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Intern Insight 2014

CONWAY, Ark. (January 16, 2014) – The Office of Career Services will host “Intern Insight” on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 11:10 a.m. in Worsham Hall in the Student Life and Technology Center.

The new program allows students to learn about internships from fellow classmates who have previously completed internships, according to Leigh Lassiter-Counts, director of career counseling and internships.  

Last year, 126 Hendrix students completed internships at sites ranging from The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation in New Jersey and Akzo Nobel in Amsterdam to local sites including UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, The Clinton Foundation, AETN and the Conway Regional Health Foundation.

Career Services is providing student presenters with science fair-type boards to display photos from their projects, and tidbits about what they learned or why they thought doing an internship was important will make it on the boards. So far, more than 50 student interns have agreed to share their experiences, she said.

Also this spring, Career Services will host its annual Professional Power Hour and Etiquette Dinner on Wednesday, March 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Worsham. The program features Hendrix alumni Pattie Weed and Mark Wilson. Attendance is limited to the first 120 students.

The 2014 Career and Internship Fair will be Thursday, March 6, at 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Worsham.

For more information, email the Office of Career Services at careerservices@hendrix.edu or call 501-450-1440.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report.  Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.