Supported by a CCPD Summer Internship Stipend, Luis spent the summer interning with Gente Organizada, a community-led social action nonprofit in Pomona, California. Through a self-designed narrative project focused on the implementation of ethnic studies in local high schools, they led interviews, built community connections, and gained a deeper understanding of how grassroots organizing turns […]
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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 […]
Deepening Legal Skills Through a Judicial Internship
Through support from a CCPD Summer Internship Stipend, this student spent the summer working in the Family Division of the 9th Judicial Circuit Court in Kalamazoo County. Drafting legal memoranda, conducting research, and observing complex cases provided a closer look at how judicial decision-making differs from advocacy. The experience strengthened the students’ analytical and writing […]
Finding My Path Through Creativity: My Summer at Bay View Music Festival
The CCPD Summer Internship Stipend helps make hands-on, career-shaping experiences like this possible. In this post, a student reflects on capturing and producing content that connected audiences to live performances. The experience strengthened the students’ creative and professional skills while offering important clarity about the kind of work environment they hope to pursue after college. […]
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), […]
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 […]
Learning Global Health Firsthand: A Summer with the Institute for Family Health
Supported by the CCPD Summer Internship Stipend, this student spent the summer in Amman, Jordan, working with the Institute for Family Health to strengthen healthcare access for vulnerable communities. From identifying service gaps to supporting inclusive education initiatives, their work offered a powerful glimpse into the impact of global public health collaboration. “This summer, I […]
Making LinkedIn Work for You in 2025
LinkedIn has changed a lot since 2021 when I first shared these tips. Back then, the focus was mostly on having a polished profile and connecting with alumni. Those things still matter, but now there are more ways than ever to make LinkedIn work for you. 1. Start with the basics, then level up 2. […]
Exploring Biomedical Research at WMed
Supported by a CCPD summer internship stipend, Abigail Eilertson ’27 spent the summer in Dr. Adil Akkouch’s biomedical engineering lab at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Her work with nanoparticles offered firsthand experience in how research drives medical innovation and confirmed a growing passion for medicine and discovery. “This summer, […]
Meet Alumni. Build Connections. Join a Hornet Huddle.
What if you could grab coffee with someone who once stood exactly where you are but now works for the Detroit Lions, the U.S. Department of State, or Johnson & Johnson? KConnect Week (Dec. 2–6) is all about meaningful connections between students and alumni. One of the best ways to get involved is through Hornet […]