California State University, Fresno students involved in soil conservation or agricultural engineering have a new opportunity with a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Student Career Experience Program designed to help people help the land.
The new training program will be launched at 10 a.m. Monday, May 10, at the University Student Union Room 310. That’s when Dr. Charles Boyer, dean the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, and Curtis Tarver, assistant California conservationist for the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, sign a memorandum of understanding.
The partnership will help students interested in pursuing a career with the Natural Resources Conservation Service as a soil conservationist or agricultural engineer.
The Student Career Experience program requires students to work a minimum of 640 hours prior to completion of college course work while maintaining academic eligibility. Students may complete all or part of the 640 hours during the school term, if their course load permits, and the balance working full-time during summer and other breaks from classes.
The paid internships provide health and life insurance benefits.
In return, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, subject to funding and staffing constraints, will provide a full career-path position upon the student’s graduation.
For more information, contact Roberto González Jr., with the Fresno State USDA-Hispanic-Serving Institutions National Program Liaison Office, 559.278.8311 or rogonzalez@csufresno.edu.
(Copy by University Communications news intern Sadie Thomas)
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