Faculty and Staff

Welcome to the Fleishman Career Center faculty & staff community page!

The Fleishman Career Center is committed to collaborating with faculty and staff to integrate career education into existing curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular experiences throughout campus. Fleishman Career Center staff are available to facilitate tailored career workshops and presentations for your classroom or student group, integrate career education assignments and activities into new or existing curriculum, partner on special career events, projects or programs, and more.

The community page is designed to provide you with the tools, resources, and insights needed to empower you to have meaningful career conversations with your students.

The Career Collaborative

The mission of the Fleishman Career Center is to create pathways for all Binghamton University students to explore, pursue, and achieve fulfilled lives through a dynamic network of opportunities and connections. To show our commitment to building these pathways, we have established the Career Collaborative.

The Career Collaborative is a multifaceted initiative for faculty and staff to co-create meaningful career education opportunities in partnership with our team. Similar to our transformational career education initiatives geared toward students, the Collaborative provides recognition, networking events, funding opportunities, and personalized support for our partners. Collaboration with partners like you will help fulfill our vision to immerse 100% of students in career and personal growth.

To scale career education to reach all students.

Equity is our focus. College is a pivotal time for exploration, building confidence and skills, and preparing for the future. Many students pursue higher education to improve career mobility, which can lead to better employment opportunities and increased earning potential for themselves and their families. Academic and staff professionals in higher education play an integral role in closing the career mobility gap for students, and for minoritized and first generation college students in particular, who may have limited social capital and lack clarity around setting goals. By intentionally integrating career education in the classroom and throughout the student experience, we can address structural barriers to students’ access to career knowledge, skills and opportunities.

By clearly linking classroom/programming content and outcomes to the world of work, you will help students bridge their academic and campus experiences to their career interests, which creates more engaged and motivated students!

Quick Links

Request a Program or Presentation

Integrate an Assignment or Activity

Refer a Student to the Career Center

Learn About Our Internship Funding

Professional Development Fund

The Career Collaborative includes:

Curricular and co-curricular career education initiatives
Faculty and staff partnerships
Classroom to Career Fellows grant
Career Collaborative liaisons
Career Champions recognition

Get involved with the Career Collaborative!

October 1: Skills-Based Hiring Pop-Up
Employers are looking for skills, not just majors or GPAs. Stop by the Fleishman Career Center to explore tools and strategies you can use to help your students build and articulate their skills. Our team will be available to share resources, answer questions, and talk through ways to integrate skill development into your courses or programs. No appointment necessary.

When: Wednesday, October 1
Where: Fleishman Career Center, UU133 (next to the Marketplace)
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Learn more about skills-based hiring!

The Fleishman Career Center collaborates with faculty and staff to identify small but meaningful ways to integrate career education in their existing syllabus, assignments and activities. Select from a variety of options, ranging from quick and easy methods to more advanced opportunities in partnership with our team. Reach out to Jessica Lane-Rwabukwisi, Senior Academic Partnerships Specialist, at jlanerwa@binghamton.edu for more details!

View the toolkit

A Career Champion is a Binghamton University staff or faculty member who has been nominated by a student for playing a pivotal role in their personal and professional growth. Career Champions are those individuals who have helped students to:

Explore career options
Network with other professionals in students’ fields of interest
Apply for graduate school/provide support
Connect with employers for jobs or internships
Interview for internships and/or jobs
Gain necessary technical and professional skills needed in the workplace
Learn industry knowledge and tips

Each year, Career Champion nominees are invited to the annual Career Champions Breakfast where they will be honored and celebrated for empowering students to identify and reach their career goals or solidify future plans.

Read more about previous nominees!

Career Collaborative Liaisons are faculty or staff members who serve as a bridge between the Fleishman Career Center and their academic department. Liaisons promote career-related initiatives and share resources and events with department faculty, staff and students, and communicate departmental needs to the Fleishman Career Center.

Questions about the program and application may be directed to Jessica Lane-Rwabukwisi (jlanerwa@binghamton.edu).

Learn more

Ching-nam Hippocrates Cheng, Music Department
Omid Ghaemmaghami, Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program
Erin Hornbeck, School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Molly Howard, Physical Therapy Department
Jinglu Jiang, Management Information Systems Department
Jeffrey Mativetsky, Materials Science and Engineering Program; Physics Department
Jessie Reeder, English Department
Deborah Taub, Higher Education and Student Affairs Department
Cherie van Putten, Center for Learning and Teaching
Sara Velardi, Environmental Studies Department

The Classroom to Career Fellows Program provides an opportunity for faculty and Fleishman Career Center staff to co-create transparent and intentionally designed career education opportunities based on faculty goals and student needs within an existing course/curriculum. Fellows and Fleishman staff work together to define how integrating career education into the curriculum will support professional teaching, course outcomes and student engagement in a supportive cohort environment.

Learn more

Dr. Changqing Cheng

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Dr. Tracy Hookway

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Professor Tommy Iafrate

Theatre Department

Dr. Wendy Martinek

Political Science Department

Dr. Joseph Panzik

First-Year Research Immersion

Dr. Jacie Schneider

Department of Occupational Therapy

Dr. Alexandra Moore

The Source Project

Dr. Junko Schwartzman

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Dr. Juliana Góes

Sociology Department

Dr. Brittany Race

Psychology Department

Dr. Minjeong Kim

The Writing Initiative

Dr. Charles Sebuharara

Economics Department

Dr. Christina Bear

First-Year Research Immersion

Dr. Gregory Hallenbeck

Digital and Data Studies Department

Dr. Jiyun Elizabeth Shin

Psychology Department

Dr. Kristina Marty

Department of Public Administration

Dr. Sara Velardi

Environmental Studies Department

We love highlighting the great work our faculty and staff partners are doing to support Binghamton University students’ career growth. Read about our many exciting collaborations in the academic and campus partner spotlight section below and fill out the form to be featured!

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