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Human Resource Management Students Awarded for a Job Well Done
June 14, 2017
Photo: From left to right: Members of the NYIT-SHRM student chapter Savannah Clarke; Mitali Baxi; Maya Kroumova, Ph.D., Department Chair, Human Resource Management and Labor Relations; Karen Paul; Anne Alvarado; Melissa Shaver; Kristen Schaefer; and William Ninehan, director of the Department of Human Resources and Chapter Advisor
The NYIT Society for Human Resource Management (NYIT-SHRM) student chapter has done it again.
On June 2, SHRM announced that the group will receive the 2016–2017 Outstanding Merit Award for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student chapter members. This is the third time the chapter received this award (it previously won in 2011 and 2014), which is the highest of four levels of merit awards presented by SHRM to student chapters. The award will be presented at SHRM’s annual conference in New Orleans on June 18.
SHRM, the world’s largest human resources professional society, represents 285,000 members in more than 165 countries. Of the 327 student chapters from across the United States, NYIT-SHRM was one of only 20 chapters in the nation and the only chapter in the New York City/Long Island region to receive the honor.
In applying for the Outstanding Merit Award, NYIT-SHRM cited its special focus this year on a training project with HempsteadWorks to raise the work readiness of at-risk young adults on Long Island, while building the professional HR competencies of its student members. Hempstead Town Commissioner and Director of the Local Workforce Development Board Ana-Maria Hurtado noted that the chapter developed “meaningful and helpful curricula [and] delivered them with outstanding success.”
“These chapters truly represent the future of the HR profession,” said Susan Post, SHRM-SCP, east divisional director at SHRM, and the lead for SHRM’s Student Programs. “Their achievements go above and beyond their everyday academic and work commitments and we applaud the positive impact their efforts have on their schools, their local communities, and beyond.”
