The CUNY Baccalaureate Blog

Mentorgram December 2007

A regular communication with CUNY faculty serving as CUNY Baccalaureate Degree mentors.  This issue contains new Area of Concentration examples.

Noah Ginsburg (Sustainable Energy)
Recipient of two scholarships through his service last year as a City Year corps member. City Year is an Americorps program. He received the standard Americorps education award of $4,725 plus the Seinfeld Scholarship of $10,000 per year, renewable for four years. This scholarship was awarded to five City Year corps members in NYC for outstanding service.

Catherine Granton (At Risk Females and Environmental Education)
Outward Bound Scholarship: Chosen by Outward Bound Wilderness for a scholarship matched by the Kingsborough Community College Foundation for an Outward Bound Wilderness course for women.

Kayhan Irani (Theatre and Social Change)
In 2007 she was awarded a certificate of recognition by Mayor Bloomberg, as part of Immigrant History Week, for her arts work in immigrant communities. She is currently co-editing a volume of essays, to be published by Routledge in 2008, “Telling Stories to Change the World” about projects around the world that use storytelling as a way of creating social justice.

Linda Jandejskova (Multimedia Arts and Cultural Studies)
Kaye scholar with CCNY and a Thomas W. Smith Fellow; now preparing for VSC art residency in January - a 4 week studio painting at the Vermont Studio Center.

Application materials for applying for a Belle Zeller scholarship for academic year 2008-2009 are available for download at http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/bzmaterials/bz.shtml.
Note that there is one form for undergraduates, one for Law School students and one for students at the Graduate Center. Please be sure that you download and submit the correct application.

Please observe great care to follow all instructions and to meet the December 10 application deadline.

The materials should be self-explanatory. However, questions not covered on the information sheets can be submitted by email to bzscholarship@citytech.cuny.edu

If you’ve won any award, scholarship, honor, etc. this year and have not yet notified me, please send an email with the details ASAP to me at bkneller@gc.cuny.edu.

Talbots announced the launch of its 11th annual Talbots Women’s Scholarship Fund, a program that annually awards $100,000 in college scholarships to women wanting to attend college later in life.

Sponsored by the Talbots Charitable Foundation, this unique Scholarship Fund has awarded five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships each year since its inception in 1997. The Fund was created to fill a void in scholarship programs which are typically awarded to traditional college students. To date, the Fund has awarded one million dollars in college scholarships to over 500 women primarily in their 40’s and 50’s.

The Talbots Charitable Foundation serves the community through its support of the arts, education, health and civic services. Founded in 1947, Talbots is a leading specialty retailer, cataloger and e-tailer.

Applications for the 2008 Talbots Women’s Scholarship can be downloaded online. Eligible applicants must be women currently residing in the United States who earned a high school diploma or GED at least 10 years ago; are currently seeking a degree from an accredited 2- or 4-year college, university or vocational-technical school; and have at least two full-time semesters or 24 credits remaining to complete their undergraduate degree.

The postmark deadline for entries is January 2, 2008, or until 1,000 eligible applications have been received, whichever is earlier. Scholarship recipients will be notified by the end of July 2008.

According to the latest Recruiting Trends 2007-2008 Report by
The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) at Michigan State University:

Seniors in BA/BS programs can expect more opportunities this year with employers expected to increase the number of opportunities 7% over last year. (Breakdown by employer size: Large employers - companies with over 3900 employees - expect to increase bachelor hiring by 9%; employers with fewer than 100 employees are expected to increase hiring by 12%; medium-sized employers are cutting back on their hiring plans.)

Looking at specific majors, large employers expect to increase hiring for engineers by 12% to 14%, business by 13%, and social science/humanities majors by 20%. Computer science majors (all types) will enjoy a very good labor market. Information technology (IT) majors are the only ones that all companies, regardless of size, will be hiring. Starting salaries for bachelors graduates are expected to increase by 4% to 5%, which is double the increase offered in each of the previous two years. About 15% of employers expect to increase salaries more than 5%.

For the full report, go to http://www.ceri.msu.edu/recruiting/recruiting.html
The Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University
CERI is nationally recognized for its research on the transition from college to work; employment readiness of college graduates; and the transition experience through college (“the sophomore year”). The Institute is also involved in the assessment of learning in the workplace; assessment practices for University accountability (outcome assessment); and evaluation of integrated learning opportunities. CERI annually publishes Recruiting Trends that provides an analysis of the college labor market.