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4 Leaders of Tomorrow! MARCH 1998 MBC Wolverine OBSERVER
MBC Educational Talent
Search Program
by TRIO
r he Morris Brown College
Educational Talent Search
Program is an outreach pro
gram that serves middle and secon
dary schools. The program is designed
to assist youth who show potential for
success in an educational setting
beyond high school.
Project Second Chance (PSC)
is one component of the Morris
Brown College Educational Talent
Search Program which actively
recruits and assists students who
have terminated their education prior
to graduating from high school or
have graduated from high school but
have little or no post-secondary
training.
Counseling services provided
by Morris Brown College Educa
tional Talent Search Program
Public
Safety
by Eugene Robinson
Director of Public Safety
Card Key Access
Card Key Access is being installed
at the following campus buildings:
Administration Building, Gaines
Hall, Herndon Stadium, John Lewis
Gymnasium, Middleton Complex,
Sara Allen Quadrangle, and Wilkes
Hall.
In order to enter these buildings
when the access control is activated,
a special magnetic stripped card
must be used. This card will also be
used as the school identification
card. It must be swiped through a
card reader to gain entrance into a
controlled area. The readers are
installed at doors where access will
be allowed during the control hours.
The control hours will be
as follows:
Dormitories: 7:00pm until
2:00am. Public Safety must be
contacted for access after 2:00am.
All other facilities: 5:00pm until
7:00am Monday through Friday.
24 hours a day on weekends and
holidays. A lost or stolen card must
be immediately reported to a cam
pus police officer. A replacement cost
of $15.00 will be charged for lost
identification/access cards.
include academic and career coun
seling, personal and social counseling,
post-secondary admissions informa
tion, dissemination of application in
formation, secondary and post-secon
dary admission information, GED
placement and referrals to social
agencies and other programs, cul
tural and educational field trips and
tutorial services.
The purpose of the Morris Brown
College Education Talent Search
Program is to significantly increase
the percentage of students who com
plete high school and enroll in various
post secondary institutions.
To determine eligibility for the
Educational Talent Search Project
Second Chance component, applicants
must be ages 14 to 27, not currently
enrolled in school, and reside in SW,
NW, or SE Atlanta. If these criteria
are met, an enrollment application
College students from across the
country are being sought for summer
jobs at one of the nation’s most
spectacular national parks.
Glacier National Park, located in
the northwest corner of Montana,
best known for its rugged mountain
wilderness and its historic lodges.
Glacier Park, Inc., is looking for
students to fill more than 900
summer jobs in all segments of the
hotel and hospitality areas.
Jobs include a large variety of
hotel positions, such as hotel front
desk clerks, room attendants,
cooks, wait persons and tour guides/
drivers. Many students also partici
pate in the guest entertainment,
which includes American Cabaret
Theatre, another Glacier Park
tradition. Employees are needed
this year from mid-May to late
September. The company is especial
ly interested in students majoring in
hotel/restaurant, culinary arts,
travel/tourism, accounting majors,
and music theatre.
The seven hotels and lodges and
the famous red vintage tour coaches
operate throughout the 1.4 million
acres of Glacier National Park.
$100,000
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Students and recent graduates with
majors in political science, commun
ications and journalism are partic-
ulary encouraged to apply, although
interns from all backgrounds and
majors are accepted. Minority stu
dents are eligible for additional scho
larship support. The ten-week scho
larships are flexible. Students can
work any ten-week period during the
1998 election year that fits into their
schedules.
“Although the work is not always
should be completed. Participants
may qualify as a first generation
college student or by income.
The key to dropout prevention
is getting involved! Your assistance
may be given through making refer
rals, volunteering to be tutors/men
tors of participants, being a financial
sponsor of cultural educational field
trips or a donor of PC hardware/ Soft
ware, etc. Working together, possi
bilities for the MBC Educational
Talent Search Project Second
Chance participants’ development
and educational goal achieve
ments are limitless.
So students, if you know someone
who has dropped out of school. Inform
them that all is not lost. A Second
Chance awaits at MORRIS BROWN
COLLEGE in the EDUCATIONAL
TALENT SEARCH - PROJECT
SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
Since the early 1900s, it has been
a tradition for college students
from across the country to work at
the park while enjoying a number
of outdoor activities such as hiking
riding, and fishing in one of the
nation’s last examples of pristine
wilderness.
According to Dale Scott, president
of Glacier Park, Inc., the opportunity
to work at Glacier affords student
educational opportunities in more
ways than one.
“You can get much needed job-
related experience in a variety of
areas, which can help with a career
later on,” says Scott. “But you can
also get life experience education by
working in spectacular natural
surroundings and through developing
a camaraderie with co-workers who
come from around the world.”
For details on jobs and salaries,
call Glacier Park, Inc., at (602) 207-
2620, or write Glacier Park, Inc.,
1850 North Central, Phoenix, AZ
85077-0924.
Glacier Park, Inc., is a subsidiary
of Restaur, which is a food services,
hotel management and support
services company.
glamorous, it is exciting and reward
ing to see positive results through the
eyes of the thousands of people who
call, write, and e-mail their thanks
for our interns’ efforts,” said Stewart.
“Interns get a chance to use and
develop their skills in a stimulating
environment as they work to clear the
clouds of lies and deceit that plague
our political campaigns,” she said.
The National Internship program
offers students a unique educational
experience in two beautiful settings.
Most students intern at the Corvallis
headquarters located in the Pacific
Northwest, one and one-half hours
south of Portland. Students interning
at the Boston office spend ten weeks
in one of the premier cultural and
SEVEN KEY
GROUPS
TARGETED BY
STUDENT
SUPPORT
SERVICES
part of Student Support
Services efforts is to make
their 1997- 1998 vision a
reality for the SSS participants by
helping them become sharp-sighted
strategic scholars. They are prepar
ing an aggressive and ambitious
campaign to garner the support of
seven different groups to assist them
in meeting their goals and objectives.
The following seven groups are
humbly being requested to serve on
the new Student Support Services
Advisory Committee: SSS parents,
SSS SGA officers, MBC institutional
offices, community businesses, SSS
alumni, other SSS Programs, and
friends of SSS.
More specifically, the Advisory
Committee will: 1) assist with pro
gram planning; 2) assist in developing
strategies for improving participant
retention in college; 3) assist with the
development of curriculum to meet
the needs of Student Support Services
students; 4) review program evalua
tion results and provide recommen
dations for improvement; and 5)
assist with fundraising. Student Sup
port Services will offer a variety of
benefits for the invaluable partici
pation of the committee members:
* The Achiever Newsletter
* Student Support Services
Highlights
* Invitations to Upcoming Events
* Reports on program progress
* Participation on various commit
tees for student growth and
success.
The Student Support Services Pro
gram appreciates the influence and
assistance that have been given to
their program in the past. In the near
future, they foresee the SSS Advisory
Committee being a very helpful tool
to improve services to their 250 par
ticipants. If you are interested in
serving on the Advisory Committee
or have any questions, please do not
hesitate to call the Student Support
Services office at 404-220-0288.
historical centers in the United
States.
Project Vote Smart, founded by
former senators Barry Goldwater,
George McGovern, Bill Bradley, Mark
Hatfield and other national leaders, is
a national nonpartisan organization
that focuses on providing citizens
with unbiased information about the
political system, candidates and
elected officials.
Morris Brown College students can
call the Voter’s Research Hotline for
more information (800-622-SMART)
or review additional information on
Project Vote Smart internships and
download scholarship applications
from the Vote Smart web site
(w w w. vote-smart, or g).
Glacier Park to Hire 900 College
Students For Summer Jobs
By Brad Parker