The College of DuPage Career Services Center recently celebrated the completion of the inaugural Career Ready Scholar program, which provides students with the skills and experience to strengthen career confidence. As part of their yearlong experience, students were matched with employers for job-shadowing opportunities. This program was possible through a Resource for Excellence Grant from the COD Foundation.
Following the success of the blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibition, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art will present an exhibition of Andy Warhol works in the summer of 2023.
COD student Charlie Brizz took second place during the sixth-annual Big Idea Pitch Contest, hosted by Innovation DuPage (ID), Continuing Education and the COD Foundation. The event featured COD students and recent alumni, local high school students, and students from ID academic partners.
Bonnie Bailey and Samuel Wilson are this year’s Outstanding Graduates and will speak during the upcoming Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 20. Bailey is majoring in hospitality management while Wilson is studying accounting.
Joan DiPiero, COD Community Engagement specialist, picks up litter alongside COD Cares volunteers and issues a challenge to keep our communities clean.
COD offers a new certificate program that will prepare students for positions in data collection, data cleaning and data analysis, an in-demand career field listed as the second-fastest growing industry in the U.S. by the World Economic forum.
Josie Suter is applying the robotics skills she learned at COD to her work with EarthSense, an agricultural startup. A graduate of the Engineering program, she would like to advance food sustainability.
Three new programs will help Physical Education, Fitness and Sports Studies students earn an associate degree at COD and a bachelor’s from Aurora University. Students then can stay a fifth year at AU to complete a master’s degree.
