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PREPARING STUDENTS FOR LIFE BEYOND THE LONG WALK The Career Development Center: Innovation and Entrepreneurship At Trinity, the Career Development Center (CDC) believes that every step of the college experience should empower students to move toward their future. Accordingly, career exploration and planning begin in the first year — long before our students approach graduation. The CDC offers targeted year-specific programs, competitive internship opportunities, job-search strategies, résumé advice, and interviewing tips and partners with one of the strongest and most loyal alumni and parent networks imaginable. Our introductory capstone program, Explore Your Options, engages first-year students in both academic and career exploration. As in all of our capstone programs, it is a collaborative effort among faculty, staff, alumni, and parents. The Bantam Student Success Program supports second- and third-year students as they cultivate the skills and tools necessary to identify and obtain opportunities that advance their educational and professional goals. Finally, our fourth-year program, Bantams and Beyond, works with seniors as they prepare for life beyond the Long Walk. Here, seniors gain a range of skills — from practicing how to articulate the value of a liberal arts education to employers to the art of salary negotiation. This longitudinal support equips students with the competencies and skills that employers and graduate programs demand. THE CATALYST FUND The Catalyst Leadership Corps The Catalyst Leadership Corps builds on the CDC’s suite of services, enabling students to hone leadership skills that they can apply in their substantive, paid, semester-long internship at a Hartford-based organization. Through networking events with local Hartford leaders and self-reflection exercises, corps members identify their interests, abilities, skills, personalities, and values, and they find ways to connect all of these to potential majors and careers. The Catalyst Leadership Corps provides the space for students to think outside the box and to be creative when considering options, both in and outside the classroom, that are aligned with their passions and strengths. The Catalyst Summer Internship Program The Catalyst Summer Internship Program awards stipends for internships that enable students to make intellectual and practical connections between the skills and knowledge that are developed through a liberal arts education and the skills and knowledge that employers demand. Summer internships help students gain firsthand insight into careers related to their academic interests. Through these experiential learning opportunities, students explore a career path or field, “testing the waters,” while building a professional network. The Career Development Center Catalyst Fund
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PREPARING STUDENTS FOR LIFE BEYOND THE LONG WALK
The Career Development Center: Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAt Trinity, the Career Development Center (CDC) believes that every step of the college experience should empower students to move toward their future. Accordingly, career exploration and planning begin in the first year — long before our students approach graduation. The CDC offers targeted year-specific programs, competitive internship opportunities, job-search strategies, résumé advice, and interviewing tips and partners with one of the strongest and most loyal alumni and parent networks imaginable.
Our introductory capstone program, Explore Your Options, engages first-year students in both academic and career exploration. As in all of our capstone programs, it is a collaborative effort among faculty, staff, alumni, and parents. The Bantam Student Success Program supports second- and third-year students as they cultivate the skills and tools necessary to identify and obtain opportunities that advance their educational and professional goals. Finally, our fourth-year program, Bantams and Beyond, works with seniors as they prepare for life beyond the Long Walk. Here, seniors gain a range of skills — from practicing how to articulate the value of a liberal arts education to employers to the art of salary negotiation. This longitudinal support equips students with the competencies and skills that employers and graduate programs demand.
THE CATALYST FUNDThe Catalyst Leadership CorpsThe Catalyst Leadership Corps builds on the CDC’s suite of services, enabling students to hone leadership skills that they can apply in their substantive, paid, semester-long internship at a Hartford-based organization. Through networking events with local Hartford leaders and self-reflection exercises, corps members identify their interests, abilities, skills, personalities, and values, and they find ways to connect all of these to potential majors and careers. The Catalyst Leadership Corps provides the space for students to think outside the box and to be creative when considering options, both in and outside the classroom, that are aligned with their passions and strengths.
The Catalyst Summer Internship ProgramThe Catalyst Summer Internship Program awards stipends for internships that enable students to make intellectual and practical connections between the skills and knowledge that are developed through a liberal arts education and the skills and knowledge that employers demand. Summer internships help students gain firsthand insight into careers related to their academic interests. Through these experiential learning opportunities, students explore a career path or field, “testing the waters,” while building a professional network.
The Career Development Center Catalyst Fund
8/2016
Your gift to the Catalyst Fund can help Trinity College achieve these goals.
For more information, please contact Gretchen Orschiedt at (860) 297-4123 or [email protected].
The Catalyst Fund $1 Million ChallengeA $1,000,000 challenge issued by Jeff Kelter ’76, ’18, a member of the Board of Trustees, will greatly advance the CDC’s efforts to support the professional development of students. Kelter has long been a firm believer in the work and value of the CDC in providing much-needed access to experiential learning and leadership opportunities.
The Catalyst Fund is designed to enrich the suite of the CDC’s year-specific programming while building internship opportunities in Hartford and beyond. The CDC will leverage the fund to meet the following strategic goals:
• Expandopportunitiesthatattract,engage,retain, and cultivate intellectually curious and socially engaged student leaders.
• IncreaseengagementinHartford—aresourceripe with more than 200 experiential learning opportunities.
• Facilitateearlyacquisitionofleadershipskills— skills highly valued in the marketplace.
• Launchearlycareerexplorationandprofessionalization processes, laying the groundwork for industry-specific expertise.
• Createaplatformforstudentstobuildrich industry-specific social networks with accomplished alumni and parents.
• Strategicallypositionstudentstopreparefor competitive summer internships and the job application process.
• Engageandcollaboratewithfacultytofosterstudent success outside the classroom and to build community partnerships.
• IncreaseparentalsupportofCDCefforts,both through financial gifts and professional opportunities.
• Graduatethoughtleaderswhoreflectthevalueof the Trinity brand and are prepared for the workforce.
In giving some money and raising the visibility of this effort, we can get alumni and parents involved, continue to raise capital around it, get alumni to return to campus to mentor students, and continue internship programs that we’ve embarked on. I’m happy to be a part of it. Jeff Kelter ’76, P’18
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