Career Communities

Career Communities at Towson University coordinate, communicate and implement targeted career readiness by industry.

Communities foster focused advising and programming through shared partnerships to maximize employment options, experiential opportunities and career education for TU students.

Career Communities provide targeted support to allow students to:

  • learn about your industries of choice and set related academic and career goals
  • engage in career programming opportunities (career fairs, events, workshops, employer site visits, on-campus recruiting, etc.) across career communities
  • connect with internships and other experiential opportunities to explore career options
  • build career readiness skills to understand, develop and articulate individual strengths and skills
  • build relationships with faculty, staff, alumni and employers

Career Communities by Interest

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Business and Economics

The Business and Economics Career Community offers resources for students pursuing careers in business and economics-related industries.

Business & Economics Career Community
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Exploration

The Exploration Career Community provides students with opportunities to explore their career interests.

Exploration Career Community
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Health and Wellness

The Health and Wellness Career Community offers resources for students pursuing careers in health and wellness industries.

Health & Wellness Career Community
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Liberal Arts 

The Liberal Arts Career Community is designed to offer targeted resources for students pursuing careers in liberal arts-related industries.

Liberal Arts Career Community
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Media, Arts and Communication (MAC) 

The MAC Career Community offers resources for students pursuing careers in media, arts and communication related fields.

MAC Career Community
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STEM

The STEM Career Community offers resources for students pursuing careers in STEM-related industries.

STEM Career Community

2025-2026 TU Career Communities Micro-Grant Award

Maximum Award: $500
Application Period: June 16 – October 1 
Priority Deadline: August 1

The Career Center provides fiscal support for TU faculty, staff, and student organization led program activities that demonstrate innovation, collaboration, and promotion of the center’s Career Communities network while emphasizing the critical importance of Career Ready Skills.

Key Programming Priorities of TU Career Communities:

  • Increase the number and quality of career conversations on campus to help students understand career opportunities
  • Equip students, staff, and faculty with confidence and tools to weave career planning into everyday conversation and help students refine their career pathways
  • Provide tailored career-ready skill-building opportunities to learn specific marketable and transferable skills
  • Increase effectiveness of career conversations by connecting academics to industry
  • Facilitate career advice from faculty and employers
  • Foster alumni connections and network with employers
  • Promote jobs and encourage internships related to career goals 

Micro-Grant Application

Faculty, staff, and student organization representatives that are committed to intentionally strengthening TU Career Communities and the Center’s collective mission and vision are welcome to apply.

  • Grant activities must spotlight one or more essential Career Ready Skills
  • Proposals should clearly align with the Career Communities key priorities that focus on knowledge, experiential learning, and career connections

Award recipients must agree and will be required to:

  • Communicate in all marketing and reporting materials and at the program site: "This Career Communities Program is made possible by the support of the TU Career Center"
  • Share grant program photos and related media posts
  • Track and submit program participant attendance sheets, including students TU ID numbers
  • Complete a TU Career Center post-grant survey
  • Submit final summary report materials no later than 3 weeks of completion of the funded program activity.
    • The final report must include a brief reflection component highlighting career learning outcomes and career communities’ impact of the grant.
    • The format and delivery date of the report will be decided and specified on the post-award checklist.

If you indicated that this proposed activity would receive additional funding from external or campus resources, please include details in the budget spreadsheet.

Note: Proposal requests must not exceed $500. Funding requests ranging from $100 to $500 are welcome. Partial funding for grant activities will also be considered by the grant review committee.

Applications open June 16 for proposed activities for Academic Year 2025-2026 and will be reviewed in the order in which they are received. Proposals will be accepted and awarded on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted or until the application closing date of October 1.  In addition to this online application, individuals will need to upload a proposed detailed budget outline using a template provided. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

 

2025-2026 TU Career Communities Micro-Grant Application

Micro-Grant Application

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