CCPD News

  • The Career Studio Opens Monday

    The Career Studio is back and is looking forward to seeing you this fall term. Starting today, drop by with your “Life After K” questions. No appointment necessary! Students tell us the Studio is “such a nice, friendly place” where they’ve “gotten so much out of” and “had all of their questions answered, plus questions… Read more

  • Advancing Career Readiness Through the Liberal Arts: Building a Career Ecosystem

    Kalamazoo College doesn’t just prepare students for the job market: we prepare them for a world in motion. In an era of rapid change and rising skepticism about higher education, students and families want more than promises. They want to see how a liberal arts education leads to real opportunity, meaningful work, and lifelong adaptability.… Read more

  • Bad Ideas First: What Thomas Bentley ’25 Learned by Starting Before He Was Ready

    “The value in these original iterations was not in making something good… but rather in that I took a step away from doing nothing and a step towards doing something.” — Thomas Bentley ’25 Thomas Bentley ’25 did not get his position with the Minnesota Twins by getting it right the first time. Actually, he discusses how a number of his initial baseball analytics projects were cumbersome, inefficient, and downright bad. But they were the building blocks.… Read more