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A Center for Career Services initiative to provide financial support for students on unpaid internships has tripled in size since a 2012 major overhaul to the program. A total of $472,508 was awarded to 170 students through the Career Services unrestricted internship fund this summer, with an average grant of $2,779. The number of students […]

Taking a tour is one of the best ways for prospective students to get a feel for campus, to learn about the student experience, and to discover what Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ has to offer both inside and outside the classroom. It’s also a bit of a hike. As a tour guide and summer intern with the Office […]

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s incoming Class of 2018 continues a trend of out-performing the previous class in overall academic strength, and increasing economic and cultural diversity. This class also stands out for receiving the most financial aid ever from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, as 43.4 percent are receiving institutional grant funding, up from 41.6 percent in 2017. The university also continues to meet […]

A total reimagination of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ visit experience is thanks to the generosity of lead donors Dan ’86 and Ellie Hurwitz P’17 and a number of alumni, parents, grandparents, and other friends of the university.

Jessica Hall ‘14, of Gallatin, Tenn., has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to South Korea. Hall, a double major in English literature and anthropology, has had a strong interest in South Korean music and theater since high school. Her senior thesis in anthropology focused on Korean popular music and the fan communities […]

Emma Ellis ‘14, of Northwood, N.J., has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Mongolia. Ellis, an English major with a concentration in creative writing, was a peer consultant at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Writing and Speaking Center, where she found helping students to effectively communicate their thoughts to be inspiring and personally gratifying. Ellis said […]

Margaretta Burdick ‘14, of Bedford, N.Y.,  has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Turkey, where she will serve as an English teaching assistant in a university setting. A double major in political Science and psychology, Burdick first experienced Turkish culture during a brief trip to Istanbul while she was on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Geneva […]

Neal Barsch ‘14, of Englewood, Colo., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to the Philippines to study the use of mobile banking technologies for rural populations. An economics major with a minor in music, Barsch will examine the feasibility of bringing mobile financial services, such as branchless banking, to the rural poor […]

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Career Services, in partnership with 12 other liberal arts institutions, hosted a dynamic afternoon series of speakers, breakout sessions, and a panel discussion as part of the Innovation + Disruption symposium in New York City this week. “We designed the program to re-introduce and re-frame the national dialogue about the preparation with which liberal […]

Clayton Christensen kicked off Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Innovation + Disruption symposium today with cautionary tales of industry giants felled by technological disruption, and why higher education should pay attention to the growth of online universities.