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Prepared

for the A Diverse

and Inclusive

Workforce Environment

Students at HAC study in practical, career-oriented academic
degree programs, are groomed to enter the workforce upon
graduation, and become effectively employed in extraordinary
numbers.

HAC’s Career Counseling Center is a campus hotspot. One in three students
obtains critical guidance and participates in the Center's workshops, and more
than one thousand students typically attend its annual Spring Job Fair. The
newly expanded Internship Program allows a significant number of students
to obtain credit and gain valuable employment experience through on-the-
job-training. In light of the current situation, the Center is now assisting many
more alumni too, by offering job search seminars and social media networking
workshops, and is also poised to launch a mentoring program especially
designed for ultra-Orthodox computer science students. The Center's success in
helping students prepare for the workforce, and by serving as a model for other
Israeli institutions of higher education, persuaded the Edmond de Rothschild
Foundation, which first established the Center in 2014, to renew its generous
support for the next three years.
HAC is establishing Advanced steps are underway to establish the Azrieli Center
the Azrieli Center for for Diversity and Inclusion, the first center of its kind at any
Diversity and Inclusion, Israeli college or university. The Center is being made possible
through generous grants from the Azrieli Foundation,
to strengthen efforts together with the Russell Berrie Foundation. The Center
to absorb and retain will support the absorption and retention of students from
students from a wide underprivileged, underrepresented, and minority backgrounds,
including the ultra-Orthodox, Arab-Israelis, Ethiopian-Israelis,
variety of backgrounds, and new immigrants, and will help integrate students with
and accommodate their physical and learning disabilities, and those with emotional
unique learning needs challenges. The Center will enable HAC to better coordinate
in order to ensure and expand the critical services it provides through the Office
of the Dean of Students, the Henrietta Szold Challenge Center,
their success in higher and Career Counseling Center, which together provide support
education. for HAC’s student body, and ensure the success of every
individual student.

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