Career Services Center News

On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, the USF community gathered together to celebrate GivingTuesday, a global movement that inspires generosity to promote people to give back to their organizations, support their communities, and create positive impact.

For nearly three decades, Kim Garcia-Meza MA ’98 has been nurturing San Francisco’s youngest learners; and in the past twenty years, she has also been empowering their families through the preschool she founded, Las Mañanitas.

In 1995, the inaugural Thanksgiving Food Drive was organized by the original Alumni Board of Governors, in the spirit of USF’s support for communities throughout the greater San Francisco area. Over the past thirty years, this tradition has grown as a living expression of the university’s Jesuit values and USF’s dedication to community and generosity.

Twenty students across majors visited the LinkedIn and Handshake offices in San Francisco for a Career Services Center career trek last month.

The 50th anniversary celebration for the International and Multicultural Education Department (IME) titled Learning for Resistance, Love & Liberation, was held on October 4 in Fromm Hall with notable alumni, faculty, and student speakers present. In addition to workshops and networking, participants were privileged to attend a plenary session which embodied the IME department's continued growth in the field.

From crushing grapes in Napa Valley to crunching numbers on the U.S.’s largest privately funded Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) ever, Patrick Krause - now Data Director at Open Research - has built a career path illustrating the exciting journey of an IDEC alum.

Professor Hobbs’ research currently centers around index insurance—a promising approach to protecting farmers from weather-related losses. Unlike traditional insurance that requires individual claim investigations, index insurance uses regional data to automatically trigger payouts when certain thresholds are met.

Professor Cassar is currently engaged in projects across three main areas of her interest: the effects of violence and war, gender disparities, and the evolution of prosocial behavior. 

Babies are born regularly in Room 315 of USF’s School of Education building. The lucky parents? Maternity robots designed to teach nursing students how to treat patients in labor.

Students in the School of Education are changing how mental health is treated in San Francisco.