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What is CELS?

It's more than a career services office. Career Enhancing Life Skills is a four-year program through which students explore career options, assess interests and skills, learn to consider lifetime goals when planning coursework and activities, look for a career-related junior-year internship, and get help with a job search as seniors.

Media coverage about the Connecticut College internship program

Connecticut College's prominence in international education was highlighted in a USA Today article on April 24, 2007 about the growing numbers of students seeking to do internships abroad.

The College's funded internship program was also highlighted in a Wall Street Journal story published March 6, 2008. Read the news release.

More internship news stories

Alumni judge lets student interns into N.J. legal world.

An alumna gives John Waterman ´11 a "cheesy" idea

Student produces a radio show during her summer internship

Class of 1981 raises $540,000 to support funded internship program