2026–27 LIFT Awarded Projects

CSU Campus

Faculty Lead

Project Title

Bakersfield

Kim Mishkind

Building a Foundation for Program Level Skill Development

Bakersfield

Linh Bui

Faith and Health in the Central Valley: Cultivating Durable Skills through Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged Learning in Public Health and Religious Studies Undergraduate Courses

Channel Islands

Christina Smith

Communication in Action: A Career Readiness Portfolio Pathway for COMM Capstone

Chico

Monica So

CHEM CORE: Chemistry Communication and Reasoning for Employment

Chico

Kent Sandoe

Making Durable Skills Visible Through a Badge-Enabled SAP Visible Skills Pathway

Dominguez Hills

Laura Talamante

Public History and Community Engagement: Embedding Durable Skills in Upper and Lower-Division Course Sequences

Dominguez Hills

Samantha Leigh

From Fish Guts to Future Skills: A Microbial Metagenomics CURE for Workforce-Ready Biology Students

Dominguez Hills

Ali Jalooli

Foundations First: A Reflective Microcredential Pathway for Building Durable Skills in Gateway Computing Courses at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Dominguez Hills

Horace Crogman

Future-Forward Biophysics: A Program-Level Durable Skills Pathway through VR-, AI-, Research-, and Experiential Learning

East Bay

Elizabeth Kyonka

Making Durable Skills Visible in Conditioning and Learning Through Reflection, Applied Transfer, and Skill Articulation

Fresno

Fernando Parra Reyes

Future-Forward Business Teaching: Equipping Faculty to Cultivate AI-Empowered Professionals

Fresno

Prof. Betsy Hays

Pilot Faculty Learning Community (FLC) for Career Readiness Infusion in Courses/Curriculum

Fullerton

Katharine Sentz

Building Career-Ready Business Professionals: A Vertically Aligned Durable Skills Framework Across the Business Curriculum

Fullerton

Alison Marzocchi

G𝜋T Interdisciplinary Integration: AI-Powered Mock Interviews to Build Durable Skills

Fullerton

Virginia Isava

Beyond the Outcrop: Career Exploration and Durable Skills for Early Stage Geoscience Majors

Fullerton

Yoonsuk Choi

From Equations to Engineering Judgment: Building Real-World Decision Skills in Probability and Statistics

Fullerton

Ella Ben Hagai

Passage to the Future: Embedding and Articulating Durable Skills in HSS Certificate Electives

Humboldt

Nicole Jean Hill

The Creative Entrepreneurship Initiative

Long Beach

Guido Urizar

A Community Health Equity Approach to Promoting Student Durable Skills

Long Beach

Michelle Taylor

Workforce-Ready Foundations: Updating Child Development Coursework for Modern Career Paths

Long Beach

Wikrom Prombutr

Making Financial Valuation Visible: Embedding Applied Learning and Reflection in FIN 300

Long Beach

Jonathan Ocón

Geography at Work: A Department-level Model for Career-ready Learning

Long Beach

Aparna Nayak

Assessing Global Competencies and Cultural Literacy in World Language Classes

Long Beach

Richard Marcus

Discourse Across Disciplines: A Faculty Module Development Initiative

Long Beach

Gayathri Manikandan

AI-Augmented Learning: Embedding Durable Skills in Entry Level Mathematics Courses

Long Beach

Mohammad Daneshvar Kakhki

Thinking with AI: Durable Skills for a High-Enrollment Gateway MIS Course

Los Angeles

Ji Son

Making Durable Skills Visible: A Performance Assessment System to Inform Course Improvement in Introductory Statistics and Data Science

Los Angeles

Pamella Howell

From Classroom to Career: Scaling the Quasi-Internship Model to Embed Durable Skills and Stackable Cybersecurity Credentials Across the Information Systems Curriculum

Los Angeles

Kristen Discola

Embedding Career Competencies in Prison Higher Education: A Scalable Career-Readiness and Equity Framework Piloted Through the Prison Graduation Initiative Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts Degree

Monterey Bay

Shwadhin Sharma

Making Student Reasoning Visible in an AI-Enabled Learning Environment

Monterey Bay

Jennifer Lovell

Service to Career: NACE Competencies in Civics and Service Learning

Monterey Bay

Caetano Albuquerque

Decision-Ready: Embedding Durable Skills Across Applied Agricultural and Plant Sciences Courses at CSUMB

Northridge

Amber Norwood

Business Communication in Practice: Revisiting English 205

Pomona

Ellips Masehian

Bridging Theory and Practice through Digital Twin–Enabled Smart Manufacturing Across Engineering Curricula

Pomona

Cindy Cordoba Arroyo

From Capstone to Career: Embedding Sustainability Career Readiness Across AMM Senior Courses through Role-Based Learning, Internship Preparation, and Scholarship Pathways

Sacramento

Samantha Blackburn

Developing Students' Career-Ready Skills through Community-Engaged Research and Creative Activities Coursework

San Diego

Aner Zhou

AI Career Lab for Durable Skills in Accounting’s Gateway Course

San Francisco

XiaoHang Liu

Mapping Career Readiness: Transforming GIS Learning Through Alumni Engagement

San José

Yan Wu

Operations and Supply Chain Decision Labs for Durable Skill Development in Fundamentals of Operations Management (A Business Core Course)

San José

Gabriela John Swamy

Making Science Skills Visible Online: Embedding Durable Skills, Reflection, and AI in NUFS 1A

San José

Rui Liu

The Economics Career-Integration Framework

San Luis Obispo

Ariel Setniker

Scaling Leadership as a Durable Set of Skills Across the Solano Campus: Expanding the Edwards Leadership Development Program Faculty Fellows Model

San Luis Obispo

Christiane Schroeter

From Student to CEO: An Alumni Case-Study Studio for Durable Skills

Sonoma

Melissa Garvin

Careers in Psychology

Stanislaus

Jessica Gomula-Kruzic

Integrated Creative Media Pathway: A Scaffolded Model for Ethical, Strategic, and Visual Storytelling