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HBCU News
FAMU Career Expo
Morgan State Makes History With New Medical School Proposal
Draws 200 Employers,
1,700+ Students
CBS Baltimore reports that for the first time in 45 years, a new medical school at an HBCU is opening and it’s proposed at Morgan State University.
Morgan State plans to partner with Ascension St. Agnes Hospital to launch a for-profit, private medical school aimed to open in 2024.
“Let’s do this for Balti- more, let’s do this for our community,” said Dr. John Sealey, Founding Dean of the proposed College of Os- teopathic Medicine at MSU.
The university is anticipat- ing for 700 students and 150 employees to make up the medical school. They believe that there will be an economic impact that will go beyond the
Hundreds of Florida A&M University students streamed into the Al Lawson, Jr. Multi- purpose Center to interview for full time jobs and intern- ships on Wednesday.
Among the 200 employers registered to recruit at the Fall 2022 Career and Intern- ship Expo were global med- ical technology corporations such as Medtronic, retailers such as Target, cosmetic giant, Estee Lauder, financial institutions such as Credit Su- isse, and federal, state, county and municipal government agencies seeking to hire stu- dents at a time when many vacancies are going unfilled.
The career fair was an op- portunity for the 1,756 regis- tered students to network and speak with future employers from a variety of industries, said Bill Means, Ed.D., di- rector of the FAMU Career and Professional Develop-
FAMU’s Career and Internship Expo
ment Center.
“It’s one of the largest ca-
reer expos in a long time. It went very well. Employers came; students turned out in great numbers; there was a lot of energy,” Means said. “We had 50 organizations that scheduled next day inter- views with students. It shows that employers are serious about hiring our students.”
college and hospital cam- puses.
“The economic impact of this school over the course of the next 10 years is probably about $1.2 billion,” said Dr. Sealey.
The school and Ascension St. Agnes hope to not only
give back to Baltimore but the rest of the US by producing the next generation of physi- cians.
“There’s a shortage in the next 10 years, anywhere be- tween 35,000 to 120,000 physicians in the United States of America.”
Tennessee State University Fall Career Fair Has Largest Turnout Ever
Over 1,000 TSU students will be better prepared for in- ternships and the job market following the university’s Fall Career Fair.
The students took advan- tage of meeting over 240 po- tential employers at the fair that included representatives from government agencies, aerospace, banking, engineer- ing, healthcare, and several other industries. The employ- ers set up tables and displays in the Gentry Center Complex to network with students about career and employment opportunities.
“This is amazing,” An- toinette Duke, Director of the Career Development Cen- ter said during the event. “This is the largest career fair that we’ve had.” In prepara- tion of the fair, the university held career readiness sessions at each housing location, on and off campus. The hands- on training sessions were led
by executives and representa- tives of major companies such as Atria, PepsiCo, and Procter and Gamble.
President Glenda Glover made an announce- ment mid-event stating how proud she was to see students seeking employment and thanked all the company rep- resentatives for coming. “We appreciate the support ... thank you to our sponsors for being here,” Glover said.
“And to the students, I look forward to you all being employees for the companies present, in the near future.”
Xena Ford, a TSU grad- uate who attended the fair to represent her company, said it was a full circle moment to see how impactful the event was for her and current stu- dents. Ford is a 2018 gradu- ate who is an Internal Account Manager for Jackson National Life Insurance Com- pany.
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