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Volume Number twelve
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Cliarlotte, North Carolina
November 22, 1977
Placement Center Director Says Job Market Great
UNCC Grads ‘Sought By Companies’-English
By Steve Bajs
“The job market is great for our
graduates at the present, time,” according
to Mildred English, director of UNCC
Placement Office. “In general the market
is not that good, but our graduates are
being sought by companies. This fall we
have had 50 companies on campus to
interview compared with only 39 last fall.
“Best of all, we are seeing a great
diversity of companies coming to campus.
Companies are seeking out our
graduates,” said English. “The best advice
I can give students is be flexible when
they interview with these companies. The
ones coming to campus are often national
firms wanting people who are willing to
relocate. So many of our students. I’d say
about 90 per cent, don’t want to leave
this area, and it hurts their chances in the
job market.
“Most students are so busy getting
their degrees and working their parttime
jobs they don’t realize how competitive
the job market is. With their schedules,
they just don’t take the time to plan what
they are going to do when they get out of
school. But someday there come a time
when people have to start doing
something to make a living. The time to
start a career is when you’re in school,”
said English.
English said the Placement Office
annually helps about 30 per cent of the
graduating class in their search for
employment. “I have no idea of the exact
number of students we help per year. We
Placement Center Director Mildred English (left) and her staff help students
find jobs - (photo by Don Watc rinan)
do most of our work in two ways;
students register for placement, and we
help them prepare resumes, etc. We also
ask the students to get faculty members
to sign a confidential report about their
abilities. Secondly, we set up the on
campus interviews.
“Students are really missing the boat
when they don’t interview with
companies that come to campus,” said
English. According to English most
companies appearing on campus are the
result of the company requesting time to
appear on campus or an overture b,y the
Placement Office. “Most companies
contact us, but we do a good deal of
public relations work with companies. In
addition, I meet with representatives of
companies at various professional
conferences I attend,
“Companies come to, campus for
specific reasons. Mostly they are seeking
students with specific skills. It is unlikely
that companies are going to want to see
many liberal arts majors, for example,
when their personnel office will receive
several hundred applicants from such
students. Rather they seek out the
engineering students, and others with the
specific skills the company needs. Wiiat
you are facing is a supply and demand
situation. If a student is trained in a
marketable skill, they will enhance their
employability.”
Englisli said the Placement Office is
not only interested in helping students
locate jobs, but they are also interested in
the success the students have in their
jobs. “We do follow up study per year in
which we send a questionnaire to our
graduates asking what job they have,
what their responsibilities are, what their
salaries are. We don’t get to do long term
tollow-ups to see how the graduates fared
over the years. I’d like to do this, but my
staff is small and I’m just not able to do
this.”
Students are probably very interested
in the Christmas job market at the
present time, but English said her office
doesn’t get too many requests for
parttime employment help. “With so
many retail stores working extra during
the Christmas season, they need help. But
it is important that students begin
applying immediately, because that’s
when the company needs help. 1 would
suggest students try the Post Office, they
often need extra help during Christmas.”
English said students need to
remember “the responsibility in finding a
job rests with the student. The Placement
Office will help as much as we humanly
can, but the students must make the first
move.”
Some Senate Members Upset By Chancellor’s Snub
By Nancy Davis
Faced daily with numerous decisions.
Chancellor D.W. Colvard often turns to
the University Senate for advice and
reccommendations. Recently, however,
the Chancellor did not accept the
Senate’s resolution concerning the much
talked about parking gates and gate cards.
With the Senate serving as the official
advising body for the Chancellor, there
was some concern by the Senate members
over the Chancellor’s decision not to
accept their resolution. The resolution
read that; The Chancellor be requested to
withold for one month implementationof
the gate system for “B” (faculty) parking
areas,” so that the Senate can study it
and provide alternative plans.
Accepted by the Chancellor was the
Parking Committee’s reccomendation to
implement the parking gates and begin
selling the gate cards. Steve Jolly, a
professor in the Business Department and
President of the University Senate
explained that when the Senate passed
the Resolution they knew that the gates
ihad already begun operation, but were
hoping that the Cliancellor would hold
off for a wlule.
“1 personally couldn’t find too much
wrong with his decision. There’s a lot of,
resentment by faculty and staff members,
thougli. They didn’t know they’d have to
pay three dollars for the card after paying
thirty dollars for a parking
sticker,” Senate Secretary Scott Gardner,
however, said he was “Somewhat
disillusioned wiien the Ciiancellor
recieved our reccomendation, yet stuck
to his .decision to implement the gate
set-up...it seemed like it was just skipped
over.” Gardner feels that there is such a
strong opposition for tne operation of the
parking gates that the resolution should
iiave been dealt with more seriously.
Chancellor Colvard explained his
position by saying that he did not see the
Senate resolution until after he had
already made the other decision. Pointing
to his desk, he said, “I can’t see every
piece of paper the ddy it gets here.”
When asked if he would have
accepted the Senate resolution if he had
seen it first, Colvard said he “didn’t want to
speculate. The resolution came after the
committee’s reccomendation had been
put into effect, ” and to-accept it would
be “Repudiating the committee’s-
decision.”
Another Senate resolution “To
facilitate the incorporation of the campus
traffic and parking committee into the
existing structure of the University
Senate,” was accepted by the Chancellor.
In order to strengthen the Senate, they
are trying to incorporate as many
workable committees as possible into the
body. Jolly feels tiiis will produce better
results from the committees, allow for
fairer representation, and “Create a better
avenue for communication.”
Gardner is pleased with the
Chancellor’s acceptance of this
resolution. He explained he was
discontented .witii the parking
committee’s previous decisions “Because
of the fact that there were seldom
students there. There was also _poor
representation from the faculty and
staff.”
The UNCC senior also believes “That
with a new parking committee integrated
into the Senate, there will be more people
aware of wliat’s going on.”
Realizing that the Chancellor does
have a lot of work to do, Gardner feels
the Senate could be more effective if
Colvard would “Be more responsive to
the Senate, since it is composed of the
: three factions (students, facult members,
• and staff members) who sit down and
discuss issues together. 1 feel like this will
•be helpful in tne future, as the Senate
proves its worth and the Chancellor can
come to realize tiie. effectiveness of the
Senate.”
“Light Struck” was the winning photograph in the first annual "Carolina Journal”
photography contest. The photo was taken by Baron Murphy of 817 Moore Hall. Murphy
won twenty-two dollars for his winning .photo.
ON THE INSIDE:
^Judicial Act:
Administrators’ Views
(P-2)
• Women’s Basketball
1977-78 Prospectus
(p. 10)
• Poly Sci Prof Goes
To Washington
(P-5)