Taubman Center Wins Prestigious Grant
The Taubman Center is pleased to announce Brown's receipt of a prestigious federal Call to Serve grant initiated and written by Jennifer Slattery-Bownds, the Center's Manager of Career and Employment Development, and Beverly Ehrich, Associate Director of the Career Development Center. The grant was awarded jointly by the Partnership for Public Service and the United States Office of Personnel Management in an effort to inspire high quality candidates to consider careers at the federal level to offset the impending wave of retirements of the current baby-boomer workforce. The Call to Serve initiative will educate graduate and undergraduate students campus-wide about the importance of a strong civil service, train faculty, staff, and students about the process of identification of—and application to—federal opportunities, and increase the number of federal recruiters on campus. Slattery-Bownds and Ehrich will use the grant to educate Brown students about the employment opportunities available to them in the federal government. Specifically, they will use the money provided to hold workshops about federal employment and invite government employees, including Brown alumni, to campus to discuss their careers in—and the benefits of—federal service. The Taubman Center is further showing its support of this important initiative by awarding a Call to Serve fellowship to a matriculating master's student in Fall 2008.