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It was a game she won in a Caldwell College Investment Management class that clinched it for her. Senior Carole Clarke says she took the class “Analysis & Trading of Securities” and as a part of the curriculum she had to participate in a virtual stock trading game. “I won the game.” Oh, victory is always sweet. But this time it was much more than sweet. That win got her thinking about a career in investment banking and the direction she wanted to go in life. She had also previously discovered in one of her core classes, “Survey of Economics”, that she wanted to study Financial Economics. It is a really good, she says, that Caldwell is a liberal arts college, because “you try all these classes and pretty much discover what you like.”
An international student from St. Catherine on the Island of Jamaica, in addition to majoring in Financial Economics, she is also majoring in Computer Information Systems. She is learning from some of the best. “In the Business Department, teachers have a lot of experience in their field.”
Clarke says being a resident assistant and holding leadership positions in the Student Government Association (SGA) has helped her develop her interpersonal and leadership skills—so much so that she has started a new club at Caldwell called CEO, Caldwell’s Entrepreneurial Organization. SGA, she says, is important to campus life because “we voice what students want and mediate between the students and the faculty and staff.” She believes SGA helps students develop their leadership skills and ensures that the campus is interactive.
Besides her leadership positions, one of the most important accomplishments she says she has achieved at Caldwell has been the ability to develop as a person. That’s one of the things that makes Caldwell College unique. “They allow you to reach for skills,” she says and develop talents “you didn’t know you had.” And because “we are young, they open our minds to new possibilities.” |
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MajorS: Financial Economics, Computer Information Systems
Class of: 2009
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