PMC is a small, private, liberal arts college offering two-year & four-year undergraduate degrees for women as well as a co-educational MFA.
Pine Manor College held their one-hundred and second commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12, 2013. Check out this great video of some of our amazing graduates! Congratulations!
Prospective Students: The February 15th deadline to register for the Women of Promise Scholarship Competition is fast approaching! Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to compete for $10,000-$15,000 scholarship awards. Share the link for registration: http://www.pmc.edu/promise-scholarship
Don't miss out! The deadline for registration is February 15th, 2013.
For details and to register online go to:
http://www.pmc.edu/promise-scholarship
Sallyann Kakas, PMC's Director of Career Development, was quoted in a Forbes article. The article, titled: "I Did Not Know To Ask for Salary Negotiation Help", was published today, January 10, 2013. Here's an excerpt: Career Centersâ?? Salary Negotiation Services College career centers offer preparation and assistance with salary negotiation. Sallyann Kakas, the Director of Career Development at Pine Manor College has an amazing background including working in corporate human resources to help any of their students forge ahead with their career. The center does help students and alumni with salary negotiation. One of Sallyannâ??s success stories is helping a student increase her starting salary by $20,000. Not all success stories are direct involvement in a salary negotiation. Career counselors will assist students and alumni plan for negotiations before they even interview for a job. One important tip from Ms. Kakas is to â??negotiate with the person who NEEDS you, not with human resources.â?? Schools also provide negotiation training to their students through special programs and guest speaker events. Kelly Buckley, Career Counselor, states, â??At Lasell College, we have included salary negotiation as part of our Four Year Career Plan and as a step in the career research process.â?? She also stated, â??Students will come to me for salary guidance after receiving a job offer and weâ??ll discuss potential next steps before they make a decision about accepting the position.â?? Negotiation Rooted in Curriculum Back at Pine Manor, Sallyann Kakas highlights that most schools imbed learning negotiations throughout their curriculum. Consider the omnipresent group assignments that are designed for students to learn to work together as they will as working professionals. Sallyann states, â??part of the art of working together is learning to negotiate with each other. The students need to negotiate every aspect of the assignment with people they may not know well or at all. â?? If the career centers at all colleges are in as impressive hands as Sallyann Kakasâ?? and staffed with counselors like Kelly Buckley then students have the opportunity to learn salary negotiation. The problem is that there are so many things for students to learn about careers that students need to know to get help for salary negotiation. Parents, aunts, uncles, and anyone who cares about a college student need to help them know to ask for salary negotiation knowledge. Or those students could end up like my niece, ticked that no one told them. To read Forbes' full article go to: http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2013/01/10/i-did-not-know-to-ask-for-salary-negotiation-help/ To learn more about Career Development at Pine Manor College, visit us at: http://www.pmc.edu/career-development
Julia Glass will offer a sneak preview of her new novel on Thursday, as part of the Winter Reading Series at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill.
The effervescent Marblehead resident is the painter-turned-writer whose first book, “Three Junes,” won the National Book Award in 2002.
She’ll be reading from her fifth novel, “And the Dark Sacred Night,” scheduled to be published by Pantheon early in 2014.
“The book is about a middle-aged man searching for the identity of a father he never knew — so, once again, it’s a story wrapped around family secrets,” Glass wrote in a recent e-mail. “Though the hero is a new character for me, he emerged from a tiny subplot of ‘Three Junes,’ so readers will re-encounter familiar faces from that book as well as ‘The Whole World Over.’ ”
In a letter to his father, William Styron (left) characterized President Kennedy’s literary tastes as ‘rather square and conventional,’ and called Kennedy’s mind ‘an enormously sharp one,’ though not profound.
Also reading that night will be David Yoo, author of two young-adult novels and the essay collection “The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever,” and Amy Hoffman, author of “Hospital Time,” about caring for a friend who died of AIDS; “An Army of Ex-Lovers,” about working at Gay Community News in Boston; and a third memoir, “Lies About My Family” (University of Massachusetts), to be published in May. On Thursday she’ll read from a novel in progress set in Provincetown.
The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m., with a cash-bar reception to follow.
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