Partnering with Post-Secondary Education

Prepare Students for Career Success

The DeBruce Foundation partners with colleges, universities, and postsecondary organizations to help students build career literacy and make informed decisions about their futures. Through resources such as the Agile Work Profiler™ (AWP), Career Explorer Tools (CET), and Agilities™ resources, students gain a deeper understanding of their skills and interests while exploring educational and career pathways aligned with their goals.

By equipping learners with the confidence to explore a variety of opportunities, institutions can support stronger career decision-making, purposeful transitions into the workforce, and increased economic mobility across a lifetime. Supports are tailored to the goals of each institution and often include career exploration, workforce readiness, and student success initiatives.

If you are looking to help students connect their education to future opportunities, let’s explore how we could work together.

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How We Partner with Post-Secondary Education

Missouri Valley College is developing a multi-disciplinary course to help new students find their career purpose and increase their financial literacy. This course, beginning in fall 2022, utilizes the Agile Work Profiler and Draw Your Future with Agilities; additionally, it integrates the Agilities into career exploration opportunities such as attending career fairs, building LinkedIn profiles, and getting involved in professional organizations. Pre- and post-course assessments will provide the partnership with further data on guiding students to economic growth.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has partnered with The DeBruce Foundation to integrate the Agilities resources into several programs, including Summer Bridge Scholars, an academically rigorous summer experience to prepare incoming first-year students for success at UMKC; Trustees’ Scholars, a fully-funded experiential program for select students; and Professional Career Escalators, a program connecting students to financial, career, and academic guidance to help them toward career paths. Collectively, this programming reaches students who are first-generation college students, students who are academically underprepared, or students who have high financial need, as they equip themselves for successful career paths.

The University of Kansas (KU) Edwards Campus partners with The DeBruce Foundation to integrate Agilities resources into its comprehensive workforce development and student success initiatives, including its CareerUP networking program, dedicated campus career workshops, and on-demand student service coaching. Collectively, this programming reaches adult learners, transfer students, and working professionals as they leverage their top strengths, expand their regional networks, and equip themselves for successful career paths in the Kansas City workforce.