Lori Haight Receives UCS Award, Tressie McMillan Cottum elected to ASA council

SILS Career Services Director Lori Haight recognized by Carolina Career Community

SILS Career Services Director Lori Haight received the 2022 Best Practices Award / Innovation Award From Carolina Career Community (C3), a professional network that aims to serve as a key resource to all UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff who provide career advising to students and/or maintain employer relations.

C3 awards the Best Practices Award/Innovation Award annually to highlight an innovative and/or consistently effective career services initiative presented during the academic year that benefits students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Haight received the award for her successful efforts throughout the pandemic to connect iSchool career services professionals and students around the world.

“During the pandemic, she connected with other North American iSchools to help form the Information Schools and Colleagues Collaborative Network, which now consists of 15 schools that meet regularly to develop and implement large-scale educational and recruitment events for prospective students around the United States and globally,” says the CS website. “The network hosted 4 virtual recruiting events over 2 years, with a total of 25 institutions participating. The largest event, INFOcon 2021, had over 20 faculty ‘lightening talks’ on a wide variety of subjects and areas of interest in the field. The hope is for this partnership to extend for many more years into the future.”

Lori Haight

Associate Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom elected to 2022-23 ASA Council

SILS Associate Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom was elected to the American Sociological Association (ASA) Council in May 2022. ASA is the national professional membership association for sociologists and others who are interested in sociology. McMillan Cottom will serve a three-year term on the ASA Council, the elected governing body of the Association, as a Council Member-at-Large.

As per ASA’s Bylaws, Council “exercise[s] all corporate powers and fiduciary responsibility over the affairs of ASA and is responsible for the overall strategic direction and policymaking of the Association.”

As a Council Member-at-Large, McMillan Cottom will also serve on the Council’s Awards Committee, which is responsible for supporting the association’s awards program, including recommending to the Council relevant policy changes and liaising with the award selection committees.

The Council typically meets twice a year to discuss ASA matters. To learn more about ASA and the ASA Council or find meeting minutes, visit www.asanet.org.

Tressie McMillan Cottom

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