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Briefly... Career Day this Wednesday in Trask
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UNCW Named One of
“100 Best ¥alues”
UNCW is among the 100 best values
in education according to the 2000 edition
of Kiplinger’s, a magazine specializing in
personal finance.
In an article titled, “A Degree of Value,”
the university is ranked the number 44 best
buy in public higher education. In addition,
UNCW is one of the 13 public universities
cited as “best for out-of-state students” and
“an especially good value for nonresidents.”
The top 100 were determined using a
variety of quality measures including gradu
ation rates, how many freshmen return for
their sophomore year, student-faculty ratios,
how much the college spends per student on
instmction, and how much is spent on library
resources.
Once the top 100 were selected on qual
ity alone, they were ranked on a combina
tion of quality and cost measures, with a
greater emphasis placed on value than cost.
Journalist Ruben
Navarrette to Lecture on
Monday
Ruben Navarrette Jr., a journalist with the
Dallas Morning News, will present
“Bienvenido, Welcome to the New Atnerica:
How Latinos Will Change the New Century,"
at 7p.m. on Monday, in the Warwick Center
Ballroom The event is part of the university’s
annual Hispanic-American Heritage Month
celebration sponsored by the OfBce of Cam
pus Diversity.
A Harvard University graduate,
Navarrette is the author of A Darker Shade
of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano
and has published more that 200 editorial
essays in newspapers and magazines nation
wide.
Nursing Graduate
Program Receives
Accreditation
The Master of Science in Nursing Fam
ily Nurse Practitioner Program recently re
ceived accreditation from the National
League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
(NLNAC).
According to Virginia Adams, dean of
the school of nursing, this achievement
means the program meets the high standards
established by the NLNAC and is very im
portant for student and faculty recruitment.
The NLN AC report recognized the high
percentage of doctoral-level faculty who have
nurse practitioner credentials and a highly
motivated student body, but also expressed
concern about a lack of classroom and labo
ratory space.
Heidi Bing
News Editor
Career Services will sponsor its annual
Career Day on Wednesday in Trask Coliseum
from 11 a.m. - 3p.m. Representatives from
over 180 corporations will be on hand to
answer questions, provide information, and
in some cases do on the spot interviews with
students.
“These are corporations who have paid
money to the university because they have
immediate opportunities that they want to talk
about,” Assistant Director of Career Services
Karen Thompson.
Thompson said the event will be equally
beneficial to both students who are getting
ready to graduate and those first and second
year students who are unsure about their
majors.
“We let companies know that there will
be first and second year students who will
need background on different opportunities
and the representatives are ready to gear top
ics toward the interest level of the students,”
she said.
According to Thompson, UNCW’s ca
reer fair is one of the “best attended” fairs in
the state, averaging between 2,000 and 3,000
students each year.
“At this point we have about the same
number of businesses attending this year as
we did last year which is a clear indication
that the job market is still strong and com
petitive despite reports of stock market drops
and job shortages,” Thompson said.
Corporations who will be attending in
clude retail businesses, medical centers, bank
ing firms, criminal justice departments, me
dia associations. City of Wilrnington offices,
research institutes, and technology systems
among others.
Students are encouraged to come dressed
appropriately and, if possible, with a resume
to hand out to prospective employers. Th
ompson said that some representatives will
be ready to conduct short interviews on the
spot and others will be ready to schedule fu-
Courtesy of Career Servtces
Thousands of students attended last year’s career day to gather information
on prospective employment. A similar crowd is expected for thie fair this
Wednesday in Trask from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
ture meetings.
Around 2,000 invitations regarding Ca
reer Day are sent out to corporations each
year. This extensive database of employers
was compiled from contacts through alumni,
parents, and by asking academic departments
to suggest business contacts that would be
beneficial to students.
“There are also several businesses that
will pick up the phone and call us because of
who we are,” TTiompson said. “It’s a good
indication of our reputation.”
Career Services, in Room 106 of the
University Union, offers numerous programs
to help students gain internship, part-time
work, and summer employment in addition
to career planning and marketing of a resume.
“I wish I would have known earlier about
how valuable of a service the center is,” said
former UNCW student Jason Loftus who
graduated in August. Loftus recently loaded
his resume online at the school web site and
a commercial web site and received two hits
in the first day.
Career counselors are available to help
students prepare for interviews and several
workshops are offered throughout the year
to help students prepare resumes and cover
sheets.
“We are very good at coaching smdents
once they get to the level where they know
what they want to do,” Thompson said. “We
can even help a student with negotiations
once an initial offer is made.”
Career Services also specializes in help
ing smdents who are unsure of their career
path and offers several tests to help students
determine their strengths.
Stadents can visit the Career Services
web site at http;//www.uncwil.edu/stuaff7ca-
reer/ for comprehensive job listings and ca
reer information. The site even offers power
point presentations of workshops that career
services has presented.
‘ ‘Our web site has been cited at one of the
best career web sites in the country by sev
eral nationwide newspapers,” Thompson
said. “Many other universities link their ca
reer web sites to ours.”
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Kozol addresses “savage inequalities in schools
Sarah Busick
STAFF WRITER
Thirty-three years after being fired
from his teaching job for reading
Langston Hughes to his fourth grade stu
dents, Jonathan Kozol came to UNCW
to speak out against the same inequali
ties he fought against as a public school
teacher.
Kozol, the author of several award-
winning books dealing with issues of
homelessness, educational inequalities,
and illiteracy in the United States, spoke
on Tuesday night at Kenan Auditorium.
Kozol’s talk, titled “Ordinary Resur
rections,” painted a vivid picture of the
horrible conditions for children growing
up in the southern Bronx of New York.
“The public schools of South Bronx
are not just segregated but outrageously
unequal, ” Kozol said.
Coiifissy of UNCW News Bureau
Johnathan Kozol, award-winning
education writer, addressed
UNCW students on Tuesday
night.
His speech focused on the inequali
ties in funding and resources that are
available in the classrooms to the south
Bronx children as compared to any other
district in the country. Every year, eight
thousand dollars is spent on each child
in the southern Bronx, compared to eigh
teen thousand for those in the white sub
urbs of New York.
By weaving entertaining anecdotes
with solid statistics about the communi
ties in which these children are raised,
Kozol managed to present the speech to
his audience in a way that was both in
teresting and informative. He also spoke
of how these children had personally
impacted him with the hope and inno
cence they reflect in spite of dire circum
stances.
“I thought the speech was moving
See Kozol, Page~