While many Holy Cross students spent winter break on … well, break … some students used the weeks between semesters to pursue their passions. On campus, a number of students attended the four-day Non-Profit Careers Conference; in New York City and Boston, other students took part in career workshops and worksite visits — sponsored by both the Center for Career Development and the Ciocca Center for Business, Ethics and Society — to get a feel for post-grad life. Further north, eleven students decamped to Manchester, New Hampshire, to intern on presidential election campaigns through a program run by the J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World. Students lived in the city for nearly a month, working daily on a number of different campaigns and taking a course, The Primary Process in America, taught by Daniel Klinghard, professor of political science and director of the J.D. Power Center.
“At the J.D. Power Center, we’ve been looking at ways to provide experiential learning opportunities to students outside of the regular semester model,” says Klinghard. “As someone who studies political parties in my academic career, I’ve always been fascinated by the New Hampshire primary, and I have always wanted to figure out a way to better connect our students to this amazing event that happens just to our north. So for me, it made sense to combine these two things.”