Text Box: Text Box: Since the spring of 1997, the annual Northern New York CSTEP Network Career Exploration Symposium has alternately been hosted at Clarkson University, St. Lawrence University or SUNY Potsdam and has become a highlight event for the CSTEP students in northern New York. On Saturday October 25, the three program directors—Catherine Clark of Clarkson, Carol Ann Kissam of St. Lawrence University and Diana Fisher of SUNY Potsdam—will be sharing information about the symposium in a workshop presentation at the American Council on Education’s Educating All of One Nation conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference, subtitled “Addressing a National Imperative:Why We Can’t Wait,” will Text Box: focus on programs that improve minority participation in postsecondary education. The annual CSTEP symposium has been jointly planned with students and has brought notable keynote speakers as well as local professionals and alumni together to share experiences in their career fields. CSTEP students have benefited greatly from that dialogue. The roundtable discussions and group interaction at the symposium are consistently praised in evaluations, and the keynote speakers have received accolades from the students and professional guests alike. Among them in 1999 was the first Native American NASA astronaut, then Lt. Cmdr. John Herrington.

 CSTEP SYMPOSIUM to be presented at NATIONAL conference
Text Box: McNAIR/CSTEP STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER OPENS Text Box: Looking for information on scholarships or fellowships? Want to find the information on graduate or professional schools you read about in this newsletter? Well, then, pay a visit to the McNair/CSTEP Student Resource Center—171F Whitman! Two student desktop computers, a scanner, and an electric typewriter are available for student use daily. Graduate school guides and GRE, LSAT and MCAT information are easy to find and use. An on-Text Box: campus phone makes connections a finger tip away. And newly organized files of the most recent information on scholarships, internships, graduate and professional schools and other mailings are now available thanks to the patient organizational efforts of Rhonda Furgison. Also available for temporary sign out are a camera, a digital camera, Text Box: two new laptops with campus Internet connectivity, and three older laptops to be used just for writing papers and preparing presentations. Text Box: McNAIR/CSTEP OFFICE

OCTOBER, 2003

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2

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SENIOR FEATURE: Travis Babcock

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Summer experience feature

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MEMBER/ALUMNI NEWS

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SENIOR FEATURE: Jennifer Godin

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FROM THE MAILBAG . . .

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IMPORTANT UPDATES

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Special points of interest:

 

·     In the last newsletter one McNair Scholar’s name was accidentally omitted. D. Ramos is working with mentor Dr. Karen O’Neil.

·    Please welcome new CSTEP Group Leaders, sophomores  Randy Olivo and Steve Peraza!

·    Congrats to all who were selected for spring abroad programs—Laura, Marisa, Nati, Anne.

 
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