On Friday, February 25, approximately 200 students from the College of the Liberal Arts in search of summer employment and internships trudged through the rain to the People-to-People Fair in the HUB Alumni Hall.

In past years, this fair–focused on service, wellness and recreation agencies–primarily attracted students with majors in the College of Health and Human Development. During the Fall 2010 semester, however, our office proposed that Career Services work with Liberal Arts departments that might be interested in also co-sponsoring the event.  Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice got on board immediately, followed by Psychology, Communication Arts & Sciences, Political Science, English, and Women’s Studies. LAUS, as well as representatives in a few of these departments, suggested new agencies and organizations to Career Services, who then coordinated the details of actually getting the employers to the HUB.  From the increased number of liberal arts students who attended the event, and the greater diversity of employers (including a few from the criminal justice field), we’d say that we made a great choice getting more involved.

The Career Services staff who expertly coordinated and helped with the event, including Christena Dwyer, Corinna Fisher and Kristi Van Epps, agree.  As they said, “Student traffic was outstanding, co-sponsoring really helped show how we can all come together and create a great event, and all in all there was just this whole sense of high energy and excitement in the room.”

Thanks to everyone who participated, both in CLA and Career Services.  We look forward to collaborating even more closely on this fair in the future!

Check out our slideshow of photos from the event to see some of the organizations in attendance: