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Stan State Offers Students a Pathway to Professional Success By Gina Oltman
When students come to Stanislaus State, they begin an educational journey that integrates academic learning with career readiness and offers real-world experiences such as internships, service-learning projects, student assistant jobs and other employment. Upon enrollment, students are integrated into CareerReadyU, a program intentionally designed to provide clear pathways to career readiness by graduation. On campus, they find the Office of Service Learning and the Career and Professional Development Center are resource hubs for experiences, guidance and links to dozens of business partners eager to give them a strong start in their professions. As one of those business partners put it, there is “great pride in being part of the professional growth of students, especially from our local University, Stanislaus State. “Turlock Irrigation District values being a partner in training and retaining the local talent from our community through our internship program,” said Constance Anderson, communications division manager at TID, which has been hiring interns since 2008. “Internships prove to be mutually beneficial for the interns and the departments they work in. The interns receive real-life, paid training experience in numerous departments throughout TID,” said Anderson, who oversees interns in her department. “The District gets the benefit of the students’ fresh perspectives and eagerness to learn.”
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