NEXT WEEK’S CAREER/PROFESSIONAL EVENTS SAT JUL 8 Seattle Chappy Hour LEARN MORE AND RSVP 10:30 a.m. at Portage Bay Cafe in Seattle, WA Chappy Hours are casual, fun events planned by fellow alumni and are a great way to get together with Panthers in your area. Don’t forget to bring some business cards, you never know when
Last week alumni from across the decades came back to campus for the annual Orientation Candle Lighting Ceremony to welcome the Class of 2020 to our Chapman Family. Prior to the ceremony, alumni gathered for a reception in the Leatherby Libraries’ Allred Entrada where they were greeted and welcomed back to their alma mater by Charlene Baldwin,
It is our pleasure to introduce you to your new president of the Chapman University Alumni Association, Akin Ceylan ’90 . Akin follows in the footsteps of James E. Blalock (JD ’09), who served as president for the past three years . Akin graduated from Chapman in 1990 with a B.S./B.A. in management and is the COO
We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Margo Pawell ’15. Margo courageously battled a chronic illness during her time as a student and graduated in May with a BFA in graphic design. Claudine Jaenichen, associate professor and chair of the Department of Art, shared the following remarks about Margo: “Margo’s fierce talent and
We are excited to announce the formation of the Alumni Outreach Committee! Composed solely of Chapman alumni, the committee’s goal is to be a sounding board for alumni across the country and around the world. Some of the committee’s plans thus far include a new Instagram account geared specifically to alumni and engaging blog posts
Welcome to the first edition of Career Coach’s Corner. Each month we will focus on a different career-related topic and provide insight to help you excel in your career. This month’s topic is preparing for job interviews. One of the most challenging aspects of the job search is securing an interview. If and when the opportunity to
We recently celebrated another incredible Commencement Weekend and welcomed the largest-ever class of graduates to our alumni family! Thank you to the wonderful alumni volunteers who helped us congratulate and present medals to the Class of 2014 at Convocation and the Senior Toast. Having members of the alumni family in attendance to officially welcome graduates to
This has been an exceptional and productive year for the Chapman University Alumni Association Board of Directors . Through their hard work and dedication, this group of alumni has accomplished an incredible amount over the past year: record alumni attendance at campus events, increased alumni presence and representation across campus and several new organized groups for
Alumna and Fulbright scholar, Erika Sanders ’13, is spending a year teaching English at a foreign language high school in the Bulgarian town of Ruse, near the Danube River. She dropped us a note about her experiences as a teacher, myth buster and what her students have taught her. Often I feel like my conversations
I came to Chapman University from a small town in Oregon without ever having visited the campus. I was drawn to Chapman by a then new member of the Office of Admissions, now Vice Chancellor Mike Pelly, and his description of the school, its dance program and some strange sport they liked to play in