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Muhlenberg College Commits to Lifelong Support of Students, Graduates

Allentown’s Muhlenberg College has environmental efforts, including water by men and reaching out to young have offered to serve as mentors
been making headlines—and not conservation. women like herself to ensure that and provide career advice. Those
just for the research and expertise of Realizing Powerful Outcomes all of her clients are confident and in connections and career center
its exceptional faculty or the surveys control of their financial futures.
conducted by its nationally recognized Muhlenberg senior Kevan Shah is guidance provide students with up
polling center. a public health major with medical Muhlenberg by the Numbers to 13,500 project-based professional
school aspirations. Thanks to his Stories like Shah’s and Kozakis’s are experiences and over 6,000 internship
CBS News noted Muhlenberg’s drive to shape a better future—which common on Muhlenberg’s campus.
success in returning students to includes founding a nonprofit that The consistent success of Muhlenberg opportunities.
in-class instruction following the combats opioid overdoses deaths— graduates proves that an investment It’s also worth noting that the
first year of the pandemic. And and support from Muhlenberg faculty in a Muhlenberg education is a sound Muhlenberg student experience,
The Chronicle of Higher Education mentors, he’s been recognized as
applauded the approach Muhlenberg one of the nation’s most promising prospect: Muhlenberg alumni have filled with opportunities to conduct
took to incorporate new technologies students. Shah was recently named been hired by each of the nation’s top research, perform and exhibit
into admitted-student events. the college’s first recipient of a four accounting firms for the past five original artwork, spend weeks or
years, and the college boasts a nearly
The college’s career center director Schwarzman Scholarship, one of 90% medical school acceptance months studying abroad and assume
was interviewed by Forbes about the most prestigious post-graduate rate and entry into the nation’s top leadership roles, is considered
creative ways for students to explore fellowships in the world. Next year, master’s and doctoral programs, exceptional by any measure.
and obtain internships and first jobs. he’ll complete a master’s program in including Harvard, the University
Muhlenberg’s process for providing global affairs in Beijing, China. of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg’s history of strong
a supportive mentoring environment Sydney Kozakis graduated last year academic programs—which has only
for traditionally underrepresented with a business administration Georgetown and the University of improved over time with forward-
students was published in an Inside degree. During her internship with Michigan. thinking programs like sustainability
Higher Ed op-ed. Northwestern Mutual, she rose to That success is due in large part studies and public health—is
Muhlenberg was noted for its civic the top of the financial service firm’s to the student support on campus supported by the addition of graduate
engagement, with students recognized team of 2,500 college financial (81 percent of the student body programs and an alumni and career
as among the most active voting representatives—only the second takes advantage of career center network thousands of members
bodies among higher education woman to earn the distinction in more programming) and the exceptional
institutions. And Muhlenberg’s than 50 years. Now, she’s working as Muhlenberg faculty—but students strong. Expect to hear even more
focus on sustainability earned a certified financial planner in a field and graduates also benefit from the about this local wonder in the years
national acclaim for the college’s that historically has been dominated nearly 2,800 alumni and parents who to come.

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