Month: March 2017

Honors Alumni Reception

Dean Maura Mast welcomes alumni to the reception

The Honors Program hosted a lively alumni reception at the Lincoln Center campus at the beginning of March, to which we were excited to welcome 60+ alumni from class years 1957 through 2016. The alumni enjoyed drinks and hors d’oeuvres while mingling with classmates and honors students from different decades, as well as honors professors, Dean Maura Mast, the Dean of Fordham College, and Dr. Eve Keller, the Director of the Honors Program.

 

Honors students share about their experiences and accomplishme

The event also included a welcome from Dean Mast, some words on the current program from Dr. Keller, and highlighted accomplishments and experiences in honors from current students—accomplishments ranged from being recognized for work towards women’s equality at an event where the student met Joe Biden, to being admitted to Columbia medical school. The event was a joyful one for alumni to reconnect with old friends and learn about the honors program in 2017. We’re looking forward to hosting more fun alumni events in the future.

Honors Interview Workshop

In the most recent event of the Honors Professional Development series, honors students had the opportunity to practice interview skills one-on-one with trained career counselors. This event came out of the close relationship between Honors and Career Services, and an ongoing commitment to helping honors students both discern career paths and prepare for them.

 

Yianni, a first-year honors student, said that the individualized attention of the workshop was “really valuable,” and that the career counselor he worked with provided him with a lot of constructive criticism and helpful advice, even adding a resume review to the experience. Yianni applied and interviewed for an internship following the workshop, and attributes his success in getting the internship partially to the practice interview experience he had in the honors event.

 

We’re happy we were able to offer this event for the first time this year, and are looking forward to offering it again in the future, and continuing to build our Professional Development series in other ways.