Career Center Newsletter 2/28/23

Career Center Newsletter

Events and Opportunities

The Summer Internship Funding Application is open for 2023. All applications must be submitted through Summit (under the Office of the Dean of the College).

Funding is intended to increase the ability of CC students to participate in internships that are unpaid or underpaid. Each Colorado College student is eligible to receive one award during their four undergraduate years. All internships must be away from the CC campus, and all travel for internships outside of the U.S. must be approved. Third-party programs are not eligible for funding. 

The first deadline for consideration is March 24, 2023. The sooner you start your search, the more proactive you can be for this application. It is unlikely all funds will be distributed at this deadline. Applications will continue to be accepted until funds run out or May 19, whichever comes first. 

Watch the Career Center Funding Website for full details and updates.

Social Justice Legal Externship with the Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law Project

Apply on Handshake by March 16, 5:00 p.m. MT

The Career Center is excited to offer CC students an exclusive remote externship with the Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law (OUL) project. Utilizing an innovative legal model, Public Counsel strives to bring justice, hope, and opportunity to underserved communities in Los Angeles and across the nation. Through groundbreaking civil rights litigation, advocacy and policy change, and direct legal services that help thousands of low-income people every year, Public Counsel has fought to secure equal justice and opportunity for all for more than 50 years.

As a Social Justice Legal Extern, you will support major class action cases that bring about systemic change. Reporting to Mark Rosenbaum, OUL Project Director and celebrated civil rights attorney and educator, you will:

  • Assist with research, writing, and fact investigation in conjunction with current cases on the docket.
  • Identify experts in areas related to the litigation. 
  • Help prepare trial and deposition testimony. 
  • Work with community groups to promote other advocacy strategies such as legislation and grassroots organizing.
Additional Key Details
  • This is an unpaid and fully remote opportunity
  • Estimated time commitment: 8-10 hours per week for 5 or more weeks
  • Start and end dates are flexible
  • Fluency in Spanish is a plus, but not required
  • Potential for two CC students to be selected

Upcoming Events

Building Successful Startups

Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023; 3 p.m. MST
Location: Palmer Hall Room 128

Come learn how Vance founded multiple enterprise software companies, received investments from venture capital and private equity, and now supports founders with his tech-focused accelerator “Exponential Impact”. 

Teach For America: Chipotle & Chat

Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023; 3 p.m. MST
Location: Carriage House

In collaboration with the Career Center, Teach For America will be hosting a Lunch and Learn with special guests and the Managing Director of TFA Colorado Springs, Kylia West. Network with and hear directly from Colorado leaders on how you can make an impact on education locally. This event is open to all undergraduate and graduate students.

Seniors and Graduate Students: Full-time post-grad jobs (Colorado Springs, Pueblo, or Denver). All majors accepted. Full salary and benefits + $5k-$10k stipend + up to $12k Americorps grant. Start this June after graduation.

Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshman: Paid internships available.

*Contact Gaby Johnson (gaby.johnson@teachforamerica.org) for questions. 

Highlighting Your Global Experience for Employers & Grad School

Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023; 12:15-1:15 p.m. MST
Location: Carriage House

Join us for a workshop about how to showcase your global experience on a resume and tips for cover letters and interviews. We will discuss strategies for where to include abroad and study away experiences, as well as international research, pre-college experiences, work abroad, and more.


Engaged Career Panel: Making a Difference while Getting Paid

Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023; 3:30-5 p.m. MST
Location: Yalich (Spencer) Board Room

RSVP HERE

Join the CCE for a panel of local CC alum in public good careers! Come see how alumni translate their CC degrees into careers for the public good. Panelists will share their experience working in the nonprofit and public sectors, reflect on their journeys to that work (including their CC experience), and give advice to students seeking to find a career path in which they can make a difference AND get paid.

Panelists represent nonprofits, city government, public academia, foundations, social entrepreneurship, and organizing :

  • Meg Yevara ’10 (Program Coordinator, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)
  • Sergio Portesan ’16 (Big Futures Program Specialist, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pikes Peak Region)
  • Ryan Trujillo ’06 (Deputy Chief of Staff, City of Colorado Springs)
  • ­­Candace Woods ’13 (Owner, Woods + the Wild)
  • Phoenix Chang Roper ’22 (Program Associate, El Pomar Foundation)

Positions


KRCC News Intern (Deadline March 6)

The KRCC News Team is seeking two individuals who are creative, self-motivated, and driven to join us as news interns. As an intern, you will have the opportunity to be heard by a potential audience of 900,000 listeners in southern Colorado and create news content that can be utilized on the statewide CPR network. The internship experience includes mentorship from news professionals, hands-on training and development, networking opportunities, and more.

As a KRCC News Intern, you will:

  • Learn about the many roles and responsibilities of a news production team.
  • Work closely with news professionals to develop creative writing skills and learn how to produce engaging content.
  • Get familiar with news production tools and equipment, including those for voice work.
  • Work with news professionals to produce on-air and digital content that can be utilized on KRCC and the CPR network which can be added to the student’s portfolio.
  • Shadow reporters and experience real-time news reporting in the field
  • Get exposure to editorial meetings and processes
Application Requirements:
To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume through this posting. 
*Students who are interested in receiving academic credit for this internship experience should contact the Career Center. 

U.S Figure Skating – Marketing & Communications Intern Spring Semester 2023

The Intern, Marketing & Communications Intern will be responsible for supporting the Director of Marketing with ongoing programs and events. Responsibilities also include:
  • Managing the tagging of social posts through our social media vendors,
  • Providing copywriting/editing support
  • Contribute to U.S. Figure Skating’s social media strategy including but not limited to content creation, and branded campaigns.
  • Contribute to SKATING magazine, Learn to Skate USA blog, and other publications as assigned, including the opportunity for feature writing.
  • Create and grow our Quarterly Fan Newsletter and find ways for fans to sign up
  • Research potential partners for U.S. Figure Skating and their tent-pole events
  • Gathering insights from survey results and other data collection methods
  • Program ideation and implementation

    In addition, all tasks that are assigned by the Manager, Marketing Analytics and Insights will be the responsibility of the Intern, Marketing. Emphasis will be placed on the candidate’s ability to work both independently and in a team environment, accuracy, customer service, creativity, and timeliness.

    Application: Send letter of application and resume to Robert Stabenau, Manager of Marketing Insights and Analytics at 
    rstabenau@usfigureskating.org. 

    https://www.usfigureskating.org/careers

Don’t forget: Visit Us During Drop-ins Monday-Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.


You can use the Career Center to connect your academia to your professional goals. Don’t forget that you can schedule an in-person or virtual appointment through Handshake to discuss major exploration, review your application materials, or practice mock interviewing. 
The Career Center is happy to support you: 

Full-Time Jobs, Internships, and Other Opportunities

  • AmeriCorps Summer Teaching Fellowship (May 15)
  • Charlie Blumenstein Stewardship Assistant (Apply by March 17)
  • Dynatrace Sales Development Representative – Summer 2023 (Apply by March 30) 
  • Dynatrace Product Specialist Intern
  • Dell Technologies Sales Strategy & Planning Graduate Internship
  • Lexidyne Business Intern
  • Lexidyne Programmer Analyst Intern
  • Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative Intern
  • Information Management Specialist
  • Special Olympics Colorado Special Events Intern
  • Quadriga Partners Investment Banking Internship (March 31)

Student Success Stories


Have you secured an internship or job for this summer, been accepted into a post-graduate program, or been rewarded for an academic or research achievement? The Career Center would love to celebrate you and your achievements! Fill out the Student Success Story form in our bio to be featured next on our Instagram!  @cc_careercenter
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Don’t Forget: Board of Trustees Town Hall

Don’t Forget the Colorado College Board of Trustees Town Hall tomorrow, Feb. 28, 2-3 p.m.

 

Have you registered? Tomorrow, Tues., Feb. 28, 2-3 p.m. the Board of Trustees officers will join President L. Song Richardson for a town hall via Zoom to share an update from their meeting Feb. 16-18. Please register in advance to participate. 
The town hall will be recorded and shared with the campus community in the week after the event. 
These town halls are part of The Work of the College, a year-long series designed in response to the ModernThink employee engagement survey results. The program has four goals: 1) clarify organizational structures and decision-making processes 2) offer campus constituencies the opportunity to engage in dialogue with leadership about campus affairs 3) increase decision-making transparency in hopes of building trust, and 4) build community. 
The Work of the College series consists of:
  • Community Conversations (dialogue about specific topics)
  • Roadshows (presentations and Q & As)
  • Board of Trustees Town Halls (informational updates)
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Updates on Our Commitment to Mental Health and Wellness

Update From the President’s Cabinet
As we work together to make mental health and wellness a top priority on campus, we want to share recent progress toward that commitment.

The mental health task force had its first meeting in January with more than 80 alumni, parents, students, staff, and faculty signed up to work on our shared commitment to create a campus where everyone thrives. Task force members have been invited to sign up for one of seven working groups, each with a charge to be completed by the end of the academic year.

Prior to Winter Break, we launched QPR training for all employees to create a shared approach to reducing the risk of suicide on our campus.  We are asking all employees to complete the training by the end of Block 6.

In December we announced a new telehealth service which provides all students with free, unlimited access to therapists and on-demand counseling . As of today, 165 students have actively registered, and 117 students have used the service.

We are currently assessing our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for access, quality, and services to ensure we have the required resources to meet staff and faculty mental health needs. Here is what we discovered.

In the Work of the College Roadshow series, we have held two events discussing our new anonymous reporting tool, with a third session scheduled for March 15. The portal will go live this month. You can learn more about this program by visiting our website, Speak Up Colorado.

We are close to completing the mental health questionnaires for all our student athletes. Once we have the required data, Children’s Hospital’s clinical psychologists will evaluate the data and come back to CC with recommendations for improved mental health resources for the athletics department.

Our search for the new associate vice president of wellness is well underway and we hope to invite finalists to campus by mid-March, during which the campus community will have opportunities to engage directly with each of the finalists.

Seventeen faculty and staff attended the first arts and crafts program for wellness Feb. 8. The next session will be held Feb. 24, from noon-2 p.m. For more information on how you can participate, please visit the arts and crafts web page.

As we move forward in our commitment to our campus community, we will continue to send updates. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please visit the cabinet mental health and wellness commitment website, or reach out to one of the cabinet members.
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BLOCK 6: CROWN FORUM: ANTIRACISM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN GOALS

HOW TO INCREASE COMPOSITIONAL DIVERSITY OF CC COMMUNITY

HOW TO INCREASE COMPOSITIONAL DIVERSITY OF CC COMMUNITY

BLOCK 6: CROWN FORUM:

ANTIRACISM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN GOALS

How to Increase Compositional Diversity of CC Community

The FEC’s number one priority this year is to support the college in implementing the antiracism plan goals while upholding academic freedom.  We are co-sponsoring a series of forums from Blocks two to seven with each forum focusing on a specific goal of the antiracism plan.  The summary of feedback from past forums is available on the FEC canvas page.

The next forum will be on Wednesday, March 8, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Tutt Library 411/412.  We sincerely hope that you will attend and give us your feedback to inform our future work on implementing the antiracism plan goals.  The goal for this forum is to discuss how to Increase Compositional Diversity of CC Community.  Please join us for a fearless but mutually respectful dialogue. To make the forum as productive as possible, please review the initiatives that are part of this goal, which can be found here, and review a glossary of ADEI terms, which can be found here.
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Don’t Forget the Block 6 First Monday, Feb. 27 at 11:15 a.m.

Don’t forget the Block 6 First Mondays speaker, Monday, Feb. 27, at 11:15 a.m. in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre.

Start Block 6 with the campus community by joining us for a talk by Melanie Auguste ’09, as she shares her unique journey from CC to Nike with “Finding Your ‘Mountain’ and Learning to Climb It: My Journey from CC to Nike and the Lessons I’m Learning.”
Auguste will help students understand the benefits of finding your topic, your dream, and your skill by sharing the importance of goal setting, the unquantifiable value of embracing failure, and how having resilience when encountering adversity will lead you to the right opportunities.
Auguste, who was a four-year starter on the women’s basketball team and received the Josten’s Award for Most Outstanding Player in DIII in her senior year, is now Vice President of Global Brand Narrative, Purpose, and Athlete Marketing for Nike. As such, she is responsible for driving Nike’s brand strategy and advertising with Nike’s most iconic athletes.
Block 6 First Monday
Feb. 27, 11:15 a.m./Hybrid Zoom Registration
Kathryn Mohrman Theatre
Add this event to your calendar.

The First Mondays Event Series is a campus-wide forum that aims to engage all members of the CC community, including students, staff, administrators, and faculty. The series creates opportunities for the whole community to gather, encouraging everyone to be part of the intellectual life of the college, and facilitating discourse among students, faculty, and staff, across courses, disciplines, and divisions. Classes are dismissed early on the first Monday of each block so that all may attend the First Mondays event.
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