| MESSAGE FROM THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT It has been my pleasure to have served all of you as NJCEIA President for the 2007-2008 academic year. I am delighted to report that the Association accomplished all of the goals outlined by the Board at the start of the year. First, we sought to grow our membership. We wanted to reach out to NJ schools not yet part of NJCEIA, revive our employer membership pool, and confer honorary membership to past presidents who have retired from the field. Thanks to Sue Pye’s leadership as VP for Membership, general membership is up 25%, employer membership is up 300% and we have two honorary members. Secondly, we wanted to make our student awards applications more accessible to all our member school participants. Patty Stoudt, VP for Awards and Recognition, worked diligently on this endeavor by making the Student of the Year award applications available online. This increased the number of applications we received by 37%. Next, we sought to address the needs of our community by drawing the connections between social responsibility and co-op and internship programs. Our VP for Programs, Dominique Clarke successfully addressed this topic during our holiday program designed to highlight the commitment to corporate social responsibility by some of our top Co-op employers. Also, our Current Past President Vicki Nauta, VP for Communications, Laszlo Pokorny and I delivered a presentation entitled “Can We Develop Employee Citizens” at the National CEIA conference this March which was well attended and received positive evaluations and feedback. The Board additionally focused on invigorating our website. VP for Programs, Laszlo Pokorny, with the support of Christian Uhl, our VP for Finance, updated our site and added a new feature called the NJCEIA spotlight designed to showcase our different co-op/ internship partners throughout the year. Here we can feature work and accomplishments of our students, colleagues, employers and members Finally, we sought new ways to honor our rich history as an Association. We did this by first creating an Archival committee which was headed by our Parliamentarian Barbara Gross who worked on pulling together a brochure documenting the last thirty-three years of the Association. This information will be put on our website and will be added to annually. Additionally, in an effort to show appreciation to NJCEIA’s Past Presidents the Board invited them as special guests to the Student of the Year Award ceremony in June and presented them with certificates of appreciation. The ceremony provided us a joyous occasion to see old friends, make new ones and honor some of our best students. I look forward to working with Dominique Clarke, NJCEIA President for the 2008-2009 academic year and the new Executive Board. This is a wonderfully generous Association of hard working professionals and I am honored to have served with you. I anticipate seeing you at a program in the near future. Amy N. Bravo |
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Student of the Year Awards Ceremony - June 2008 Awards were presented to two outstanding students at a ceremony in June. Read about the
winners CEIA PRESENTATION
"Can We Develop Employee Citizens?" and "What
Aren’t We Teaching Our Students: critical pedagogy and the co-op
education curriculum"
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