The Boston Foundation Partners with Cambridge College to Support Career Resource Center

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Sep 28, 2012, 09:00 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cambridge College President Deborah Jackson has announced that The Boston Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to help launch the College's new Career Resource Center, dedicated to assisting students in their pursuit of career opportunities.

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"We are delighted to make this investment that will help to launch a Career Resource Center at the College," said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of The Boston Foundation. "Cambridge College serves a critical role in education in Greater Boston, and this resource center will only strengthen the College's ability to ensure that its students have greater opportunity to turn their education into higher levels of career success."

Establishing the Career Resource Center has been a priority of Cambridge College, according to President Jackson, recently inaugurated as Cambridge College's fourth president. Shared President Jackson, "Today's environment makes it essential to provide our students with every resource possible to achieve professional success in a competitive global context. The students we serve—adults who are entering into, returning to, or looking to advance in their professional careers—will have increased resources here at the College to help them achieve their goals."

According to Cambridge College Dean of Student Affairs, Regina Robinson, "The support of The Boston Foundation will have an immediate and direct benefit on our students, especially at the undergraduate level, where our work will begin." The services of the Career Resource Center will help students to explore career interests and pathways, connect their academic learning to the workplace, and reconnect alumni interested in mentoring and sharing their field-based expertise with current students.

About the Boston Foundation:
The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston's community foundation, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the nation, with assets of $850 million. In 2011, the Foundation and its donors made almost $78 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of $81 million. The Foundation is made up of some 850 separate charitable funds established by donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. The Boston Foundation also serves as a major civic leader, provider of information, convener, and sponsor of special initiatives designed to address the community's and the region's most pressing challenges. For more information about the Boston Foundation, visit the website at www.tbf.org or call 617-338-1700.

About Cambridge College:
Cambridge College (www.cambridgecollege.edu) is dedicated to providing academically excellent, time-efficient, and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of adult learners for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied. Founded in 1971, Cambridge College is a private non-profit institution of higher education accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, (NEASC CIHE). Comprised of four schools –Undergraduate Studies, Education, Psychology and Counseling, and Management – Cambridge College enrolls more than 8,000 students each year in professional education and undergraduate, graduate and doctorate-level degree programs at the main campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts and across seven regional centers nationwide in Springfield and Merrimack Valley, MA; Chesapeake, VA; Memphis, TN; Augusta, GA; San Juan, PR; and Inland Empire, CA. The College accepts selected transfer credits for both graduate and undergraduate programs, and schedules evening and weekend classes designed for adult learners.