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This summer, students gained hands-on work experience through paid internships, thanks to L&C’s Career Center. Check out the experiences of some of these students!

The Career Accelerator will focus on pairing a liberal arts education with targeted, high-impact career development experiences to provide undergraduate students with the skills needed to secure competitive jobs after graduation.

Learn more about this year’s grant recipients and their projects that seek to create positive social change within their communities.

Lewis & Clark has been named No. 8 among small colleges on the Peace Corps’ 2025 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. With six alumni currently serving across five countries, the college continues its deep-rooted commitment to global service.

This transformational approach to career readiness will integrate career competencies and work-ready skills into every undergraduate’s academic journey; a commitment from Heidi Hu BS ’85 and Daniel Hsieh establishes an endowment to support it.

Every spring, Lewis & Clark alumni return to campus to offer advice on careers, internships, and degree applicable endeavors. 

Seeking students to become trained Dialogue Practitioners and hold important conversations on campus!

This program is designed to equip student leaders with the skills to facilitate meaningful dialogue on campus. In this role, you’ll be trained in dialogue facilitation and learn techniques for fostering constructive conversations across a variety of perspectives. Following the initial two-day training, students will work with other trained practitioners to develop and facilitate a dialogue project on a topic that matters in our campus community.

A group of L&C students got an exclusive tour of Nike headquarters, connecting with alumni and discovering what it’s like to work at one of the world’s leading sportswear brands.

This summer, L&C students gained hands-on work experience through paid internships, diving into real-world challenges and building their professional skills.

Lewis & Clark has made the Top 10 list of small colleges and universities that have produced the highest all-time number of Peace Corps volunteers since the agency’s inception in 1961.

The collaborative efforts of the Career Center, Economics Department, and Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement culminated in a productive networking event for Lewis and Clark students and alumni alike. 

Two Meta employees, who are also Lewis & Clark alumni, welcomed students to Meta’s Seattle office and shared their career stories.

With funding from the Mellon Foundation, LC student Molly Gibbons completed the inaugural Inside-Out Internship over Summer and Fall of 2022. Molly is a History major and Hispanic Studies minor from Missoula MT who plans to graduate in Spring ’24.

“This internship was one of the most informative and valuable work and educational experiences I have had,” she said. Read on to find out why.

Applications are now open for limited spots in the Bates Center’s flagship program Winterim which features 60 speakers, mentors and judges for 30 students in a fast-paced week that culminates in a pitch competition with $8,000 of cash prizes.

No prior entrepreneurial experience is required or expected. Priority deadline is November 15.

Join us from January 7 - 12, 2024. 

If you have just come back from abroad, congratulations you made it!