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RELEASED: Aug. 1, 2002
DANVILLE, KY—Jason Childers has joined the Career Services staff at Centre College as the internship and outreach coordinator.
He will identify and work with organizations that can provide good internship and full-time opportunities for Centre students.
Childers will coordinate internships at Centre. His duties will include supervising students in internships, coordinating with faculty sponsors and organizing internship workshops and presentations. He will also develop and maintain an internship database and evaluation materials.
Childers, a native of Hazard, received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Transylvania University and a Master's in international relations from the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy.
Career Services is offering a new program that will help students explore career options and develop a four-year plan for success. The Centre Futures program will benefit students by assigning them a career counselor as freshmen and providing access to eRecruiting, an externship program (see www.centre.edu/web/news/extern02.html), and networking with Centre alumni.
Centre also offers the "Centre Commitment" which pledges that all students who meet the college's academic and social expectations are guaranteed an internship, a chance to study abroad and graduation in four years. (For more, go to www.centre.edu/web/admission/publications/centrecommitment.html)
To learn more about Career Services, visit http://web.centre.edu/careerd/.
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