Career Services Center
Diversity Activities
The UCR Career Center is actively involved in a wide range of diversity activities. Activities are integrated throughout the services provided by the career center including student programming, job and internship opportunities for students and communication with other departments on campus. Well over half of our counseling clients and workshop participants are non-white, first generation students. All of our workshops account for the diversity of our audience and address it directly and indirectly during counseling and seminars.
Career Center Website: http://careers.ucr.edu/
Examples of specific career center activities and programs in 2006-2007 are listed below along with brief descriptions.
Career Programming
Peer Advisor Outreach: Specific relationship building with African Student Programs and the LGBT Resource Center. Overview of services presentation to African Americans in Humanities student organization held in winter quarter.
Participation on SCORE Committee: Special Committee focused on outreach and retention of underserved populations in sciences and research.
Women in Foreign Service: Information session held with the Department of State in January. Performed outreach to specific women’s organizations including the Women’s Resource Center.
Interviewing Secrets for Teachers – Presented for Title II student working in low income and under-represented communities.
Resumes for Teachers – Present to BCLAD students who were primarily Latino and first generation college students.
Job/Internship Programs & Events
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities Internship Program - Information Session – fall quarter
Sponsors for Educational Opportunities - Featured Employer of the Week – fall quarter
INROADS - Information Session – fall quarter
Minority Advertising Training Internship – winter quarter
Pepsi Diversity Recruiting Visit – winter quarter
Aon Diversity Program Visit - Arranged for group of Latino and African American business students to spend half day with senior executives (Chairman, President, VP) at Aon Corporate Headquarters in downtown L.A. - Spring quarter
(See testimonial from Aon executive below)
“First, let me thank each of you for your participation in Tuesday's conference. I am thrilled you were able to join us and take part in this groundbreaking event. Your attendance speaks to the importance your
institution places on assisting its scholars move to the next level. What a fine group of young men and women from UCR! I suspect there are more where they came from and will look forward to hosting more of your students at the 2nd Career Networking Conference.” Darlene D. Gartrell, Esq.
Targeted Marketing Tactics to top Corporate Diversity Programs - Identified 165 of the top corporate diversity programs in the nation to include in all mailings and invitations for American business students to spend half day with senior executives (Chairman, President, VP) at Aon Corporate Headquarters in downtown L.A. - Spring quarter
(See testimonial from Aon executive below)
“First, let me thank each of you for your participation in Tuesday's conference. I am thrilled you were able to join us and take part in this groundbreaking event. Your attendance speaks to the importance your
institution places on assisting its scholars move to the next level. What a fine group of young men and women from UCR! I suspect there are more where they came from and will look forward to hosting more of your students at the 2nd Career Networking Conference.” Darlene D. Gartrell, Esq.
Future Diversity Activities
Job/Internship Programs & Events
Co -sponsoring H.A.C.E programming at UCR - Founded in 1982, HACE is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to building Latino careers through leadership and career development of Latino students and experienced professionals and recruitment programs for the acquisition of this talent by leading corporations, the government and other institutional employers. In conjunction with Career Center will be providing career workshops and seminars during orientation and co-sponsoring job/internship recruiting events - Summer and Fall 2007
Cooperative Efforts with Colleges, Departments and Student Organizations
The career center is actively reaching out to key departments, and student organizations to co-sponsor and design career programs for diverse student populations. During the spring and summer quarters of 2007 career center staff will be meeting with leaders from various groups and association like LGBT, African Student Programs, Chicano Student Programs, Society of Women Engineers, and Latino Business Student Association etc, to partner in the promotion and delivery of career programming.
Diversity and Non-Profit Career Fair 2008 - Exploring the possibility of sponsoring a career fair for winter of 2008 that would target firms and non profit / governmental organizations with large diversity recruiting programs.Contacts
- Karen McComb
- Claudia Duron-Burke
- Darryl Stevens
- Frank Ramirez
- Linda Latendresse
- Orlando Taylor
- Jan McCorkle
- Delores Washington