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Toronto  July 13, 2022 -- Modern Campus, a higher education modern engagement platform, announced a solution for empowering students to articulate the essential workforce skills they’ve developed through co-curricular engagement.

SmartTranscript enables student affairs professionals and modern learners to demonstrate the value of co-curricular learning and its direct impact on employability. This solution provides three distinct ways for students to track their skill development progress and share that learning with prospective employers: an interactive web-based portal, a physical PDF/printable co-curricular transcript to include with resumes and a unique URL that can be highlighted on networking websites like LinkedIn.

Demonstrating workforce readiness is a crucial part of the modern learner journey. According to research by Monster, 85.5% of employers want to hire new college graduates with excellent problem-solving skills, and nearly 77% of hiring managers expect graduates to demonstrate other key skills like teamwork and leadership. These essential skills are often developed and advanced outside of the classroom through co-curricular engagement opportunities, such as campus events, student organizations, internships, work-study and service-learning projects.

SmartTranscript for Modern Campus Presence was built by student affairs professionals who experienced firsthand the challenges of measuring student learning outside the classroom at scale and providing students with the tools needed to articulate their essential skills in tune with current employer demands. 

"Modern Campus Presence has helped us shape how we connect events, activities and experiences to learning and outcomes," said Ken Gassiot, associate vice president for student development at Georgia Southern University. "Now, more than ever, is a time that universities must demonstrate how we are preparing students for life. We are telling a story of engagement and impact through student participation, event check in and data analysis in ways we were unable to do before."

"Students are learning in-demand skills, but they don’t know how to articulate their experiences in line with industry needs," said Reuben Pressman, chief product officer at Modern Campus. "SmartTranscript is revolutionary in its simplicity. It benefits the millions of modern learners who are seeking to prove the value of all the time they spent involved in co-curricular programming, supports Student Affairs departments in their efforts to connect student engagement to employability, and it helps employers find qualified candidates."

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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2022