Alums and Friends

The Opportunity Hub is a team of 40-plus professionals who work with students on one of the most important projects of their lives: exploring career possibilities and forming a professional identity. We do that by connecting LSA undergrads with alums, employers, internships, jobs, and transformative career-learning opportunities to nurture students’ deep and broad discovery of the liberal arts, ultimately positioning students to pursue meaningful careers after graduation and throughout theirprofessional lives.

Our focus is on serving LSA undergraduate students from a liberal arts perspective. Our campus partners serve wider or different audiences, including the University Career Center, which serves the entire campus, and the offices in U-M’s colleges, like the Engineering Career Resource Center, which serves Engineering students specifically.

Yes, you can sign up for our student Hub Happenings newsletter through MCommunity and receive ongoing communications that LSA students receive from us during the school year. If you're interested in a communication specifically with you in mind, be sure to join LSA Connect where you'll automatically receive our quarterly newsletter for Alums & Employers.

We communicate with students strategically via email, social media, in-person, and through departments to ensure they get the complete picture of the services, resources, and opportunities available to them at the Hub.

We’re looking for alums who are willing to be a part of a diverse, supportive community; who can offer advice and resources, mentorship, and opportunities that are inclusive of the identities, experiences and goals of LSA students. Regardless if you’re a recent grad or an experienced professional, alums can provide wisdom gleaned from the professional path they’ve taken or the industry they’re in. The absolute best way for alums like yourself to start to make an impact is to join LSA Connect. Here you can begin to be available directly to students for career advice as part of the exclusive LSA online community.  

The first step is to join LSA Connect, the college’s networking and mentoring platform where LSA students seek out alums for mentoring advice and support. You can shape your impact, whether that’s answering questions from a variety of students on the discussion board or chatting with a couple students at a time through private messaging. If you’d like to engage in deeper mentoring with a single student through a more formalized structure, you can apply to be part of the LSA Mentorship Program, but you must be on LSA Connect first. Get started today by setting up your profile. An invite to apply for the program will come through LSA Connect.

Encourage them to join LSA Connect. They’ll start by creating a profile, which includes indicating how they would like to be involved. The Alum Engagement team follows up with individuals within LSA Connect regularly. They could also email lsa-opphub@umich.edu with their request to speak to someone in the subject line, and a member of our Alum Engagement Team will reach out to them.  

An alum’s time and wisdom is as valuable to the Opportunity Hub as financial gifts; explore ways alums have been involved through the links provided above: share your expertise, share your story, or share your time.