The Job Outlook for Graduating Seniors, 2007-08

According to the latest Recruiting Trends 2007-2008 Report by
The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) at Michigan State University:

Seniors in BA/BS programs can expect more opportunities this year with employers expected to increase the number of opportunities 7% over last year. (Breakdown by employer size: Large employers - companies with over 3900 employees - expect to increase bachelor hiring by 9%; employers with fewer than 100 employees are expected to increase hiring by 12%; medium-sized employers are cutting back on their hiring plans.)

Looking at specific majors, large employers expect to increase hiring for engineers by 12% to 14%, business by 13%, and social science/humanities majors by 20%. Computer science majors (all types) will enjoy a very good labor market. Information technology (IT) majors are the only ones that all companies, regardless of size, will be hiring. Starting salaries for bachelors graduates are expected to increase by 4% to 5%, which is double the increase offered in each of the previous two years. About 15% of employers expect to increase salaries more than 5%.

For the full report, go to http://www.ceri.msu.edu/recruiting/recruiting.html

The Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University
CERI is nationally recognized for its research on the transition from college to work; employment readiness of college graduates; and the transition experience through college (“the sophomore year”). The Institute is also involved in the assessment of learning in the workplace; assessment practices for University accountability (outcome assessment); and evaluation of integrated learning opportunities. CERI annually publishes Recruiting Trends that provides an analysis of the college labor market.

Degree Verification

On your job applications, resumes, graduate school applications, etc. you MUST identify that you have graduated from THE CUNY BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM. Of course, we know most of you strongly identify with your home college, and so you can include that as well...as your home college (see below for an example).

Why is this important? Because potential employers are likely to call to verify your college degree and if you write that you received your degree from "Brooklyn College" or "Hunter College," that college will receive the call and they will NOT verify your degree because that college did not confer it. Upon graduation, your degree is conferred by the CUNY Baccalaureate Program under the auspices of the Graduate Center. Employers or agencies who need to verify your degree will have to phone the CUNY BA Program (Registrar's Office, 212-817-8227).

How you might indicate your degree on resumes, job applications, etc:

Degree (B.A. or B.S.), Graduation Date, Title(s) of Area of Concentration, The CUNY Bacclaureate Program (Home College: xyz College), any Honors received.

So, if Jane Doe graduated "cum laude" in January 2007 with a B.S. in Nonprofit Accounting while she was at Baruch, her resume might look like this:

B.S., Nonprofit Accounting, January 2007, The CUNY Baccalaureate Program (at Baruch College), cum laude
or
B.S., cum laude, Nonprofit Accounting, January 2007, The CUNY Baccalaureate Program / Home College: Baruch College

Finally, note that we have three different graduation dates each year (September, January, June) so be sure you have the correct month on your records.

For graduate school applications (other than law, medical, dental schools), please use the Program's College Board (CEEB) code: 2479, to indicate the CUNY Baccalaureate Program.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions on this.
Beth Kneller
Deputy Director
bkneller@gc.cuny.edu/212-817-8238

CUNY BA Alumni Now Working at CUNY

If you graduated from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program and are now employeed at CUNY as either a faculty or staff member, please let us know. Contact Lidija Markes, Alumni Affairs Coordinator, lmarkes@gc.cuny.edu or 212-817-8223. Thank you.

Deadline Reminders

I realize that we are coming upon the busiest time of the semester but I’d like to encourage you to be mindful of a few approaching deadlines:

1. Area of Concentration forms are due on December 1^st for all students admitted into the Program for Summer and Fall 2007; getting your AOC approved is a critical part of your requirements.
2. If you have received an overdue notice regarding your AOC form you may face dismissal from the Program if you do not submit the form by December 1^st.
3. The deadline to file for January graduation has passed; students who plan to graduate in June or September 2008 should schedule graduation audits as soon as possible. If you plan to graduate in June you MUST have a graduation audit prior to the beginning of the Spring 2008 semester.
4. All students who have at least 90-100 credits (or who will reach this point at the end of the semester) and have approved AOC form(s) are encouraged to schedule graduation audits regardless of how many semesters of courses they have remaining. CUNY BA does audits early so that students have time to plan out their final semesters, rather than waiting until the end when it is too late to adjust registration or meet requirements.
5. Do not wait to contact your Academic Advisor about registration. If you have questions about requirements, you want to confirm that courses will meet requirements or if you have problems registering please deal with that as early as possible. We cannot adequately advise 700 students simultaneously. You should also plan to register AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE and not wait until late January.
6. The CUNY Baccalaureate Scholarships Application is now available on our website. The absolute deadline for this application is February 22, 2008- no exceptions will be made. Now is a good time to ask professors to write letters of recommendation as you won’t find that many are available between semesters and that they are busy early in the semester.
7. All forms are available on our website and you should visit both the website (www.cunyba.cuny.edu) and our blog (http://cunyba.blogspot.com) regularly for updated information.
8. Finally, the CUNY BA Office (and the Graduate Center) will be closed on Thursday and Friday of this week (11/22 & 11/23).

If you have any questions please contact your Academic Advisor:

A-F Helene Brown hbrown1@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.8229

G-N Rafal Szczurowski rszczurowski@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.8225

O-Z Kate McPherson kmcpherson@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.8237

If you are unable to reach your Advisor right away please leave a message or send an e-mail and we will respond to you in a timely manner. All Academic Advisors are now full-time but this is a busy time of year so you can’t always expect immediate service. Please do not contact an Advisor for another alpha group if you do not reach your Advisor immediately. All students will be responded to as quickly as possible.

If you have a registration problem please contact your Academic Advisor or the CUNY BA Registrar’s Office (212.817.8227). To schedule an appointment for a graduation audit or a credit check please contact our main office (212.817.8221). Area of Concentration forms can be faxed (212.817.1512) or e-mailed to your Academic Advisor.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday and good luck on the rest of your semester!

Global Justice Course at Lehman

I have a few seats left open in my upper-level Global Justice course at Lehman this spring. It's ideal for students working on interactions between morality, politics, and global economics. Interested students should contact me at csula@gc.cuny.edu for registration information.

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Global Justice

Prof. Chris Alen Sula

Lehman College, Spring 2008

Wed 10a-12:30p

Over 80% of the world’s wealth belongs to 20% of its population. How do we account for this huge inequality? (How) Should we respond to it morally? This class will survey prospects for global justice and their related problems. In particular, we’ll consider the historical and conceptual foundations of global justice, the roles of nations and global organizations in achieving justice, different models of equality and their possible measurements, the nature and scope of human rights, and applied issues of global justice, including citizenship, violence, and the environment. Our readings will cover the diverse areas of philosophy, political science, economics, and law. My goal is to tie theories of global justice to actual practice as much as possible, so we’ll also examine public documents like United Nations reports and resolutions, as well as psychological work on allocation behavior and judgments of equality and fairness.

Thom Brooks, ed. The Global Justice Reader (Blackwell, 2008).

Additional readings—to be distributed

Book for review (choose one of the following):

Hiram Chodosh, Global Justice Reform: A Comparative Methodology (NYU, 2005).

David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford, 2008).

Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Belknap, 2007).

Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order (Princeton, 2005).

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (W W Norton, 2003).

Kok-Chor Tan, Justice without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Patriotism (Cambridge, 2004).

This course will be writing intensive. Students will prepare eight reading primers (questions or outlines), write three response papers (1,000 words), and complete a final project of a critical review (2,000 words) of a recent book in global justice, along with a group presentation.

CUNY BA Student on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show

The Other "F" Word

Feminists young and old gather at Hunter College this weekend for "Freedom on Our Terms: From Houston 1977 - New York 2007" commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first National Women’s Conference. Liz Abzug, president and co-founder of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and Jerin Alam (CUNY BA Student), president of the Hunter Women¹s Rights Coalition (HWRC) talk about trying to "pass the torch" from one generation of feminists to another.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/11/07

CUNY BA ADVISING SURVEY

Dear CUNY BA Students,

Now that we have three full-time Academic Advisors on staff we are exploring ways in which we can make our Academic Advising services better. Please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey (by the end of November, ideally):

http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/4099/

Thank you in advance for your time!