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Dedicated to taking you from student to professional, this CALS office helps you navigate majors, land internships, and meet hiring employers.
CALS offers wrap-around advising to support all undergraduate students. Name the 3 levels of the CALS Advising Model.
What is assigned major advisor, Director of Undergraduate Programs (DUP), and CALS AP Advising?
Contrary to popular belief, doing this resume-building activity at NC State does not strictly require you to work inside a laboratory.
What is Undergrad Research?
After an 8:30 AM Dr. Flowers Animal Science class, a student began forming a tight-knit study group by grabbing pancakes at this campus dining location.
What is Case Dining Hall?
At the heart of the land grant mission, CALS takes pride in supporting these 3 functions across the state.
What are Academics, Extension, and Research?
Abbreviated as CASS, this initiative pairs current CALS students directly with graduates for one-on-one career coaching.
What is CALS Alumni for Student Success?
CALS Clubs and Organizations allow students to build connections with impact. These are benefits of joining a CALS club or organization.
What is connection to faculty and staff in the major/department and connection to peers with similar interests/goals?
These CALS-led, NC State-sponsored opportunities allow students to earn academic credit while exploring new cultures and gaining hands-on global experiences.
What are Study Abroad programs?
A student learned about new majors, internships, and these two specific agricultural student organizations after meeting friends in an Ag Science class.
What are Alpha Zeta and Sigma Alpha?
The approximate number of undergraduate majors housed within CALS.
What is 16?
This specific internship program connects undergraduate students with paid summer placements located throughout rural North Carolina.
What is Rural Works!?
These are ways students can get connected to CALS Clubs and Organizations.
What is attending Welcome Week events (CALS Corner at Packapalooza/CALS Cookies & Clubs/CALS Connection) and reading emails sent from their departments?
Serving in student-leadership roles like these allows CALS students to inspire future students, support classroom learning, and help peers succeed.
What are Peer Mentors, Peer Career Coaches, CALS Ambassadors, and TAs?
Entering as a Spring Connect student, one ambassador built a close community outside of academics by joining a campus ministry and this gaming club.
What is Wii Club?
Dr. Crouse's signature small-group engagement initiative gives CALS students the opportunity to connect with college leadership over a meal.
What is Dining with David?
CALS Career Services hosts several annual events in the fall and spring to help students gain experience and exposure to their fields. Name at least 2.
What is CALS SHINES, Ag & Sciences Expo, JumpStart Your Career, and HOT Job Fair?
CALS-wide events that allow students the opportunity to connect with the broader CALS community like CALS faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends.
What is CALS Corner at Packapalooza and CALS Harvest?
This learning happens outside of the classroom with hands-on, immersive opportunities that allow students to apply what they’re learning in real-world settings while building the skills employers value most.
What are High-Impact Experiences?
Highlighting CALS' global study abroad opportunities, one student shared that they applied to a specialized program focusing on this branch of horticulture in the Netherlands.
What is Floriculture?
The top point of pride that differentiates CALS from other colleges across the university.
What is real-world hands-on research/field experience, interdisciplinary problem-solving, or the strong alumni network?
These offices support students interested in pursuing higher education after CALS.
What is CALS Career Services, VetPAC, Pre-Health and Pre-Law Advising through CDC?
CALS offers smaller class sizes for major-specific courses, which allows students to build long-term networks with instructors and peers. These are ways students can build connections with their instructors.
What is attend office hours, sit in the front of the class and interact, get involved with research, etc?
This highly competitive dual-degree program joins CALS with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) to offer international travel, mentorship, and a close student cohort.
What is Jefferson Scholars?
Encouraging students to interact directly with CALS leadership, one ambassador advised speaking with advisors, professors, and saying hello to this college leader if you spot them on campus.
Who is Dean Fox?
This is Dean's Fox iconic NC State treat crafted using fresh milk from the university’s own dairy herd at the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory.
What is Tuffy's Toffee?