Some Colleges Start Using Their Long Winter Breaks to Help Students Plan for Jobs

Tiny Scripps College (CA) is still on winter break, and the Spanish colonial revival-style campus 30 miles east of Los Angeles seems deserted but for one small group of students busy practicing their handshakes. The visiting alumna who is testing them pronounces most to have good, solid grips, just right for greeting the job interviewers they’re here learning to impress. These 15 students, at a school whose enrollment is about 950, are back at Scripps early not to focus on how to do a job, but on how to get one.