March 1: Grad School Personal Statements Workshop

New format for the GRE

Dr. Kevin Davis writes:

"The GRE is coming out in a new format with different kinds of questions.  To lure you into taking the revised test early, you can sign up to take the August or September GRE for 50% less than the usual rate.  Details and links are pasted below.

"Here's what to expect with the GRE revised General Test:

• A new test-taker friendly design for the computer-based test that lets you edit or change your answers and skip questions, all within a section, and more — giving you the freedom to use more of your own test-taking strategies. Another new feature: an on-screen calculator.* Learn more about the new test-taker friendly design.
• New types of questions in the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections, many featuring real-life scenarios that reflect the kind of thinking you'll do in today's demanding graduate and business school programs. Learn more about the new types of questions.
• Special savings of 50% when you take the GRE revised General Test between August 1 and September 30, 2011. The 50% discount means big savings for you — and another big advantage to taking the GRE revised General Test. Learn more about saving 50% on your test fee.
• Important score reporting information you need to know: If you take the GRE revised General Test during our special discount period of August – September 2011, your scores will be sent by mid-November. However, if you need your scores before November 2011, take the current test before August 2011.

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March 2nd: OKC Greater Grads Career Fair

Career Development Center
Spring 2010 Schedule

Date: Tuesday, March 2

Program: OKC Greater Grads Career Fair

Time: Noon – 4:30 p.m.

Site: Cox Convention Center, Downtown OKC

Note: Over 100 recruiters from business, industry, state and federal organizations will be on to visit with 1,000 college students from across the state.
Vendor RSVP List: www.greatergrads.com
Hosted by OKC Chamber of Commerce

Date: Monday, March 8
Event: Stand Out for Career Fair Success!
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: University Center Tower Room
Speaker: Speaker: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development Center
Note: You will learn how to prepare for the fair, how to dress, develop a pitch, questions to ask and much more! An up to date list of vendors that will attend our ECU Career Fair.

Date: Wednesday, March 10

Program: ECU Career, Internship and Graduate School Fair

Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Site: University Center Atrium

Note: Recruiters from business, industry, state and federal organizations will be on hand recruiting the workforce of tomorrow.

Vendor RSVP List: CSO website through your myECU portal
Description: Plan to attend the fair to meet professional recruiters from across the nation, from a wide variety of companies, organizations and graduate schools. There is a Dress Code so show up to impress and bring a stack of professional resumes. Dress Code will be no flip flops, t-shirts, shorts, jeans with holes or ripped. We will have door greeters to stop anyone breaking dress code rules.
Hosted by ECU Career Development Center

Date: Wednesday, March 24
Training Series: The Career Intelligence Series
Program: Resume Workshop
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: K-102, Memorial Student Union
Presenter: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development
Seating: You MUST RSVP by calling 580.559.5890 or e-mail careerdevelopment@ecok.edu because seating is very limited!

Note: For any student or alumni wanting to learn how to build a resume from the ground up. The workshop will cover the resume section by section by using ECU’s CSO Career Development Resume builder software. Bring any rough draft you have currently and will be something to start out with and build from that framework. An online workbook will be provided to all attendees.

Date: Wednesday, March 31
On Campus Professional Management Trainee Interviews: Sherwin-Williams
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Will Interview: Graduating Seniors & Alumni
Interview Location: Call for interview appointment

Majors Considered: Business Management, Marketing, Business Admin. & General Business
Note: Please sign up through Career Development Center at careerdevelopment@ecok.edu or call 580.559.5890 to sign up for this on campus interview day. Hiring for summer interns, full-time positions and Management Training Program. Interviewing for regional positions

Website: www.sherwin.com/mtp

Date: Wednesday, April 7

Event: Third Annual Choctaw Career Expo.
Theme: Target Your Dream Career
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location: Southeast Expo Center
Address: 4500 West Highway 270
City: McAlester, OK

Notes: 150 business and training recruiters, workshops and more.
Bring a resume and dressed for success!

Website: www.choctawcareers.com or call 866.933.2260

Date: Wednesday, April 7

Event: Tulsa Metro Job Fair

Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Location: Reynolds Center, Tulsa University

Note: All ECU students invited to event!

Date: Wednesday, April 7
Training Series: The Career Intelligence Series
Program: Job Interview Fundamentals
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: K-102, Memorial Student Union
Presenter: Todd Essary, Director of Career Development
Seating: You MUST RSVP by calling 580.559.5890 or e-mail careerdevelopment@ecok.edu because seating is very limited!

Note: For any student or alumni wanting to learn basic skills for interview success. An online guidebook to interview success will be provided to all attendees.

Date: Tuesday, April 20

Program: Teacher and Education Career Fair

Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Site: Education Building Hallway (Main level)
RSVP List: View CSO website
Dress Code: MUST dress for success to attend! Show up to impress and bring a stack of professional resumes. Dress Code will be no flip flops, t-shirts, shorts, jeans with holes or ripped. We will have door greeters to stop anyone breaking dress code rules.
Note: Event for all education majors, alumni or any student searching out a career within a school district. Many Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas school district recruiters will be in attendance to visit with you about career opportunities and take professional resumes. Be prepared to be interviewed on site!
Stat: There were over 20 interviews held during the 2009 Teacher/Education Fair.

The Big Lie about the Life of the Mind

The following was published "Thomas Benton" (the pen name of William Pannapacker--see image at left, an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan) in The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 8, 2010:

"A year ago, I wrote a column called "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go,"advising students that grad school is a bad idea unless they have no need to earn a living for themselves or anyone else, they are rich or connected (or partnered with someone who is), or they are earning a credential for a job they already hold.

"In a March 2009 follow-up essay, I removed the category of people who are fortunately partnered because, as many readers wrote in to tell me, graduate school and the "two-body problem" often breaks up many seemingly stable relationships. You can't assume any partnership will withstand the strains of entry into the academic life.

"Those columns won renewed attention last month from multiple Web sites, and have since attracted a lot of mail and online commentary. The responses tended to split into two categories: One said that I was overemphasizing the pragmatic aspects of graduate school at the expense of the 'life of the mind' for its own sake. The other set of responses, and by far the more numerous, were from graduate students and adjuncts asking why no one had told them that their job prospects were so poor and wondering what they should do now.

"I detected more than a little sanctimony and denial in most of the comments from the first group and a great deal of pain and disillusionment in the latter. The former seem used to being applauded by authorities; the latter seem to expect to be slapped down for raising questions. That's why they write to me, I believe. They want confirmation that something is wrong with higher education, that they have been lied to, systematically.

"Some people have mistaken my position that graduate school in the humanities is fine for the rich and connected for the view that that's how it should be, as if I am some kind of smug elitist. It often happens that readers—looking only at an excerpt from a column—mistake practical advice about coping with a harsh reality for an affirmation of that reality, instead of a criticism of it."

To read the rest of the essay, click here.

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East Central University Career, Internship & Grad/Professional School Fair

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Ballroom, Memorial Student Union

Great Door Prizes! First 50 students that sign in at Career Fair with appropriate clothing will receive an ECU portfolio for the job search!

Dress Code: No flip flops, t-shirts with offensive words/logos or jeans with holes/rips! (see image at right)

Note: Dress for Success and bring copies of professional style resumes ready to hand out.RSVP's Include: Peoples Electric COOP, The Buckle, The Cherokee Nation, The Chickasaw Nation, ECU Graduate College, ECU Human Resources Graduate Studies, Finley & Cook, PLLC, Oklahoma City Police Department, Oklahoma City University, OU Health Sciences Center, Sherwin-Williams P.S.G., Valley View Regional Hospital, Texas Chiropractic College, OSU Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Maurices, OU Graduate College, Tinker Air Force Base, OBU International Graduate Studies, Stillwater Police Department, Norman Police Department, NASA Fellowship & Scholarship Program, Pre-Paid Legal Services, OU College of Pharmacy, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, OU College of Public Health, University of North Texas Graduate Studies, U.S. Army, Southeastern Oklahoma State University John Massey School of Business, Providence of Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation Casino

Dress Code: No student will be allowed in with flip flops, t-shirts or other non-professional looking attire. There will be event representatives at the door to block students that do not abide by this Career Fair dress code.

Career Development Center
1100 E. 14th St.
PMB S-17
Ada, OK 74820
580.559.5890
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