College Corps: A 90 Day Onboarding Plan–and Beyond

Authors

Marylou Bagus-Hansen, University of the PacificFollow
John Caceres, University of the PacificFollow
W. Kent Rogers, University of the PacificFollow

Document Type

Conference Presentation

First Page

1

Last Page

21

Publication Date

6-25-2025

Abstract

The University of San Diego (USD) is one of the participating campuses to host College Corps (CC) Fellows, and one of four private institutions among the 45. Assigned 130 fellowship members, USD has the largest cohort of its private counterparts and recently added three additional full-time staff members who started approximately four months ago. USD now has a total number of five staff, the largest staff to student ratio of private institutions (Top 10 Learnings, 2023).

While California Volunteers (CV) provided some guidance for the implementation and launch of the program, this guidance was disproportionately focused on the recruitment and retention of student fellows and community host partners recruitment and management. Additionally, campuses felt rushed with the implementation timeline and misled by the amount of work the program would actually take to execute the program (V. Seepaul, personal communications, Dec. 6, 2024).

Over the course of this project our goal is to support the USD with campus staff onboarding and retention that leads to increased job satisfaction and success of the USD CC program.

Comments

Conference Name: College Corps 2025 In-Person Peer Learning Exchange

Workshop Name: Welcome Aboard: A Strategic Way to Onboard New Program Staff

Workshop Date: June 25, 2025

Location: University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

Recommended Citation

Bagus-Hansen, Marylou; Caceres, John; and Rogers, W. Kent, "College Corps: A 90 Day Onboarding Plan–and Beyond" (2025). Benerd College Student Articles. 2.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/ed-stuarticles/2