The College of Design Student Services office holds numerous events throughout the fall, winter, and spring quarters of each academic year. Our events are designed to help connect you with professionals through networking activities and/or are opportunities for you to develop skills related to career pursuit and advancement. Listed below are the larger, annual events; smaller events vary from term to term and will be advertised in the 2020-21 academic year primarily through email directly to students, the College of Design events feed, and departmental updates.

Look for event announcements in our weekly enews delivered to your uoregon email. Not yet in our mailing list? Send your request to dsgnss@uoregon.edu to be added.

Due to Covid-19 precautions, all Student Services events during the 2020-21 academic year will be presented via virtual platforms.

Student Leaders Meetings

College of Design student group leaders will meet virtually one or more times during the fall, winter, and spring terms to share resources and ideas, foster collaboration, and discuss student issues and concerns with the Student Services leadership. If we don’t yet know about your group (whether part of ASUO or not), let us know at dsgnss@uoregon.edu! All College of Design student group leaders are welcome.

Fall Term Events  |  Winter Term Events  |  Spring Term Events

Fall Term

Information Sessions

A variety of professional and non-profit organizations seeking to recruit and/or engage students typically coordinate with Student Services to hold free information sessions during the fall. Watch for announcements in our weekly enews and in uoregon email, and, when we’re back on campus, on posters on the Eugene and Portland campuses, and on digital screens in Lawrence Hall.

Winter Term

Drop-in Virtual Session: Preparing for the School of Architecture & Environment Career and Networking Fair

This event was last held on Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

This free, informal drop-in session is for SAE students in any year of their program who have not yet experienced the Career and Networking Fair, particularly a virtual one, or who want a refresher. What exactly is the Career and Networking Fair, how does it work, and why should you participate?

School of Architecture & Environment Career and Networking Fair

This event was last held on Thursday, February 18, 2021.

Professionals who represent a wide range of careers in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, construction, engineering, consulting, historic preservation, and planning host virtual information sessions and 1:1 meetings with students. Firms that may be hiring staff and/or interns may also hold interviews.

February 2021 Career and Networking Fair Participating Firms:

School of Planning, Public Policy and Management Professional Networking Event

Date, time, and virtual location for 2021 event TBD

Coordinated by the PPPM Student Community Organization (SCO), this event brings professionals from non-profit, government, and private organizations representing the wide range of prospective career paths PPPM students are considering.

Spring Term

School of Art + Design Career Futures

Date, time, and virtual location for 2021 event TBD

This annual Career Futures event is an opportunity for Art + Design students to learn from and network with professionals through interactive, panelist-led discussions.

The 2019 inaugural event featured interactive, panelist-led discussion sessions and professionals.

2019 Career Futures Participating Professionals:

Virtual Panel Discussion:

“Real Talk: How I Kept My Career Moving When the Economy Wasn't”

On May 13, 2020, student services hosted a virtual panel discussion with four College of Design alumni who each graduated during the time of the Great Recession.

These professionals shared their career-path stories and tips and strategies that worked for each of them to keep their pursuits moving forward in a stagnant economy:

• Courtney Stubbert BA '07 Art History, Senior Designer at AHM Brands
• Beth Dehn MA ‘08 Folklore and Museum Studies Certificate, Oregon Heritage Commission Coordinator; Oregon Heritage, a division of Oregon Parks and Recreation (includes State Historic Preservation Office)
• Stephanie Fujimura MArch ‘08, Senior Associate/Senior Architect, DAHLIN
• Lorraine Jack BArch ‘09, Project Architect, BCRA

Watch a Recording of this Panel Discussion

To watch the recording, please use this password: 1r*6X584