Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 2

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 2
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Lehigh joins the American Talent Initiative New name,
same aim:
CGC seeks
own spot
TransparentCareer offers students an alternative job search
Talent initiative drives Lehigh to accept more low-income students
By PAIGE PAGAN
B&W Staff
By MADISON HOFF
Assistant News Editor
Lehigh has joined 29 other
schools in the American Talent
Initiative (ATI) to increase its
number of talented, lower- and
moderate-income students
Set up by Bloomberg
Philanthropies, ATI’s goal is to
admit more talented low-income
students to colleges and universi-ties
with consistently high gradu-ation
rates. Bruce Bunnick, inter-im
vice provost for undergraduate
admissions, said this will add to
recent efforts made by the uni-versity
to reflect the diversity in
society.
In September 2016, President
John Simon was asked by a
representative of Bloomberg
Philanthropies to become part of
this initiative.
Simon, Bunnick and Ira Rubien,
the associate vice president of
marketing and communications,
will meet in New York on Feb.
22 with the 29 other schools to
discuss procedures and how data
will be collected.
“The greater imperative here
is, I think we have an obligation
of higher education to reach out
to a large amount of students
who might not consider a col-lege
degree or college experience,”
Bunnick said.
He said students may think the
idea is out of reach for different
reasons such as cost. Bunnick
thinks this initiative will eradi-cate
the financial burden for some
families.
“The cost right now (to attend
Lehigh) is over $63,000, and that
sticker price is somewhat pro-hibitive,”
said Jason Shumaker,
senior associate director of finan-cial
aid.
He said what people should look
at is the net price of attendance
after receiving financial aid pack-ages.
Shumaker said although the
initiative may, in theory, mean
the financial aid need for stu-dents
will increase, Lehigh will
still try to meet 100 percent of
need-based financial aid. He said
he encourages Lehigh being a
part of ATI to promote the univer-
The university’s Cultural Greek
Council may have returned from
winter break with a new name, but
the goals of the group, formerly
known as the Multicultural Greek
Council, are the same as before.
“The name changed to be more
inclusive of the fact that we’re all
culturally based organizations but
we’re different in the way we got
there with different histories,” said
Gladys Castellon, ’17, the former
president of CGC.
The council, which is currently
comprised of five culturally-based
Greek organizations, returned to
campus with a continued interest
in increasing their visibility with-in
the Lehigh community. Whereas
the majority of Lehigh’s fraternities
and sororities have physical chapter
houses on the Hill, CGC has begun
looking to obtain a plot of land on
campus that would be a physical
representative of the council.
Kristen Mejia, ’17, the current
CGC president, said the council’s
renewed interest in a plot is not new.
Instead, the council has expressed
a desire to gain a plot, or even
an entire house for CGC alums,
since 2011. For Mejia, a member of
Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority
Inc., the process has not been an
easy one.
“You have to go through so many
Photo Illustration by Erik Thomas/B&W Staff
TransparentCareer launches its new space for undergraduate students Feb. 7. The site offers
career data for users who want to narrow down statistics for their own career paths.
By SAM TOPP
Associate News Editor
TransparentCareer is launching
its new undergraduate space this
week in order to bring person-alized
career data to a broader
range of users.
Unlike other popular career
sites such as LinkedIn and
Glassdoor, TransparentCareer
focuses on compiling raw data and
filtering it in a way that allows
users to see other people’s results
across their own career path. This
feature helps users better nego-tiate
salaries, identify companies
that hire similar candidates and
figure out the best career path.
The company, originally
TransparentMBA, was founded
by two University of Chicago stu-dents,
Mitch Kirby and Kevin
Marvinac. TransparentMBA won
the university’s New Venture
Challenge in 2016, and two weeks
later pitched their idea to Hyde
Park Angels, an early-stage
investment firm.
“I had the opportunity to watch
them there,” said Aaron Monieson,
’17, who worked at Hyde Park
Venture Partners last summer. “I
reached out to them the next day,
See LOW INCOME Page 4
See CAREER Page 3
See CGC Page 2
New career site offers number-driven career data
to assist students entering the job market
Anna Simoneau/B&W Staff