Experiential Education Funding

Kalamazoo College seeks to raise funds in support of the many experiential education experiences that are a key component the K-Plan.

Career and Professional Development

From Career Service to CD Internships to the new Discovery Externships and the personal relationships they create with alumni, Career and Professional Development has long been a vital, yet resource-challenged, part of the K-Plan. Support for a Career and Professional 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 and Professional 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