The Sewanee Pledge

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Alright, hi everyone. Welcome to another Swanee session. My name is Shiro Burnett and I am an admission counselor here in the office. I'm also Swanee graduated recently in 2018 before we get started. If you guys want to go ahead and put your name in the chat, you can go ahead and introduce yourself, say where you're from. My colleague Taylor. She is on it.

Taylor is going to be working in the background on the chat throughout this event and so feel free to utilize that chat feature if you guys have any questions throughout the entire time while also going to make sure to dedicate a good portion of time at the end of the event to go through all of your questions. But we are using a moderated chat, so don't worry if you don't see your chat populate immediately. We are going to be working in background to approve all of those, but.

Stephanie, feel free to utilize that. Like I said throughout the entire time, but we do have a few panelists here with us today. Will go ahead and let them introduce themselves and we'll just dive straight in. So I'm kind of going in order of the slide. Kim, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself?

Sure, I am Kim heitzenrater. I am the director of Swaniker Center and I'm also a graduate of Swanee, an appearance of a recent graduate good to be with you all today.

Is he shiny? We can't hear you yet.

You just go ahead and introduce yourself and will come back to Johnny.

That was great. Hey everybody, I'm Edith Amos and I'm a senior chemistry major from Birmingham, AL and I'm also excited to be here today and answer any questions you have about inside the classroom or outside the classroom.

Alright, and then Shawnee system is also with us. She is working within the Office of Global Citizenship. She is our study abroad and office coordinator there which will hopefully help on in a few. Once we get to that section of the presentation but just to kind of start us off and kind of giving context for this topic. This money pledge really comes about from the Honor Pledge that we have here at Swanee. And so as a first year incoming student, this is one of the first things that you actually do.

Usually traditionally we have it in All Saints Chapel, but this year due to Covic precautions we had it on the quad, but this is just an opportunity for students to make an Honor pledge. Making that commitment to while they're here at Swanee will not lie, cheat or steal, and so that affects both academic life as well as campus life as well, but in reciprocation to that Honor pledge that students make we as an institution also have what we call the Swanee Pledge.

And so the Swanee Pledger, just three guarantees that we offer to all of our first year incoming students. And we're going to go through each of these items one by one as we progress throughout the presentation. But you can see them all listed here. So that first one, pledging that to provide funding for summer internship or research opportunity, Secondly pledging to provide access to a semester long study away program at no additional tuition costs. And then Lastly, pledging that you'll graduate with at least one major in four consecutive years.

So these are just kind of those guarantees that we feel success wanting a little bit apart from other institutions. So like I said, kind of breaking through those one by one. Kim, if you want to go ahead and tell us a little bit more about your role within the Career Center and then also how students can go about finding some of those summer internships and research opportunities.

Yeah, thanks Sarah, so I'm as I mentioned, I'm Kim in the Chris Center and I'm going to share info with you, but there's even more info available at our website whichiscareers.swanee.edu.

And you're also welcome to talk individually with me as many mornings throughout the week. Think Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays at 11. Central student can schedule time through admission to have a one on one conversation or small group conversation. So if you have individual questions and you'd like to know how your dreams and your goals for your future could work here, I encourage you to set up on those conversations. And I'd love to tell you everything that you would want to know, particularly and specifically.

So we view these four years as funny as preparing you for the next 40 or more and our students build career readiness through many avenues through their coursework, through campus and community involvement through athletics through on campus employment. If they do that and then through internships and research. And then you know, many other ways.

So in addition to those ways that they build career readiness, our Career Center staff stands ready to come alongside them and coach them individually and provide learning resources that our students can access 24/7. And then we also provide events and opportunities for networking with our alumni and others and with recruiters and so all of that together goes to to culminate in an outstanding ecosystem to prepare.

An it's just part of the culture here, so you can see on the screen that 97% of our students engage with the Career Center during their four years. Here is just part of what students do. We think it's kind of ironic that also 97% by the time we stopped collecting outcomes for the graduating class report a positive outcome after they graduate so you can do the math. Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it's a design, but.

But we like to think that we're creating an ecosystem where students thrive and then they prepare for what comes next and Taylor do. And again the next slide, please.

We're sorry, thanks and I will say that our students agree. So the Princeton Review name Swaney #20 for best alumni Network and then #15 best school for Internships and #15 best career services. And we don't like fill out a form to say hey can you look at what we do and tell us how we rank. This only comes about because evidently our students take this survey and they must rave about what happens at Swanee around career readiness so.

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But I I wanna talk a minute about the importance of internships. So internships are a great way to validate and verify. You know, you think OK? I think I'm interested in X and so OK, then go do an internship and figure that out. Is that really the right fit for you? The right field? Or does it tell you that maybe you want to try something different and so you Pinterest something else the next summer. But whether you discover that you're on the right path or that you want to change the path that you're pursuing your still building skills.

And gaining experience, and whether you're doing that through an internship that you discover on your own or through an internship that our office has waiting and ready for you to apply for where they want to, hire A spawny student or more than once when the student or if you're doing research with a faculty member or research somewhere in a nationwide location. All of these things go together and there is just a really important way.

It's also important to do internships because data is showing lately that employers the number one thing that they look at is past internship experience. It's not GPA, it's maybe not the college. Although we think swimming is the best place to start, but it's did you do an internship and do you know what you're getting into? And Are you ready for this? Succeed to succeed in this role?

So funding for internships is important. The 'cause there are lots of ways to gain experience, but not all of them are paid, or if they're paid their paid, maybe minimally. So there are paid internships, and that's great, but if they're unpaid, we still want you to be able to pursue it, and so we are fortunate to have 50 endowed funds plus hundreds of donors every year who give to make internship funding possible.

And so our students, you know every summer go around the country and around the world. We had to take a pause on that last summer, obviously, but we hope this summer to return at least two nationwide internships. And in person internships for this summer.

So in addition to the things that students made learn about on their own.

We have over a nearly 200 opportunities just waiting there. Still there are people who want to hire Swanee student and then there are hundreds more internships that we post on our platform.

And then if you could give the next slide, all of that yields outcomes that our students want. So this is one of my favorite times a year. I mean, I love every day in Swanee, but I love the spring because it's really fun to see seniors let us know, you know, hey, I got the job or I got into another Graduate School program and now I've been accepted to six programs of the nine iPod two so far. And oh, I got full funding at my graduate program. So it's just really fun to see all the places that they go.

And we have a new website itsoutcomestarswanee.edu, and so you can see for the classes of 2019 and 18 what they do, where they go.

And just explore happy to answer your questions. Thanks so much.

Awesome, thank you Kim and I definitely just want to reiterate everything that Kim just mentioned when I was twenty students. I frequently went to the Career Center chemist, read some of my resumes as well as other members of their team, and they do mock interviews and all types. Really. Great work there, Edith. As a current student, do you have any or have you had any interactions with the Career Center? Any internships or research experience and what is that process look like?

All of the above. So I would say my first piece of advice that speaks Miss Heitzenrater stat on 97% of students like going in, meeting in the Career Center would be whenever I might or I always like to tell everybody that like within your first semester freshman year you need to pop in there and you need to go ahead and get a resume setup and so somebody gave me that piece of advice like a really long time ago at this point and I remember sitting down with Miss Heitzenrater.

And putting together my first resume, and you know there's not much on there at the beginning, but it's so much easier to have that ready and add to it. And like you were saying, I've met with, I think all of the counselors in the Career Center at this point in time, doing various different things. And so I mean, they're huge resource and they they help you grow overtime and they like to watch you succeed. And it's especially exciting when they think of something that like a job or an internship that reminds them of you.

And then they send you an email and they're like. Hate it like I saw this research internship like it made me think of you like hear your credential, you know, here's what they're looking for. You should definitely think about it. And you know, Even so, if they're looking for a Swanee student as well. But the other side of that with funding. So I applied and was chosen to be one of the Vischer fellows, so be sure stands for Vanderbilt Swanee undergraduate research experience, and that's a collaboration with Swanee and Vanderbilt.

So Vanderbilt accepts for Swanee specific students to do a two year summer research internship in the biomedical Sciences, and so actually that that internship has played a huge huge factor in my career path. So I actually was very dead set on going to medical school. But after getting to attend that internship, I really found my passion for research and so I'm actually going to Graduate School in the fall.

Which is super exciting, but an I wouldn't have had that opportunity if that wasn't a fully funded internship. So that internship is specifically funded through an alumni sponsor and it's been super rewarding to also have the opportunity to interact with that alumni and get to thank them and know them on a more personal level. And they have been especially interested in my career path and they enjoy keeping up with me as well. So I feel like I've gotten a lot of reward.

And benefits from starting in the careers in early.

Awesome, thanks Edith and also Congrats on grad school that's exciting.

Yes, thank you.

Yeah, and so Shawnee is your microphone. All good? Are you up and running?

OK, gotcha. Well we'll skip around and we'll try to come back to you if that's OK.

And so with that, when I hop back to the pledge, and so we're going to skip down to that third item, and so pledging that you'll graduate within four consecutive years. And So what this really means is just that making sure that students can get their undergraduate education in a timely manner, and so you know if you're lucky that you want to go to grad school, or you just really getting straight into the workforce, we as an institution believe that you should be able to do that in a timely manner. And so if for some reason you have to.

Take an extra semester or an extra year at Swanee. Then that's on spawnings dollar. But what really makes it possible to graduate with at least one major in four consecutive years is revising program and so that relationship that you develop with both faculty.

Your faculty advisor, your first year academic 1st and 2nd year Academic Advisor, as well as from major Advisor, which you can see here. We also have one in the middle that you'll see pre professional advising, and so if you're on one of those pre professional tracks you have additional advising that comes with that as well. And so jumping back to Edith for that current student perspective. Can you talk a little bit about your process with advising how it was? You know, as a first year increments student.

Leading up to designing your major and then what that advising process looks like. Once you declared that.

Yeah, so I am also one of the Hippocrates fellows which is a pre medical sort of honors like cohort. So I came in and my first year advisor was the director of the Office of Medical Health and Professors Professions Doctor Alisa Summers. And so she takes on all of the Hippocrates fellows specifically. And so I met with her and your freshman year, you're placed into courses that align with the classes in the track that you've listed that you're interested in.

So I started out in introductory biology and chemistry classes. I did up in the politics classes well and I also took my Latin class my first year, first year, first semester, and so after that it's really important to go ahead and get a strong relationship with your freshman year advisor because they're helping you pick your classes for the next semester. And for me that also played into the pre professional role. So whenever we looked at classes, we were looking at what I was interested in.

But we were also looking at what I needed to be doing to fulfill the pre medical prerequisites and so I came in just one thing that I wanted to be a biology major. Obviously I went towards chemistry but in the middle there so I came in wanting to think that I would be a biology major. I took a math class, thought that I wanted to be a math major and then in my sophomore year I guess it was actually probably at the end of my freshman year. My chemistry professor, doctor Jocelyn.

And I were sitting in her student hours and I was getting help on some homework problems and she was like, you know, you're really doing well in this class and you love the lab and it's clear they are super enthusiastic about chemistry. Like have you thought of being a chemistry major? And I was like, no, not at all. I can't even believe you bring that up, but so having those conversations early really kind of set that spark in my head. And so of course talking to Doctor Summers, my.

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First year in pre professional advisor and then having Doctor Jocelyn is a professor in this chemistry class. Really led to an easy transition for me to declaring a chemistry major and also declaring that Doctor Jocelyn, the professor that I had would be my advisor. Personally I have been so fortunate to get to know her on a personal and a like more level so I.

I also work in her research lab as an undergraduate research assistant, and so not only have I gotten the opportunity to take classes with her, I also have had the opportunity to work in her lab. So if anybody has any questions about that, I'm happy to talk about that as well.

And of course you you can meet with your advisor as much as you want, and you have a required meeting before course registration every semester so that you all can make sure you're on your same page. But what's been the most fun for me is that probably this last semester since I knew that I had fulfilled all of my requirements for my major in minor that I went into her advising session and just walked in. And I was like, well, this is the schedule I've planned out like I've checked everything off and you've helped me get all those boxes checked. And now I'm gonna have a little bit of fun.

With my classes, so that's been my experience so far.

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Awesome thanks. Eat it. And one thing to point out because you just mentioned you know at the beginning taking you know different types of courses. You know math and things like that. This is really built into this money curriculum. So during those first two years before you had to declare your major, you really have the opportunity to just shop around and you know, take whatever classes that interest you, but also potentially classes that may be a challenge. Things that you never considered. I had a pretty similar experience to eat it as a Swanee student.

It looked.

I came in thinking that I was going to international finance and so I was looking at economics and international global studies. But through you know, taking different classes and working with my advisor. I ended up doing anthropology and classical archaeology, so complete left turn, but I think that's one of the really cool things about Swaney is that you have that time to really explore and try to figure out what it is that you like.

And so hopping back a little bit. Sean yeary.

Do do we get all set up?

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So did you hear me at all?

OK, well what we wait for her to come up quick contexts and so that second part of this money pledge and start pledging to provide access to semester long study away program at no additional.

Or food heater.

And So what that means is whatever a student pays per semester at Swanee, that's what it will be in Paris or Morocco or Greece. If you're like Edith and I, we both studied abroad in Greece, so.

Yeah.

So without while we wait to see with this money coming back up, it is. Can you tell us a little bit about your process? As far as your study abroad program? 'cause it was a little bit different in terms of being in the summer but still just house money helps facilitate that.

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So I am. I participated in one of the summer study away programs that is also run through the previous office in conjunction with the study Abroad Office as well and that was important to me because I am involved in so many extracurriculars on campus as well as I played field hockey my first two years and so I felt like I like I wanted to stay on campus. But I also wanted to study abroad.

Experience, and so I was able to do that through a summer program and for me that was the perfect happy medium. But I've had plenty of friends that have participated in semester long and even when they did a full year abroad, but so that was an application process through the Office of Medical and Health Professions and then we were selected to be fellows. And so we we took classes at Swanee. Actually for a week before we left to go to Greece and then that program.

Was Ryan in like outside of Swanee but with Swanee professors as well? And so we continued that class when we were in Greece. But we also got to shadow annual public hospital and learn about their health care system as well as like have the opportunity to have some fun eat good food in Greece while making it a learning experience and getting course credit for Swanee as well. So that was a huge perk of that trip.

Awesome thanks so shiny. Will it will jump to you? Can you want again? Just introduce yourself. Tell us a little bit about your role and then also just how students can study abroad.

Alright, so I'm trying system. I work as the study abroad coordinator in the optical citizenship. My role Oh my gosh, I do a lot of things in our office. I do program advising which is a large part of my role so I work with students on program selection. We discuss billing housing.

All of those different things that may be of importance to you when you study abroad.

Also work with faculty on building their faculty lead programs like he mentioned on the type of program that she would go on. So I work with.

Those programs I also work directly with our program providers. So if a student were to have.

Any sort of questions or issues I also.

Speak with them.

And usually try to work those out with the student with our providers, so that's.

Battle large part of my role among a few other things but but that's the biggest part of it.

So.

About 50% of our students do study abroad.

Why do the other 50% not?

It may be because the they are not interested. It could be because their majors are so demanding that it makes it really difficult, but we are trying to find ways to get more and more students abroad and to try to work around those difficulties.

So that's why we're hoping to get that number up.

Students with financial aid we are.

Allowing see it through the pledge to use their twenty aid so that they can study broad so 100%.

Can you get through one semester?

Of study abroad.

We do have quite a few approved programs. One even takes an excursion to Antarctica, which is very cool.

Very excited when they introduced that program. I want to go on that.

Anne.

But we often look at our programs to see what may be missing or.

What what our students need that?

May not be available on our current list, so you may see.

I prefer them list change by the time that you get here and you are student so.

If you see your program on the list and you're like, Oh my goodness, that's that's the program for me.

We have to get the damn is still here. There could be another dream program for you so.

You can go to the next slide.

So study abroad is not just an academic experience, so students often do receive credit towards their major, minor and even general education requirements. But there are many contributions that.

Study about makes towards a student growth as a global citizen.

So.

Through this growth and understanding, students can use this knowledge to contribute to their communities and the campus when they return.

On a personal level, we found that students often get this new sense of independence.

During my time abroad and they find this knew motivation and develop new goals while they're abroad, so it's definitely.

A.

Kind of a turning point in their academic career once they study abroad.

We got the next slide.

So two things that are really important for study abroad is.

We generally like for students to go during their junior year just because by then you will have declared your major.

And have a path in mind for.

Where you want to be academically.

You will have most of your general education requirements completed by then.

Though.

If you want to go prior to that, there is a petition process, or if for some reason you missed that window and you have to go there and senior year, you can also petition for that.

We also require a 2.7 cumulative GPA or higher to automatically qualify, but if you fall in the 2/5 to 269 range, you can petition for that as well.

Next line.

And then you can visit our website which has far more information on it than I could ever cover.

A few slides, but please feel free to check that out and send me an email if you have any questions.

Also feel free to ask any questions.

Here.

Awesome, thank you Johnny. And then just to kind of give even more praise to this office. Shawnee helps work with me. When I was going through my study abroad process I at the time I knew that I wanted to be in Greece and I knew that I wanted to be doing archaeology there and at the time there wasn't already a program for that. But she helped me find a program and get all the logistics and all that type of stuff figured out and so know that that's an option in a resource for you to do it throughout your process. So once again, I just want you all back to that chat.

Teacher, please feel free to put as many questions that you have for any of the panelists in there and we'll go through those one by one. But just to kind of get questions flowing, Kim, I have once a point to you that we often get in our office from parents on tours and things like that. But knowing that Sony does have both a national network in an international network, are there particular industries, organizations that students can look to that?

Swanee historically has a strong relationship to or excuse me with and what's the process if they want to kind of start getting involved with that network while there's still a Swanee student.

Thank you, I love that question there are. I would say if you look at the past three years of outcomes and then just knowing anecdotally the data from the past that going into some area of business and the for profit sector in the private sector is.

The most popular path, but the other thing I want to make sure I say, is that major does not equal path and so we have information on our website where you can click, you know all the academic areas are on the left and all the career fields are on the right and you can click on either side and see the the connection and basically spoiler alert like every academic area has gone into every career field and vice versa. Any career field you touch, every academic area has gone into that career field so.

Major does not equal path and I love seeing all the different ways that selected people. Imagine their lives and go out and chart their pads and the other thing I love seeing is, you know, knowing graduates who are 10 or 15 years out and seeing the things that they're moving into, they're now doing jobs that did not exist when they were undergraduates. They just didn't exist this area. The economy had not evolved yet and so the thing that's great about that is that they're spawning education.

Was so durable and so you know transformation ull during their time here that they are ready to move into areas that weren't even a thing when they were an undergraduate. So the short answer is business is a pretty straightforward path, but they go into all areas. I think it's interesting if a student is on LinkedIn or even if they're not, maybe they could get their parents if they only did, you can go on LinkedIn and then click on the University of the South like Search the Mercy South.

And you can click on the Alumni tab and you can see where they live, what they do, what they studied, where they work and so you can see the employers who you know the largest number of people work at an you can see the career fields and then you can see the majors and if you click on say any one of those bars, the information changes and you can look down below and see some of the alarms.

Here doing network sorry long winded answer but I feel like there's so much to say about that question.

Yeah.

Yeah, I wanna chime in on that too. So the Career Center as well as the Office of Medical and Health Professions puts on oh big networking weekend for pre health oriented students specifically. But also I'll toss it back to you about beyond the gates into almost heitzenrater

So that weekend we jokingly called prehealth Christmas because you have the opportunity to interact with all of these Swanee alumni or periods of Swanee students and different people connected to Swanee that are in the health professions field. And that is just such an invaluable weekend to get to interact with these physicians. Like you know. Obviously that's what I was interested in.

But they also put on a mock interview session and so I even participated in those mock interviews as a sophomore, which really proved to be invaluable this year as I was actually going through the interview process to have really gotten feedback from those like mentors throughout the three years that I had gone to that program. And they really kind of set you up and to be successful in your application process, but also be successful in your field.

And actually just the other day, Doctor Meryl. Who's in alumni who I've had the opportunity to interact with through both feature and the Pre health weekend, you know, sent me an email and was like I'm just checking in. I wanna know like how the application process is going and at that point I had made a decision yet and so you know I sent him a follow up email and it's just nice to know that you have those support networks outside of the classroom and even in a field where you're going to more school after the fact. So I'm not.

You know, entering in the job level at this point, but I know that I still have those connections to polapan in the future because I've started building them now.

Yeah, it's so sure I forgot that second half of your question, but the this comment brings it up perfectly so you know how can a student get involved in that during their time here. So it happens in so many different ways. So these events we do like the pre health Christmas which I didn't know y'all come with that that's cracks me up and then we have the only gate switches for juniors and seniors and it is staffed by typically 40 alarms when they come back to campus.

This year since it was virtual, we had 80 alums from all across the country involved in that program. Every program we do, and there's usually something going on involves bringing alumni as the panelists in the speaker. So we create this easy way for students to meet alarms and begin conversations. And then every day in our in our appointments, we coach students on how to search and find alums, how to access a special platform called the Swanee Gateway.

Had a message with them, just May 4th we have coming up an event for to pair up job seekers and networking helpers and it's going to be on that platform and so just with tell 12 minute chats, either video or text. People can begin those conversations in relationships so we teach students all the time and give them the tools to do it and the situations to do it. And then I mean it's a relationship. You know, the alums love knowing occurrence when the student or.

5 or 10 and so like Doctor Meryl, they reach out and want to keep in touch. So I love that. Thanks for sharing that story.

I want more. Thanks right and then so even like outside of the career like process daily and I are still like engaged in our community like here in Swanee and so I used to be the former President of the Rotaract Club which is a community service and professional development oriented club here on campus an our sponsor to the Rotary Club which is the I guess more adult version of the club is the best way to explain that is actually a Swanee alumn.

And so he comes, and he meets with our exact board on probably more of a monthly basis. But he keeps us connected with the Rotary Club and as well as it's just so nice to hear about his experience. That's me. And have that tie back into the club, and being able to host other alumni speakers to our club specifically, and so that gives us kind of a side outlet network with alumni and get to hear their experiences and how Swanee really shaped their path. And of course we have the careers in there. Come to our.

Club meetings as well, so a lot of different ways to interact with alumni even outside of your particular interest in career.

Thank you Bob Shawnee, one question that we get in regards to study abroad is just in general just one of the most popular programs you know where Swanee students typically going. If you know that is consolidating in any one area but also just the fact that we do have some Swanee sponsored programs and so can you talk a little bit about those as well. As far as how students can get involved with those programs and.

If that process looks any different than if they want to go somewhere else.

Sure, yeah.

So we do you have 3?

Barney programs right now Swanee in France, Swanee in Berlin and then that study and intern in New York program.

Uhm?

It does look a tad different in that some of the courses you can get. So for New York you can get.

This money credit in that it will count in your GPA.

Uhm?

The Berlin and France programs they each have.

Berlin has two courses and France has one that are taught by our faculty.

That will count in your GPA.

Uhm?

So rest of the courses that you would take would not.

Count in your GPA, they would just transfer and count towards your degree.

Uhm?

That's where there is different.

Then regular.

Third party as we call them programs.

Uhm?

The process for those programs.

Does.

Differ slightly with the Berlin and France programs you would.

Apply for France. You apply through the French Department Berlin you're applying.

Through our office.

And then those applications are being reviewed. New York. We're working.

In partnership with the Crew Center.

On that, as they're looking me internship credits side of it as there are eight internship credits involved with that program.

I don't know if you want to speak a little bit on that.

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I am happy too. I'm so excited about this program. It's going to launch this fall and I think it is just so cool that our students will be able to intern for between 20 and 30 hours a week and take classes and live in this great location in Brooklyn and return to campus. You know fully up to speed and with credits and that sort of thing and I didn't know that the GPA part I hadn't paid into that I was just so excited about. Yeah, internships, the thing that I think is great about it too is it's in the fall.

Which is, I mean, a great time to be in New York. But Secondly, you know for some students who might be interested in the Cary Fellowship program, which has a semester away in the spring to do an internship but maybe a student is a spring athlete and they don't want to be on the spring, they want to be going to fall. So here's an opportunity to get that same internship for 15 or 14. Whatever weeks of work experience.

They do it in the fall without having to be gone spring semester, so I'm really excited and the places that students are interning are great and the interest is growing among our alums there to provide even greater, you know opportunities as the program grows and expands overtime. So I'm really excited about it.

Far as locations where we are heavily sending students right now we do have a lot of interest in Copenhagen as we have a provider there that students are really drawn to.

We also do send a lot of students to Vienna. I would say those are our two.

Heavily concentrated areas right now.

One thing we are doing, as I mentioned earlier is we are looking at our list and seeing where.

We can find new places and new experiences and war where we're missing.

Opportunities so it could be that those change and they shift in the next couple of years. We do have a lot of students in psychology, economics, business that tend to go prod.

That's there's a lot of interest.

There we also have a lot of our Sciences in STEM fields.

That tend to go bad or environmental studies.

Groups those.

To have a lot of interest in that.

They.

They'll go to Australia or some of your African countries.

Tend to be less than your. There is a program in Europe that that tends to get a lot of interest in Freiburg Germany.

Those tend to be our most popular.

What is?

And of course, our language is an IGS, but they are required to grow pot.

So it's a little bit different.

I tend to think of them a little differently.

Whenever.

I think of interest just because there.

To help you.

So and so eat it all through my last question towards you as our current student. And so another question that we get in the Office of Admission is when students were going through their college search process and they may be looking at some larger schools. They may be looking at some schools like Swanee as a liberal arts institution and so understanding our liberal arts identity. How do you kind of situate your experiences? You know, with the properties fellowship with your.

No, your study abroad experience within your normal. You know day-to-day coursework. Do you see a seamless integration? Do you see it kind of in addition to just how do you find a lump that in if that makes sense when you try to like describe your Swanee experience?

Exactly so.

I would say that although like my classes have been very stem heavy, just because of the chemistry major, that especially in my junior and senior years, I've had the opportunity to take classes outside of those major classes, an honestly they have been so much fun I took.

I will. I'm in an art history class right now. I took in American studies class last semester and I well I would say probably one of the most telling moments was at the beginning of the American studies class. We all went around and said our name in our class here and where we're from, and I was the only one that was like a stem major in that group of people, and so that makes you stand out like right on the bat off the bat. But I would say in terms of my education, I'm able to take the.

Like more finely skilled analysis, side of my brain that gets implemented from my like chemistry courses. Looking at things in a more molecular level and being able to like find come some details that really is to my advantage and make my art history class so I might notice something at a really small like level that no one else really thinks about an I would say that that's probably my strong suit just because I am more stem oriented, but I know that that is also really served me well going the opposite way.

So being able to look at things from a bigger picture and just do a quick analysis and try to take in as much as I can, he's really been helpful.

I mean, the research lab specifically, I've seen that kind of shine through, but I also feel that although I am a chemistry major, that really hasn't defined my experience here. It's wannian that you know, no one would probably even really know that here on campus if we didn't know each other so well and know what everybody was involved in, that what I do hasn't been, you know. Obviously I've been involved in a lot of pre health experiences, but that's not.

A limiting factor to my education and my experience and the community of Swanee as a whole.

Yeah.

Perfect thank you. It's always nice to see how everything is working, you know, just kind of in conjunction with the other and so kind of like when she was describing that part of another city experience. Had some internship opportunities. It's nice to see and so I don't see any other questions popping through. And so with that I'll go ahead and transition to our last slide that has some contact info. I do know that there's some admitted and deposit students here on the call and so if you haven't.

Had the chance to make a visit to campus. If you follow that link visit.20.edu, they'll take you to all of our options, both self guided as well as student LED and also if you want to chat with another student, that first link Swanee masters.com so they'll give you some biosan. Some student workers that we have in our office of admission. You can see what they are interested and see what they're involved in in around campus and send him a quick message. You also have my email address as well as Taylors who's been on.

I called you guys lots of helpful links throughout the way and then if any of the panelists. If you guys want to put your email address in the chat. If you're comfortable and that way students can reach you, be in that platform but also, as they've mentioned throughout the event, all he's their contact information and information on their offices is on our website as well.

But other than that, thank you all for joining and thank you all to our panelists as well.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thanks, IRA, did you go thanks.

You guys have a great one.

Bye.

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