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What is CELS?

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.

This CC:Online alumni magazine article that tells how the CELS program brings jobs, internships and graduate school within your student's grasp, and presents some successful outcomes of Connecticut College graduates.

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.

Last Modified: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:57 AM