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The Elon Career Center offers a wide variety of services to students, alumni and employers and has a staff of seven career professionals. Along with the NCCC Career fair, Elon sponsors a spring career fair, teacher fair, and a career exploration series. Also offered are a resume referral and job posting service and on campus recruiting. The internship/co-op program is housed in the Career Center.
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Through the Elon Career Center, students can enroll in 1-credit-hour courses such as Choosing a Major and Securing a Job. The center ... sponsors a Transition Tactics mentoring program, job fairs, and on-campus interviews with employers and helps students arrange internships and cooperative education experiences. More than 92 percent of the students who work with the Career Center have jobs within six to nine months of their graduation.
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In addition to Lashendock, Elon staff members who contributed to producing the program included Jeff James, Jason “J” McMerty, Bryan Baker, Julie Prouty and Marion Aitcheson. Students involved in the project were Amy Clark, Brian Fink and Lydia Graeff.
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Elon operates on a 4-1-4 academic calendar consisting of two 4-month semesters of classwork divided by a one-month winter term during January. The winter term allows students to gain added experience through additional course work, internships, study abroad, special research, or cooperative education programs in industry.
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Reflection is an essential part of an Elon education and begins in a number of first year programs. A dozen learning communities bring together students with common social or academic interests to design activities relating to those interests. The Emerging Leaders Program offers over 200 first year students the chance to prepare for future leadership. The Service Learning Program helps students realize their role in the larger society and responsibility to help those in need.
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