October 22, 2007
1. Alternative Media Alert!
2. Career Connections is available for you and your Career Services Needs!
3. Here’s a List of University Career Fairs for November!
4. Make A Difference Day
5. Be a Part of a Unique Disability Studies Project!
6. Bender Consulting Services has National Employment Opportunities!
7. Volunteers Needed for Study of Carmen and Web Accessibility!
8. UNITY’s Fall Quarter Schedule of Events!
9. Y Tu Quien Eres and La Fiesta in the Fall!
1. Alternative Media Alert!.
As you schedule for your Winter 2008 classes, please remember to contact Sarah Terry.5@osu.edu with the classes for which you will want Alt Media!
Thank You!
2. Career Connections is available for you and your Career Services Needs!
Career Connection’s Vision
The vision of Career Connections is to empower students to make lifelong, responsible and meaningful choices in a global and dynamic world.
Career Connection’s Mission
The mission of Career Connections is to serve the career development needs of OSU students by providing high quality and diversity-sensitive services through counseling, consultation and lasting partnerships, designed to facilitate learning and advance well-being, purpose, identity development and citizenship.
We assist students achieve successful outcomes by:
- Connecting students' interests, values, skills and personality with the world of work.
- Aiding development of students' interests by exploring various majors and careers.
- Encouraging students to test their ideas with internships, informational interviews, volunteering, and extracurricular activities.
- Providing customized attention to resumes, vitas, job search letters, and interviewing skills.
- Listening and helping with personal concerns that relate to career decisions.
- Assisting students' implementation of decisions by learning how to conduct a job search or plan for graduate or professional school.
- Informing students about the University's employment assistance services.
How to Find Us
You can find us on the second floor of the
Monday & Wednesday from 2 – 4 p.m.,
Tuesday & Thursday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Friday 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
To schedule an appointment, call (614) 688-3898. Our appointment hours are from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
3. Here’s a List of University Career Fairs for November!
NOVEMBER 2007
November 6, 2007 (tentative date)
*All OSU Students Welcome |
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Ryan Heitkamp Heitkamp.12@osu.edu |
November 6-8, 2007
*All OSU students are welcome |
http://cfaes.osu.edu/careerexpo |
Marissa Berry 614-292-1589 Berry.200@osu.edu |
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November 8, 2007 *All OSU students are welcome |
Consumer Sciences Career Fair http://ehe.osu.edu/career-services/events.cfm http://hec.osu.edu/cs/careers/cs-career-fair.php |
Nancy Dugan 614-292-3088 Dugan.2@osu.edu |
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November 13, 2007 *All OSU students are welcome |
Human Services Career Fair http://ehe.osu.edu/career-services/events.cfm |
Jean Wyer 614-688-5663 Wyer.6@osu.edu |
4. Make A Difference Day
The 17th annual Make a Difference Day will be held Saturday, October 27, 2007. Make A Difference Day Ohio (MDDO) is an award-winning, public/private partnership that promotes, facilitates and recognizes locally designed projects that mobilize citizens to meet community needs.
Take advantage of the opportunity to serve with Young Adult Transition Corps. We will be at Heinzerling's pediatric unit working on Halloween crafts with the younger residents. It will be from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Please let me, Karla Kmetz, UNITY President, know by Monday 10/22 if you would like to be on the project. We can figure out car-pooling once I hear back from you.
AND - The game is not until 8pm and it is away...so it will not conflict :)!
If you are wondering what Heinzerling is: The Heinzerling Foundation is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the care, education and development of individuals with severe or profound mental retardation and multiple disabilities. You can visit their website to learn more: http://www.heinzerling.org/
Talk to you soon!
Karla
President, UNITY
5. Be a Part of a Unique Disability Studies Project!
Are you interested in History, Oral History, Public Affairs, Journalism, Sociology, Education, Political Science or Disability Studies?
Independent or Group Study credit is available.
Be A Part Of A Unique Disability Studies Project!
In the Summer of 2006, we developed a Website that aimed to create an album with snapshots of the intersections and presence of disability at OSU: http://digitalunion.osu.edu/r2/summer06/kmetz/ . The Website has so much more to cover and YOU have the opportunity to be a part of its growth.
If you are interested in taking part by gathering and/or writing content, or re-designing the site, please contact Professor Brenda Brueggemann (brueggemann.1@osu.edu) or Karla Kmetz (kmetz.7@osu.edu).
6. Bender Consulting Services has National Employment Opportunities!
Our Mission
To provide superior technology consulting services to our customers while creating employment and career opportunities, independence and freedom for people with disabilities.
Our Vision
At Bender Consulting Services, our vision is to be a successful for-profit company that will advance the struggle for freedom for people with disabilities. At Bender Consulting Services, Inc. our mission is to provide superior technology consulting services to our customers while creating employment and career opportunities, independence and freedom for people with disabilities.
As the economy is continuing its recovery, and employment numbers are increasing, an overwhelming 13 million Americans with disabilities - many of them experts in technology - remain unemployed. Since 1995, Bender Consulting Services has worked to solve these critical social and business issues by providing employers with reliable technology talent, and giving well-trained individuals with disabilities the chance to display their technical abilities and enhance their lives through solid careers. To date, Bender Consulting Services has placed consultants in major organizations such as Computer Sciences Corporation, JP MorganChase, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fedex Ground, and Bayer Corporation. Our consultants have expertise in help-desk administration client/server applications, telecommunications and mainframe technologies, including PeopleSoft, SAP, PowerBuilder, Oracle, COBOL, Java, Lotus Notes, Windows NT, and other networking technologies, as well as finance/accounting, engineering, human resources, and other professional areas.
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To view the Bender Consulting Services’ Career Opportunities, visit:
http://www.benderconsult.com/opp/index.html
7. Volunteers Needed for Study of Carmen and Web Accessibility!
My name is Joe Wheaton, and I am an associate professor in Special Education at The Ohio State University. Together with
Who can participate?
Participation is voluntary and anyone with a disability that affects access to the Web and is 18 years old or older can participate. We will need to know information about how your disability affects your ability to use the Web. We will also need to know about your expertise with the assistive technology that you will use to access the Web, and your general computer skill level. We will NOT ask you personal questions about your health nor will we ask about the cause of your disability.
How will we do the study?
Our study will give you some web pages to examine and ask you to do several tasks on them. For example, you might be asked to go to the Discussion section and open a message, reply to that message, and then create a new message. We will watch and make an audio recording as you describe how you navigate the pages and complete the tasks. Finally, we ask you some questions about the overall experience. We want to know things like, How easy was it to get to the page you needed to find? How easy was it to find your way around on the page? "What problems did you have?" What would have made this task easier? As you can see, we want to identify the problems that people have and how these Web pages can be made better. We will compare your answers to the answers of others, but your name will never be used and you will never be personally identified in any reports or summaries of the project. All participants will only be referred to by a code number. Your participation will take between one and two hours, although most sessions will only be about one hour.
Study participants will receive a $25.00 gift certificate from Barnes and Noble Bookstores once they have completed the session.
How to volunteer and receive more information:
If you wish to be considered for participation in the study or just want more information, contact Dr. Joe Wheaton, at 614 292-8313 or through e-mail at wheaton.3@osu.edu. Please note that not all volunteers will be included in the study. Selection will be based on the number of volunteers and the type and severity of their disability (persons with severe disabilities are more likely to be included in the study). Thank you.
If you have trouble accessing this page, contact Joe Wheaton at wheaton.3@osu.edu or 614-292-8313.
8. UNITY’s Fall Quarter Schedule of Events!
From Karla Kmetz, UNITY President:
Hello,
I am glad to say that Unity's year is off to a great start thanks to our awesome members!! Below you will find our schedule of events for the remainder of Fall Quarter. I look forward to seeing you all there! If you have any questions or would like to join our listserv please feel free to email me at kmetz.7@osu.edu.
Also, check out our page on Facebook for up to date information: http://osu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201034169.
Sincerely,
Karla Kmetz
President, Unity
- Saturday, October 27
Make A Difference Day! We will be working with Young Adult Transition Corps on a service project. Details will follow.
- Tuesday, October 30 at 4:30pm
We will be making Halloween goody-bags for the children in the Early Education program at the
- Wednesday, October 31
Halloween! We will go to the
- Friday, November 2 – Are you afraid of heights?
We will be climbing the rock wall at the
- Wednesday, November 7 at 4:30pm
We will discuss the progress in our efforts to bring Josh Blue, the winner of Last Comic Standing, to campus in April as a part of Disability Awareness Month. We will also have a speaker this night, TBA.
- Tuesday, November 20 at 4:30pm
We will work on our Thanksgiving service project and plan our events the upcoming Winter Quarter. We will also discuss committees for Disability Awareness Month.
- Thursday, November 29 – Study Break!
Dinner, Gameworks, a Movie? We can all talk about where we want to go when the day gets closer!
9. Y Tu Quien Eres and La Fiesta in the Fall!
Greetings all,
I am the new Graduate Administrative Associate for Hispanic Student Services at
With that being said, I want to inform everyone about a couple of events that are coming up soon: Y Tu Quien Eres and La Fiesta in the Fall.
We have Y Tu Quien Eres once each month which is essentially a lunch series where we invite guest speakers to discuss issues that prevail within the student community. The next is scheduled for Monday, November 05, 2007. Visit here for more information: http://multiculturalcenter.osu.edu/event.asp?id=481§ion=8
La Fiesta in the Fall - as the name suggests is all about party and delicious food, meeting new and returning students, faculty and staff and dancing to the music of YUMBAMBE. Performances from various student organizations will also be highlighted.
WHEN? November 7th 2007 4-6PM
WHERE? Faculty Club, Main Lounge 181 South Oval Mall
Please do not hesitate to call me or stop by the office or drop in an email if you have any questions or concerns. I would be happy to meet with you in person for even a small chit chat! My information is listed in the signature below.
Thank you! Looking forward to meeting you all!
Ekroop Singh
Graduate Administrative Associate
Hispanic Student Services
Multicultural Center
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614-688-8449