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Last updated: 04/04/03
For release: January 9, 1998
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Deputy Secretary John Garamendi met this week with four college students who have been promised full-time jobs with the Bureau of Land Management upon their graduation and successful participation in a career training program.
"Secretary Babbitt, Deputy Secretary Garamendi and I are committed to recruiting and hiring a talented workforce that reflects America's diversity," BLM Director Pat Shea said. "These students, who represent our rich Hispanic and African American heritage, are top-notch, and we look forward to having them join us."
Two students, Jose P. Carrillo of Chama and Alma Lively of Ruidoso, currently attend New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Carrillo is studying environmental engineering; Lively is majoring in mass communications. Both are seniors. As an introduction to the BLM and its management of natural resources, Carrillo and Lively recently attended top-level management meetings, where they received briefings on BLM issues and met with Assistant Secretary Bob Armstrong.
Caryl Turner of Sterling, Virginia, is part of the BLM's Student Career Experience Program and is serving as a program analyst trainee in the BLM's Washington, D.C., office. She is a graduate student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and is pursuing a degree in physical education with an emphasis in outdoor recreation and park administration.
Stephanie Bolan, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, starts a one year detail with the BLM this month as a recreation specialist in the BLM's Headquarters in Washington, D.C., as part of the Student Career Experience Program. She is studying forestry and recreation.
Shea said Secretary Babbitt has set five diversity-related goals for the BLM and other Interior agencies, which are: (1) to recruit a workforce that reflects the diversity of the American people; (2) to retain that workforce; (3) to institutionalize managers' accountability for ensuring diversity; (4) to educate managers and rank-and-file employees about diversity; and (5) to carry out a "zero tolerance" policy toward discrimination, harassment, and hostile work environments.
BLM Deputy Director Tom Fry said that to reach these goals, the BLM must overcome its past. "The fact is, our agency has not been as aggressive as it should have been in recruiting minorities," Fry said. "We are taking steps to remedy that situation, and one of the ways we are doing that is by strengthening our partnerships with Hispanic and African-American institutions."
The BLM was among several Federal agencies that recently co-sponsored the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' International Conference on Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage, held in Tempe, Arizona.
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Left to right: Caryl Turner, Stephanie Bolan, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Alma Lively, Jose P. Carillo. (file size = 105.26 Kb; image size = 640 x 457) |
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BLM Deputy Director Tom Fry, Stephanie Bolan, Jose P. Carillo, Alma Lively, Deputy Secretary of the Interior John Garamendi, and Caryl Turner. (file size = 86.20 Kb; image size = 640 x 457) |
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Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Dow y Anaya, professor at New Mexico Highlands University; Jose P. Carillo; Elba Garcia Burke, National Program Manager for Hispanic-American Colleges and Universities (HACU); Deputy Secretary of the Interior John Garamendi; Alma Lively, and David Montoya, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Diversity. (file size = 82.91 Kb; image size = 640 x 457) |
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