Aspire Center

The Aspire Center

The Aspire Program builds on Carthage’s strong history of providing students with the skills they need to succeed. The new program blends existing and new resources to create a comprehensive career development plan for all students from their first days on campus.

Program Goals

Through The Aspire Program, Carthage students from all majors will have access to great outcomes. Students will:

• Build and hone a clear plan for the future, learning how to adapt as plans change.
• Gain real career-building experiences on- and off-campus, starting during their first year at Carthage.
• Expand their personal and professional networks to inform career choices, open doors to future career opportunities, and learn how to lead and serve their communities.
• Present themselves well and secure positions related to their personal and professional goals.

Through The Aspire Program, students will learn to see possibilities and options. They will learn to design career plans, while understanding that new information or experiences might alter those plans. They will learn that career development is most effective when it’s embedded in our regular lives, not occasional. The Aspire Program prepares students for lifelong success by helping students develop habits of mind that encourage lifelong growth.

Who Participates?

All Carthage students will participate in The Aspire Program. Starting in Spring 2019, the comprehensive career development program will replace the existing Career Services Office, and the new Aspire Center will serve the career development needs for all Carthage students, our alumni, and our employer partners.

First-year students entering Carthage in Fall 2019 will be the first cohort to follow The Aspire Program’s new four-year career development plan.

This program is not simply accessible to all students, it is designed for all students.