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U.S. News highlights Conn's excellence in career preparation, innovation and undergraduate teaching

U.S. News & World Report highlights 91³ΙΘΛ’s innovative career and professional development program in a Sept. 9 article,   The College is also listed among the  and among the national liberal arts colleges with the . 

°δ΄Η²Τ²Τ’s Hale Center for Career Development helps students put their liberal arts educations into action with personalized advising, alumni mentoring and a Flexible Career Funding Program that offers students multiple funding opportunities for internships and career preparation during all four years at Conn.  

Khanh Nghiem ’19 told U.S. News that he used the funding to do three different jobs. He developed software to optimize college exam schedules with one of his professors, worked as a product manager at an education technology startup, and served as a lab assistant at a nonprofit research institute affiliated with Yale University. The diversity of his experiences paid off, he told U.S. News, as he recently began his career as a cloud technical resident at Google.

Career planning is a cornerstone of Connections, 91³ΙΘΛ’s reinvention of the liberal arts. The innovative curriculum takes the traditional academic major and makes it even more relevant by linking it to a personally meaningful Pathway or interdisciplinary study, off-campus learning experiences, internships and other professional development opportunities to ensure every student graduates with the integrative thinking, problem-solving and leadership skills necessary for a meaningful life and career.

In the spring, U.S. News asked top college officials to identify liberal arts colleges making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities, as well as institutions with with strong commitments to undergraduate teaching. 91³ΙΘΛ is listed among the top 30  and is ranked No. 25 in the  category. 

The College was previously recognized in for setting the standards for undergraduate teaching. The article,  explores trends in faculty development and efforts by colleges and universities to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching. At 91³ΙΘΛ, faculty learn to better motivate and engage their students through the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL).

β€œThe best teachers are constantly working on their teaching: assessing, refining, improving,” said Michael Reder β€™86, director of the center. β€œThe CTL gives 91³ΙΘΛ’s faculty a forum to exchange ideas, learn new skills and evaluate their success in the classroom.”