Olin’s Center for Experiential Learning links the classroom with the world of business. With faculty support and guidance, talented Olin students apply leading-edge practices and practical management solutions to business challenges.
CityStudioSTL from the Sam Fox School at WashU supports a number of community engagement, student enrichment, and collaborations that bring students and faculty from different fields together with community partners. Fellowships support students in architecture, art, and design partnering with those in the St. Louis community to conceive, plan, design, and construct projects for local community groups and residents. Faculty can also receive support for community engaged scholarship and courses.
CAPS, previously University College, offers adult students the opportunity to earn a degree at WashU. The program is committed to providing an education and career pathway for St. Louis learners who have previously not had access to Washington University.
Through this initiative, local and national employers connect with WashU’s intelligent, diverse, grounded, well-rounded talent. WashU’s Employer Relations team coordinates career fairs, networking events, information sessions and road shows, and collaborates with employers to explore new and innovative recruitment and engagement strategies.
The Washington University Libraries are a network of academic resources featuring nine libraries (seven locations on the Danforth Campus, one at West Campus, and one at the Medical School); vast print and electronic collections; and expert librarians whose first priority is helping students and faculty find the information they need. Libraries and exhibits are open to the public.
In this course from Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship at WashU, students pursue their own business idea or support community entrepreneurs. They work in the St. Louis area to create a program that caters to individuals mostly in the St. Louis area. Over half of the ventures launched have taken place in the St. Louis area with over two-thirds of the program still taking place. They have created over a hundred jobs in the St. Louis area.
The St. Louis Entrepreneurial Fellowship program gives WashU undergrad students a chance to explore entrepreneurship at WashU and in St. Louis. The program requires students to take a course as they engage in innovation and entrepreneurship in St. Louis. In the summer, students participate in an internship at a St. Louis-based startup and record what they have learned. Students are required to implement a capstone project aimed at identifying and addressing a perceived gap in the St. Louis entrepreneurial ecosystem.
IdeaBounce® is an online platform and event from the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship where anyone in St. Louis can pitch an idea, get feedback, and network with other entrepreneurs and innovators.
WashULaw provides a guaranteed funding of $3000 to first-year law students to allow them to take on public interest jobs and setting that may not provide as much funding. Second year students may also apply for funding. These public interest fellowships allow for public service employment in the St. Louis area and beyond through non-profits, government, Non-Government Organizations, and Private public interest firms.
The Wrongful Conviction Clinic provides students with the opportunity to work with people who believe they have been wrongfully conviction (with credibility) in Missouri, and occasionally in neighboring states. Students work in partnership with clinic lawyers.