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You're Home! Now What?
You're Home! Now What?
🎒Take a Course: What's in Your Shoebox?
🎒Take a Course: What's in Your Shoebox?
Consider enrolling in COCO 21 What's in Your Shoebox? Unpacking Your Study Abroad Experience.
This course provides a platform to uncover the value of your study away experience and deeply reflect upon learning and growth. It also allows you to identify creative, practical, and meaningful ways to apply this new knowledge and awareness to future jobs, projects, classes, and adventures.
This course is often taught by the Guarini Institute's Associate Director and Faculty, Francine A'Ness.
🏅Become a Study Away Mentor
🏅Become a Study Away Mentor
All students who have participated in at least one Guarini Institute program are encouraged to apply to be a Study Away Mentor (SAM). This paid position as a student employee offers about 10 hours of work per term with flexibility for more and includes preparation and training meetings, being a panelist for and facilitating the quarterly SAM panel, and mentoring students in program cohorts before, during, and after their time away.
Students don't need to be on campus the entire year, but we hope that applicants can be available to participate throughout the entire academic year. Applications for this position open in the late spring term for the upcoming academic year, so be on the lookout for our announcement and apply! Email Noelle Warinsky with any questions about the SAM position.
👨⚖️Volunteer: Become a Student Representative in the Committee for Off-Campus Activities (COCA)
👨⚖️Volunteer: Become a Student Representative in the Committee for Off-Campus Activities (COCA)
The purpose of the student representative position in the Committee for Off-Campus Activities (COCA) is to voice your feedback and perspective as a student during the exchange and faculty-directed program reviews. Student voices are heard and represented as equal to the opinions and advice of the faculty members. The COCA meets on a bi-monthly basis 5 times per term. This position requires about 6 hours per month (4 hours for both meetings and 2 hours for prep).
Students are welcome to email Megan at Megan.R.Wood@Dartmouth.edu with any questions; volunteers are accepted all year round and only require a term-by-term commitment.
📈 Leverage Your Experience
📈 Leverage Your Experience
Students can meet with the Center for Career Design to leverage their study away experience into employment opportunities. The Center for Career Design is a hub for students exploring careers, making connections, and figuring out their next steps. The team uses life design and a human-centered approach to help students make sense of their options and take action when they're ready. The Center offers one-on-one career coaching, employment events, alumni connections, career fairs, employment opportunities, resources, and tools to support every student throughout each phase of their unique career journey.
Make an appointment with a Career Coach to discuss how to translate your study away experience into employment focused skills.
🧳 Apply for Another Term Away
🧳 Apply for Another Term Away
Applications for the following academic year generally open around October 1. Check in with your advisor, explore the programs and review our Dates and Deadlines.
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