NEW YORK, July 11, 2006 –  The Center for Career Development is delighted to announce the commencement of the 2006-2007 Alumni Mentor Program. Last year, over 50 alumni and 100 students participated in this program, and we are very grateful for the dedication and commitment of those alumni. We hope that if you served as a mentor, you will consider doing so again this year. In order to build on the success of last year’s program, and to enable more students to participate in the program, we’d very much like to increase the number of alumni mentors. We encourage participation even if you are “out-of-town,” as last year, a number of mentors “met” with their mentees via telephone and/or email.

Mentors will work with rising second- and third-year students by providing career expertise and guidance. Students are in the process of trying to determine where they fit in the legal career picture, and a mentor’s advice and perspective are invaluable for that purpose. Please note that the mentoring relationship is NOT job-related, (unless you decide that it’s appropriate), and students are so advised.

If you would like to serve as a mentor this year, please advise Amy E. Gewirtz, associate director of alumni counseling and relations, via email at agewirtz@law.pace.edu by July 28, 2006. If you are already registered through the Alumni CCD Volunteer Network link on www.pacelawcareer.com  as a mentor (NOT Student and Alumni Job Seeker link), or any in any other volunteer capacity as noted on the profile form, please review your profile to ensure that ALL information is current. If you have not registered on this Web site, and you wish to serve as a mentor (or in any other volunteer capacity as noted on the profile form), in addition to sending an email to Amy Gewirtz as noted above, please go to www.pacelawcareer.com, click onto “Alumni Volunteer CCD Network,” and complete the registration form. We will be in touch with mentors by early fall with additional information. As we did last year, we will be holding a reception at the Law School in the fall so that the mentors and mentees can meet for the first time on common ground. Currently, the reception is planned for September 18, 2006, from 6-8:30 pm in the Tudor Room at Preston Hall.

In addition to the Alumni Mentor Program, alumni are invited to partner with the Center for Career Development as writing sample reviewers, informational interviewers, on-campus and resume referral participants, and program panelists. If you are interested in volunteering in one or more of these capacities, please register, if you haven’t done so already, on the Alumni CCD Volunteer Network section of the www.pacelawcareer.com Web site. This year, in the spring 2007 semester, we plan to hold a series of programs in which alumni would come to the Law School to speak to our students about their areas of expertise, either on a lunch hour or in the early evening. If this is of interest to you, please email Amy Gewirtz at agewirtz@law.pace.edu.

Finally, the Center is dedicated to assisting alumni with their personal career goals. The associate director of alumni counseling and relations would be delighted to meet with you in person, or via telephone or email. In addition, the Center places job postings and notices of events on our Web site; in order to access them, alumni need to register at www.pacelawcareer.com by clicking onto the Student and Alumni Job Seeker link.

We look forward to working with you during this academic year. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Amy Gewirtz via email at agewirtz@law.pace.edu, or at (914) 422-4606.

Founded in 1976, Pace University School of Law has nearly 5,000 alumni/ae throughout the country. It offers full- and part-time day and evening JD programs on its White Plains, N.Y., campus. The School also offers the Master of Laws in Environmental Law and in Comparative Legal Studies. The School, which has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs, also offers the SJD program in that field. The School of Law is part of a comprehensive, independent and diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. www.law.pace.edu 

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, N.Y., and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu