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Career Development

  • Teresa Olsen, director of operations and strategic planning at the Center for Career Services, and Alumni Engagement Coordinator Jillian Arnault 鈥10
    Colgate鈥檚 SophoMORE Connections brings  alumni back to campus to network, teach, and help students demystify career decision-making. A signature program of the university鈥檚 Center for Career Services,  SophoMORE Connections recently won the Career Services Excellence Award at the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
    June 24, 2014
  • Colgate students are participating in internships in a variety of fields and locations this summer. This post is by Erica Weston 鈥15, a peace and conflict studies and Asian studies double major from Hamden, Conn. This summer, I鈥檓 interning with the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I鈥檓 working alongside Tess Cumpstone [鈥
    June 18, 2014
  • Colgate students are participating in internships in a variety of fields and locations this summer.  This post is by Natalie Sportelli 鈥15, an English major from Jamesville, N.Y., who is working at Forbes magazine. This summer, I moved to New York City to work for the editorial department at Forbes magazine. Covering business, politics, investing [鈥
    June 11, 2014
  • Sport your Colgate gear this summer at Myrtle Beach or Disneyland, and you鈥檙e bound to hear a friendly 鈥渉ello.鈥 But what about bumping into a Colgate 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 [鈥
    June 5, 2014
  • During the second part of the Innovation+Disruption symposium on May 5, the conversation turned to career services. From our May 8 report: 鈥淐olgate鈥檚 Career Services, in partnership with 12 other liberal arts institutions, hosted a dynamic afternoon series of speakers, breakout sessions, and a panel discussion as part of the Innovation + Disruption symposium in New York City this [鈥
    June 4, 2014
  • Einstein鈥檚 theory of relativity tells us that what you see depends on where you鈥檙e standing. There鈥檚 no proof, but the genius could have based his legendary thought experiments on a trip to reunion at Colgate. More than 2,100 alumni and friends flocked to campus for Reunion 2014, May 29鈥揓une 1, and each one had a [鈥
    June 2, 2014
  • Debra Humphreys, of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, addresses a room of more than 150 career services professionals at Colgate's recent Innovation + Disruption symposium in New York City.
    Colgate鈥檚 Career Services, in partnership with 12 other liberal arts institutions, hosted a dynamic afternoon series of speakers, breakout sessions, and a panel discussion as part of the Innovation + Disruption symposium in New York City this week. 鈥淲e designed the program to re-introduce and re-frame the national dialogue about the preparation with which liberal [鈥
    May 8, 2014
  • A dazzling New York City sunset illuminated the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers last Thursday night, shining on more than 600 Colgate faithful who attended the university鈥檚 annual Presidents鈥 Club celebration. The event honored the commitment of Presidents鈥 Club members, who support the university at a leadership level, and recognized Willow Society members, who have made [鈥
    May 6, 2014
  • Jeff Fager '77 (left), chairman of CBS News, moderates the panel discussion at The TimesCenter. (Photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio)
    After Clayton Christensen predicted that half of higher education institutions will either be facing bankruptcy or in liquidation within 10 to 15 years, six liberal arts presidents expressed varying degrees of concern, ranging from 鈥渘o颅t worried鈥 (Georgia Nugent, president emeritus of Kenyon College) to 鈥渙nly the paranoid survive鈥 (Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst). Christensen, author of [鈥
    May 5, 2014
  • Raider is running wild in New York City to connect with alumni and meet up with some members of the Colgate professional networks.
    There was a maroon-clad, giant-headed mascot running through the streets of New York City, April 24. Colgate鈥檚 beloved Raider took over the university twitter feed, @colgateuniv, while seeing the sights and meeting with alumni and other friends of Colgate.
    April 24, 2014