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Throughout my daily journeys, I am continuously assured that area leaders are dedicated to being good stewards of my community. Their work is bound to be the result of strategic plans that will allow the University and city to flourish for many years to come. As you read this newsletter, participate in SACE webinars, attend the conference in December, and visit our website, you will also see signs of progress. It is indeed an exciting time to be a member of the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Employers as many leaders carefully develop an infrastructure and tools to help us all in our daily work. I encourage you to actively engage in helping us build and sustain a strong organization. Tracy Powers, University of South Carolina Plans for the 2005 Conference
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UNC-Chapel Hill Uses Webcams to Record Mock Interviews
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are noticing webcams on the computer monitors of University Career Services counselors. “Your office sure is high tech. What is that?” students often remark.
The eyeball-shaped webcams--about the size of an orange--are used for mock interviews, replacing the large camcorder of the past. Easy to use, the webcams offer many advantages over previous equipment. Each counselor has flexibility in scheduling mock interviews in his or her office instead of reserving a room or moving a bulky camera and tripod. The video can be played back immediately instead of waiting for a tape to rewind. Short videoclips can be sent to students by email or students can bring a CD to download the entire simulated interview. Inexpensive at about $80 from Logitech, each career counselor has the new device.
Marcia Harris, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Thank You, Shannon!
For the past two years, Shannon Beeman, Career Planning Specialist at The University of Mississippi, has diligently served as Content Editor for SCOOP. She’s done a fantastic job and her recent revisions to SCOOP have made our newsletter even more informative and fun to read.
In mid-July Shannon will leave Ole Miss to move to Nashville. We deeply appreciate Shannon’s tremendous contributions to SACE, and we wish her all the best in this new chapter of her life.
Shannon, on behalf of everyone in SACE, THANK YOU!!! We’ll miss you and we hope you’ll join us again very soon.
Carolyn Thomas, Vice President of Membership, Xavier University
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SCOOP Lites
You know you are living in 2005 when…
• You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
• You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
• You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your
family of 3.
• You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to
you.
• Your reason for not staying in touch with friends
and family is that they don't have e-mail.
• You make phone calls from home, and you accidentally
dial "9" to get an outside line.
• You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked
for three different companies.
• You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell
phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
• Every commercial on television has a web site at the
bottom of the screen.
• You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
• You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
SACE Professional Development Expertise Directory Gets A New Look
In this time of shrinking office budgets, have you felt the need to talk with a SACE colleague who had expertise in creative funding? Have you been trying to bridge the gap with academic affairs and needed tips on faculty outreach? Perhaps you’re an employer who is trying to establish a college relations program or develop a list of target schools for recruiting purposes.
SACE has a professional expertise directory that provides the names of members with selected areas of expertise that are willing to share with their fellow SACE members. A survey is going out to the membership, that will allow us to update this valuable resource. Our goal is to have a final product that will allow members to search the directory based on their needs.
Please watch your Inbox during the week of August 8, 2005 for this on-line survey, and when it comes, please participate!
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Amelia Earhart: Social Worker, Aviator, Career Counselor, and MoreAlthough Amelia Earhart is best known as a pioneer in aviation, flying was originally a hobby, secondary to her career interests in social work and medicine. After roles as an author, business executive, and entrepreneur, Amelia lived in a women’s dorm at Purdue University as an adjunct faculty member and career counselor, while preparing for her tragic last flight. Amelia was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897, during a century when transportation was limited to horse and buggy or train. She and her younger sister, Muriel, lived at times with their affluent maternal grandparents when their father struggled with alcoholism and unemployment. Young Amelia kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in non-traditional occupations. When she was ten years old, Amelia’s father took her to the Iowa State Fair, where she saw her first airplane. She described it as “…a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting.” The future aviator showed an early sign of her adventuresome spirit by building a roller coaster and attaching it to the family home. Amelia attended the Ogontz School, a women’s college near Philadelphia. While a college senior, she visited her sister at school in Toronto, which was near an airfield. Amelia was very moved by the sight of soldiers injured during World War I. She dropped out of college to become a nurse’s aide at a military hospital, where many of the patients were pilots. After the war ended, Amelia was briefly enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia University. (A professor who taught Amelia later speculated, “who knows what she would have discovered if she had chosen the research laboratory rather than aviation as a career?”) Eight days after Amelia’s first plane trip at an air show, she began flying lessons at age 23. Earhart financed the costly training through jobs as a social worker, teacher, truck driver, photographer, and file clerk. She bought her own plane six months later. However, it took nearly a year for her to fly solo. Other pilots remarked that Amelia did not have aptitude for flying, after noticing her difficulties landing a plane. Amelia was employed in social work at a mental hospital for five months, and taught English as a second language to immigrants for two years. Flying was a weekend hobby. When she received a telephone call and was asked if she wanted to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia first thought the call was a joke. George Putnam, Charles Lindburgh’s publisher, thought that a record-setting woman aviator could also be a successful author. Amelia eagerly accepted the offer and was greeted after the trip with national celebration. She downplayed the importance of the flight, as she was just a passenger. Later, she made a transatlantic flight as a solo pilot, receiving wide acclaim for her achievement. After becoming a celebrated aviatrix, Amelia’s wide-ranging interests were demonstrated in her work as an author, magazine columnist, poet, publicist, and entrepreneur in the airline and fashion industries. Fiercely independent, she turned down publisher George Putnam’s proposal six times before marrying him. During her travels she wrote him, “please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” In 1934 Purdue University’s president, Edward Elliott, heard Amelia on the lecture circuit and asked her to speak to women students on the subject of “Activities for Women After College.” He offered her a job as an adjunct faculty member and advisor in aeronautics, part-time career counselor for women, and consultant. Purdue contributed to $50,000 in scientific instruments for the “Flying Laboratory” to be used in her next flight. Perhaps Amelia had a premonition about her future, as she said, “I have a feeling that there is just one more good flight in my system and I hope this trip is it.” She disappeared on her way from New Guinea to Howland Island on July 2, 1937. Purdue University named a residence hall after Earhart. Extensive research about her is available through a digital library at the University. In pursuit of her passion, Amelia Earhart persevered in spite of obstacles. She overcame an unstable family life, financial difficulties, lack of aptitude, and the opposition of society to women pilots. Career counselors and recruiters can help college students find their calling and foster their determination to succeed. Who knows which ones will achieve beyond their dreams? Sharon Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BACK TO BEGINNING OF THIS STORY Meet Our Members!
Where are you from? I’m originally from Baton Rouge, and actually grew up on the Southern University campus. My mother was Dean of Women, then Dean of Residential Life for many years. I attended first grade through graduate school at Southern University, and rumor has it that I was even conceived on campus! Educational background? I have a master’s degree in behavioral studies from Southern University, and a doctorate in educational administration from Summit University of Louisiana. How long have you been in your field? Almost 21 years; I’ve been director at SUBR since 1990. Hobbies? Cooking is my passion. I’m the owner of Big Al’s Jazz It Up, a provider of seasonings, sauces, marinades, and dry rubs. I also host a cooking show on cable television in Baton Rouge, and am known as the “tailgate guru.” My motto: cooking is love, and love is cooking. (To try Big Al’s Jazz It Up products, go to www.bigalsjazzitup.com.) What do you like most about your job/career? I like exposing new companies to the University, building relationships with students and employers, and experiencing the excitement of a student who lands that first job. Seeing students come back to campus to recruit for their companies and continue their relationships with our office gives me goose bumps. Shannon Beeman, The University of Mississippi BACK TO BEGINNING OF THIS STORY Leadership Development SeriesHerman Trend Alert: The Secondary Talent Problem (www.hermangroup.com) In our rapidly changing world, the most successful employers will be those who can find, recruit, engage, support, and retain the needed top talent. Senior executives are competitively hunting for people who can think creatively, take initiative, and eagerly accept accountability for results. The hunt is not going well. In a recent survey of recruiters, both in-house and independent
professionals, we discovered that it has become much more
difficult to find people who have the background, skills,
and experience to perform as high achievers. Employers we
interview admit privately that they are limping along with
an insufficient team of leaders at the senior and middle management
levels. The lack of brave, inspired, calculated risk-takers in leadership roles depresses stimulation and development of followers with similar traits. Without an energized resource of future entrepreneurial leaders, employers will be dangerously limited in their potential in the years ahead. While more people are being educated and trained to lead and manage with an entrepreneurial mindset, even at our business schools competition for their talent will be fierce. To attract them, employers will have to offer substantial cash and equity incentives. Okay, this shortage of top talent has been discussed over and over again. What’s our point? Simply this: the lack of inspirational, role-playing, mentoring senior talent will influence the supply of the generation of future leaders who will follow them. We describe this generation to come as “secondary leaders,” since they will succeed the primary leaders in place today. Tomorrow’s leaders are not being trained and educated to prepare them for their vital role tomorrow’s increasingly dynamic world. How will we deal with this leadership gap? Bob Cramer, Vanderbilt University BACK TO BEGINNING OF THIS STORY GACE College to Career Fair Connects Students with EmployersIn an unprecedented collaboration among over 30 colleges,
universities, and technical colleges in Georgia, the Georgia
Association of Colleges and Employers (GACE) presented the
inaugural GACE College to Career Fair on April 19, 2005. This
effort resulted in 44 new GACE employer memberships. “Our
strategy was to hold the fair at the end of the college recruiting
season so that employers could fill the openings they still
have. Likewise, students who were still looking would have
quality options,” explained Jason Aldrich, Director
of Employer Relations at the University of Georgia and Chairman
of the GACE College to Career Fair. “It was just-in-time
hiring.” Catherine Neiner, Agnes Scott College BACK TO BEGINNING OF THIS STORY Regional Roundup ... Reports from the StatesAlabamaGreetings from the Heart of Dixie! The Alabama Association of Colleges and Employers hosted our summer conference June 8-10 at the Riverview Plaza in Mobile. Incoming President LaQueta Ward and her committee put together an excellent conference entitled, “Accelerating Changes in Alabama.” We give extra thanks to our exhibitors and sponsors for their support in making our conference a success, and to eCampusRecruiter for hosting our online conference registration! AACE also gave out several special awards this year at our summer conference. Maureen Chemsak, formerly of Athens State University and now in private practice, was honored for her numerous years of dedication to the Alabama Association of Colleges and Employers (and its parent organizations) and to the profession with Lifetime Membership in AACE. The North Alabama Connection: Professional Employment Day Consortium (which includes Alabama A&M University, Athens State University, Oakwood College, University of Alabama in Huntsville, and University of North Alabama) received special recognition for their publication, “NACPED Career Fair Guide.” Kim Durbin of Auburn University was recognized for his “Marketing Research Study.” Patricia Blum, University of North Alabama, was acknowledged for her Internal Informational/Educational Program, “Meet Your Major”, and also as the Outstanding Placement Professional of the Year. Phillip Smith of Calhoun State Community College received the Outstanding Co-op Professional of the Year award. Finally, congratulations go out to our new and returning officers for 2005-2006:
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It is shaping up to be an exciting year here in Alabama, and we would love to have you join us! Plans are underway for several outstanding events, including our winter workshop (January 13, 2006), summer conference, and a Cooperative Education drive-in. For more information on the Alabama Association of Colleges and Employers, please visit our website at www.hireaace.org or contact any of our officers or board members. Jay Skipworth, Troy University FloridaThank you for the invitation to provide an update on the Florida Career Professionals Association (FCPA) in this edition of SACE SCOOP. We recently concluded our annual conference, and our next Board of Directors meeting and strategic planning session is scheduled for August 18 and 19. Our 2005 conference was held June 22-24 at the Delray Beach Marriott, in Delray Beach, Florida. 120 of our members attended the conference, which was a good turnout considering the fact that the NCDA annual conference was taking place at the same time in Orlando. Participation at the conference was also nicely balanced, with representatives from state universities, private colleges, community colleges, technical schools, and employers from the state of Florida. Our theme, “Celebrating 40 Years…Keeping Florida First,” provided a wonderful opportunity to reflect on our past history as well as to look to the future. We had excellent keynote speakers, and 16 workshops were conducted during four breakout sessions. We also included leadership orientation sessions for both new members and returning members. A special highlight of the conference was attendance by and a presentation reflecting on the history of FCPA by our “special guest,” Maurice Mayberry. SACE old-timers--correction, make that SACE “seasoned members”--may remember Maurice, who served as your president in 1961 and in many other leadership positions over subsequent years. Maurice was the first director of the Career Resource Center at the University of Florida, where he served for 38 years, from 1953-1991. Maurice was also one of the founding fathers of FCPA, which started in 1965 when directors from various state universities and private colleges in Florida met at the University of South Florida, and came up with the idea to form a state “placement association,” one of the first of its type in the nation. Maurice has given over 50 years toward fostering the development of career services programs, and I know I join both our membership and SACE’s in saying thanks for your dedication. Your efforts and your many contributions have not gone unnoticed. During this past year, under the leadership of our past president, Christy King from Seminole Community College, along with the support of a strong Board of Directors, several key goals were accomplished. These included: development and implementation of a plan to collect historical data for future planning and budgeting; a review and update of job descriptions for all Board positions; a review of our constitution to insure everything was up to date and that all changes approved by the membership over the past 40 years were properly recorded; implementation of a succession planning process directed at growing our pool of volunteers and the development of future leaders for the association; development and archiving of detailed conference committee notebooks; and expanding our employer membership. Our 2006 annual conference will be held at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg, June 28-30. This is a great venue, as many of you know, because this was the site for your 2000 annual conference. Many of our members will join you at your annual conference in December. We value our continued partnership with SACE. Our next FCPA newsletter will come out in the next couple
of weeks, and can be found at this link: http://www.fl-cpa.org/newsletter.html.
Our website is at http://www.fl-cpa.org/. Mike Tooke, University of South Florida BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE KentuckyAt the KACECE Spring Drive-in Workshop, Judy Owen, Director of Western Kentucky University’s Career Center, received the Lifetime Membership Award upon her retirement. Awards Chair Gladys Johnson presented the award. A change to the constitution was passed to reflect that KACECE is a non-profit organization. This status will save the association money by exempting it from sales tax. Dr. Faye Sutton, KACECE board member, presented a session on “Workforce Development in the New Millennium.” Mark your calendar now and plan to attend the 2006 SERCEC. It will be held May 17-19 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Pensacola Beach, Florida. The web address is www.pensacolabeach.gardeninn.com. The Fall KACECE Conference will be held November 10-11 at Lake Cumberland State Park. Watch for program information! Ann Zeman, Bellarmine University BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE North CarolinaThe NCACE 2005 Annual Conference, “Invest...Recruit...Your Future Workforce”, proved to be successful in the Queen City. The conference planning “dream team” invested a great deal of their time to recruit the right speakers, find the best entertainment, and plan enriching activities that would have immediate applications in our workplaces. Cam Marston opened the conference by giving us insight on understanding, respecting, and managing “Four Generations in the Workplace” – i.e., matures, boomers, Xers, and millennials. Some of us took the “Privilege Walk” as part of the Diversity Training Model. Members with great ideas for worthwhile programs gained valuable tools on the ABC’s of Grant Writing, while an even larger group found answers to managing and career counseling the ADHD candidate. Keynote speaker Greg Gray taught us how to apply the “93% Rule” for day to day leadership. We left his session asking the question: What does my 93% look like? We were updated on ADA and Visas by experts in the field. An overflowing crowd was introduced to key theories, models and programs by one of our own NCACE professionals during “Successful Internships, Co-ops, and More.” We also took a new look at a seasoned talent pool of candidates that Damian Birkel has received national recognition for founding, Professionals in Transition. A fantastic group of NCACE members showcased some creative and successful programs as part of the Best Practices Session. College to Careers Seminars founder and CEO, Laurence Stuart, introduced the membership to a tool to assist in the career development and recruitment of college students. Having a for-profit vendor as a keynote speaker was a first for NCACE. The highlight of our conference was the presentation of the NCACE Annual Awards. The 2004 recipients, Kent Hester and Pam Angle (BB&T), chaired the selection committee that introduced Novozymes North America, Inc. (Jerry Allen) as the 2005 Outstanding Employer, Karen Thompson (UNCW) as the 2005 Outstanding Professional, and Melanie Rights (Enterprise Rent-a-Car) as the 2005 Furney K James Outstanding Service Award winners. Brenda Tyson was awarded Lifetime Membership status upon her recent retirement from Belmont Abbey College. Congratulations to a wonderful group of professionals. Sharon Jones joined UNC-Chapel Hill Career Services on April 1 as Assistant Director for Math/Technical, Education, College Teaching and Information/Library Science. Sharon rejoins the staff at Carolina after several years of working in private practice. Amanda Smith joined UNC-Chapel Hill Career Services on June 20 as Career Counselor for Internships. Amanda graduated from Boston College with a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration. She worked as a graduate assistant for the last two years in the Boston College Career Center, where she co-coordinated the annual internship fair, advised students looking for jobs and internships, and published the internship newsletter, among other duties. The 2005-2006 NCACE officers are as follows:
Audrey Abron, Belk Inc. BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE South Carolina"Tools of the Trade: Trends, Technology and Training" was the theme of the 2005 annual conference, held in Charleston, South Carolina at the Francis Marion Hotel in May. Presenters included the Mayor of Charleston, the Executive Director of the South Carolina Lottery, and a closing key note speaker who spoke on how "You Can Make or Break My Day." Sessions ranged from “Accelerating the Growth of High-Tech and Knowledge-based Business in Charleston” to an update on “Employment Law.” The conference was well attended and all of the sessions were packed. The 2006 SCACE conference will be held in May 2006 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. To be included in the distribution list for information on the 2006 conference, please contact Meredith McTigue at mmims@clemson.edu or Whitley Boyd at Whitley.A.Boyd@erac.com. South Carolina's Strategic Planning Session is being arranged for this summer in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The 2005-2006 SCACE Board Members are:
Bernice Bryant, Westinghouse Savannah River Company BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE Tennessee
2004-2005 has been an exciting year as we reflect upon our past and continue to build toward our future. Mike Horten (Bunge Oils), Membership Director, reports that, as of June 1, total TACE membership stands at 173, with a net gain in membership of 16 this year. East Tennessee Liaison, Janie Rich (Enterprise Rent-A-Car), sponsored a Fall Luncheon for 20 participants. Two new members joined TACE at the luncheon. In January, Gene Crabtree (Vice President of Employers for 2005-06) hosted a workshop on business development in the East Tennessee region at the offices of 21st Mortgage. Middle Tennessee Liaison, Mimi Thomas (Middle Tennessee State University), coordinated a Fall Drive-In Workshop at LifeWay Christian Resources entitled, “Future Forecast: What Employers Want, What Colleges Can Provide, What Tennessee Needs.” Speakers included: Andrea Loughry, president of Miller and Loughry Insurance Services; Dr. Richard Rhoda, Executive Director of the Tennessee Commission on Higher Education; and Mike Kopp, Deputy Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Moderating the workshop was local newscaster, Jim Travis. Mimi also organized a spring luncheon at the Foundation House in Murfreesboro entitled, “Professional Communities at Work: Moving from Good to Great”, by Dr. Robert Eaker, professor of education at Middle Tennessee State University. The workshop focused on the research related to the organizations that function as “learning communities” and on Jim Collins’ best-selling book, Good to Great. West Tennessee Liaison, Jacqueline Taylor (Union University), reports that Union hosted a roundtable luncheon in December. Discussion focused on best practices in marketing your career center and increasing on-campus recruitment. The keynote speaker at the Spring Workshop was Bernal Smith II, Vice President for Business and Economic Development for the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. His topic focused on diversity in recruitment and within the workforce. As a result of his experience, Mr. Smith is one of our new TACE members. “Back to the Future: New Solutions to Today’s Challenges” was the theme of our annual conference, held June 2-3 in Nashville. In conjunction with our 35th anniversary, conference organizers Megan Nicklaus (Vanderbilt University), Callie Leousis (Vanderbilt University), and Elaine Driver (Tennessee Department of Audit) presented a program that reflected upon our past and helped us return to the present with new ideas for professional and personal development. After a welcome address by Dr. Bob Fisher, Board Chair-Elect of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and President of Belmont University, speaker Selma Wilson, Associate Vice President of Church Resources at LifeWay Christian Resources, spoke of how we should develop our own personal growth plan. Dennis Dycus, Director of Municipal Audit for the State of Tennessee, shared tips on how to protect ourselves from identify thieves. Life coach and author of 48 Days to the Work You Love, Dan Miller, was our keynote speaker. Copies of his book were generously provided to all attendees. Breakout sessions included: “The Anatomy of a 100% On-Line Career Center” by Chris Miciek of Baker Online Career Services; “’My Work Stinks’ – Counseling the Employee Who Comes to HR for Direction” by Patrick Slay of Vanderbilt University; “Establishing an Internship Program” by Dr. Christine Miller of Tennessee Tech University and Larry Kroggel of TRW; and “A Fun ‘Makeover’ in Student Thinking – Dress for Success” by Jan Harvey of Trevecca University. Fashion faux pas and must do’s were demonstrated by the “high-powered runway models” of our TACE membership. You had to be there! At the close of this year’s conference, Charlie Hawkins (LifeWay Christian Resources) received the June Q. Moore Award given to honor university and employer co-op practitioners. The recipient of this year’s Lumsden-Sellers award is Patricia Jacobs (Belmont University), who has served TACE in many roles, most recently as immediate past president. This award was established in 1990 to honor outstanding members for leadership, loyalty, and dedication to their profession. The Lifetime Honorary Membership award was presented to Jim Yates (Lipscomb University), who recently retired as Director of Career Services. Jim, a previous recipient of the Lumsden-Sellers Award, is a great friend to all, highly respected by his peers, and dedicated to the ministry at his local church. Also retiring from the Career Services profession in August is Dr. Bob Greenberg of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His many contributions to TACE will be remembered. TACE officers and the Board of Directors met on Friday, July
8 and began planning our agenda for 2005-2006, under the leadership
of our newly elected president, Inman Otey (Tennessee State
University). The Board of Directors for 2005-2006 is listed
below.
Board of Directors:
Lynn Haley, Tennessee Technological University BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE VirginiaThe VACE conference chair and committee members planned an outstanding Annual Conference in Portsmouth, Virginia during April. Our keynote speakers included Stacey Cunningham, Senior Consultant with Career Systems International, and Lisa Earle McLeod, syndicated columnist and author of the hilarious self-help book, Forget Perfect: Finding Joy, Meaning, and Satisfaction in the Life You’ve Already Got and the YOU You Already Are (Penguin/Putnam). We had 40 newcomers attending the conference! Next year’s conference will be held at the Omni Richmond Hotel, April 26 – 28. The Training and Development Committee put together a wonderful
drive-in workshop in June for VACE members. Members spent
a day in Northern Virginia visiting and learning about the
recruiting and training programs of Booz Allen Hamilton, HydroGeoLogic,
and CGI-AMS. It was a great day!
For more information on the Virginia Association of Colleges and Employers, please visit our website at http://www.vace.org. Mary Meade Saunders, Longwood University BACK TO REGIONAL ROUNDUP HEADLINE
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Reports from the SACE CommitteesConsulting ServicesI enjoyed my term as your Director of Consulting Services for the past year, and appreciate the opportunity to serve in this capacity. I’d like to welcome our new Director of Consulting Services, Saranette Williams, from the University of Florida. Saranette has some wonderful ideas and will be a great addition to the SACE leadership team! We accomplished a lot this year, including a very productive consulting visit and the standardization of services to help future visits go more smoothly. Thanks to Scott Maynard and Betsy Sias-Richards for chairing the Research and Scholarship committees, and to all who worked with them. I look forward to seeing all of you in Miami in December! Megan Newman, University of South Florida BACK TO REPORTS FROM THE SACE BOARD AND COMMITTEES HEADLINE Fiscal AffairsThe SACE financial area continues to be managed with close scrutiny to assure that all income, expenditures and investments for the association are healthy. An initiative started with Past-President Bob Cramer for the association to develop a fiscal policy manual began in July 2004. The fiscal manual has undergone two major edits and is now in the final stages of revision. This tool will assist all future SACE Boards, Fiscal Affairs Committees and Vice Presidents of Finance with very clear procedures for dealing with any financial matter for the association. Since the December Board meeting, a special task force was
appointed to review previous SACE conferences. The purpose
of the task force was to research and report, from a financial
viewpoint, a list of cost savings considerations for future
conferences. The report was submitted to the SACE President
in June. The task force included: Additional work since the last issue of SCOOP that is beyond
the normal financial management responsibilities has included
working with continuing and new board members in preparation
of the 2006 SACE budget. This six plus-week process is necessary
and useful in preparing a realistic operational source of
funding for the association. Our SACE Administrative Officers
have been invaluable in this process and I sincerely appreciate
the support they have lent to me in the role of VP-Finance. Information ManagementIn July, I replaced David Gaston on the SACE Board. David, Skip Hunt, and Scott Arkin, along with eLaunched (formerly InDexign), did a great job this past year upgrading our website, working out the bugs that come with a new website, and keeping it running smoothly. Tracy Powers, our new president, plans to continue enhancing our website’s resource capability. At Tracy’s request, I have been investigating how we should proceed and what we should consider adding to the website that would be valuable to our membership. After the SACE Board meeting in July, I began working on a survey with several volunteers that will be sent to our membership this fall. The intent of the survey is to identify initial resource information that our membership would like to access on our SACE website. Of course, when we’re ready to add this kind of information, we will need YOU to share your ideas, procedures, job descriptions, etc. with other members! Scott Arkin will help us with the website enhancements and Skip Hunt will help us manage the information and get it into the site for our use. If you have any thoughts you’d like to share with me, or if you would like to help with this project, please let me know. Donnie Brown, Director of Information Management, Tindall
Corporation Professional DevelopmentListed below are activities of the subcommittees of the Professional Development Committee for 2005-2006. Workshop Subcommittee (Callie Leousis, Chair, Vanderbilt University): Plans are underway to again hold a SACE Drive-In Workshop as a pre-conference session for the Southeastern Federal Recruiting Council Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 19-22. The SACE workshop will be on July 19 from 8am – 12noon. The theme will be, “Employer Relations 101 – Bridging the Gap.” Topics to be covered include: employers’ needs and expectations; recruiting and staffing methods used to recruit new college hires and alumni; and resources available at various institutions. A variety of seminars, case study exercises, and networking opportunities will be offered to help participants bridge their knowledge gap in the area of employer relations. The cost of the workshop is $40 and is handled through the SEFRC conference registration. If you have ideas for future drive-in workshops – topics, locations, dates – we welcome your input! Ruby Brown-Herring (Duke University) is working on a project to develop an expertise directory of the SACE membership. She is working with the SACE office on an email survey to go out very soon (if it hasn’t already by publication date), requesting input from the membership. Our goal is to have this directory activated by the end of the summer. Leadership Development and Training Subcommittee: On June 21, SACE sponsored a webinar on the topic, “Employer Best Practices Showcase and Forum.” The webinar featured recruiters from Duke Energy, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Milliken who discussed their college recruiting strategies. We are still awaiting official post-webinar evaluations, but comments received thus far have been most positive. Thanks to Audrey Rorrer, UNC Charlotte, for coordinating the details for this event! If you have ideas for topics for future webinars, please let us know. State Liaison Subcommittee (Denisha Sanders, Chair, UNC Pembroke): Denisha Sanders is in the process of contacting the state associations that are members of SACE to update contact information, get new conference dates, and to obtain information on any other activities that the state organizations would like to share. We will be posting this information on the SACE website, as we continue to work on the new site content. Volunteer Subcommittee: Kim Evans, recruiter with Disney, is leaving the field and organization as she moves to North Carolina for new roads. Thank you, Kim, for the work you put into this subcommittee to involve as many SACE members in the organization as possible. A new volunteer chair will be announced soon. Emerging Leaders Subcommittee (Melanie Parker, Chair, University
of Central Florida): Masters’ Series Subcommittee (Marcia Harris, Chair, UNC Chapel Hill): With the Emerging Leaders Program in place, our next project was to tackle the development of a complementary programming aspect, which involves management level SACE members sharing their experiences with others. Marcia Harris has arranged several sessions to be offered as part of the SACE 2005 conference. We are also working on ideas for a potential webinar that might cover some of these competencies. Watch for details later! Toni McLawhorn, Professional Development Chair, Roanoke College SACE Research Fellowship ProgramSACE is pleased to announce that Mr. John Liptak and Ms. Theresa Green-Ervin have been awarded SACE Research Fellowship Grants for 2005. The purpose of the SACE Research Fellowship is to promote and support research and study projects that will further the stated professional purposes of SACE and its members. This research should fall within the SACE mission, which states, “our mission is to promote partnerships between career services professionals and employers by providing innovative resources, professional development and networking opportunities to facilitate the career development and employment of students and alumni.” The research program is administered by the SACE Board of Directors through the Director of Consulting Services and the Research Subcommittee. John LiptakMr. John Liptak’s research project is titled, “The Identification of Workforce Skills Possessed by College Students.” John states, “research indicates that interpersonal and intrapersonal skills are some of the most sought after characteristics of new and prospective employees, even more so than job related knowledge. These characteristics and skills, however, have been neglected in the literature, in research, and in services provided by career counselors working with people transitioning into the workforce. The problem is that most career counselors working with college students usually focus on career management and job search skills and neglect the development of emotional intelligence skills like personal competence and social competence. It is our hypothesis that most college students have deficient personal and social competence skills as compared with career competence skills.” John Liptak is currently the associate director of Career Counseling and Assessment in the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Development at Radford University. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in the Social Science division at Bluefield College and as an assistant professor and Behavioral Science division chair at Wilmington College. He has professional experience in a variety of settings, including several correctional facilities, a mental health center, a jobs training program, a college placement center, and a college counseling center. John earned a Doctor of Education degree in Student Personnel Services from Virginia Tech. John has authored many assessment instruments, including
the Career Exploration Inventory, the Job Search Knowledge
Scale, and the Barriers to Employment Success Inventory. In
addition, he has written four books on counseling-related
topics, and he has written many articles in professional counseling
journals. He also presents at many state, national, and international
conferences. Originally from the Pittsburgh area, John now
lives in Radford, Virginia. Theresa Green ErvinTheresa Green Ervin’s research project is titled, “Intergenerational Workforce: The Need for Career Services Professionals and Employers/Recruiters to Assess their Professional Development and Credentials as They Prepare Graduates for the World of Work.” Theresa states, “as the needs of college students become more complex, and the workplace continues to be increasingly diverse, career services professionals and employers/recruiters must assess their current skill set to determine if presently they are efficiently equipped to assist students in effectively implementing the career planning and job search process.” Theresa Green Ervin is director of Career Services and adjunct instructor at Mississippi University for Women. She received her bachelor of technology degree from Jacksonville State University, and earned both a bachelor’s in Commerce and Business Administration and a master’s in Higher Education Administration from the University of Alabama. She serves as Secretary of the Pro-Link Chapter of Toastmasters, and is a member of the American Association of University Women, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the Mississippi Association of Colleges and Employers, the Southern Association for College Student Affairs, the Society for Human Resources Management, and several other professional organizations. Theresa serves as adjunct instructor for Career and Life Planning and Junior Seminar at Mississippi University for Women, and facilitates many presentations and workshops on career development, diversity, and leadership. Recently, Theresa was nominated as one of Mississippi's 50 Leading Business Women Class of 2005. In addition, Theresa was named New Professional of the Year for 2004 by the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Employers. Also, Theresa was selected to the 2003-2004 class of Leadership Mississippi, and serves as State Chair of Diversity for the American Association of University Women and was appointed to the board for the Mississippi Coalition for Women. Ms. Green-Ervin is presently pursuing a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, with an emphasis in Human Resource Development. She is married to her best friend, Fred D. Ervin. Scott Maynard, Mississippi State University BACK TO RESEARCH GRANTS HEADLINE SACE Welcomes New and Transfer Members
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In
this issue of SCOOP, we are pleased to highlight Al Barron,
Director of Career Services at Southern University in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.