For Faculty and Staff
The CCE establishes connections and facilitates interaction among undergraduate students, alums, employers, and organizations to generate opportunities that help students pursue their personal and professional objectives.
The mutual goal of both faculty and the Center for Career Education is the education and success of students. By working together, faculty and the CCE can ensure that students have the education they need to transition into the world of work.
The Center for Career Education offers advising and opportunities for students to:
- Find summer and winter term opportunities and funding for unpaid/underpaid internships.
- Explore potential career interests.
- Prepare for graduate and professional school.
For faculty, we provide resources to:
- Identify alums who may be of interest to your current majors.
- Help connect you and your students to opportunities relevant to your area.
- Illustrate the career paths pursued by alums from your major.
We invite you to become familiar with the extensive resources and services that you can use when advising your students. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you in connecting students to projects and experiences that deepen their learning and to collaborate with you in guiding students as they make decisions about their undergraduate education and plans for employment, graduate school, or other pathways. Together, we can help students identify the experiences and opportunities that will expand their academic, personal, and pre-professional development and prepare them for a successful transition to life after Vassar.
Faculty and Staff FAQs
The Center for Career Education (CCE) welcomes collaboration on career-related events and programs and regularly collaborates with academic departments and programs, administrative offices, student organizations, and outside organizations to provide career-related programming for our students. Please email cce@vassar.edu with your request, and we will be in touch.
The Center for Career Education is committed to helping employers recruit qualified Vassar students and alums for full- and part-time employment and internships by providing full-service recruiting assistance. The CCE seeks to cultivate and maintain positive relationships with employers, coordinating both on- and off-campus recruiting events, and oversees job and internship listings on Handshake. If you have employers that you work with that might be interested in posting jobs or internships for Vassar students and alums or participating in on- or off-campus recruiting events, please direct them to our Hire Vassar section.
Vassar students and alums are admitted to medical, law, and professional schools at rates significantly higher than the national average. Within the Center for Career Education (CCE), dedicated pre-med and pre-law advisors provide tailored, pathway-specific guidance. CCE advisors also support both students and alums throughout every stage of the graduate application process (e.g., getting started and organized, refining application materials, preparing for interviews, negotiating scholarship offers, and deciding where to attend). To complement our services, we strongly encourage applicants to connect with Vassar faculty in their areas of interest for nuanced, discipline-specific advising.
Effective fall 2023, the Center for Career Education (CCE) no longer maintains a reference/credential file for students or alums. Because every school and program has its own unique process and specifications, we recommend that students and alums work directly with their recommenders to adhere to submission guidelines. The majority of schools and programs prefer or even require that letters come directly from your recommenders.