Our Approach

We recognize the importance of your moments of transition — from high school to college, from the Simon’s Rock AA program to a focused BA program, to graduate studies and finding, or changing employment — and we encourage you to find thoughtful, informed, and creative approaches to taking on new challenges at each step.

The Office of Academic Transitions and Career Development is your resource for all of it. Find the tools and support you need to make decisions and develop skills to assist you on your academic and career path.

We will ask you to write and reflect, and to engage in thoughtful conversation. In other words, you’ll approach the transitions during and after your academic career the way you approach everything else — as a Rocker.

The Director of Career Development, meets students after they have chosen their concentrations to help them direct their curiosity in identifying and pursuing internships and fields of graduate work.

“If a student has an interest, our aim is to form an individualized plan and transform it into purposeful work. This doesn’t happen overnight. There’s no file folder that says, ‘Here’s the right experience for this student.’ We have to build trust through meaningful conversations.”

— Manat Wooten