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December 10, 2021

Graduating Career Ready with the Employability Framework

Finishing university is a major life milestone, but many graduates find themselves with a degree and a question: what’s next? Entering the world of work can be challenging, but Carleton’s Career Services has launched a... More

October 8, 2021

Carleton Alumni Soar Into Out of This World Tech Careers

The earliest humans pushed beyond the horizon and reached far-flung mountains and islands all around the planet. As modern humans push beyond the bounds of Earth itself, we follow in their footsteps. “Humans are explorers,... More

June 7, 2021

Carleton Students Find Career Success After Working on Parliament Hill Rehabilitation Project

When Shawn Duke moved to Ottawa from Nigeria to study Architecture at Carleton University, he wasn’t aware of the historical significance of the buildings on Parliament Hill. He planned to get a degree, find a... More

November 9, 2020

Fall Graduation 2020: Documentary Journalist Pivots to Career in Accounting with Carleton Degree

Carleton’s Fall Graduation 2020, a university-wide online celebration, launched on Saturday, Nov. 14. Watch the celebration at the Carleton Grads 2020 website now! For Master of Accounting graduate Nicole Rogers, stepping onto the Carleton University... More

March 12, 2020

Engineering Students Cite Benefits of Long Co-Op Terms

Bombardier. Envari. Department of National Defence. Those are just some of the organizations in Ottawa and Montreal providing Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design students the opportunity to experience career settings during their studies.... More

March 27, 2019

A Showcase of Accessible Experiential Learning

During her second year at Carleton University in Engineering Physics, Stephanie Ellis began to lose her sight and went completely blind. Although she slowly got her vision back, no one was ever able to figure... More

January 24, 2019

Engineering Student Developing Software to Support Health-Care Research

When Naman Sethi started his degree last year at Carleton University, he hoped that one day he could use his education and experience to make a contribution to the health-care field. He didn’t realize his... More

November 12, 2018

Education City

Faculty, executives, staff and students from Ottawa’s post-secondary institutions assembled at La Cité collégiale’s new Excentricité studio on Nov. 9, 2018 for an unprecedented gathering: the Education City education and innovation workshop. Education City, a... More

November 5, 2018

Creating Accessible Workplaces

In 2009, Rebecca Andre, now a second-year Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies student at Carleton University, began experiencing the symptoms of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a rare progressive fatal illness. “This was right in the... More

October 1, 2018

International Internship Program Takes Students Across the Globe

Maheep Sandhu was preparing for the final day of his summer job before he returned for his third year in Carleton University's Global and International Studies (BGInS). But he hasn't spent the summer working at... More

August 28, 2018

Careers for People with Disabilities

In the mid-1980s, when David Onley was working for low pay at a small and poorly performing radio station in Toronto, he was summoned to a meeting with Moses Znaimer, the co-founder of Toronto’s groundbreaking... More

April 11, 2018

Shopify Springboard for Students

Owen Craston was signed up for Computer Science at Carleton University and received an email from the program’s director. Laura Aubin was planning to study a different subject in another faculty when a high school... More