Invent Your Own Job
Jakob Steenhoek, entrepreneur and 2015 business management graduate, uses drones to capture video and photos for clients throughout Iowa.
Jakob Steenhoek, entrepreneur and 2015 business management graduate, uses drones to capture video and photos for clients throughout Iowa.
After months exploring topics like sports analytics, Parkinson’s Disease, prairie grasses and consumer behavior, 182 Central students presented their research May 5-6.
Don Koolmees ’78 hired four recent Central grads to help run his whitewater rafting company in Coloma, California, this summer.
Best friends and football teammates Joel Lynde ’16 and Travis DeFrancisco ’16 came all the way from sunny Arizona and discovered a home away from home.
Practicing interviewing skills is essential for a college student seeking an internship or a job after graduation. “Speed-dating” interviews were all the rage at Central’s first Interview Blitz, which gave students practical experience.
Students in the Writing for Non-Profit Organizations course have brought in more than $60,000 in grants for community partners in Iowa.
Senior business management major Elizabeth Benson leveraged her Central network to find an accounting internship at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center.
Budding entrepreneurs at Central College are enrolling in the Start-Up Semester course this spring. It’s an innovative course with few lectures and textbook. Instead, students invest $100 of their own money in their own start-up.
Central College introduces nine new faculty members for the 2012-2013 school year. Five tenure-line faculty and four visiting faculty members will join the Central community.