Can you imagine yourself, within a few years of graduating, as the Manager of Travel and Leisure for the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business at Conservation International in Washington, D.C., or a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or a research technician in Everglades National Park, or a marine chemist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, or an environmental monitor with the New York Power Authority, or a policy analyst on climate and atmospheric policy for a Washington, D.C. consulting group, or the environmental coordinator for a dolphin research center, or as a Peace Corps volunteer in Antigua? Recent graduates of the Department’s undergraduate program have held these positions and many like them. Because of the complexity of most environmental and natural resource issues, however, most graduates of the Department eventually go on to obtain graduate or professional degrees. Almost a third of the class of 2000 are now in graduate school in the environmental sciences, natural resource policy and management, or related fields. Several more are in law school. Two recent graduates are in private environmental law practices and another is legal staff for the U.S. District Court in Burlington, VT. With advanced degrees in the field, our graduates have assumed positions of leadership in federal and state governmental agencies and many private conservation organizations both in the United States and abroad. Others have become professors in the fields of fish and wildlife management, environmental science, applied ecology, and natural resource policy and management. With environmental problems and issues of resource use likely to increase in the next decades, the demand for those with solid understanding of the many dimensions of these problems is likely to increase. Positions in state and federal agencies, in the private consulting sector, in the environmental divisions of corporations, and in conservation organizations world-wide will be available for those with the knowledge, the drive, and concern for the environment. Perhaps, more importantly, regardless of what they chose to do, those who graduate from the Department will have obtained the type of broad-based, liberal arts education that will prepare them not just for a job but for life.