WorkFuture Academy programming through existing career services, student success, academic, employer-relations, experiential-learning, or workforce-development budgets.
Depending on the institution, program, and allowable uses, WorkFuture Academy may also align with grant-funded initiatives related to career readiness, workforce development, experiential learning, student success, employer partnerships, and economic mobility.
Funding may also be available through institutional foundations, philanthropic partners, employer sponsorships, regional workforce partnerships, or special initiatives tied to student and workforce outcomes.
Funding availability, eligibility, and allowable uses vary by institution, grant, partner, and program. WorkFuture does not guarantee funding eligibility.
READY TO GET STARTED
Tell us what your students are preparing for and where you want to strengthen the connection between learning and work. We'll help shape the right experience.
