36 episodes

Listen in on conversations coming out of Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. We will have discussions for students with alumni around hot topics in careers, alumni profiles for students to learn more about life with an arts and sciences degree, and explore the ins and outs of different career paths through the Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program.

Visit weinberg.northwestern.edu and search Waldron for more information!

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Listen in on conversations coming out of Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. We will have discussions for students with alumni around hot topics in careers, alumni profiles for students to learn more about life with an arts and sciences degree, and explore the ins and outs of different career paths through the Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program.

Visit weinberg.northwestern.edu and search Waldron for more information!

    Faculty Speaker Series: Conversations with the Dean Featuring Susie Phillips

    Faculty Speaker Series: Conversations with the Dean Featuring Susie Phillips

    This special episode features the most recent edition of Weinberg College’s faculty speaker series “Conversation with the Dean.” This event series is designed to deliver insights into cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The events are offered live to Weinberg College Leadership Society donors with a real-time Q&A. In this conversation, Professor of English Susie Phillips and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss why teaching matters, how asking bold questions can open entire worlds of “speculative possibility” in scholarship, and the power of gossip.
     
    Leadership Giving Society: https://giving.northwestern.edu/s/1479/282-giving/21/interior3.aspx?pgid=7407&gid=28
    Explore more "Conversations with the Dean:" https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/after-graduation/for-alumni/conversations-with-the-dean/ 
     

    • 34 min
    Waldron Career Insights: Impactful Classes for Sustainability and Entrepreneurship

    Waldron Career Insights: Impactful Classes for Sustainability and Entrepreneurship

    This episode features clips from this year’s Weinberg College Career Summit alumni panels where a few alumni share stories about some of their most impactful classes and how those classes helped them in their future careers. Alumni from our Energy & Sustainability and Startups & Entrepreneurship alumni panels talked about an array of classes that helped them form arguments and think differently about their industries.
    ·         Timestamps:
    0:00: Introduction 0:45: Impactful Sustainability Classes with Ariel Drehobl ’12 and Mark Silberg ’14 3:55: Impactful Entrepreneurship Classes with Jin Hwang ‘01 5:55: Outro https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/after-graduation/student-alumni-connections/whats-new/2023-2024/career-summit-2023-final.html 

     

    • 6 min
    Faculty Speaker Series: Conversations with the Dean Featuring Gerry Cadava

    Faculty Speaker Series: Conversations with the Dean Featuring Gerry Cadava

    This special episode features the most recent edition of Weinberg College’s faculty speaker series “Conversation with the Dean.” This event series is designed to deliver insights into cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The events are offered live to Weinberg College Leadership Society donors with a real-time Q&A. In this conversation, Professor of History and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program, Gerry Cadava and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the meaning of diversity in the United States through the lens of Latino identity, as our nation approaches its 250th anniversary.  

    Weinberg College Leadership Giving Society: https://giving.northwestern.edu/s/1479/282-giving/21/interior3.aspx?pgid=7407&gid=282  

    Explore more “Conversations with the Dean”: https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/after-graduation/for-alumni/conversations-with-the-dean/ 

    • 37 min
    Waldron Career Insights: Trends in Consulting, Healthcare, and Marketing

    Waldron Career Insights: Trends in Consulting, Healthcare, and Marketing

    This episode features highlights from the career summit focusing on the changing landscapes in these industries. Speakers from all three fields discuss topics such as hybrid work, work-life balance, travel expectations, and more.
    Timestamps:
    ·         0:00: Introduction
    ·         0:45: Trends in Marketing
    ·         2:45: Trends in Consulting
    ·         5:20: Trends in Healthcare
    ·         8:30: Outro

    • 8 min
    Waldron Career Insights: Job Function vs Industry

    Waldron Career Insights: Job Function vs Industry

    This episode, brought to you by the Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program and Northwestern Career Advancement, features an in-depth discussion with Tracie Thomas from NCA about the difference between job function and industry, narrowing down career options, and how to approach an event like the Career Summit. This is a great overview of career exploration in general, so feel free to listen to this episode to prepare for any future alumni event you register for as well as the career summit.
    Timestamps
      0:00: Introductions
      1:40: Job Function vs Industry
      6:00: The Process of Narrowing Down Career Options
      10:15: How to Approach the Career Summit
      14:00: Closing Advice for Students

    • 16 min
    Waldron Career Insights: Humanities

    Waldron Career Insights: Humanities

    This episode features a few clips previous alumni conversations highlighting their memorable experiences relating to their majors in the humanities and how those experiences helped in their future careers.
    First is a closing remark from our conversation with David Gefsky ‘92, where he speaks on the value of curiosity and the other skills you develop through an Arts & Sciences education at Northwestern that can help you in a field like finance.
    Next is a quote from our “What Can You Do with a Language Major” Panel from last year with Khiabett Osuna ‘11, who talks about the core skills she uses every day as an Immigration Attorney: “Read, Think, Write.” Khiabett shares stories and examples of how her work can change rapidly in topic and focus, and how those core skills can help adjust to those changing conditions.
    The last clip comes from a previous podcast episode focusing on Chicago Field Studies with Charlie Vasbinder ’19. Charlie discusses the value of his history major for working in real estate in teaching him how to develop relationships, communicate with a wide variety of people, and form arguments on sales pitches.
    Links to the full conversations:
    https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/after-graduation/student-alumni-connections/whats-new/2022-2023/featured-conversation-david-gefsky.html
    https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/after-graduation/student-alumni-connections/whats-new/2021-2022/winter-languages-video.html
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/15U2p8EOJ2fuhEsb0eOo6n

    • 8 min

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