Communities of Purpose
We believe that successful careers start by identifying work that aligns with your values and passions. CLBR offers a unique advising model that encourages students to begin their career pathing by first identifying their Community of Purpose.
Discover Your Purpose
Each Community of Purpose is assigned to an advisor with in-depth knowledge of that community to ensure a well-rounded advising experience for each student. Advisors are available for guidance on career pathing, job applications, fellowships, professional school, and more!
Learn More about Your Community of Purpose
Learn more about job opportunities, fellowships, grad school, and career pathways for your Community of Purpose.
Arts & Expression
While many people first think of becoming a professional artist, performer, or writer, these are just a few of the many possibilities. Because art intersects with our lives in countless ways, you can also use your creativity to make a meaningful impact through teaching, community engagement, or advocacy. If you're passionate about preserving culture and expanding access to knowledge, careers in libraries, archives, and museums offer opportunities to protect artistic and historical resources while creating welcoming spaces for learning, growth, and creativity. Or, if you enjoy connecting people with ideas and stories, you might explore careers in journalism, publishing, communications, or media.
Entrepreneurship & Business Strategy
The diversity among professional interests and ideas drives our business leaders to continuously create new ventures and innovations. Through a deep analysis of local and global markets, companies are constantly being built to meet the needs of the consumer. By understanding one’s purpose, students are able to explore what strengths they have and apply them when searching for an appropriate and befitting occupation within these business structures. These unique professions have allowed many of our own Reedies to engage in these markets to not only create value for the consumer but impact the world through meaningful work in the Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy community.
Healthcare & the Cure of Illness
Purposeful exploration of challenges and opportunities facing humans’ dis-ease and disease: mental health, physical health, chronic illness, pediatric care, acute care, addictive behaviors, geriatric health, self-regulation, nutrition, healer, doctor, lactation consultant, medical technology, healthcare policies, health education, health consulting, midwifery, spiritual calling, applied tech in artificial limbs and valves, pharmacology, alternative medicine… there are many ways to express yourself and your purpose in life.
Human Development & Success
Exploring how the mind can learn, comprehend, and achieve is at the heart of the Human Development and Success community. This field involves guiding others toward realizing their potential and overcoming challenges, envisioning what is possible, and helping to make those possibilities a reality. Careers in this area—such as coaching, counseling, educational policy, K-12 education, higher education, and Montessori—offer diverse opportunities to find purpose and joy in shaping others' futures. There are many ways to express yourself and fulfill your life’s purpose within this dynamic and impactful field.
Investing & Financial Responsibility
Problem solving with fiscal responsibility: socially responsible investing, public finance, supporting ethical marketplaces, taxation, commercial banking, corporate finance, budget forecasting, big data, fundraising for nonprofit institutions, economic policy, asset management, financial consulting... there are many ways to express yourself and your purpose in life.
Policy & Community Advocacy
Navigating and addressing the complex issues that both connect and divide us in a densely interconnected world involves understanding and managing a wide array of challenges. These include international and local concerns such as global commerce, NGO efforts, licensing, and global policy, alongside pressing issues like agriculture, climate change, and geopolitics. On a more immediate scale, it also encompasses tackling housing, transportation, crime, homelessness, and community welfare. Balancing international dynamics with local needs—ranging from diplomatic relations and disaster relief to community governance and public policy—requires innovative solutions and respectful collaboration across boundaries, whether they are political, geographical, or social.
Research & Innovation
Finding new ways forward in research as well as applied design, pushing the boundaries of what is known, inventing what the world has not seen and needs: scientific research, cell tissue policy, lab management, nuclear reactor operation, paleontology, planetary science, lab tech… there are many ways to express yourself and your purpose in life.
Sustainable Life on Earth
Because our environment touches nearly every element of our lives, sustainability professionals can be found across a wide range of industries, tackling challenges from many different angles. This could look like (but is not limited to) working with renewable energy, conducting academic and field research, collecting and analyzing environmental data, urban planning, stewarding local parks, educating communities on best environmental practices, or developing environmental policy.
Tech & Builders
Bits and bytes and nails and hammers: technology. The science of craft influences perspectives and decisions across a remarkable spectrum of our lives, often making life easier, just as often more complex. Opportunities in the space are vast and bounded only by one's skill and imagination. This community embraces all types of engineers (mechanical, architectural, civil) and UI/UX, programmers, web developers, software designers, programmers, tech-driven applications in all fields.