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These rural colleges are beating the odds to drive student success

University Business

The large open spaces of rural towns expose their community college students to several unique industries that they can contribute to, such as those in agriculture, tourism/recreation and energy and mineral production. The rural town leveraged its open space to create a booming industry and build student employment opportunities.

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2025 CAPD FAQs for Family & Supporters

CAPD

How is the connection between current students and alumni? Do alumni easily offer internships or other opportunities to current students? There is a very strong alumni network at MIT, and there are a number of events and opportunities happening on campus throughout the year for students to connect with alumni.

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The Career Exploration Series is an initiative led by Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) at MIT to promote career exploration throughout the fall and IAP for students and postdocs. In previous years, events were primarily condensed in the week leading up to the Fall Career Fair in September.

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How the pandemic has changed graduate recruitment: Preparing students for a changed & changing landscape

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Christina Morello Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services. Employers moved to entirely virtual selection with online assessment centres and interviews.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. And indeed, a profession in the music industry could mean a lot of different things, with many ‘ways in’ and no obvious, prescribed graduate career path.

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This is essential to help students make more informed choices about the kind of work they will really enjoy, and also because employers really value that experience in their recruitment processes. So what is the value of work experience from an employer’s perspective? They also advertise around 10,000 vacancies annually.

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CoDI Show: Is astronaut food the future?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Why are we more comfortable with exploring new topics in public events then in teaching? This Edinburgh Fringe event is as an equal measure of light entertainment, knowledge dissemination and public discussion. Yes, I am quite well aware of the Space Industry and Space Science. From Space)” in 2016.

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