Online Career Center Opens

The Connecticut Association of Nonprofits has launched a new, Web-based career center that connects job seekers with prospective employers in the state’s nonprofit community.

“Our primary goal was to create a low cost, user-friendly job board with local appeal for nonprofits in Connecticut. Talented, diverse employees are critical to an organization’s success and sustainability. The Nonprofit Career Center facilitates that introduction,” Ron Cretaro, executive director of the association, said in a statement announcing the new program.

Nonprofit employers can reach qualified job seekers, broadcast their employment opportunities and display an organization profile.

Job seekers can obtain career advice, post a resume anonymously, receive alerts when a new posting meets their selected criteria and communicate with employers through an internal messaging system.

To visit the Nonprofit Career Center, log onto www.ctnonprofits.org and click nonprofit jobs/employment. Job listings are free for members of Connecticut Nonprofits and $100 for nonmembers.

Trinity College has received a $365,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a Center for Teaching and Learning.

Two experienced faculty members have been appointed co-directors of the center: Gary Reger, professor of history, and Dina Anselmi, associate professor of psychology.

The move to establish a teaching center at Trinity comes at a time when changes have been made recently to the college’s general education requirements.

The faculty has approved a second-language requirement for all undergraduates and a requirement that all students take a writing-intensive course in the first semester of their first year and another such course in their major.

Also approved was a “global” requirement designed to ensure that students, irrespective of their major, take at least one course that will help them better understand global phenomena.