CAMPUS HEADLINES

LEARNING CENTER

PLANS OPEN HOUSE

KETTERING

- The Learning Center at Miami Valley Research Park will host anopen house to introduce its new SkillsMAX Center, a career resourcecenter to better match the needs of Dayton-area businesses with thearea's work force.

The center is designed to connect people with skills, training andjobs. It is one of 10 career service centers at two-year campusesacross Ohio as part of the EnterpriseOhio Network.

The SkillsMAX Center open house will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdayat 1900 Founders Drive, Suite 100, Kettering. It is free and open tothe public.

"SkillsMAX will provide job assessment and training to Dayton-area workers and also help employers better identify the mostqualified applicants," said Timothy Thomas, the newly appointedcorporate assessment and training center manager.

A consortium of national vendors has joined to support SkillsMAXin providing the assessment and job-matching tools to serve employersand employees.

These include Brainbench, The Chauncey Group International Ltd.,Educational Testing Service, iLearning Inc., Prometric Inc., SabaSoftware Inc. and SHL.

For information, call Thomas at 252-9787, Ext. 408, or e-mailtimothy.thomas@sinclair.edu.

SPEECH ON GENETICS

SET VIA SATELLITE

DAYTON

- Sinclair Community College will host a live, interactivesatellite presentation featuring Dr. Paul A. Lombardo, a nationallyknown speaker on genetics, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 12364 of theDavid H. Ponitz Sinclair Center, Building 12.

It is free and open to the public. Light fare will be available.

The program, produced by Sinclair's Nu Pi chapter of Phi ThetaKappa and the National Collegiate Honor Society, is the first of afive-part satellite series designed to accompany the society's 2002honors study topic: Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices inthe Maze.

Lombardo is the director of the program in law and medicine at theCenter for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. Heteaches in the schools of medicine, law and the graduate school ofarts and sciences.

His work focuses on questions about the relationship of law to thetechnology in genetics.

For information, call Dr. Katherine Rowell, Sinclair's PTKadviser, at 512-4598 or e-mail katherine.rowell@sinclair.edu.

JOB-SEEKERS CAN BE

PART OF PROGRAM

DAYTON

- The Career Planning and Placement Center at Sinclair CommunityCollege is recruiting members for its seven-session Job SeekersTraining Program beginning Oct. 2.

Participants in the free program will meet from 9 to 11:30 a.m.Wednesdays, Oct. 2 through Nov. 13, on the Sinclair campus.

Ron Hittle, recruitment and development specialist, will be thepresenter.

The program has been conducted for about 11 years. Registration isrequired and members are asked to attend all sessions.

"Adults of all ages are facing the challenge today of finding the`right job' for them," Hittle said. "This is true of first-timecareer seekers to adults seeking a new challenge from stressed outjobs and to those facing downsizing.

`Today's job search requires new techniques, including using theInternet, networking with people in various careers and preparingbehavioral interviewing questions. We'll explore these and othertechniques in an interactive format."

The training program is for anyone unemployed, underemployed orwho wants to change career fields.

Participants will help each other develop action plans andmaintain a positive attitude during job seeking.

For information, call 512-2772 or e-mail ron.hittle@sinclair.edu.