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Services
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The Career Center, housed on the second floor of Koldus,
• The TAMU Career Center
helps students find
employment during college
as well as after graduation.
BY TRAVIS IRBY
The Battalion
T he goal of most students entering A&M is to land
a reasonable job and earn a livable wage. The
University offers more than an education when
it comes to gaining employment.
The center offers the means to obtain full-time em
ployment, internships or summer jobs.
The Career Center gives students, both graduate
and undergraduate, the chance to disseminate re
sumes, set up interviews and gain work experience.
Terri Morrison, assistant director of the Career Cen
ter, said the center is unique.
“It is the largest college career center in the coun
try,” Morrison said.
The center, located on the second floor of Koldus,
offers a Career Resource Library, career advising and
workshops on everything from cover letter writing to
salary negotiations.
One of the newer features available to students is
the on-line registration system. For a fee of $35 per
semester a student can register their resumes on-line.
In addition, one can have access to interview sched
ules and an on-line job database.
Morrison said this service allows students a certain
amount of ease in their job search.
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helps students find internships and full-time employment.
“They can fill out the resume on-line and change
as needed, all over the Internet,” Morrison said. “Any
company can access the resume.”
Job-hungry students can still use the career center
the old-fashioned. They can let their feet do the work.
All a prospective worker needs to do is walk in or
make an appointment.
Setting up interviews is one of the Career Center’s
most important features.
Last year over 1,100 employers conducted 32,000
individual interviews.
Morrison said the center has so many interviews
that some of them had to be moved from the usual lo
cation of the Koldus building.
“We had so many interviews that we started con
ducting interviews in the sky boxes at Kyle Field,”
Morrison said.
Morrison said some students who interviewed with
several companies and were extended several job of
fers had trouble choosing a right fit.
“Sometimes students would have many offers to
choose from,” Morrison said. “But they didn’t know
which one to pick.”
While many student take advantage of the Career
Center, many do not.
Morrison said this could be attributed to some mis
conceptions about the services offered.
“A lot of people think the Career Center only has
employers in the business and engineering fields,”
Morrison said. “We encourage all majors to use the
center, as employers from all disciplines come in of
fering jobs.”
Still, finding a job is not something one needs to
put off until their last semester in school. The Career
Center encourages students to use its services even
before they start looking for work.
“A consultation is where the stu
dent is not ready for a mediator,
but they want coaching to handle
the situation on their own,” she
said.
Mediation is when all parties
are brought together with a me
diator or team of mediators
whose expertise match the situa
tion at hand.
Harris said even the smallest of
situations can be brought to medi
ation services and the earlier the
better.
“Students can be embroiled in
a conflict for months, and some
times three hours in mediation
can help relieve a lot of stress,”
she said. “The process is very
time effective.”
Harris said the service is shifting
focus this year to educating groups
on mediation strategies.
“We’re always willing to talk to
groups or any opportunity to
teach proactive conflict resolu
tion,” she said. “By doing that
(speaking to groups), they’ll
know when it’s appropriate to use
service. Hopefully, we’ll reach
more students that way.”
Judicial services enforces stu
dent rules and helps students who
find themselves victims of harass
ment, hazing, assault or theft.
University rules students must
abide by are printed every year.
Judicial services is handled by
two coordinators; Kim Novak is the
coordinator for Greek organiza
tions, athletes, faculty, corps and
student organizations; Shaun TYa-
vers coordinates judicial services
for residence life.
Kim Novak said if a student vi
olates a University rule, they are is
sued a letter of charges and a hear
ing date from SCRS.
'We're always willing to
talk to groups or any
opportunity to teach
proactive conflict
resolution. Hopefully
we 'll reach more stu
dents that way."
— Rene Harris
Coordinator of Negotiation and
violation of policy,” 1
focus is education, liti
dents to learn from then
Judicial hearings 1
minutes to one hour,ani:
range from a simplewai
pulsion from the Univa
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harshest of punishmi
cational experience.
“If you’re at the leveli
sion, it doesn’t mean tin
ty has given up on;
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some time off. Sometia
dent’s behavior is a sol
way of telling them,
make the right choice.’'
Novak said fors
victims of harassment:
Mediation Services
Students then have an opportu
nity to come in prior to their hear
ing and discuss their charges, or
the student can just show up at
their hearing.
Residence life violations could
end up before the judicial board, a
board of their peers. Otherwise, the
hearing is taken care of adminis
tratively, one on one.
Travers said it is inevitable stu
dents will make mistakes.
“Most students here will make
mistakes, and most will lead to a
and theft, jud
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ness,” she said
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Health Center
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Student opinions concerning the health services
are continuously monitored by compliment and
complaint forms located throughout Beutel and by
a random sampling of 30 students every fall and
spring semesters.
This random sampling evaluates each specific
health care provider.
To further the focus on students, the Health Cen
ter Student Advisory Board, which is coordinated
through Student Government Association and ap
pointed every year during the fall, helps develop stu-
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