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The Student Professional Development
Center is now open in Moseley Center.
New home
for Career
Services
SPDC from PAGE 1
Relations, the new branch
of the Student Professional
Development Center. He is
the newest staff member to
the center.
This branch of the center
may play a significant role
in students' search for jobs
under the current economic
situation, bringing in more
employers and opportunities
for internships and full-time
positions, he said.
“Even though our
internship ratio is pretty high
here, we would like to see it
even higher, and we would
like to increase the quality
of those Internships so that
(students) are better matched
up with something (they)
have a vocational interest in,”
Brinkley said. “We want it to
be a meaningful internship.”
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Ashley Pinney, career counseling fellow, works In her office in the Student Professional Development Center for the first time Friday.
MERISSA BUTZ | Staff Photograptw
Not only will there be a
focus on more employment
opportunities for students,
but also on developing the
skills that students will need
to thrive in these jobs.
“It’s not just about the
first job, but about life skills
— people will change careers,
but what we can do here is
help them to develop their
own repertoire of skills,” he
said.
The Revson Family Gift, a
$100,000 gift, is being used
toward transitional courses
designed to build financial
literacy and understanding
in students.
“This will help bring in
speakers who can target and
address some of the practical
concerns that many students
leave here without having
addressed,” Vecchione said.
Several courses will
be available throughout
the academic year and
focus on a series of topics:
law. Insurance, personal
finance, investments, civics
and politics, real estate,
health and medicine and
negotiations. Courses target
students in particular
majors, according to Rhonda
Kosusko associate director
of the Student Professional
Development Center.
“We plan to continue to
expand this aspect of the
program,” she said.
The transitions strategy
ran a single course in 2008,
and has now expanded to
30 courses a year, Vecchione
said.
Other changes within the
center include development
of new positions such
as Arli Eicher, recruiting
event Coordinator and
Kim Giles, resources and
communications specialist.
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