This year, the Whitman Community Fellows Program will fund 13 students doing fellowship work at a Walla Walla community organization. In its second year, the program is thriving.
"Beyond your Backpack" offers students sessions specializing in career development. The first session, "Where Do I Begin?" helped students identify where their passions lie, and what fields they might find success in.
Community Fellow and senior David McGaughy has helped the Walla Walla Small Business Development Center to plan and build a test kitchen for community members.
ASWC worked closely with the administration to lift the ban on College funding for international travel. The administration is hopeful that by removing the ban, students will have more opportunities for pre-professional experiences abroad.
Following the example of other colleges, Whitman has recently begun planning to join the famous TED talk network, hoping to host talks on campus and screen others for members of the community.
Associated Students of Whitman College and the Student Engagement Center are interested in expanding students' involvement with the Walla Walla community and beyond through community-based learning projects, which are aimed at integrating real-life experiences and projects into the curriculum of classes to simultaneously solidify students’ learning and reach out to the community.
“I had no idea what I wanted to do when I got out of school,†said alumna Kate Morrison ’95 to a small group of students gathered in Reid Campus Center 240 on Monday, Oct. 22. For the next hour, she described her journey to her current career as a freelance web and graphic designer and answered questions from students interested in entering that field. The event was the sixth installment in the Student Engagement Center’s Real Talk with Alumni series, a semester-long series of workshops that invites local alumni from a variety of professions to share insight and career advice in a small group discussion setting.
The Student Engagement Center (SEC) will kick off its new Community Fellow program this month, pairing eight upper-level Whitman students with local organizations to engage in community development and related projects for the full academic year.
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First-year students Amy Shearer and Tim Reed created the Whitman Entrepreneurs group to begin building the skills and relationships needed to help students find jobs post-graduation.
Whitman's Challah for Hunger program is expanding its operations this semester, experimenting with new flavors and holding events to spread awareness about issues in the Darfur region of Sudan.
