Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
5-19-2026
Abstract
What’s one experience that shaped your career—but didn’t come from a formal job?
Civic engagement offers students more than an opportunity to serve. It can build skills, confidence, connections, and pathways to meaningful careers. Yet students do not always recognize or articulate the value of these experiences. This interactive session explores practical strategies for helping student connect service to career readiness and community impact through intentional reflection, skill identification, and storytelling. Participants will leave with approaches they can use to help students move from service, to purpose, to pathway.
Recommended Citation
Spethman, Anna, "From Service to Purpose: Helping Students See Civic Engagement as a Path Forward" (2026). Presentations. 6.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/engagementpresentations/6
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Comments
This presentation was presented at the State of Civic Life Conference on May 19, 2026.