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U. makes LinkedIn list for top career paths CARLEY ENS CORRESPONDENT
Penn State may have stolen a win from the Scarlet Knights in football, but according to LinkedIn’s new rankings, Rutgers may be the better option for media and marketing students. On Oct. 1, LinkedIn came out with its rankings on the top universities to attend for various career paths. Out of 25 possible slots in each categor y, Rutgers ranked 22 for finance, 16 for marketers and 13 for media. According to LinkedIn, the rankings were based on which schools led graduates to desirable career outcomes. They defined desirable careers based on how well companies attract external employees and retain current ones. To find correlations between people’s places of employment and the universities they attended, 300 million LinkedIn users from around the world were analyzed, according to LinkedIn’s of ficial blog. LinkedIn analyzed individuals who graduated within the past eight years in order to reflect current employment trends, according to the blog. The rankings were categorized by profession: finance, accounting, design, investment baking, marketing, media, software development and software development at star tups. Penn State ranked 23 for designers, 17 for marketers and
23 for media professionals. The University of Pennsylvania had the most finance and marketing professionals, according to LinkedIn. New York University was No. 1 in media professionals. Rutgers’ high ranking in the media categor y did not surprise Claire McInerney, dean of the School of Communication and Information. She attributed the success of the SC&I program to its dynamic faculty, media-savvy students and internship programs. Many SC&I alumni are engaged with social media, McInerney said, as shown through the amount of graduates with LinkedIn profiles. Students connect with alumni on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, which enable them to view possible jobs they are interested in, she said. Ashwani Monga, chair of the Depar tment of Marketing in the Rutgers Business School, said these rankings should prompt more students to create LinkedIn accounts so they can tr y to connect with highly successful people. “It’s the beginning of a ver y vir tuous cycle,” Monga said. Ivan Brick, chair of the Depar tment of Finance & Economics, said social networking sites like LinkedIn are crucial networking tools for students. “Nowadays, most students do have LinkedIn accounts,” said SEE LIST ON PAGE 4
The “Making Time: Prison Arts and Activism Conference” at the Zimmerli Lower Dodge Gallery saw a large crowd of people who came to witness presentations, installations and panels, among other featured work by witnesses of the American prison system. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers organizes ‘Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism Conference’ ERIN PETENKO, LIN LAN AND WEINI ZHANG STAFF WRITERS
REGINA AUSTIN AND ANN SCHWARTZMAN
Regina Austin could not get a prisoner’s story heard because the Department of Corrections rejected her for possible security risk. This is one of the many adversities she faced as a documentarian. Austin and Ann Schwartzman, executive director of the Pennsyl-
vania Prison Society, shared their difficulties coordinating prisons with the press yesterday at the “Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism Conference,” hosted by the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women. The conference, running until Oct. 10, features panels, keynote speeches and film screenings examining the American prison system through art. This art is created by inmates and artist volunteers that have witnessed prison life through their community work.
The panel “Laws, News and Arts” took place at Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Austin, director of the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law in the University of Pennsylvania Law School, focuses on the legal use of documentaries. She is working on using video as a supplement to written records in clemency petitions for prisoners. SEE CONFERENCE ON PAGE 5
Experts reflect on anti-apartheid movement as international struggle CARLEY ENS CORRESPONDENT
Many people thought they would never live to see the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison in Februar y of 1990, said Edward Ramsamy, chair of the Africana Studies Department. “The anti-apartheid movement was one of the most important movements of the 20th centur y,” Ramsamy said. Two decades later, the Department of Africana Studies organized a retrospective examination of the anti-apartheid movement. The symposium, “The Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Transition to Democratic Rule in South Africa: Reflections After Twenty Years,” took place yesterday in Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus. Keynote speakers included Rev. M. William Howard, former chair of the Rutgers Board of Governors, and Enuga Reddy, former assistant secretar y general and director of the United Nations Center Against Apartheid.
Apartheid refers to a system of racial segregation in South Africa, and those who fought against it were a part of the anti-apartheid movement, a 50-year global struggle. “One person in prison inspired millions of people around the world,” said Reddy, who himself was a key figure in the campaign calling for Mandela’s release. The movement was an international and a generational struggle, said Abena Busia, chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. As a child, Busia came to political consciousness the year of Mandela’s trial. She remembered asking her father questions, like what the word “boycott” meant. The day of Mandela’s trial is “etched in her memor y” because of the 27-year buildup that followed in waiting for him to be released. “I sat down and started thinking of those moments and thought I wanted to bear witness to my generation of what this 27 years has SEE MOVEMENT ON PAGE 5
Enuga Reddy, former assistant secretary general and director of the United Nations Center Against Apartheid, spoke yesterday at the Alexander Library. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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