CCPD News

  • A modern solution to a legacy challenge – Career Connection Toolkit

    During summer 2025, the CCPD kicked off a new project we’re genuinely excited about: the Career Connection Toolkit. It grew out of two big questions we’ve been wrestling with for a long time. First: How do we help students keep building career development skills when none of our services are required? We know these skills… Read more

  • Building First-Year Confidence: Career Advisors Visit 15 Seminars This Fall

    This fall, our Career Advisors brought resume fundamentals directly into the classroom, visiting fifteen First-Year Seminars to deliver a short, practical presentation called “Building Your First College Resume: The Basics Every College Student Needs to Know.” The advisors walked students through why resumes matter early, what counts as experience (far more than most first-years expect),… Read more

  • Growing as Student Advisors: What DSAs Explored in This Year’s Workshop

    In October, Alejandro Alaniz ’18 led a full day workshop for Department Student Advisors and Career Advisors focused on the conversations they have every day with students who are sorting through majors, purpose, and belonging. Connecting Interests to Learning The morning began with the idea of hidden intellectualism, based on Gerald Graff’s work about the… Read more