Geography Major Plans after Graduation
Congratulations Geography Class of 2018. See where our geography majors are going after graduation.
[more]Congratulations Geography Class of 2018. See where our geography majors are going after graduation.
[more]After college, Kelsey worked on a fishing island in Maine doing community based health. They had a community coalition, taken straight from her geography curriculum, that looked at community solutions for youth substance abuse, aging in place and fitness and nutrition. After two years in Maine she made a career jump to college coaching at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. As a college coach, Kelsey engaged in issues of race and class every day working with athletes to help navigate a very privileged and white college campus.
[more]Kim has worked at the National Geographic Society for the past 30 years —where she is currently the Vice President of Education.
[more]Dan went directly to graduate school at the University of North Carolina Department of City and Regional Planning and then to a career in affordable housing finance and administration, first with the NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development, then with the Massachusetts Dept. of Housing and Community Development and for the past 11 years as a self-employed consultant. Geography at Dartmouth was great preparation for his career and he has no doubt that its reputation helped him gain admission to
[more]After leaving Dartmouth Chuck attended the University of Kansas where he received an MA (1985) and PhD (1990) in geography. Since 1989 Chuck has been a professor in the geography department at Kansas State University, where he's served for the last 7 years as department head. His research over the last 15 years has focused on heavy metals stored in a relatively rural drainage network (Lahn River) in central Germany. Obviously, his geography degree has had a major influence on his professional career!
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