Business Management Grad Shares Success Story
Jennie DeSantis
Jennie DeSantis, a 2003 graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Business Management Technology program began working at Foxwoods in December 1996. She joined the Casino Host Department in 1998 as a Customer Service Representative and was promoted to a Casino Host in 2001. Jennie was promoted to a Casino Sales Executive in October 2004 and then to a Casino Sales Manager in 2005. On February 24 of this year she was promoted to Director of Customer Development.
“For the past eleven years I’ve been working at Foxwoods Resort Casino and for the past nine years in the Marketing Department. This is when I decided to go back to school to advance my career. After graduating from New England Tech, I continued my studies and earned my MBA in 2005 in Global Business Administration with a Marketing Concentration. Recently, I was promoted to Director of Customer Development.”
Jennie continued, “New England Tech helped give me the necessary tools regarding computer proficiency. I work with several different customer relationship management software programs. My documents are clear and concise. My visuals, such as graphs and tables make it very clear and easy to read. The knowledge I gained through my Business Management program at New England Tech gave me the edge I needed.”
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Alumni Association is Formed
New England Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the formation of an Alumni Association.
All graduates of New England Institute of Technology and New England Technical Institute are automatically members of the Alumni Association. There is no fee for membership.
An Alumni Association kick-off event is scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, September 18, 2007 in The Center for the Technologies Building at the college’s Post Rd. campus. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the Alumni Association; see graduates, faculty, and staff; and tour the campus. Refreshments will be served.
For more information about, or to register for the kick-off event, graduates are asked to contact Melissa Hague at 401-467-7744, extension 3565, email at alumni@neit.edu, or visit the college’s website at www.neit.edu and click “Alumni Association” on the home page. |
US ARMY Selects NEIT for 2007 Training
For the second year in a row, New England Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology and Industry was selected by the United States Army 3rd Battalion, 98th Regiment to provide a three-week training program in the area of Information Technology for the United States Army Signal Corp staff. The training curriculum was designed from the standard Signal Corp Training program operating at its Fort Gordon, Georgia headquarters. The Army was so impressed with New England Institute of Technology’s performance last year that it returned for the same training activities this year. It plans on repeating this program, for possibly more soldiers, again in 2008. The training is mandatory for senior non-commissioned officers striving to reach the rank of Master Sergeant through Command Sergeant Major. New England Institute of Technology was the first college in the country to provide this type of military certificate training and the program has served as a model for other Army units nationwide.
From June 11 - 29, twenty seven soldiers from as far away as Alaska and Guam were assigned to active duty here in Rhode Island to participate in this program. These “Signal Support Systems Specialists” are primarily responsible for working with battlefield signal support systems and terminal devices. The soldiers were housed at a local hotel and enjoyed their meals here at the college as well as at several local restaurants.
The three separate one-week courses were entitled ‘Introduction to Routers’, ‘Wireless Network Essentials’ and ‘Microsoft Server Administration’. NEIT faculty members Tim Culhane, Marty Truchon and Mark Magnus led various sections of the training program. The program evaluations completed by the soldiers indicated an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the course presentation, materials and equipment used, and instructor professionalism and content knowledge. Comments included: “I came to this program with no knowledge at all. After three weeks, I feel I can do this job”, “To be taught at this level is outstanding”, and “The best training I have received in my Army career.”
A formal military graduation ceremony was held on June 29 in the Media Presentation Theater. Graduates, families and friends attended the ceremony where Col. James Mountain, 3rd Battalion 98th REGT; NEIT Vice President for Corporate Education and Training, Steven Kitchin; and Major Michael Ansay, Executive Officer 3rd Battalion, presented the students with certificates and awards for their hard work. Certificates of Appreciation were also presented to the college and to the instructors. New England Institute of Technology is proud to have provided the necessary instructional expertise for these soldiers, who will utilize their new skills to more effectively carry out their military missions here, in the U.S., and overseas.
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Traveling to Boston with a Skeleton Crew
The Occupational Therapy Assistant Technology students experienced a very dramatic and educational look at the human body when they traveled to the Boston Museum of Science for “Body World 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies”. Twenty-six students and staff journeyed by chartered bus to Boston to view human cadavers preserved with a revolutionary process known as “plastinization”. This method replaces body fat and fluids with plastics that allow the bodies to be posed in a wide variety of positions to afford a look at all angles and layers of human composition.
“It was amazing”, “incredible”, said students and staff as they were moving from one display to the next. One student commented “I wish I had seen this when I was taking Anatomy and Kinesiology”.
The exhibit included dissections and cross sections of each system of the body, as well as healthy and diseased organs and limbs implanted with orthotic devices. It gave the students an opportunity to see and experience the human body in a way few outside the medical profession ever have. |
Occupational Therapy Assistant Students and Faculty Travel to Mexico
On July 8, 2007, while most of the faculty of New England Tech was enjoying their summer breaks, Carol Doehler and Susan Higgins, OTA faculty members, flew off to Mexico to repeat a journey that they started in January of this year, working in a medical clinic providing therapeutic services to disabled children and adults.
Upon their return from their trip in January, they talked about their experiences, which resulted in people wanting to join them for a repeat performance. Carol and Susan assembled a group of Occupational Therapists, Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants and one Physical Therapist, with the purpose of returning to the Fundacion Integra for two weeks.
This team, led by Carol and Susan, included: Meghan Franklin, OTR/L; Susan Guilmain, OTR/L; Janet Jacobs, PT; Natalie Wiatrowski, OTR/L; Katie McCarthy, OTR/L; Brian Robertson, OTA/g; Selene Gemmell, COTA/L; Justine Santos, photographer; Brett Brumbaugh, OTR/L; Shayne Hemingway, COTA/L; Casey Lipinski, COTA/L; and Lucy Garcia, COTA/L.
The focus of this trip was to teach parents and family members as much as they could to help make each disabled individual’s life more independent and functional. The team offered training in therapeutic play, feeding and positioning techniques, adaptive equipment, and more. Individual sessions with the families were another focus of the intervention provided. Because of the length of time, they expanded their services and were able to make a couple of home visits where they were not only treated to the hospitality of the Mexican families they visited, but they were able to offer suggestions for improved mobility in the homes, and make and install adaptive equipment to improve independence for the beneficiaries.
For one such home visit, Sue recommended that a young man with a spinal cord injury use a sliding board to assist himself in transferring from his wheelchair to his bed, instead of just throwing himself using his upper body strength. Sue gave this young man’s father an unfinished sliding board, and he not only finished it for his son to use, but he also was going to get his son involved in making more to give back to the clinic so they could have a supply to give out to others in need. This is just one small example of the ways that the group was able to make a significant difference in the lives of the disabled people of Juarez, Mexico.
Carol and Sue are now focusing on their next mission, to create a charitable foundation called “Therapy Missions”, which will continue their humanitarian endeavors, not only in Juarez, Mexico, but in other areas of the world where therapeutic intervention is scarce.
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