The University of Virginia launched a Career Design Initiative to integrate career advising and life‑planning into the undergraduate curriculum, extending a campus advising overhaul to prepare students for post‑college work. UVA’s program pairs academic advising with career coaching to reduce friction between majors and employment outcomes. Robert Zemsky, in a new podcast, argued three‑year degree models could offer colleges a survival pathway by lowering costs and aligning credentials with labor market needs. Both moves reflect an industry push to reconfigure curricular models and advising systems to deliver measurable outcomes for students and strengthen institutions’ value propositions amid enrollment pressures.