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External panel tackles Career Services review

By Alina Gonzalez | April 10, 2008

For the first time, Dartmouth Career Services is drawing on an expert panel of parents, employers, alumni and prominent officials at prestigious universities across the country to evaluate the department's effectiveness. Career Services initiates an internal departmental review process every three years, Director of Career Services Skip Sturman said, but this year is the first external review, which Sturman hopes will be "the most comprehensive in recent history." The review panel came to Dartmouth on Wednesday and is scheduled to remain in Hanover through Friday to meet with College President James Wright and other administrators, faculty, admissions officers and students.

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Alum lectures on work in Nepal

By Alina Gonzalez | October 16, 2006

Don Clark Tu '73, the mission director of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nepal, discussed his life and work with 36 students to kick off year three of Career Services' "Careers for the Common Good" initiative, last Thursday.

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Dartmouth hosts summit on stem cell research

By Alina Gonzalez | September 27, 2006

Over 75 students, professors and community members gathered in Dartmouth Medical School's Kellogg Auditorium Tuesday afternoon for an interdisciplinary summit on the controversial topic of stem cell research. Focusing on the set of research titled, "The Convergence of Science, Ethics and Policy," the event featured three experts in the field -- Dr. John Gearhart, Ronald Green and Bernard Siegel -- who discussed the topic from scientific, ethical and policy-making standpoints. Gearhart, a professor of comparative medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University, and a pioneer of stem cell research, spoke on behalf of the scientific community.

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Trustee balances business, non-profit

By Alina Gonzalez | September 26, 2006

Career Services inaugurated its 2006 Employer Connections Fair Monday evening with an address entitled "Uncharted Maps: Life through Multiple Careers" by Dartmouth Trustee Michael Chu '68, who told students that it is possible to successfully switch back and forth between corporate and not-for-profit careers and simultaneously contribute to society. Chu's speech, which kicked off a week of employment-related activities for undergraduates, is part of an on-going Career Services initiative called "Careers for the Common Good," a program that aims to empower students to find value-driven work in the not-for-profit, public and private sectors by connecting them with alumni who have succeeded in those areas. "Michael Chu represents an amazing model because he proves that you do not have to choose between the corporate and the not-for-profit world ... and that doing well and doing good are not mutually exclusive," Career Services Director Skip Sturman said. Chu has served as senior vice president and CFO of a New York based private equity firm, president and CEO of a nonprofit corporation that developed financial services for the working poor and senior partner of a firm dedicated to deploying equity capital for projects in Latin America. "The not-for-profit and corporate worlds are often very porous, and it's more the barriers that you build in your mind that closes one off from the other," he told the audience of approximately 50 students. Chu also urged students to engage their hearts and minds when constructing career goals. "You can make gazillions in a job that engages your mind, but if it doesn't do the same for your heart, it becomes really hollow," he said. Conversely, Chu noted that one can also serve soup in a soup kitchen, "which is a great thing to do and which will engage your heart, but which sometime, sooner or later, will prove to not be enough for the mind"

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Grads return for Career Services anniversary

By Alina Gonzalez | August 8, 2006

Dartmouth Career Services celebrated 30 years of service to students Thursday with an anniversary party that showcased the stories of alumni who have followed nontraditional or unexpected career paths after graduation. "All dreams are welcome here," Career Services Director Skip Sturman said as he addressed more than 40 students, professors and alumni who gathered at Collis to toast the organization's three-decade effort to assist undergraduates with their professional endeavors. The recognition of alumni was made possible by the Alumni Stories Project, a Career Services' effort funded by John Kovis '63's Career Discovery Program.

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