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Illinois Wesleyan News
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April 2016
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| With your hectic schedule, we know you don't have time to visit the website of every college, so we're providing a "Reader's Digest" version of information that might be helpful as you counsel your students. |
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Value of the Liberal Arts
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Scholarship Opportunities |
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| Connecting College Majors to Careers |
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 Search your interests to see what careers are possible with any major from Illinois Wesleyan. Career networking is part of the Council for IWU Women’s annual summit, which brings alumni in a variety of fields back to campus to share about their different paths to success and offer personal and professional support to fellow Titans.
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| Internship Possibilities |
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To help you discover internship options, our Hart Career Center has compiled internships paired with the student's major at Illinois Wesleyan. A recent $10,000 grant from the Mitsubishi Motors USA Foundation will support paid internships at local nonprofits for Illinois Wesleyan students. | |
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Titans In The News
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Attorney Reona J. Daly, 1991 English alum of IWU, has been selected as a U.S. magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Also reported by WMIX-Radio. |
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| New York Post |
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| A new book by David Priess '93 tells the story of secret daily CIA briefings given to every president since Kennedy, and what they reveal about each president they were written for. |
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| Playbill |
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| As an ethnically ambiguous West Side Story opens in Queens with a multi-racial cast, director Amanda Dehnert '94 weighs in on its timely themes of hatred and discrimination. |
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| The Pantagraph |
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Illinois Wesleyan athletes maintained their tradition of bringing the largest team to take the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics of Illinois, with 77 Titans raising nearly $11,000 this year.
A week later,
students staged a 12-hour dance marathon, raising more than $7,000 for the Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. |
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| Robinson Daily News |
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New York Times best-selling children's author Aaron Reynolds '92 is spending time at elementary schools talking with young readers and promoting his new book, President Squid. |
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EconoTimes |
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Doug Gibbs '92 has joined City National Rochdale, a subsidiary of City National Bank, as a senior credit analyst on its new high-yield municipal bond team. |
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Our students have a variety of opportunities to