Arthur Watson Jr. ’76 Endowed Fund for Career Planning

Established in 1998 by Arthur Watson Jr. ’76, this is a permanent endowment fund created to provide financial support for one or more first- or second-year Colgate students who are purposefully searching for an appropriate career direction.

About the Fund

Grants will be awarded to students based on the competitive merit of their own written applications, which describe how the support will enable them to experience or learn about a career and/or advanced study.

The fund is not designed to support course work, certification programs, or proposals solely designed to advance credentials. Creative proposals focused on exposure or learning and for careers in which formal internship programs are rare will be given priority consideration.

Applications will be considered from matriculated first- or second-year students only. Apply on naviGATE. Deadline: March 1, 2013.

Examples of supportive expenditures include, but are not limited to:

• registration and travel for participation in career development workshops
• presentations of creative arts and research at conferences and professional meetings
• visiting institutes and graduate study programs
• support of other creative art and/or research-related expenses which allow students to experience professional  academic and career opportunities

Recent Successful Proposals

• $3,632 to work at a health clinic with the Cross Cultural Solutions program in Ayacucho, Peru
• $2,500 to teach in Ghana through the Global Volunteers Network
• $3,925 to teach peace and conflict resolution in a Liberian refugee camp in Ghana through the Global Volunteers Network
• $2,420 to volunteer for the Home of Hope orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa
• $2,200 for career exploration in the field of archaeology through the Rio Bravo Field School
• $2,935 for exploration (in Kenya) of the business side of an NGO through the Global Volunteer Network
• $1,200 for career exploration within the entertainment industry (two internships; one at National Boston (a film and video production company) and one at Ralph Jaccodine Management (concert promoter)
• $2,550 for an internship in Kosovo with Environmentally Responsible Group (an international NGO founded by – among others – Ellen Frank '05 and Lindsay Mackenzie '05)
• $1,991 to volunteer at the Tanzanian Children's Fund
• $750 for further exploration of Italy's wine industry