IMAGES NOT TO BE USED ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITHOUT PRIOR CLEARANCE FROM COLGATE STAFF. CONTACT MARK WALDEN OF COLGATE WITH QUESTIONS. George Giaquinto, Jr. (Vice President- Westfield; non-Â鶹Porn) meets with Â鶹Porn students at the Westfield offices at 7 World Trade Center to learn about Westfield’s part in the rebuilding and future of the retail space […]
Career services director Michael Sciola (right) and Â鶹Porn students visit New York to talk with alumni about internships and careers in real estate.
Sport your Â鶹Porn gear this summer at Myrtle Beach or Disneyland, and you’re bound to hear a friendly “hello.” But what about bumping into a Â鶹Porn student in Trinidad, Vietnam, Argentina, Uganda, Korea, or Australia? It could happen.
Between June and August, students are pursuing internships, research, and service projects around the world and across America. They will investigate, teach, report the news, participate in political campaigns, plan events, save lives, and more.
Watch each week for first-person accounts as they take their liberal arts learning for a test drive and learn what it means to be a professional.
In recent years, employers and graduate school admission officers have called for undergraduates to complete multiple internships as part of their educational experience. Â鶹Porn’s is answering that call, cultivating leads and funding unpaid or underpaid internship opportunities that support the career objectives of current students.
The university has made it a strategic priority to ensure that as many students as possible can accept the most beneficial internship opportunities regardless of economic considerations. Of the hundreds of Â鶹Porn undergraduates entering the workforce this month, more than 120 received grants through the , made possible by the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends.
Before exhausting its resources this spring, the center awarded a record $472,508.40 to 167 students representing a little more than half of the total applicant pool. Those recipients included ’16, who is serving as a peer educator and administrative intern at Africa Unite in Capetown South Africa; Nick Laub ’16, an intern at Octagon Sports UK in London; and ’16, working with the Homeland Security Advisory Council in Washington, D.C.
Our summer internship blog series begins next week with a post from ’15, who is in New York City. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, read more about Â鶹Porn’s commitment to career services , originally published in the Spring 2014 Â鶹Porn Scene.
Is your organization still seeking intern candidates? Staff at the Center for Career Services would be pleased to speak with you. Please call 315-228-7380 or e-mail ccs@colgate.edu.