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| Illinois Wesleyan News |
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March 2016
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We hope you enjoy this edition of our campus newsletter, sharing important happenings at Illinois Wesleyan University and news about the Titan community. |
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Value of the Liberal Arts
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Forbes: Why Tech's Most Valuable Teacher Is A Classics Major
Business savvy was folded into a liberal arts education for Tim O'Reilly, who has built a formidable training institution for software engineers. "More broadly, all it takes is a quick scan through the job ads to see how useful a liberal-arts education can be — even in our tech-hungry society." |
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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. Biology (pre-med) major Stephanie Whyte ’91 devoted more than a decade to caring for children in underserved Chicago neighborhoods, then served as the Chicago Public School District’s first chief health officer, and is now medical director for Aetna Better Health of Illinois.
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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. Anthropology and Hispanic Studies double major Lauren Kiesewetter ’16 worked on the North American debut of Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs in Texas, thanks to Titan connections – namely alumna Annie Tillman '12. | |
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Titans In The News
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Wall Street Journal |
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| Illinois Wesleyan is among the top three schools nationally whose business graduates earn the highest salaries. |
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| Broadway World |
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| New York's 3-Legged Dog theater group will present the return engagement of the critically acclaimed YOUARENOWHERE, created and performed by Andrew Schneider '03, following the show's sold-out tour in Slovenia, Melbourne, and France. |
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| Entertainment Weekly |
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| Oscar-nominated director Tom McCarthy brought in Richard Jenkins '69 (Oscar-nominated for a previous McCarthy film) to be the "Voice of God" in this year's best-picture winning film, Spotlight. |
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Journal & Topics Newspapers |
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Frank Mirandola '02, a history teacher at Prospect High School with extensive coaching and leadership experience, has been named as the school's assistant principal. Also in the Daily Herald. |
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