The growing concern about employment outcomes adds to existing pressures on students to make career decisions early in the college experience. This study was designed to investigate the alignment of student career readiness obtained through quality programming targeting student success learning outcomes as designed by student affairs practitioners at Texas public institutions to those employers surveyed by The Hart Association for the American Association of College and Universities. This study revealed that there is an alignment between student affairs learning outcomes and employer's expectations for career readiness. The results of this study show a need for common terminology across constituent groups making the student more comfortable in using their co-curricular activities as transferable skills during the interview process. An ideal co-curricular experience that will merge the development of such common langue is an innovative First Year Experience Course as presented in this article.

The phytoplankton and vascular aquatic plants have been studied in small lakes Vashutinskoe, Chashnitskoe, Ryumniki, and Zaozer’e, located in the southern part of the Yaroslavl Region, Russia. The taxonomic composition of phytoplankton comprised 137 species of algae belonging to 8 divisions, 18 orders, and 76 genera. The studied water bodies were characterized by high biomass of cyanobacteria. Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (L.) Ralfs ex Born et Flah. and the species of the genus Anabaena had a significant contribution to the phytoplankton biomass in the lakes Zaozer’e, Chashnitskoe, and Ryumniki, Limnothrix planctonica (Wołosz.) Meff. and Microcystis aeruginosa (Kütz.) Kütz, in the Lake Vashutinskoe. In terms of phytoplankton biomass, the pelagial and shallow areas of the Lake Vashutinskoe belonged to eutrophic reservoirs, of the Lake Ryumniki, to oligotrophic. The phytoplankton biomass in the pelagial zone of the lakes Chashnitskoe and Zaozer’e indicated the mesotrophic status of these water bodies, in the littoral zone, eutrophic. The study of the phytoplankton of the lakes was carried episodically and was often performed at different periods of the growing season. Therefore, the obtained data did not allow one to assess the direction of the successional changes in the algal flora. The flora of vascular plants of lakes was represented by 118 species belonging to 4 divisions, 5 classes, 22 orders, and 37 families. Thirty-four species were common to all studied water bodies. The differences in the The differences in the flora of vascular aquatic plantsof the studied lakes were associated with differences in their trophic status, the presence of various biotopes, the nature of anthropogenic load, and the degree of eutrophication. During a hundred years of observations, some species have disappeared, but some have appeared, including adventive species (such as Elodea canadensis Michx., Bidens frondosa L., Epilobium adenocaulon Hausskn, Zizania latifolia Griseb., and Juncus tenuis Willd.). The study of the current state of rare and protected species of vascular plants made it possible to reveal the eventual causes and period of disappearance of some species from the lakes. The taxonomic and ecological structure of phytoplankton and vascular plants of lakes was quite diverse and usual for the water bodies of the European part of Russia.

Biochemical parameters of blood serum in resistant and susceptible to rubella pathogens groups of carp at the end of the feeding period are studied. The material was taken from 6 individuals of the Angelina scaly rubella-resistant breed kept at the experimental pond base "Sunoga" of the Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters RAS, Yaroslavl oblast. For comparison, we used same-age carps from the fish farm "Kirya", Chuvash Republic, susceptible to rubella pathogens: 8 specimens of scaly and 8 mirror carps. Blood samples were taken from the caudal vein of the fish under study. The tube with blood was left at room temperature. After coagulation, the serum was taken with a fine needle syringe and transferred to an Eppendorf tube. Serum samples were frozen prior to testing. The analyzed individuals of the Angelina rubella-resistant breed differ from the scaly and mirror carp in high levels of total protein, albumins, glucose, urea, alkaline phosphatase, triglycerides, cholesterol and low levels of lipids and alanine aminotransferase. A comparative analysis with previously obtained data after wintering shows differences between the autumn and spring data. In the Angelina breed, the levels of most indicators significantly increase during the fattening period. The content of total protein increases several times, mainly due to globulins, glucose, urea, alkaline phosphatase, triglycerides. Thus, the metabolic processes aimed at the accumulation of proteins, stored lipids and carbohydrates increase in the organism of rubella-resistant carps. This is probably due to some specific characteristics of the Angelina breed, which allows the fish organism to successfully resist an infection with rubella pathogens in spring. The results of this study can be used in breeding for immunity resistance and for assessing the health status of fish in aquaculture.

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