Career
Development
From Career Service to CD Internships to the new Discovery
Externships and the personal relationships they create with
alumni, Career Development has long been a vital, yet resource-challenged,
part of the K-Plan. Support for a Career Development endowment
will:
Help each K student identify and build a unique yet flexible
plan for living a liberal arts life - at work, in their
communities, at home.
Further build and sustain the
Discovery Externship Program, K's innovative national
model that links as many as 200 students each year with
our alumni, in their workplaces and in their homes.
Cultivate opportunities for rising seniors and subsidize
the costs they incur in unpaid and underpaid internships
that frame 51% of all Senior Individualized Projects (SIPS).
Help students effectively articulate the K-Plan as they
apply for advanced study and professional employment opportunities
in a wide array of national and global work cultures.
More information about the Career
Development Program |
Study Abroad
Celebrating 50 years, the College's study abroad program has provided an experience of living, studying, and working in another
culture. This experience is a hallmark of the Kalamazoo College
Liberal Arts experience. Significant support is sought for
the Study Abroad endowment.
Over the past 50 years, nearly 10,000 Kalamazoo College students
have lived and studied in some 50 countries around the world.
The experience combines academic course work, the opportunity
to achieve fluency in the world's major languages, and a rich
variety of intercultural
experiences. These experiences are truly transforming.
About 85% of Kalamazoo College students study abroad, but
every Kalamazoo College student benefits from the experience
because the academic conversations on campus include so manypeople whose perspectives have been profoundly expanded by
living in another culture.
More information about the Study
Abroad Program |
