C.W. Post Employer Advisory Board Breakfast Meeting

On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 more than 40 Long Island employers gathered at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville to participate in the C.W. Post Employer Advisory Board breakfast meeting sponsored by the C.W. Post Office of Professional Experience & Career Planning (PEP). The executives – who represented business, healthcare and non-profit sectors – met with C.W. Post faculty and PEP counselors discuss how best the group can utilize the partnership between C.W. Post and the business community to help students to explore diverse career opportunities while gaining hands-on experience though internships and cooperative education.           

Cooperative Education is an educational program that combines your academic studies with work experience in a field related to your major and career goals. C.W. Post students may choose from two types of Cooperative Education experiences. In the Parallel Plan, C.W. Post students attend school full-time while working in the coop position for 15 to 20 hours per week. In the Alternating Plan, students may opt for full-time work and no classes every other semester. Students on the Alternating Plan retain status as full-time students at C.W. Post even when they are working full-time off campus and may still graduate in four years.

For more information about C.W. Post’s Office of Professional Experience & Career Planning or Cooperative Education Program, call the PEP Office at (516) 299-2251.

Participants at the C.W. Post Employer Advisory Board Breakfast on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 were (from left) Cynthea Green, Queensborough Coordinator for Part-time Centers and Summer Play Streets, Police Athletic League NY; Rita DiStefano, Manager of Human Resources, Pall Corporation; and Kenn Brown, President and CEO, Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care.

From left are Steven Cooperberg, Partner, Todres & Co. LLP; Yoshinobu Yuonekawa, Program Coordinator for Socio-economic Policy and Development Management, United Nations; Joyce Holst, Human Resources Administrator, United Cerebral Palsy Nassau.

From left: Susan Congiusta, Registered Nurse Preceptor, North Shore University Hospital; Joanna Lurie, Education Coordinator, Core Labs at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System; Sue Gubing, Educational Consultant, Career Smarts.