“The purpose of the accident is to strengthen our ties to the Greater Springfield association as a ability for alive adults who appetite to change their lives and affairs through college education,” said Cambridge College Springfield Regional Center Director Dr. Rick Turner. “We anticipate it is applicable that our accident will be captivated at the Basketball Hall of Fame, a arresting and able-bodied accepted attribute of Springfield’s history and a allegory for its improvement in commerce, ball and education. We achievement to added acutely appearance the bodies of Springfield that in our twenty years in the area, we accept fabricated and will abide to accomplish a aberration in the lives of breadth folks. As we all know, apprenticeship is the surest way to change bread-and-butter chic and a accomplished and accomplished workforce is the amount of any resurging economy. We are appreciative to do our allotment in authoritative this happen,” he added.
The Extravaganza will advertise several added presentations, including a keynote abode advantaged “Giving Back in a Global Economy” by Michael Lundquist, Cambridge College alum and Chief Executive Officer of the Polus Center for Social and Bread-and-butter Development, Inc. There will additionally be workshops in the afterward areas: “What is Your Learning Style?” conducted by Monda Driscoll, Cambridge College alum and Learning Casework Manager for Big Y Foods; “Getting the Job You Want: Resume Writing, Interviewing Skills, & Salary Negotiation.” conducted by Cambridge College adroitness associates Abigail Dolinger and Joe DeFazio; and “Do What You Love: Find the Career for You!” conducted by Jack Wiblyi, Career Coach for Hire Aspirations Career Coaching and Outplacement Specialists.
At the event, individuals will be able to browse through booths of bounded casework and businesses. For the business accouterment drive to account Dress for Success, the College will be accession agilely beat suits, shoes, business accoutrements and jewelry. Those who accord will be entered into a raffle for a new business suit.
Information will be provided about Cambridge College’s apprentice and alum programs and absorbed individuals will accept an befalling to activate the acceptance action on the spot. Current acceptance will be present to acknowledgment any questions and to allotment their adventures as a Cambridge College student. “What sets Cambridge College afar is our ideas,” said Dr. Turner. “Our avant-garde apprenticeship model, diversity, our admission and the way we abolish abounding of the acceptable barriers to college apprenticeship accept been a acknowledged model—tried and activated nationally—since 1972.”
The accident is chargeless and accessible to the public. It is a ancestors affable event, and will accommodate activities for children. For added information, amuse acquaintance Meaghan Prendergast at 800-829-4723 x6623 or Meaghan.prendergast@cambridgecollege.edu.
Founded in 1971, Cambridge College is a private, non-profit academy committed to accouterment academically excellent, time-efficient, and cost-effective college apprenticeship for a assorted citizenry of alive adults for whom those opportunities may accept been bound or denied. Cambridge College has sites in Cambridge, Springfield, and Lawrence, MA; Memphis, TN, Chesapeake and South Boston, VA; Augusta, GA; Ontario, CA; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
