Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 27
about internships and job shadowing opportunities; and seniors and
young alumni can learn about the top cities for their careers and more.
WiN allows students and young alumni to connect with alumni
advisors to ask vocational questions on a casual, anonymous basis, or
to sign up to be a part of a longer mentoring relationship with an
alumna or alumnus in their field of interest.
The network even includes a faculty dashboard that allows professors
to track how students in their department are interacting through WiN,
and to recommend specific advisors and mentors for students.
Beyond Coincidental Connections
Thanks to the network, connections don’t have to be serendipitous—
they can be systematic.
For instance, when it came time for Charity Fort ’12 to choose
a graduate school, she used WiN to connect with alumni who had
attended Duke