Over the past year, C21 has mentored Media Production Scholars to practice professional skills while producing media for the C21 Career Channel. Here, Media Scholar and Art Major Alex Chen writes about his experience for the School of Art + Art History + Design...
Read MoreWhat happens when C21, the Career & Internship Center, and departmental advisors combine forces? They launch a project-based Career Lab for undergraduates, where individualized and group feedback from staff, alumni, and employers is the norm. As one student put it, the Career Lab provided opportunities to "practice...
Read More“What if we could give students a first job experience, where they could make common first-job mistakes and learn from them, before they graduate?” The result is the C21 Story Institute, introduced this summer.
Read MoreDespite being intrigued by the idea of a "hackathon" or other intense team-based competitions, I had never had the chance to participate in one. As a humanities major, it's not an opportunity that frequently presents itself, especially because innovation is often a STEM-exclusive term. But this past weekend, I had the...
Read MoreDuring Early Fall Start, 2016, C21 teamed up with Housing and Food Services to offer a specially tailored “Maximize Your Major” workshop to 80 first-year EFS students participating in the College of A&S Discovery Seminars...
Read MoreIn collaboration with advisors from sixteen different College of Arts & Sciences departments, C21 ran Advising and Orientation (A&O) sessions for approximately 1,000 freshmen this summer. First Year Programs invited C21 to develop active and engaging breakout sessions that would orient students toward intentional...
Read MoreDoes majoring in the liberal arts limit career options for UW undergrads? A group of advisors in the College of Arts & Sciences has formed to answer a resounding “no” to that question. In 2016-17, the College to Career Leadership Council (C2CLC) along with staff from C21 developing and leading programming across majors...
Read MoreIn 2014 and 2015, C21 took incoming freshmen to León, Spain for a special kind of study abroad program.
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