Career Services Department News

Over 240 students attended which demonstrated strong growth and engagement from previous years.

University of Minnesota Crookston’s 2022 Career and Internship Fair was relaunched September 15, 2022 with over 40 employers present, close to 200 students registered, five panels of experts, a career champion luncheon, and a new location, inside the Sargeant Student Center, to top it off. Known as the marquis event for the career services program,

The University of Minnesota Crookston prides itself on preparing students to be career ready once they walk across the stage with their University of Minnesota diploma. A big part of preparing students for their life as a professional is internships.

North Dakota State University Greenhouse Manager, Julie Hochhalter, 2001, said her training at UMN Crookston has been a tremendous help in her current position.

“Our graduates can go anywhere, we have students that come from other areas of the country, those specific to our region, and we have established ourselves as having a strong agriculture program, agronomy programs broadly,” said UMN Crookston Agronomy Lecturer, Rob Proulx, Ph.D. But it isn’t just Crookston’s agronomy graduates that have become