Category: Alumni

Learn more about Carleton’s efforts to provide students with entrepreneurial opportunities.

Dexter Corlett ’17 describes his experience working in a family practice physician’s office in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Don’t send out generic résumés — use targeted search instead, says Carleton career center director.

The 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.

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.

Kimberly Betz ’91, director of career development at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, has been named director of the career center at Carleton College. She will assume her new, full-time duties on March 4. Betz has 17 years of experience in higher education career development, including a stint at Carleton from 1996-2000 when she held roles as program coordinator, assistant, and associate director with Carleton’s Career Center. She went on to serve as director of internships at Oberlin College (Ohio) before assuming her current position at St. Catherine in 2005. In 2010, she was named administrative staff employee of the year at St. Kate’s.

Carleton’s career center’s mentor externship program is prominently mentioned in an Aug. 11 article in Forbes, authored by Albion College (Mich.) president Donna Randall. She makes the case that a liberal arts education is excellent preparation for a variety of careers, and calls for liberal arts school to stay true to its mission. “We can and should commit ourselves more completely to providing students with education that encompasses both the timelessness of broad-based study in the arts and sciences, and the timeliness of practical preparation–leading to productive careers and satisfying lives.”

The Pioneer Press recently did a piece on the Career Center’s Engagement Wanted program.

Carleton’s career center’s externship program is the focus of a feature in the March 4 edition of The Financial Times titled “Placements with a domestic twist.” The article focuses on 25th Reunion Trustee Paul Van Valkenburg’s ’82 and Barb (Behringer) Geiser’s ’83 role as volunteer hosts. The article is available at FT.com, although registrations (free) may be required. You can learn more about the externship program on the career center’s website.

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