VISION The vision of the Paul Quinn College Work Program (“the Work Program”) is to transform ability into action and potential into achievement by encouraging all students to embrace the ideals of disciplined work, servant leadership, and initiative in preparation for lives of financial freedom, community engagement, and outstanding character. MISSION The Work Program is designed to provide students with meaningful work opportunities that allow them to better serve the Paul Quinn community while also developing the necessary skills, habits, and experiences to be competitive in the 21st-century job market and practicing economic leadership by actively contributing towards the cost of their education.
This mission is fulfilled by:. Creating a workforce that provides PQC with the staffing for campus operations and students with opportunities for debt reduction. Expanding the educational experience of the student body.
Strengthening students’ work ethic and commitment to the service of others. Encouraging the pursuit of excellence, reflection, and self-development. Producing effective, high-quality work supervisors.
WORK PROGRAM All residential, full-time students are required to participate in the Work Program regardless of their financial need. As part of their participation, students work between 300 and 400 hours per academic year in order to earn the full tuition assistance grant of $5,000 and to receive a cash payment of between $1,000 and $1,500. Students are permitted to work a minimum of 10 hours per week and a maximum of 20 hours per week.
Participation in the Work Program looks different for each student depending on the student’s interest and our campus needs. One student may assist administratively in the Registrar’s Office, while another develops networking skills at our External Affairs workstation, and yet another, reaches beyond the gates of Paul Quinn by participating the Corporate Work Program. With more than 35 workstations to choose from, our goal is to lead by example by returning our students to their families and communities, better and more well-rounded than we found them.
Each workstation is staffed with a supervisor who is committed to ensuring that students perform their jobs well. More importantly, supervisors are primarily charged with developing and mentoring students through uplifting instruction and modeling positive behaviors and attitudes. STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION Interns are assigned to supervisors who act both as a manager and a professional mentor.
Interns receive formal work performance evaluations at both the midpoint and at the end of each semester. The ratings on the final evaluations are used to calculate grades for interns, which are placed on transcripts. Supervisors regularly provide students with constructive feedback throughout the school year; however, students receive formal performance evaluations at the end of each semester. Students receive letter grades, “A” through “F”, based on the degree they fulfill the following expectations and skills:. Attendance/ Punctuality. Accountability. Initiative/ Willingness to Learn.
Teamwork/ Attitude. Prideful Workmanship/ Presentation. Response to Supervision. Workplace Culture, Policy, and Safety. Communication. Problem Solving. Critical Thinking Final evaluation grades are reported on students’ work transcripts but do not factor into academic GPAs.
Similar to the on-campus component, the Corporate Work Program is an educational program as well as being a financial assistance program for students. Because of this important goal, corporate partners are asked to ensure that interns who work for them are given meaningful, substantial work that challenges them on a daily basis. CORPORATE WORK PROGRAM Our students come from a variety of backgrounds including the Cristo Rey Network.
After assessing a student’s level of work readiness, we identify the best placement for the student based on their major and their personal career goals. The most qualified students are identified for the Corporate Work Program, the off-campus component of the Work Program. Corporate Work Program students work 16-20 hours per week, totaling 400 hours each academic year. Interns work throughout the Dallas-area in various industries, including non-profit organizations and government agencies.
The College strives to find interns that match the qualifications and backgrounds described by corporate partners. While Paul Quinn selects the students who are eligible to participate in the program, corporate partners may interview and vet interns prior to hiring. All student interns are screened and are required to attend training before they are fully admitted into the Corporate Work Program and matched to corporate partners.
CORPORATE PARTNER INVESTMENT Businesses who are interested in becoming corporate partners agree to pay the College $7,500 per year to hire an intern through the program. Of that $7,500, $5,000 is applied directly to the student’s ledger in the form of a tuition assistance grant; $1,500 is given to the intern as a cash stipend and the remaining funds are used to cover transportation costs and internal administrative fees. Businesses have the option of paying the fee upfront or in installments throughout the year. STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION Interns are assigned to supervisors who act both as a manager and a professional mentor.
Interns receive formal work performance evaluations at both the midpoint and at the end of each semester. The ratings on the final evaluations are used to calculate grades for interns, which are placed on transcripts. Supervisors regularly provide students with constructive feedback throughout the school year; however, students receive formal performance evaluations at the end of each semester.
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Students receive letter grades, “A” through “F”, based on the degree they fulfill the following expectations and skills:. Attendance/ Punctuality. Accountability. Initiative/ Willingness to Learn. Teamwork/ Attitude.
Prideful Workmanship/ Presentation. Response to Supervision. Workplace Culture, Policy, and Safety. Communication. Problem Solving. Critical Thinking Final evaluation grades are reported on students’ work transcripts but do not factor into academic GPAs.
Similar to the on-campus component, the Corporate Work Program is an educational program as well as being a financial assistance program for students. Because of this important goal, corporate partners are asked to ensure that interns who work for them are given meaningful, substantial work that challenges them on a daily basis.
Governor Quinn Expands Illinois Building Blocks Program On March 21, the Illinois Government News Network released an announcement titled Governor Quinn Expands Innovative Program to Help Working Families, Rebuild Communities. Please click here for. Following is the aforementioned article. Xpansion tank 2. Governor Quinn Expands Innovative Program to Help Working Families, Rebuild Communities Illinois Building Blocks Program Provides $10,000 in Assistance to Buyers of Vacant Homes in 15 Hard-Hit Communities CHICAGO – As part of the “Year of Homeownership” in Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn today announced the expansion of Illinois Building Blocks, an innovative program that creates affordable homeownership opportunities for buyers of vacant homes and helps revitalize communities. Homebuyers in 10 additional municipalities may qualify for $10,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance as part of the Illinois Building Blocks program. The program is now available in 15 Illinois communities.
Today’s announcement is part of the governor’s commitment to strengthen communities across Illinois. “We are helping more working families in Illinois achieve the dream of owning a home,” Governor Quinn said. “The Illinois Building Blocks program is a groundbreaking and transformative program that stabilizes neighborhoods and grows the economy.” Belleville, Blue Island, Champaign, Cicero, Crest Hill, Joliet, Lockport, Lynwood, Melrose Park and Peoria now join the existing Illinois Building Blocks communities of Berwyn, Chicago Heights, Maywood, Park Forest and South Holland. Administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), this program uses a comprehensive strategy to continue addressing the foreclosure crisis in communities in need. The program encourages the reuse of vacant single-family properties and enables more working families to access currently low housing prices by making homeownership safe and affordable. Illinois Building Blocks works to keep homeowners in their home by raising awareness of assistance available under Governor Quinn’s, including mortgage assistance under the Illinois Hardest Hit program.
Illinois Building Blocks also revitalizes communities by turning vacant properties into valuable homebuyer opportunities for low-to moderate-income families and is open to all qualified buyers purchasing homes in the Building Blocks communities. Buyers may qualify for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (currently 4 percent) and $10,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance. “Governor Quinn’s Illinois Building Blocks program is ending the cycle of blight by rehabilitating not only homes but whole communities – one house, one block, one neighborhood at a time,” IHDA Executive Director Mary R.
Other state-coordinated housing programs are focused on community stabilization. Since Governor Quinn launched the program last year, Illinois Building Blocks has proved to be a successful model because it enables IHDA and its partners to build on existing efforts.
Will the criminal cases brought by the United States against cyberlocker services stop at MegaUpload? Or are there more coming? Greg Sandoval/CNET Which cyberlocker service is next to get busted? That's one of the questions that have lingered since the January 19 raid on the home of Kim DotCom, the founder of MegaUpload. Two of that company's rivals, RapidShare and MediaFire, appear to be trying to make sure that it's not them. They are speaking out publicly now in an effort to show the differences between their services and rivals, especially MegaUpload. Cyberlock services enable people to store their digital media on a third-party's servers.
Danny Raimer, RapidShare's general counsel, that Megaupload's approach to piracy was 'so far from what we're doing and what we want to stand for.' Ira Rothken, MegaUpload's attorney wasn't immediately available for comment. But copyright owners in the music and film industries told CNET today that they're underwhelmed by both companies' 'public relations efforts.'
Three months ago, the U.S. Attorney shut down MegaUpload's service, indicted managers, and had them arrested in New Zealand. Government seeks to extradite the group to the United States for trial. In the aftermath, much of the cyberlocker community got spooked. Roughly a dozen services either quickly altered their sites to rid them of pirated music, movies, and other content, or closed up shop altogether. Yesterday, RapidShare, which has for years denied violating copyright laws, took its case to the Washington, D.C., press.
The company released a 'responsible practices' manifesto for cloud storage companies (the blog ). Those include booting chronic infringers, requiring valid e-mail, and posting in the TOS the company's right to inspect the lockers of repeat infringers for copyrighted content. In MediaFire's case, the company responded three weeks ago to allegations made by Alfred Perry, an executive from Paramount Pictures film studio, that the service was a 'rogue' site. Perry cranked up the speculation about the possibility of more police raids when he said during a panel discussion in New York a few weeks ago that the film studios Paramount Pictures alleges that companies on this list are the top five 5 'rogue' cyberlocker services. Greg Sandoval/CNET Perry didn't say which 'rogue' cyberlocker services the movie studios had referred to law enforcement officials, but he did give CNET a graphic which listed five companies, including PutLocker, Wupload, and MediaFire. Tom Langridge, one of MediaFire's co-founders, to CNET listing all the ways MediaFire protects copyrighted materials, which include not paying people to upload - a practice that experts say encourages people to store pirated movies, TV shows, and films in their lockers so they can be accessed by the masses.
Langridge wrote: 'MediaFire cooperates fully with the MPAA, RIAA, and various other organizations who work to identify and prohibit the distribution of copyrighted content.' A representative from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the trade group for the six Hollywood film studios, declined to comment about RapidShare or MediaFire. A spokesman for the top four recording companies did likewise for MediaFire but issued a statement about RapidShare. We welcome the fact that RapidShare recognizes that its service is used as an illegal distribution hub for copyrighted material and that it has a shared responsibility to prevent this theft.
Its actions signify a commendable step forward. Unfortunately the new measures announced fall short if the goal is indeed to meaningfully and effectively reduce the massive amount of copyright theft occurring on its service. This is not a debate about a particular technology - legitimate cloud-based services have many beneficial uses - this is about a particular business model. For example, while other file-hosting services provide secure storage for users' files, RapidShare allows unlimited distribution of copyrighted files among millions of anonymous strangers without taking adequate steps to prevent this illegal activity. Film industry sources say the studios think RapidShare is being disingenuous.
For a long time the company has refused to implement a filtering technology similar to the one employed by YouTube, which prevents flagged copyrighted video clips from being re-posted to the service. The sources also said that Perry wasn't bluffing. The studios have complained about specific cyberlockers to the law enforcement. But it's important to note that there's no telling whether the government is investigating or will take any action in the future.
It's not even certain that if the government pursued criminal actions against the cyberlockers whether it could win convictions. Numerous copyright lawyers have noted that the government's arguments in the MegaUpload case appear to be breaking new ground. The test case will likely be MegaUpload, and the company isn't lying down.
Rothken, a U.S. Attorney and the man in charge of the company's worldwide defense, has hired some well-known lawyers in different countries.