The Career Readiness Imperative in Gateway Courses: A Student Success Perspective, Trend Report, and Emerging Playbook<\/em> examines the growing trend of U.S. colleges and universities integrating career readiness into academic courses, with particular attention to gateway and general education courses early in degree programs. It focuses on how students experience the relevance of what they learn in these early courses, and it provides strategies institutions can use to help students experience that relevance earlier, more explicitly, and more consistently.<\/p>\n The report combines comprehensive desk research with original interviews with 17 faculty, program directors, and other subject matter experts who make career readiness within early academic courses an expression of student success, student care, and access. Those educators situate career readiness as a necessary and productive response to students who have urgent questions about the relevance degree programs have to their professional futures.<\/p>\n In three parts, The Career Readiness Imperative in Gateway Courses<\/em>:<\/p>\n