At Manchester College, students and faculty are
involved in real-world learning experiences both
on and off campus. Each year, students in many
different areas of study have the opportunity to
collaborate with faculty members on a wide range
of research, study and service projects.
 Take Caleb Asbury,
Class of 2011, for
example. Along with
Dr. Jerry Sweeten
and other students,
he waded through
the Eel River netting
fish and studying the
effects of pollution and
chemical imbalances on
smallmouth bass. “Dr. Sweeten has
shown us many job opportunities that we might
not have known about before, such as working
with the DNR,” Asbury says.
“For me, the igniter was Spanish professor
Ingrid Rogers, who urged our class to attend an
informational session about her upcoming January
session to Costa Rica,” says Tiffany Berkebile, Class
of 2010. “Suddenly, my intercultural experience
was in motion.” Tiffany went on the trip, where
she discovered a love for language. She decided
to make Spanish a second major, and spent the
entire next school year in Barcelona, Spain, far
away from her Indiana hometown. Says Tiffany, “I’m absolutely consumed by a desire to see more,
discover more, feel more, accomplish more.” |
Internships: jump-starting
your career. |
Manchester College faculty and staff have a long history of assisting students in securing internship opportunities. Whether it’s related to your field of study, or simply a new life experience, an internship puts you miles ahead when it comes time to venture into the job market. You’ll make invaluable connections. You’ll learn more about yourself. And you’ll master more of the skills that will combine to make you successful throughout your life. Plus, you’ll have a great time.
 Ask Jami Shrader, Class
of 2008, and she’ll tell
you that there’s no
way she’d be where
she is now, without the
combination of a great
professor, innovative
courses and a scholarship-based internship. All she ever wanted to do in
life was study the ocean, and starting with a course in the Bahamas her
first year, that’s what she’s been doing. That course gave her the research
and field experience she needed to qualify the following year for an
internship working in the aquarium at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo.
And thanks to that experience, she was awarded a very competitive
internship at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. As Jami is pursuing
her career, she’ll look back and know it all started year one at
Manchester College.
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