Despite a rainy Wednesday afternoon, 60 students made their way to the Employer Connection Fair on September 30 to meet with representatives from 13 organizations spanning healthcare, nonprofit, finance, education, energy, and other industries. The fair gave students a chance to have real conversations with employers in a low-pressure setting (some came directly from team […]
How can the skills you’re developing at K help tackle a problem you’ve seen firsthand? For Son Le ’28, a summer research internship at Kalamazoo College meant using computer vision and deep learning to address a real-world infrastructure challenge. Here’s Son on navigating the challenges of research, working across time zones, and discovering where he […]
What can an internship reveal about the kind of work you want to do? For Madison Vrba ’27, a summer with the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Johns Hopkins offered the chance to experience both sides of academic medicine. Madison spent her mornings observing clinical care and her afternoons contributing to a research project focused […]
The Kalamazoo College Employer Connection Fair is coming up next week, with employers from across the Kalamazoo area and beyond coming to campus to meet K students. You don’t need to be actively looking for a job or internship to attend. The Fair is a chance to explore career paths, learn about organizations you may […]
The Career Studio is open again this fall! Drop by starting today with your “Life After K” questions, no appointment needed. Students describe it as “such a nice, friendly place,” somewhere they’ve “gotten so much out of” and left with “all of their questions answered, plus questions they didn’t even know they had.” Need your […]
What happens when an internship teaches you something you weren’t expecting to learn? For Alex Fleming ’27, a summer internship with ScholarRoam offered hands-on experience in marketing, design, outreach, and the day-to-day work of a growing startup. Along the way, Alex also learned something about the kind of work environment, leader, and entrepreneur he hopes […]
The CCPD’s 2025–26 Impact Report is now available, highlighting a year of new programs, growing partnerships, and more ways for students to explore what might come after K. This was the first year of our three-year strategic plan, focused on building a career ecosystem at Kalamazoo College. That meant working with people across campus and […]
What can a summer internship tell you about a career you’re considering? For Asha Dawson ’27, a summer at the American Academy in Rome offered the chance to find out. Working with historic collections, Asha gained hands-on experience with digitization and cataloguing while exploring a possible future in museum or gallery work. Asha recieved funding […]
As we wrap up this year’s CCPD Impact Report, I realized I had never written about one of my favorite experiences of the year. Five months later, what stays with me is how one student’s vision grew into a truly collaborative experience involving student leaders, K Votes, the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE), the CCPD, […]
Insights from the National Alumni Career Mobility Survey Understanding the Long-Term Value of a Kalamazoo College Education Every year, Kalamazoo College tracks the first destinations of its graduates: where they work, attend graduate school, or pursue other opportunities immediately after commencement. While these data are valuable, they tell only part of the story. To better understand the long-term […]
