ANNUAL REPORT
2024-2025

WELCOME

The 2024-2025 academic year was a fruitful and productive year as our team saw increased employer engagement and student attendance across the board. I am extremely proud of our team once again for their work - we set new student attendance records and sold out all three of our respective career, health and law school fairs for the first time. Our population advisers developed crucial new mentorship and leadership programs, and enhanced existing programs such as our East Asia Internship Program. Davidson College focuses on recruiting students from all backgrounds, enabling them to learn with, and from, each other. We make sure to embed in our work the skills and strategies to guide and support students with a broad range of life experiences, which advances our connectivity and success in our community and rewards students and staff alike.

Throughout this report, you will enjoy highlights of these various successes and programming focus points. Thank you to the Matthews Center team for your creativity and hard work. It is an honor to work with a team of dedicated professionals who understand and value the holistic nature of our mission.

We truly believe that career development happens in many spaces beyond the walls of this center. Our work is supported by a variety of partners across campus, Davidson alumni and families and external partners. We are grateful to be part of an institution that supports and prioritizes students in their successful pursuit of meaningful careers.

Josh King

Interim Executive Director

Mission

To prepare students for educational and professional opportunities that enrich lives of leadership and service.

Vision

To be at the forefront of maximizing the Davidson experience.

Purpose

The Matthews Center helps students and alumni navigate their life-long educational and professional pursuits by connecting them with tools, resources, and networks and fostering the development of critical competencies that build on the liberal arts experience. Our work depends on meaningful collaborations with academic and community partners that champion inclusivity and promote the pursuit of lives of leadership and service.

Diversity Statement

We, The Matthews Center for Career Development, are striving to create an inclusive culture that celebrates diverse backgrounds, one where everyone is valued and respected.

Davidson College graduating Seniors where black caps and gowns on graduation day, walking on the brick pavers out of the chambers building.

Art teacher points at a painting. A Davidson student admires the work. They appear to be having a discussion.

Swing hangs outside from a tree in front of the Alvarez College Union. Blue skies and white clouds hang above the brick building.

Four Davidson students lie on their stomachs on the front lawn of Chambers. They are talking and laughing and working on their homework/laptops.

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