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A assemblage engagement coordinator. An English teacher abroad. A improvement director. A paper writer by time and a recreation manager by night.
These are conscionable a fewer of the vocation paths traveled by College of Arts and Humanities alumni who majored successful English portion pursuing their degrees astatine Fresno State.
A caller video bid called “English Majors Out successful the World,” produced by Fresno State’s Department of English, highlights the unsocial ways 4 alumni person translated their world occurrence into assemblage success, each portion fusing their interests and passions with their nonrecreational work.
The bid — which focuses connected English alumni extracurricular of accepted careers successful teaching oregon penning books — includes:
- Mary Sosa, the assemblage engagement coordinator astatine the Poverello House, wherever she manages up to 500 volunteers per period who supply societal services to radical successful need.
- Kayla Mendoza, an teacher astatine DYB Choisun Language Academy successful Seoul, South Korea, wherever she teaches English to autochthonal Korean speakers astatine aggregate accomplishment levels.
- Kenyeih Williams, the manager of improvement astatine Fresno State’s Craig School of Business, wherever she engages with philanthropic partners and produces peculiar projects specified arsenic the Gender and Leadership program.
- Samantha Golden, the full-time recreation manager astatine Gymnastics Beat, wherever she organizes programs and mentors youth, and a part-time writer astatine the Clovis Roundup newspaper, wherever she reports connected assemblage news.
Dr. John Beynon, seat of the Department of English, said he’s ever struck by the galore antithetic ways English majors navigate the satellite aft earning their degrees.
“Few things astir my enactment thrill maine arsenic overmuch arsenic proceeding astir students’ achievements aft graduation,” Beynon said. “Whether it beryllium a nonrecreational career, precocious studies oregon unpaid work, successful each 1 of those journeys the students are primed by their acquisition astatine Fresno State to marque a meaningful quality successful the lives of others.”
The assemblage successful April received $5 cardinal successful backing from the Mellon Foundation to establish paid internship programs for humanities students. The programs, which volition embed vocation mentation into the curriculum, are expected to proceed to grow and bring consciousness to viable vocation pathways for students.
(Story by Jefferson Beavers, connection specialist, Department of English. Celeste Jones contributed to this report.)
