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Summer accounting program offered
The School of Management will partner with the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants to offer the Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program to 28 area high school juniors in an effort to educate minority high school students about career opportunities in the accounting profession and provide them with tools to help them in the business world.
The program will run from Sunday through June 29 at UB.
"The goal of the program is to increase awareness of the many opportunities that an accounting education and career can provide," says Ann Burstein Cohen, visiting associate professor of accounting and law, and chair of the UB COAP program. "It is our hope that if minority students realize early on that the accounting profession has a variety of interesting opportunities, we can increase the number of candidates who enter the field."
The program will include lectures by certified public accountants (CPAs) and UB faculty, as well as tours of Rich Products, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Lumsden & McCormick LLP to observe CPAs in action. The program will conclude with a banquet and keynote address by UB head basketball coach Reggie Witherspoon.
Other members of the UB COAP committee are Alex B. Ampadu, visiting associate professor of accounting and law, UB School of Management; Mark Bruno, upstate New York human resources director, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Eileen M Connor-Costilow, director of human resources, Lumsden & McCormick LLP; Arlene Hibschweiler, UB adjunct associate professor of accounting and law; Elizabeth J Sterns, director, Brisbane Consulting Group LLC; Carmela Thompson associate director of admissions at UB; and Daniel Tirone, CPA.
More than 900 students have graduated from the COAP program since it began in New York State in 1987. In addition to UB, COAP will be held at eight colleges and universities across the state this summer. A survey of COAP alumni has revealed that almost 100 percent of respondents have gone on to college and that 70 percent are majoring or enrolled in accounting or business programs.
Kids to "explore the arts" in summer program
Middle school children will get a chance to "explore the arts" during the Center for the Arts' annual theatrical arts summer program July 10-14 in the CFA, North Campus.
"Explore the Arts," which already is sold out for this summer's session, is taught by a combination of UB professional staff, faculty and area professionals. The session aims to develop technical and performance skills in a nurturing and integrated environment where children can participate in a shared creative experience, ultimately expanding the participants' knowledge of and interest in the arts. Instruction will be at a level appropriate for participants.
The program consists of daily workshops covering both technical theater and performance, including such topics as scenery design and construction, creative lighting and sound operation, costume design, basic acting and dance.
The workshops are process-oriented and do not culminate in a dramatic production.
Social Work workshops scheduled
The Office of Continuing Education in the School of Social Work will present two weeks of intensive workshops as part of its 21st annual Summer Institute of Continuing Education for Human Service Professionals.
The workshops will be held July 17-28 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
Featured presenters and the workshops they will present include Nancy J. Smyth, dean, UB School of Social Work, "Individual Approaches to Trauma Treatment: Evidence Based Practices"; Richard C. Schwartz, director, Center for Self Leadership, Oak Park, Ill., "A New Empowering Approach to Working with Severely Traumatized Clients: The Internal Family Systems Model"; Edna B. Foa, professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and world-renowned expert in anxiety disorders, "Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"; Carol Conklin, director of clinical services, Child and Family Services, Buffalo, "Internet Pornography Addiction- A Slippery Slope"? Roger M. Solomon, clinical psychologist specializing in trauma and grief therapy, "Acute Critical Incident Trauma Management" and Jed Metzger, assistant professor, Nazareth College, Rochester, "Successfully Working with the Kinship Family Form."
For more information, see the summer institute catalogue at http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/conted/workshop.asp, email sw-ce@buffalo.edu or call 829-3939.