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-΄σΟσ΄«Γ½) meets with ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ students at the Westfield offices at 7 World Trade Center to learn about Westfieldβs part in the rebuilding and future of the retail space [β¦]
Career services director Michael Sciola (right) and ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ students visit New York to talk with alumni about internships and careers in real estate.
Sport your ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ gear this summer at Myrtle Beach or Disneyland, and youβre bound to hear a friendly βhello.β But what about bumping into a ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ 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. ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½βs 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 ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ 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 β16, who is serving as a peer educator and administrative intern at Africa Unite in Capetown South Africa; Nick Laub β16, an intern at Octagon Sports UK in London; and β16, working with the Homeland Security Advisory Council in Washington, D.C.
Our summer internship blog series begins next week with a post from β15, who is in New York City. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, read more about ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½βs commitment to career services , originally published in the Spring 2014 ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ 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.