Elsa Núñez on Internships with Business ... and for Equity (Video)

Video snippets from NEBHE’s Summit on Employability: A National Imperative …

Eastern Connecticut State University President Elsa Núñez led a session at the Dec. 4 Summit about the Commission on Higher Education & Employability’s “Equity Imperative.” NEBHE aims to ensure that the Commission’s workforce vision serves all New Englanders … as a matter of social justice, but also as a matter of sound economics in the slow-growing region. Here, Núñez recounts her internship work with students who may not have cars or other resources to capitalize on off-campus work-integrated learning …

… and her work with Cigna Executive Vice President Mark Boxer, whose company gets diversity and new talent …

About 400 leaders gathered at NEBHE’s Leadership Summit on Employability: A National Imperative, held Dec. 4, 2017 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.