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Bowles leaves Board of Governors to head Obama’s budget committee Appointed to the deficit committee, Erskine Bowles joins Alan Simpson to head committee
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The Chancellor Liason meets in the Alumni Association building with Board of Governers President-elect, Erskine Bowles. Chairs and presidents from various student organizations reported to Bowles on activities that have been going on at N.C. State.
what happens in the November elections,” Doucette said. “They’ll do important work and I’m sure what they come up with will be well thought out. It really all comes down to November and what members of what parties are in the legislature.” Marcus agreed that it is tough to
predict. “This is economics, when it comes to econ you can never be sure if what you’re doing is right or wrong,” Marcus said. “But he has experience and his track record
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Roland Thorpe gives a speech on his research in health disparities Thursday. His research includes issues in race, access to heath care and social and environmental concerns.
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is accounted for in exposure to social conditions, it reduces some health related disparities. The N.C. State Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) is a program designed to reduce health care disparities and create awareness of biomedical and behavior research on minority groups. The goal of the IMSD is to increase diversity in doc-
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“This is economics, when it comes to econ you can never be sure if what you’re doing is right or wrong.”
About 35 people gathered in Talley Student Center’s Walnut Room Thursday to listen to Roland Thorpe, an assistant scientist at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talk about his research program on socioeconomic status and health disparities. Thorpe received his masters in statistics at Purdue University, as well as his PhD in epidemiology and his post doctorate in gerontology and health disparities. He was a part of a research program designed to see if race and residential segregation has an affect on health disparities. “In order for us to really understand these disparities that we have between groups, we need to really start making people more aware of ... what’s going on,” Thorpe said. His goal is to educate people on the causes of health disparities and the reasons health care should be equal opportunity. Thorpe was a part of the study, Exploring Health Disparities In Integrated Communities, also known as EHDIC. The study examined the nature of health disparities within racially integrated communities without racial disparities in socioeconomic status. The study found that if race
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of staff and helped put together a bipartisan budget that helped reign in the earlier deficits left over from before Clinton’s term.” Daniel Marcus, a junior in technical education, said he agrees that Bowles John Cline was the right choice. Staff Writer “He’s been around and involved in In an effort to improve the budget, politics for a long time, with a good President Barack Obama created a record working with both parties,” deficit committee to address the issue. Marcus said. “I might not necessarAn appointee to the new committee, ily agree with his body of work with former University of North Carolina education in North Carolina, but he system President Erskine Bowles, will has done well in regards to the budget share the helm of the bipartisan deficit in recent years and that speaks well of his ability to committee with take action, and former Republiif t hat’s what can senator Alan this administraSimpson of Wyotion is all about, ming. Simpson then yes he’s a formerly served good choice for as a Senator from this position.” Wyoming from According to 1979 to 1997, Doucette, Bowles w h i le B ow le s and Simpson will served in WashDaniel Marcus, work together to ington from 1996 junior in technical education generate ideas for to 1998 as Presithe president. dent Bill Clin“My understanding is they’re going ton’s chief of staff. Under Clinton, Bowles helped to to meet and come up with solutions broker the Balanced Budget Act of which Obama will then present to 1997 with the Republican leadership Congress after the November elecin Congress, helping to generate the tions,” Doucette said. “They’re going first balanced budget in nearly 30 to try and get this enormous deficit under control.” years. The commission’s recommendaGreg Doucette, president of the UNC Association of Student Govern- tions are due Dec. 1. With such a task ahead of them, it ments and a first year law student at N.C. Central, said he thinks the presi- is hard to say what measure of sucdent made a good decision in picking cess can be expected, but Doucette and others are hopeful, and say that Bowles. “I’m sure the president picked him a lot depends on the upcoming elecfor his breadth of experience,” Dou- tion year. “I think honestly it comes down to cette said. “He was Bill Clinton’s chief
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toral education and in the professoriate through two specially designed tiers. These tiers include supporting and training undergraduate students and provide graduate assistantships in biomedical and behavioral research. Many IMSD students attended the event. “I was interested in differences with blacks and whites and the difference in segregated and integrated
communities”, said Sarah Oxendine a sophomore in IMSD. Thorpe ended his discussion by answering questions from students who wanted to learn more about his studies, and relate them to their majors.
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This spring’s college graduates will be entering the toughest labor market the country has seen in the last 25 years, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Overall, hiring for the class of 2010 graduates is expected to decrease by approximately 7 percent. The primary reason employers gave for decreasing their new college hiring was the economy, according to a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. “[Finding employment] is still incredibly challenging, and it will be that way for the foreseeable future,” said Carol Schroeder, director of the University Career Center. Schroeder said, however, that it is important for future graduates to remain confident and motivated in their job search. “In a bad economy, your best strength is to be extremely proactive in looking for a job,” she said. In addition, Schroeder said future graduates need to be as flexible and creative as possible about finding a job in the field of their choice. “That means going perhaps to a part of the country that isn’t as desirable as North Carolina, perhaps interviewing with a company you’ve never heard of before and perhaps taking a job that doesn’t pay as much as you hope you would make,” she said. New college graduates seeking employment in the Northeast region may have more luck than graduates searching for jobs in the other three geographic regions. Northeastern employers plan to increase their college hires by 5.6 percent, according to NACE. In addition, most experts agree that it is best to take a low paying job within your field rather than a job that is slightly higher in pay that is outside of your field. “There are more job seekers than there are jobs. Sometimes you have to take any job you can take. But while you do that, you must also keep building your professional network and keep building connections,” Schroeder said. Students also have access to the alumni association. “They would gain access to a couple of major things that would really help them get the contacts they need to get them closer to jobs that might never be advertised,” said Sue Simonds, director of Alumni Career Services. “The alumni association directory is a great networking tool,” she said. Simonds said the alumni association allows students and past students to network without worrying about the stigma associated with career support groups. “Some of these job search support groups that exist, they’re really hard for people to want to go to,” she said. “I think we provide a different kind of experience for our alumni. With the alumni association, they already have an automatic connection, and it’s the NCSU connection. It makes networking a little bit less intimidating.” Another option that many are considering is attending graduate school. “Graduate school interest has been accelerated by the economy,” said Duane Larick, dean of the University graduate school. “Applications are way up in the College of Management and College of Design.” Dean said that obtaining a graduate degree is likely to impact one’s career opportunities for the rest of their life. However, he said he encourages
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