For more information about bringing a computer to campus, visit the Computer Guidelines.
For more information about the Fisher Center or its lecture series, visit their homepage.
To learn more about Career Services, visit the Salisbury Center for Career Services.
To learn about additional student services, visit the Student Life section of our Web site.
If you'd like to pick up a printed and bound 8 1/2 x 11 copy of the 2008-2010 Catalogue, limited copies will be available in the Provost's Office and the Office of the Registrar, as well as the Hobart Deans Office and the William Smith Deans Office, starting Monday, September 8.
The 2006-2008 catalogue is still available online as a PDF. To browse it, click here.
If you have questions or comments about the new online catalogue, please send us your feedback.
Hobart and William Smith's 188-acre campus is located on the western shore of Seneca Lake in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region. The campus and surrounding community provide an ideal setting for exploring ideas and establishing close and lasting friendships with students, faculty and staff.
Campus facilities include 83 student residences, 48 classroom and administrative buildings, a library, two dining halls, two cafés, a pub, two gymnasia, a sport and recreation center, numerous athletics fields, several computer labs, a studio arts center, an intercultural center, a chapel, a career center, an infirmary, a theatre, a student activities center, a post office, a bookstore, a radio station, and a boathouse and docking facilities.
The Scandling Campus Center is the focal point for student activity on campus, providing space for study needs, campus dining, meetings and other gatherings. Completely renovated and expanded in 2008 as part of the Campaign for the Colleges, the Center houses a café, student activities center, recreation room, post office, and event space as well as lounge areas and an outdoor terrace. The Center is the hub of student life on campus as well as a pride point for Hobart and William Smith, showcasing athletics trophies, student honors, and other displays throughout the year.
The 83,000-square-foot Sport and Recreation Center, designed to meet the recreational needs of the entire campus community, coordinates intramural teams, houses an indoor track, several tennis and basketball courts, a weight room, racquetball courts, squash courts, a classroom, and a multi-purpose exercise room, as well as offices for the Outdoor Recreation Adventure and Wellness programs. The 1,500-seat state-of-the-art McCooey artificial turf stadium, completed during the fall of 2000, includes lights and a press box.
As noted in the campus master plan as part of Campaign for the Colleges and the HWS 2005 and HWS 2010 strategic plans, a number of facilities have been created and renovated over the past several years, including Stern Hall, a new 10-classroom, 30-office building for the social sciences, named in honor of lead donor Hon. Herbert J. Stern ’58, LL.D. ’74, P’03, which was completed in 2003. Also in 2003, the Bozzuto Boathouse and dock, named for donor Thomas Bozzuto ’68, was completed, providing a home to the nationally-ranked HWS Sailing team and the Colleges Outdoor Recreation Adventure Program.
In January 2004, renovations were completed on Trinity Hall, the second-oldest building on the HWS campus. Now known as the Salisbury Center at Trinity Hall, named in honor of lead donor and former Chair of the HWS Board of Trustees Charles H. Salisbury Jr. ’63, P’94, L.H.D. '08, the completely renovated structure is home to the Salisbury Center for Career Services, the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning and the Center for Global Education.
The Katherine D. Elliott Studio Arts Center, named after lead donor Katherine D. Elliott ’66, L.H.D. '08, a member of the board of trustees since 1997, was completed in 2006, expanding the art and architecture programs with 14,600 square feet of classrooms, offices, wood and metal shops, and studios for painting, photography and printing.
Two new residence halls were completed in 2006, adding exercise rooms, a game area, a Starbucks café, and more than 175 student beds. The new spaces, named Caird and de Cordova in honor of lead donors James '56 and Cynthia Caird and Arthur de Cordova '56, were profiled in The New York Times at the start of the 2005-2006 academic year, and have garnered an award for the architect. Carr-McGuire residence hall, named for Carolyn Carr-McGuire '78, and the Abbe Center for Jewish Life, named in honor of Richard K. Abbe '92, were renovated in 2007, providing a kosher kitchen, conference space, and a guest suite for Professionals in Residence. Additionally, the primary first-year residence halls, Jackson, Potter and Rees Halls, were renovated in 2005 to include quad living spaces and open lounge spaces on every floor.
The Finger Lakes Institute, with newly renovated quarters at 601 S. Main St., opened in 2004. The renovations were made possible through a $1 million grant from the State of New York. The Finger Lakes Institute functions as a center for research, outreach and education dedicated to the 11 Finger Lakes.
The Centennial Center for Leadership, in the recently renovated 603 South Main Street, is expected to open on Nov. 8, 2008, as part of festivities commemerating the William Smith Centennial. The Center will serve as an an umbrella for existing leadership initiatives across campus, guiding students in understanding the concept of leadership, creating opportunities for them to study with experienced and successful women leaders, and providing them with empirical leadership-building opportunities.
The decade of the ’90s brought many new and renovated facilities to campus. Rosenberg Hall is a 35,000-square-foot research and teaching building offering the latest in scientific facilities and equipment, and the adjacent Napier Classroom Center provides four modern classrooms available for use by all departments of the Colleges. Renovations were also made at Winn-Seeley Gymnasium, which houses facilities and offices for women’s athletics. Portions of Bristol Gymnasium, the men’s athletics headquarters, were also refurbished.
The L. Thomas Melly Academic Center doubles as both an expansion of the existing Warren Hunting Smith Library and a home for high-tech information-research resources at the Colleges. In addition to new space for stacks, studying, and lounges, the building houses a computer classroom for tutoring in online research, and various other computer clusters and computer-outfitted conference rooms. The Melly Center is named for a long-time Colleges trustee L. Thomas Melly '52, L.H.D. '02, who completed 10 years of board chairmanship as the building was being dedicated in 1998.
As we draw nearer to 2010 and Campaign for the Colleges comes to a close, new facilities will continue to be erected across campus. As part of the Performing Arts Center Initiative, plans have begun to create a modern facility designed to enable talented, dedicated students and faculty to achieve their full potential. Enhanced space for performance in music, drama, and dance will underscore their importance and contribute to the sense of community on a campus where the arts are highly valued. With roughly 80 percent of students taking part in athletic and recreational activities, modern facilities are also in the works for campus athletics programs.
Since residential spaces are fully wired with high-speed access to networked resources, including Internet and e-mail applications, the vast majority of students at the Colleges bring a personal computer with them. The Colleges offer a set of guidelines for bringing a computer to campus, which you can access online. Students may contact the IT Services Support Center for more information, or with other technology-related questions, at ext. 4357 or by e-mail.
Complementary to the high-speed access to network resources in the residential halls, the Colleges maintain computer laboratories that provide students access to word processing, spreadsheet, and graphic capabilities. Most residential common areas and almost all academic areas now have wireless capability.
A Macintosh microcomputer laboratory is in the lower level of Rosenberg Hall (Rosenberg 009). The laboratory contains 24 Apple iMac computers, which are completely networked and contain various software applications, and are connected to an HP printer. The lab is open to the Colleges’ community during periods when classes are not scheduled. Evening hours vary and are posted on the door.
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science operates a small computing laboratory with about 20 workstations running the Linux operating system. Any student registered in a computer science course has an account on this system, which can be used in the lab or accessed through the Colleges’ campus network.
The Department of Art’s Visual Resource Collection holds more than 156,000 slides covering the history of art from prehistory through the present. Artifact is the online image space of the Department of Art, containing more than 99,000 digital images available online. In addition, Artifact allows the creation and viewing of image reviews and lecture presentations. The basis of the collection is Western European and American art and architecture, with strong holdings in African, Chinese, Islamic, Japanese, and Native American arts. In addition, a small reference collection is available. The Visual Resources Collection is located in Houghton House, the center of the Colleges' arts facilities.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), located in the Rosensweig Learning Commons in the Warren Hunting Smith Library, draws people together to collaborate and to learn from one another. CTL cultivates intellectual engagement, critical thinking, intellectual inquiry and academic achievement. CTL provides a variety of programs and resources students need to succeed in college and beyond, including Peer Writing Colleagues, department Teaching Fellows, tutoring, and college “survival skills” assistance. All CTL services are available at no charge to all students, regardless of their program of study.
Students who seek to define their academic goals more clearly may meet with the CTL staff to analyze their needs and to devise success strategies. A disabilities specialist is available for advising, consulting, and assuring deployment of accommodations to students with disabilities (see Appendix A), and CTL staff also specialize in reading, writing, time management, and study skills.
Professional staff are available for consultation during business hours; other services are available both during the day and evenings. See our website or the CTL Blackboard for in-depth information, or call x3351 (315-781-3351).
The Colleges’ 108-acre wildlife refuge, located 20 miles from the Colleges' main campus, offers students an area for ecological studies. The preserve has 40 ponds, a hardwood forest, cultivated fields, old fields, swamps, and marshes. It is inhabited by waterfowl, deer, beaver, muskrats, coyotes, foxes, and many other small animals. The Richard Ryan Field Laboratory building was opened on the preserve in 1994, providing a location for lecture and laboratory activities.
The William Scandling, a 65-foot, steel-hulled research vessel owned by the Colleges and operated on the Finger Lakes and Great Lakes, supports teaching as well as the research activities of students and faculty. Berthed on Seneca Lake, The William Scandling has access to Cayuga Lake and Lakes Erie and Ontario via the Seneca Barge Canal. Recently renovated, the vessel is fully equipped to support studies of sediments, water, and biota. Capabilities include sediment coring, grab sampling, sub-bottom seismic reflection profiling, recording current meter measurement, bathythermograph measurement, recording thermograph measurement, water and plankton sampling, and chemical testing. The William Scandling’s positioning equipment includes radar and GPS satellite navigation systems.
The Warren Hunting Smith Library and L. Thomas Melly Academic Center house more than 390,000 volumes, provide more than 10,000 print and electronic periodical titles, a microform collection of 42,000 items, and a variety of general and specialized computer labs, and video viewing and editing facilities. The Voyager online catalog provides access to the Colleges’ print, video, and electronic holdings as well as electronic reserve materials for classes. A wide range of resources are reached through the library’s web page, including full-text databases, research web sites, direct connections to other library catalogs, and the interlibrary loan system.
Through membership in the Rochester Regional Library Council, the library’s student and faculty researchers can borrow from local library collections; through the OCLC network, millions of titles in more than 9,000 libraries are available by interlibrary loan. Librarians teach a vigorous information literacy program in first-year through upper-level courses and for the Honors Program.
The College Store, located in Sherrill Hall, is institutionally owned and proudly serves the students, faculty, and administrators of Hobart and William Smith Colleges as well as the local community. The College Store offers three floors of merchandise tailored to meet the semester and daily needs of all students.
The College Store offers a textbook program including competitively priced new and used textbooks as well as Copyrighted Custom Course Packs as required or recommended by faculty. Used book buybacks are offered at the end of each semester as well as through-out each semester. Used book buybacks offer students an opportunity to sell textbooks that they will not be retaining for personal libraries or no longer need for course work. Prices for used books are determined by anticipated store need and/or national demand.
The College Store also features a general book department containing more than 15,000 titles; specializing in computerized title searches, special orders, new releases, best sellers, reference materials, and books on tape. The College Store offers an impressive collection of local interest titles, children’s books, and faculty/alumni/alumnae titles. Also available are daily newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and complimentary New York Times reviews.
The College Store carries a wide range of imprinted and collegiate items in clothing, giftware, and glassware as well as class rings and diploma frames, along with general stationery, greeting cards, and convenience items. Also available is a vast assortment of school, office, computer, art and architecture supplies at affordable prices along with dorm room and decorating items as well as basic hardware supplies.
The College Store offers several services including student charge accounts, phone and web orders, film processing, laundry/dry cleaning service, check cashing, and special order balloon bouquets as well as special event offerings. Copying and fax service are available for a nominal fee. Gift certificates are also available, as are U.S. postage stamps and change for vending and laundry machines.
Visit The College Store in person or through their Web site, where patrons will find current store information and an opportunity to purchase best selling merchandise and insignia items.
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, located in Demarest Hall, supports curricular, programmatic and scholarly projects arising from the challenge of educating men and women for a future of gender equity and social justice. The Center, endowed with a gift from Emily Fisher P'93, L.H.D. '04 and the late Richard Fisher P'93, was founded to further the Colleges’ ideal of coordinate education and commitment to equity, mutual respect, and common interest in relations between women and men, as among individuals of other difference, through our educational program, scholarship and presence in the larger community.
The Center sponsors a lecture series that brings to campus a variety of scholars, public intellectuals and activists on themes such as globalization and education, health and human rights, and memory and gender. In addition, the Center sponsors a morning seminar series with these speakers that offers students and others the opportunity for sustained conversation around central concerns of contemporary culture. Fisher Center Fellows are on campus as well, broadening students’ access to the work of the Fisher Center.
The Fisher Center houses a library of work by Fisher Center speakers and fellows as well. On occasion, the Center offers interdisciplinary courses coordinated with its yearly theme. (See Courses of Instruction.)
The Center is led by a director, as well as a Steering Committee and a Resources Initiatives Committee, each composed of students, faculty, and staff from across the Colleges.
Deans
Each college has its own deans office, which is responsible for the academic and personal development of its students
and for creating an educational environment that helps prepare students for the challenges of living in the 21st century.
The deans have committed themselves to providing individual attention in the context of a larger living and learning
community and are there to guide students through their Hobart and William Smith experience.
In coordination with the deans offices, the associate dean of students has direct responsibility for all aspects of the nonacademic student conduct system, which works to establish and maintain an environment in which all students can achieve academic and personal success. In addition, he coordinates the efforts of the Colleges? emergency management and response system, and provides direction for the Office of Campus Safety.
The deans also maintain academic and personal files on all enrolled students. Students? access to these files is governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1975. Students who wish to challenge the contents of their files may appeal to the dean of their college and the Committee on Standards.
Faculty Advisers
During first-year orientation, and at other points in the academic year, each student meets individually with a faculty adviser to discuss general questions concerning the Colleges, the academic course schedule, the student’s academic preparation, academic goals, and issues of course placement. At the end of the first semester, there is a reevaluation of the student adviser relationship and different options are possible. The close relationship between student and adviser may continue until a major is declared and an adviser in that field is chosen. Student and adviser may also decide that a different adviser would better serve the student’s interests and a new adviser is selected. Ultimately, the student and an adviser in the chosen major plan the student’s program, which includes a detailed consideration of the senior year and often involves working with Career Services to plan beyond graduation for careers or graduate study.
Hobart and William Smith is committed to fostering an intellectual and engaged community that values and celebrates a wide spectrum of differences. We envision a community that goes beyond tolerance of difference to become one of inclusive excellence – one that is guided by the principles of equity, social justice, cultural competence and engaged citizenship. We are committed to making our campus a community which promotes a culture of inclusion in which all feel valued, respected and supported to perform to their full potential.
In working to create an intellectual environment that benefits students, faculty and staff, Hobart and William Smith is committed to an educational model that addresses the needs of a pluralistic and democratic society. To implement this model, it is critical to remember the importance of establishing a campus community that reflects the diverse society in which we live.
To that end, we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse population of students, faculty and staff and reflecting that diversity in our curriculum. We endorse programs and centers on campus that host speakers and visiting scholars of different races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and political ideas.
Through the Office of Intercultural Affairs, we offer a wide range of programs and services designed to attract, support, and retain a diverse population of students, promoting an atmosphere of interactive pluralism throughout the Colleges.
The Office of the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) administers a New York State program designed to improve the educational opportunities available to economically and educationally disadvantaged students who have demonstrated potential.
HEOP offers the Summer Institute(SI), a pre-college program, to provide comprehensive academic and non-academic preparation for college study. Special academic and supportive services—such as counseling, tutoring and study-skills workshops—are supervised by the Director of Opportunity Programs. The staff is assisted by student peer counselors, including persons who can converse with non-English-speaking parents.
Both Intercultural Affairs and HEOP are housed in the Intercultural Center, a campus house and informal library/meeting space for campus groups.
Health Professions
Hobart and William Smith Colleges have a long-standing reputation for sound preparation of students for graduate training in the health professions. Students are counseled regarding specific program requirements, the current application process, and required admission test preparation. This includes instruction preparing application materials, compiling faculty/non-faculty recommendations, and writing application essays. Additionally, students are assisted in identifying and securing both clinical and research opportunities.
Complete preparation for interviews is provided through written guides and mock interviews. The office schedules health-related presentations and maintains a file of internships, summer employment, and volunteer opportunities. Career Services has a full time staff member dedicated to serving health profession students and a robust library of health profession reference materials covering topics from summer programs to military scholarship information. The active, student-run Health Professions Club on campus sponsors multiple health professions related programs both on and off campus including an annual conference in which health care practitioners discuss careers, current events, and innovative diagnostic, treatment and surgical techniques.
The Blackwell Medical Scholarship Program provides a unique opportunity for qualified high school seniors. Those who meet and maintain the standards of the program are guaranteed a seat in medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine at Syracuse upon their graduation from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
The Early Assurance Program, offered by SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and SUNY Upstate Medical University College of Medicine (Syracuse), allows qualified students to apply and be accepted to medical school at the end of their sophomore year. Acceptance by either of these programs exempts the student from taking the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) allowing more time for independent study honors work, extended internships, study abroad, etc.
The Health Profession Advisory Committee (HPAC), comprised of science faculty members, administrators, and the health professions counselor, advises students regarding all aspects of the application process and evaluates applicants’ credentials for entrance to professional schools. A dossier of the student’s faculty and health-related recommendations and a committee letter for recommended students is then sent to the health profession schools.
An opportunity to observe the delivery of healthcare and volunteer in the healthcare field is provided each semester for interested sophomores, juniors and seniors through a partnership with Finger Lakes Health located less than one mile from campus. Participants commit to 50 hours of shadowing/volunteer time in one or two hospital departments during the semester. Similar, though less formal, programs are available for those interested in other fields such as dentistry, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, etc., and are arranged on an individual basis.
Students contemplating a health-related profession should have a strong secondary school background in mathematics and science. Students are encouraged to major in any area that truly interests them, but must prove their excellence in selected science courses. Courses required for admission to medical and dental schools should be completed before the senior year, since the Medical or Dental College Admission Test (MCAT or DAT) is normally taken in the spring or summer preceding the final undergraduate year and includes material in the sciences. Students are counseled on how to prepare for the exam and when it is best for them to take it.
Students have had a 67 percent acceptance rate to medical school, 80 percent acceptance to dental schools, and 100 percent acceptance to veterinary schools.
Law
The Colleges offer extensive counseling for pre-law students throughout their undergraduate years, and a significant number of Hobart and William Smith students enroll in law school upon graduation. Admission to the best law schools requires more than an impressive academic record. Students must also have internship or workplace experience and involvement in extracurricular activities.
Almost any major can provide the skills and knowledge to prepare a student for law school, as long it is supplemented with coursework in disciplines such as political science, economics, history, English, and philosophy. The best preparation for a career in law is not a pre-law track, but the acquisition of depth and breadth of knowledge provided by combining a major and a minor, one of which is interdisciplinary.
Interdisciplinary majors and minors in Public Policy and Law and Society offer courses of study that provide the relevant breadth in a coherent manner. Internship programs in Geneva, Boston, Washington, D.C., Switzerland, and New York City provide opportunities for educational experiences at worksites that include the U.S. Supreme Court, Congressional and Senatorial offices, human rights organizations, the Federal Trade Commission, lobbying organizations and public interest groups. A wide range of other internships and career counseling for pre-law students are also available in conjunction with the Salisbury Center for Career Services.
In addition to student governments, judicial boards, and other co-curricular opportunities, HWS also fields a Debate Team that competes successfully against the best teams in the world.
Distinguished graduates play an active role in assisting students with their education and related internship experience. These include federal judges, legislators, U.S. Attorneys for the Justice Department, as well as highly successful attorneys.
Virtually all graduates who apply to law school gain admission. In recent years, the best qualified have attended Yale, Harvard, N.Y.U., Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and U.C.-Berkeley.
The Salisbury Center for Career Services supports students, alumni, and alumnae with their career development. Services and resources are provided with a comprehensive developmental focus to facilitate an individual’s exploration of career choices and opportunities. Career Services focuses on training individuals on lifelong skills relating to each phase of the career development process. This involves formulating career ideas, gaining career-related experience, and preparing to make the transition from Hobart and William Smith Colleges by conducting a job or graduate/professional school search.
Pathways
Pathways is an active four-year program dedicated to sustaining students’ growth and success in the professional development process, surrounding students with a support network including Career Services staff, trained student mentors, alumni/ae, HWS faculty advisers and parents or guardians. This program motivates and keeps students on track in gaining knowledge and experience through such tools and opportunities as workshops, experiential learning, career counseling and on-the-job experiences (internships and student employment). Pathways encourages and motivates students to explore, execute and experience all of their academic, personal and career-related interests. The program features a support network dedicated to sustaining growth and success in the professional development process.
College is a time for exploration of new ideas, cultures and experiences. The HWS community believes that the professional path that starts in college should incorporate the very nature of college itself. To that end, Career Services offers a wide range of resources to help students explore their interests, passions and talents to determine what they love and what type of career that best suits their aspirations and personality. Career Services staff surround students with people dedicated to helping them learn, grow and succeed. This results in a collaboration between students and members of the Colleges’ extended community.
First-year students are informed of the Pathways program at the start of the year. (Students in any class year are welcome to participate.) Once students choose to participate, they meet Career Services staff, faculty advisers, student mentors, alumni and alumnae contacts, and other peers involved in the program. A Career Services staff member works with each student ato create a four-year, customized plan that maintains flexibility, as interests may change over the course of the program. Planning begins with filling out the four-year plan worksheet and documentation continues through graduation.
To keep on track, students meet regularly with an assigned Career Services staff member, a faculty adviser and, if applicable, student mentors. Progress is continually evaluated and interests, goals and values are reassessed over the four-year period. Students are encouraged to attain employment in order to develop professional skills. Assistance in gaining internship and externship experience is provided.
Through participation in the Pathways program, students gain not only a résumé, but also valuable insight, understanding and experiences that build self-awareness. These include:
These experiences enable students to develop:
Students who share this commitment to career development will have a firm grasp on professional objectives, as well as the necessary steps to obtain them upon graduation.
Resources
A user-friendly computerized career guidance system takes an individual through the career planning process. It contains self-assessment and decision-making inventories and current occupational information.
Alumni, alumnae and parents who are willing to discuss career fields, entry-level positions, educational preparation and training, internship opportunities, job search strategies and geographic areas are available on the Career Network database through the Career Services Web site.
Students also have access to HWS community members as part of the on-campus Professionals in Residence (PIR) series. Staying in the newly renovated guest suite in Carr-McGuire House, alumni, alumnae, and parents take up residence on campus, speaking with students about careers in a variety of fields, including neurology, human relations and hospitality. In addition to a public lecture, each PIR offers a series of one-on-one appointments with interested students.
An online resource, eRecruiting, lists thousands of internships and entry-level positions appropriate for liberal arts graduates is available to HWS students and graduates.
Career Services houses a comprehensive career resource library that offers current information about career exploration, occupations, internships, volunteer opportunities, position listings, graduate school information and job search methods. It also produces an electronic newsletter that publicizes career events, job search information and job and internship listings.
Gaining Experience
As part of their liberal arts education, students are encouraged to explore careers through internship, volunteer, and externship experiences.
Career Services sponsors the Collaborative Internship Program, which offers students the opportunity to gain experience in a field of interest directly related to their academic studies. These experiences give meaning to theories, concepts, and knowledge learned in the classroom while allowing students to think critically about their career field. Faculty and employers develop these credit-bearing internships to match academic needs with employer needs. These unique opportunities are currently being offered each semester in in Geneva, N.Y, and the surrounding area. Students interested in a collaborative internship should visit Career Services for further details, applications, and project listings.
Students are encouraged to participate in externships as part of the career planning process. Through these opportunities students have the ability to shadow professionals in their fields of interest. These are available to students in the Geneva community as well as nationwide over winter, spring and summer breaks.
Internship Funding
Hobart and William Smith Colleges offer five endowed internship funds for which students can apply in order to supplement an unpaid summer internship and/or housing costs incurred while doing a summer internship. These awards include the Harry W. Bowman ’65 Award for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the Charles H. Salisbury, Jr. ’63, P’94 Endowed Internship Fund, the John A. Ross ’66 Endowed Internship Fund, the L. Thomas Melly ’52 Endowed Internship Fund and the Ralph A. ’56 and Jane ’58 Pica Endowed Internship Fund. Students are welcome to apply to more than one qualifying fund with the understanding that if selected, they will only receive an award from one endowed fund.
In addition to the endowed internship funds, the Colleges also offer The Salisbury Summer International Internship Award, like a mini-Fulbright for HWS students. This fund provides financial support of up to $15,000 for three students interested in pursuing an international internship experience in a location of the student?s choice. By supplementing classroom education with internship experience, students gain a practical understanding of the demands and rewards of future careers.
This award may provide a stipend for the internship, lodging, airfare, passport/visa expenses, meals, ground travel, traveler’s insurance, and/or other expenses related to an international internship opportunity.
Recruitment Program
Representatives from a variety of organizations and geographic areas are invited to campus to conduct interviews with interested students or to hold information sessions. Through the use of Web-based technology, employers who cannot come to campus can arrange a résumé collection for interested students. Employers receive the résumés electronically for their review, and then invite candidates for interviews at their places of business or via telephone.
Interested seniors may submit their career field and geographic preferences when uploading their résumés to eRecruiting, the Web-based recruitment system. Career Services then submits résumés on the students’ behalf to employers who request this service.
HWS sponsors and area colleges invite HWS students to participate in career, internship and graduate/professional school fairs. This is an opportunity for students to meet with a variety of employers and admissions representatives in one convenient location.
Career Services coordinates programs and services with other colleges as well as with HWS alumni, alumnae and parents. Some events have included the Day on the Hill, where students were able to meet with alums and specialists in a variety of careers in Washington, D.C.; the HWS Sports Forum, where students were able to hear from alums at the top of their professional game;and the Big Apple Recruiting Consortium, where students meet with companies interested in hiring liberal arts graduates at the entry level. Students also have access to many annual on- and off-campus alum panels, focusing on careers in politics, fashion, media and finance.
Information about services and resources offered through the Salisbury Center for Career Services is available through the Web site.
Medical Services
Hubbs Health Center provides health maintenance, acute care, counseling, and health education services to all students.
The Health Center is open daily, and a satellite clinic runs from Sept. through May in the Scandling Student Center.
Additionally, a member of the Health Center staff is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at extension 3333.
A health care team consisting of registered professional and licensed practical nurses, a nurse practitioner and a physician?s assistant overseen by a physician is available for diagnosis, treatment, and referral when necessary. The staff treats acute illnesses and injuries, and promotes health education on issues including fitness, wellness, nutrition, smoking cessation, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases. The staff works with the athletics departments to provide sports medicine services to all intercollegiate teams. A full-service women?s health care clinic is available by appointment. Visits to the health center are free.
The Health Center has a formulary of commonly prescribed medications, for which the student incurs a nominal fee. Prescriptions are written for other medications as deemed necessary and appropriate. A health fee is required of all students, to provide basic accident and sickness insurance for students who have no coverage and supplemental insurance for all others.
The medical services staff includes a part-time physician, board certified in internal medicine; a full-time board certified nurse practitioner who serves as medical coordinator of the health center; a full-time board certified physician?s assistant; a registered nurse who serves as coordinator of nursing services; several nurses both full- and part-time; and a secretary/receptionist shared with the counseling services staff.
Counseling Services
The Counseling Center is staffed by a team of four doctoral-level psychologists. The services provided include individual and group counseling, psychological consultation, psycho-educational outreach programs, and 24-hour emergency services. The staff at the Counseling Center are skilled in helping students address a wide range of concerns, including difficulties in adjusting to college life, concerns about relationships, sexual-identity issues, depression, anxiety, family problems, eating-related concerns, and more. Students concerned about the well-being of a friend are also welcome to consult with the staff. In addition, the staff can refer students interested in securing psychiatric services to private psychiatrists in surrounding communities.
All counseling services are free to enrolled students, and are offered in strict confidentiality. Students may secure services by visiting during the daily ?walk-in hours,? or by calling for an appointment. A member of the Counseling staff is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at extension 3333. Students seeking assistance for themselves or a friend are protected under federal confidentiality guidelines.
The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Programs takes a proactive approach to providing the prevention, education, and counseling necessary for students to make responsible choices concerning alcohol and other drugs.
The Office works from the premise that a wellness lifestyle is vital to achieving personal and academic success. Through the social norms approach, students receive current and accurate information regarding the norms at HWS. In addition, the Office takes a harm reduction approach to reduce the negative consequences associated with substance misuse. A variety of prevention strategies are provided to engage students to look at their behaviors along a continuum of healthy to unhealthy consequences. Students are encouraged to evaluate the choices they make and to examine their misperceptions regarding alcohol and other drug use among their peers.
A variety of educational outreach programs are provided throughout the academic year. The Office works closely with a variety of student organizations, as well as with the students living in substance free housing to coordinate community-wide prevention programming.
Support through counseling is available to students who are at risk of developing alcohol and other drug-related concerns, as well as, for those who are impacted by another persons’ abuse of substances. Students seeking assistance for themselves or a friend are protected under federal confidentiality guidelines.
The Religious Life Offices are located in St. John’s Chapel. The Chaplain, an Episcopal priest who lives on campus, is available to all members of the Colleges community, regardless of religious background or affiliation. The part-time director of Hillel works primarily with the Jewish community on campus. For more information on programming and worship, see “Spiritual Life” in Student Life.
