Mervyn’s Recognizes University with $10,000 Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2000
Ann Walker
530-898-4143
Mervyn’s Recognizes University with $10,000 Award
Mervyn’s California recently recognized California State University, Chico as one of its most fruitful recruiting sites with a $10,000 award.
Five thousand dollars will be allocated to the Career Planning and Placement Center and $5,000 to the College of Business’ department of management. Both recipients will use the award to improve facilities for students.
“This is the largest award the department has ever received,” said Department of Management chair Julie Indvik. A task force has been implemented to determine how the money should be spent to best serve students. Ideas under consideration are scholarships, guest speakers and expenses for the newly formed Corporate Advisory Board.
Jamie Starmer, career counselor, cited critical equipment upgrades and increased staffing as possible improvements for the Career Planning and Placement Center as a result of the gift.
Starmer and Indvik accepted the award at Mervyn’s’ 2nd Annual College Recruiting Conference Aug. 17. Eight other colleges from around the nation received awards including UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and Oklahoma State University.
Noele Winans, director of Career Planning and Placement, said Mervyn’s has recruited at CSU, Chico every year for the last 29 years that she has worked there and that CSU, Chico graduates traditionally make up the largest group of trainees in Mervyn’s new college hire training programs.
Mervyn’s California will be included in the roster of more than 100 companies scheduled to attend CSU, Chico’s Fall Career Fair to be held Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Shurmer Gym.
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