Nearly 80 percent of rising seniors are doing funded internships

Kevin Kelly '14 is one of 334 rising seniors completing paid internships this summer. Connecticut College's comprehensive career development program provides every student a stipend of up to $3,000 for a career-related internship between junior and senior year.
Kevin Kelly '14 is one of 334 rising seniors completing paid internships this summer. Connecticut College's comprehensive career development program provides every student a stipend of up to $3,000 for a career-related internship between junior and senior year.

They are at zoos and in hospitals, in high-rise office buildings in New York City and in dirt-floor huts in developing countries. This summer, 334 rising seniors – 76 percent of the class – are completing paid internships in nearly every sector and around the world. (Scroll down for the full list).

Connecticut College has one of the most comprehensive funded internship programs in the country, providing every student a stipend of up to $3,000 for a career-related internship between junior and senior year. The internship is part of a four-year career preparation program that focuses on helping students connect their liberal arts majors to professional opportunities and graduate study.

Career advisers from the College’s office of Career Enhancing Life Skills CELS introduce the four-year program of workshops and individual coaching during new-student orientation. Students are assigned an individual adviser who will work with them throughout their four years to identify their interests, hone their resumes, secure an appropriate internship, prepare for interviews and segue as smoothly as possible into post-college life.

The CELS program was founded in 1999, and participation has grown steadily since then. In a recent survey, 88 percent of graduates since 2008 reported participating in the program, and the majority of those credited CELS with helping them prepare for their first job or graduate school.  They gave highest marks to the internship component and the highly personalized support provided by CELS advisers.

Some of the many companies, organizations and institutions where Connecticut College interns are working this summer are:

- UBS Investment Banking in New York, N.Y.

- The Hershey Company in Hershey, Pa.

- Marie Claire Magazine in New York, N.Y.

- Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Pa.

- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong

- Liberty Mutual in Boston, Mass.

- Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.

- ABC News in Los Angeles, Calif.

- The Rockefeller Foundation in New York, N.Y.

- World Wildlife Fund in Galapagos, Ecuador

- Rapid Ratings International, Inc. in New York, N.Y.

- United States Olympic Committee in Washington, D.C.

- Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island in Boston, Mass.

- Pricewaterhouse Coopers in New York, N.Y.

- Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown, Mass.

- Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago, Ill.

- Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

- JP Morgan in New York, N.Y.

- Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

- MTV in New York, N.Y.

- Boston Ballet in Boston, Mass.

- Bloomberg in New York, N.Y.

- The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, N.Y.

- Boston Ballet in Boston, Mass.

- Conde Nast/The New Yorker in New York, N.Y.

- Nickelodeon in New York, N.Y.

- I CAN in London, England

- MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

- Christie’s Inc.  in New York, N.Y.

- Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution in Anchorage, Alaska

- Tipsy Cake in Chicago, Ill.

- Scholastic in New York, N.Y.

- Pfizer Inc. in Groton, Conn.

- International Data Corporation in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

- Kyoto Costume Institute in Kyoto, Japan

- Saint Laurent Paris in New York, N.Y.

- 21 Sports & Entertainment Marketing Group, Inc. in Greenwich, Conn.

- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Philadelphia, Pa.

- Marina Shamsutdinova Interior Design Studio in Russia

- One Story in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- American Ballet Theatre in New York, N.Y.

- The New York Public Library in New York, N.Y.

- Can Do Multiple Sclerosis in Edwards, Colo.

- New Wave Web and Marketing in Vista, Calif.

- Litchfield County State Attorney Office in Litchfield, Conn.

-Health and Welfare Council of Long Island in Melville, N.Y.

- Teennick.com/Nicktoons.com in New York, N.Y.

- Clinical Neuropsychology Services, LLC in Arlington, Va.

- Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Centers in Wallingford, Conn.

- Winito Inc. in New York, NY

- Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

- Karmaloop.com in Boston, Mass.

- New England Footwear in Newmarket, N.H.

- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic, Conn.

- The Black Sash in Mowbray, Cape Town

- Cloud Sports Data LLC in Saint Paul, Minn.

- Center for Cross Cultural Learning in Morocco

- Wakeman Town Farm & Sustainability Center in Westport, Conn.

- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Boston, Mass.

- Stuart Armstrong Centinel Financial Group in Needham Heights, Mass.

- Stop It Goaltending, LLC in Woburn, Mass.

- Sherin and Lodgen LLP in Boston, Mass.

- LEARN in Old Lyme, Conn.

- Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, China

- Greenough in Boston, Mass.

- Camp Starfish in Lancaster, Mass.

- Statewide Poverty Action Network in Seattle, Wash.

- Bread & Puppet Theater in West Glover, Vt.

- United Methodist Action Reach-Out Mission by Youth in Westford, Mass.

- The Moth in New York, N.Y.

- Law Office of Maria C. Crocker in Newton, Mass.

- International Institute of Boston in Boston, Mass.

- Office of New York City Public Advocate in New York, N.Y.

- Denver Film Society in Denver, Colo.

- Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

- Springfield Museums in Springfield, Mass.

- Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco, Calif.

- TimeOut Beijing in Beijing, China

- Ramapo for Children in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

- Duke University Human Simulation & Patient Safety Center in Durham, N.C.

- The Barnaba Institute in Trumbull, Conn.

- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Tarrytown, N.Y.

- Sackler Institute at NYU School of Medicine in New York, N.Y.

- Boston Medical Center/Trustees of Boston University in Boston, Mass.

- JRCasting24 in New York, N.Y.

- Cape Town Child Welfare Society in Cape Town, South Africa

- Riverside Community Care Life Skills Center & Riverside School in Needham, Mass.

- Red Light Management in New York, N.Y.

- Cultural Palace of Nationalities Museum in Beijing, China

- HighTower Securities/Treasury Partners in New York, N.Y.

- Perrone & Associati in Milan, Italy

- EMoney in New York, N.Y.

- Steven Winter Associates, Inc. in Norwalk, Conn.

- Congressman Michael H. Michaud in Washington, D.C.

- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem, Israel

- Bellevue Hospital Center in New York, N.Y.

- Hopes for Women in Education in Amman, Jordan

- The Kennedy Center in Trumbull, Conn.

- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, N.Y.

- Metropolitan Hospital Neurology Department in New York, N.Y.

- Russell & Associates in Needham, Mass.

- Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill.

- Brown Brothers Harriman in New York, N.Y.

- M. Safra & Co., Inc. in New York, N.Y.

- Winchester Hospital in Wichester, Mass.

- Amacher and Associates Architects in Cambridge, Mass.

- Office of Congressman William R. Keating in Hyannis, Mass.

- Anton Kern Gallery in New York, N.Y.

- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.

- National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md.

- 440 Sound Studios in Woodland Park, N.J.

- Longchamp Paris in Paris, France

- Princeton Center for Leadership Training in Princeton, N.J.

- Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.

- Institut for Zeitgeschichte in Munich, Germany

- Chicago Public Media in Chicago, Ill.

- The Parents Circle Families Forum in Ramat-Efal, Israel

- Art Start in New York, N.Y.

- German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany

- CrossFit Hollywood in Los Angeles, Calif.

- World Affairs Council of NH in Manchester, N.H.

- The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

- Corporacion de Formento de la Produccion de Chile in Chile

- Lynn Morgan Design in Rowayton, Conn.

- Concern Worldwide US in New York, N.Y.

- Spaulding Outpatient Center for Children at the Lurie Center in Lexington, Mass.

- The Legal Aid Society of Orange County in Santa Ana, Calif.

- Burson-Marstella in New York, N.Y.

- Art Real Ways in Hartford, Conn.

- Informed Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland

- UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.

- Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group in Reading, Mass.

- China Environmental Investment Union in Beijing, China

- Generation Citizen in Boston, Mass.

- University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing in Philadelphia, Pa.

- Endstation Theatre Company in Sweet Briar, Va.

- Ingersolll Gender Center in Seattle, Wash.

- Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Ahmadnager, Maharashtra

- Alexion Pharmaceuticals in Chester, Conn.

- Children s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H.

- Dept. of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife in Honolulu, Hawaii

- Capital Fringe in Washington, D.C.

- Human Rights Center Memorial in Moscow, Russia

- The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill.

- Human Rights Watch in New York, N.Y.

- University of Vermont, College of Medicine in Burlington, Vt.

- Dilenschneider Group, Inc. in New York, N.Y.

- The Nature Conservancy in Providence, R.I.

- Quintessentially Travel in New York, N.Y.

- Istituto Luigi Sturzo in Italy

- A & E in New York, N.Y.

- Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass.

- Transitional Data Services in Westborough, Mass.

- Mochilaman in Barcelona, Spain

- Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

- Casa Nica in Masaya, Nicaragua

- Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C.

- JC Marketing Associates, Inc. in Wakefield, Mass.

- Blue Marble Ice Cream/Blue Marble Dreams in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- Elizabeth Osborne in Philadelphia, Pa.

- Consejo Argentina para les Relaciones Internacionales in Argentina

- Ocean Beach Park in New London, Conn.

- Appalachian Voices in Washington, D.C.

- United Sleep Diagnostics/Truetox Labs LLC in Garden City Park, N.Y.

- Root Division in San Francisco, Calif.

- Office New York State Senator Jose Peralta in East Elmhurst, N.Y.

- Global Green USA in Santa Monica, Calif.

- Franz Marc Museum in Kochel, Germany

- SAOL Project in Dublin, Ireland

- Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP in New York, N.Y.

- Jane Doe Inc. in Boston, Mass.

- Youth Digital Studio in Durham, N.C.

- Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

- Architekturgalerie Munchen in Munich, Germany

- Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, Calif.

- Hidden Valley Camps, Inc. in Freedom, Maine

- Fintrac, Inc. in Washington, D.C.

- State of the Art Dentistry in Long Island, N.Y.

- Office of Public Defender in New London, Conn.

- Lifeflight of Maine/The LifeFlight Foundation in Lewiston, Maine

- 1st Round Enterprises in Marina del Rey, Calif.

- Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor in Dakar, Senegal

- Town Farm/Tuesday Market in Northampton, Mass.

- Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn.

- Li/Saltzman Architects, P.C. in New York, N.Y.

- The Trust for Public Land in Washington, D.C.

- Malo Consulting, LLC in North Rutherford, N.J.

- Warby Parker in New York, N.Y.

- La Direccion General de la Mujer in Argentina

- Northwestern University Foley Center for the Study of Lives in Evanston, Ill.

- PAC-12 Enterprise in San Francisco, Calif.

- BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) in Dorchester, Mass.

- Northern RI Physical Therapy in Greenville, R.I.

- Single Stop USA in New York, N.Y.

- Artnet Worldwide Corporation in New York, N.Y.

- The Documentary Group in New York, N.Y.

- Maine Coast Heritage Trust in Topsham, Maine

- Collectif des associations etudiantes LGBT d Ile-de-France in Paris, France

- Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn.

- Sophie Elgort LLC in New York, N.Y.

- McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

- Dalton & Finegold, LLP in Andover, Mass.

- Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.

- Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- MH2 Direct in Norwalk, Conn.

- Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C.

- Baegle Steeves & Ridge, LLC in Portland, Maine

- Windhaven in Boston, Mass.

- Independence Blue Cross Foundation in Philadelphia, Pa.

- Musee de la Revolution Francaise in Vizille, France

- Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service in Washington, D.C.

- Teleton in Santiago, Chile

- The Good Life Organization in Chicago, Ill.

- Folio Literary Management, LLC in New York, N.Y.

- Rhode Island Free Clinic in Providence, R.I.

- Connecticut Tigers in Norwich, Conn.

- Children s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.

- Turkois Design in Valhalla, N.Y.

- Jacob & Co. in New York, N.Y.

- Proetica Peru in Lima, Peru

- American Center for Research in Waltham, Mass.

- Newport Art Museum in Newport, R.I.

- Commonwealth Research Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass.

- PMK*BNC in New York, N.Y.

- Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, N.H.

- Connecticut Fund for the Environment in New Haven, Conn.

- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.

- Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine

- Consulate General of Israel to New England in Boston, Mass.

- Saatchi & Saatchi in New York, N.Y.

- Fred W. Dilts, III, Attorney at Law in Douglas, Wyo.

- Toni, Inc in New Brighton, Pa.

- Andaluna Dental in Malden, Mass.

- NYS Psychiatric Institute in New York, N.Y.

- Regan Communications in Boston, Mass.

- BeCause Water Benefit Corp in Boston, Mass.

- Lee & Associates NYC in New York, N.Y.

- Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health in Chicago, Ill.

- Council on Competitiveness in Washington, D.C.

- Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C.

- Cambodian Threads LLC in Stow, Mass.

- Cheerful Hearts Foundation in Kasoa, Ghana

- American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, Pa.

- Hartford Hospital Dept. of Emergency Medicine in Hartford, Conn.

- Music@Menlo in Atherton, Calif.

- R&J Public Relations, LLC in Bridgewater, N.J.

- The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in New York, N.Y.

- Defensorio del Pueblo in Lima, Peru

- Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn.

- Middle Earth Hotline in Somerville, N.J.

- Burlington City Arts in Burlington, Vt.

- Digitas Health in New York, N.Y.

- WaterFire Providence in Providence, R.I.

- Elk Creek Ranch in Cody, Wyo.

- Feaster Financial Group in Brielle, N.J.

- Solace Women’s Aid in London, England

- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill.

- Lexington Historical Society in Lexington, Mass.

- UCONN IMG Sports Marketing in Hartford, Conn.

- Virtua Castle Program in Camden, N.J.

- Alliance for Living in New London, Conn.

- Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y.

- Center for Health and Rights of Migrants in Osaka, Japan

- Empirical Wealth Management in Seattle, Wash.

- Lynch, Traub, Keefe & Errante in New Haven, Conn.

- Hanson Search in London, England

- Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif.

- Ecast Productions in Boston, Mass.

- Olson Lewis + Architects in Manchester, Mass.

- Meredith Corporation in New York, N.Y.

- Friends of the Earth Middle East in Amman, Jordan

- Quinn for New York in New York, N.Y.

- Icelandic Tourist Board in Iceland

- Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, Mass.

- UCONN Health Center in Farmington, Conn.

- Center for Child Development-Day School in New York, N.Y.

- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital Research Center in Chicago, Ill.

- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass.

- Essex Financial Services in Essex, Conn.

- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Butte, Colo.

- Eli Klein Fine Art in New York, N.Y.

- Deborah Abel Dance Company & School in Carlisle, Mass.



July 23, 2013