Posts tagged with “Academics” (All posts)
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Impossible Germany: Speaking German as a Career Tool
8 February 2016The German Department & the Career Center hosted a session on the importance of speaking foreign languages.
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Carls on break: Eleanor Dollear ’16
8 February 2016Eleanor Dollear ’16 describes her experience working for a non-profit literacy organization in New York.
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Carls on break: Julie Zhou ’17
26 January 2016Julie Zhou ’17 describes her experience working at a literary agent office in New York
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Sophomores get their due with a week devoted to future planning
16 January 2015Fretting about internships, interviews and study abroad prospects? Sophomorphosis, a weeklong block of seminars and sessions for sophomores, has all the bases covered.
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Externship Offerings Expanded as Part of Careers Push
27 September 2014Teaching preschool at Bright Horizons Family Solutions in Minneapolis, reading manuscripts at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents in New York City, or working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland will be a part of some students’ winter breaks as a result of the Career Center’s expanded externship offerings.
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StarTribune Touts Pathways Program
3 November 2013The Sunday, November 3 edition of the Star Tribune featured a front-page story on Carleton’s new “Pathways” program, which helps students prepare for life after Carleton by exploring how certain classes and majors could lead to potential careers, internships and off-campus study programs.
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Chronicle of Higher Education Mentions Carleton’s New Pathways Program
1 October 2013The Oct. 1 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) made a note of Carleton’s new “Pathways” program in its article entitled “Career Centers Stretch to Fill New Roles.” The Chronicle notes that Pathways was started as a result of discussions during the recently-completed strategic planning process, listing as one of its priorities this goal: “Prepare students more robustly for fulfilling post-graduation lives and careers.” The Chronicle writes “Carleton believes in its approach to a liberal-arts education, says President Steven G. Poskanzer, its president. Still, he says, “we are not keeping faith with students and families if they graduate from Carleton and then spend the next three or four years floundering.” Pathways is an outcome of that planning to more intentionally shape the College’s advising program, has started a new Web site to provide information on popular career fields like health and wellness and arts and communication, and is doing more to tie academics and outside activities together.”
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Thanks to a gift from Eric ’66 and Mimi ’66 Carlson P’97, Carleton College has announced the establishment of the Robert E. Will ’50 Endowed Internship Fund in Social Entrepreneurship. Administered by Carleton’s career center, the fund supports 8-10 domestic or international internships per year at up to $5,000 each for students pursuing social entrepreneurship. The fund honors Bob Will, the Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics, Emeritus. A 1950 Carleton graduate, Will earned his PhD at Yale University and taught at Carleton from 1957-93. He championed the importance of a liberal arts education, and each year the Robert E. Will Economics Prize is awarded to the senior economics major or majors who demonstrate excellent academic achievement and breadth of intellectual interests in the best tradition of a liberal arts education. Professor Will remains a resident of Northfield and is very involved in community activities.