Undergraduate Students
The CLA Undergraduate Education staff is here to help you explore opportunities, navigate your path, and make the most of the career advantage your liberal arts education gives you. CLA has teams of people devoted to helping you determine your goals and then reach them.
Our Mission: Help you leverage your Liberal Arts Advantage
No matter which major you choose in CLA, your liberal arts degree allows you to develop all 10 of these Core Career Competencies that employers and alumni tell us matter most. Your adaptability will position you for lasting success in your personal, public, and professional life.
We’re here to help you plan and connect what you do across CLA and translate its value into the language of employers.
“Employers today are looking for people who can solve problems, think inventively, communicate well, consider multiple and diverse perspectives, work nimbly, conduct research, analyze the past, understand the present, and imagine the future.”
— John Coleman, Dean of the College
CLA Undergraduate Commencement 2022
The virtual ceremony website has downloadable audio slides, plus video recordings of the May 15 in-person ceremonies!
Summer sessions can be a great opportunity to fit in more courses — and CLA has plenty to catch your interest!
Office Locations
CLA Advising
16 Johnston Hall on the East Bank
575 Heller Hall on the West Bank
2 Appleby Hall for CLA President's Emerging Scholars
33 Appleby Hall for the MLK Program
CLA Career Services
411 Bruininks Hall (includes Resource Room)
Interview Center on 5th floor of Bruininks Hall
CLA Student Services Office
16 Johnston Hall
class@umn.edu
Associate Dean's Office
115 Johnston Hall
clauge@umn.edu
Here for You
Questions?
Contact CLA Undergraduate Education at clauge@umn.edu
