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Follow on Google News | Alumnus Advocates for Adelphi InternsIBM’s Thomas Croker '71 on Reasons Why Internships are Important
Thomas Croker has been with IBM for 47 years, having started in the spring of 1968 answering the phone at night. He eventually began working there full-time while still continuing as a full-time student at Adelphi, graduating cum laude with a BBA in business management in 1971. His job at IBM helped him pay his way through school and gave him the career he has pursued. Croker has stayed in touch with his alma mater and helped build a strong ongoing relationship between the Internship and Mentoring Program in the Willumstad School and IBM, one of the world’s leading computer technology and consulting firms. As a result, Neil Halloran, director of the Internship and Mentoring Program, has been able to connect Willumstad students with IBM’s human resources department – ensuring extraordinary opportunities for Adelphi students and access high quality interns for IBM. Croker is proud of the high quality work of the Adelphi interns; an impressive assessment given that IBM recruits globally. “The reality is with a national company like IBM, they tend to gravitate to some of the better known national programs like NYU or Georgetown, so what I try to do is be an advocate for Adelphi,” says Croker. “I try to impress on the people who hire interns and trainees the quality of the education, and the quality of students that are at Adelphi.” He points out that Adelphi students have an incredible drive and work ethic that is not always found in students from larger universities. “Many of them are from what I call ‘hard working Long Island Families’,” According to Croker, the experience of working through college, especially in a business relevant position, is one he feels will benefit students beyond just resume enhancement. The first thing he mentioned is that it teaches a student two very important life skills: time management and “priority management.” Croker believes that the internship experience helps to clarify a student’s choice of career. “An internship can help you create positive impressions of an environment or even provide you with helpful negative impressions,” For more information about The Robert B. Willumstad Internship and Mentorship Program, visit http://business.adelphi.edu/ About Adelphi University New York’s Adelphi University is a nationally ranked, doctoral research university where students succeed by gaining the skills, knowledge and exposure to thrive as professionals and active citizens in an interconnected and fast-paced global society. Today, nearly 8,000 students from 38 states and 46 countries pursue degrees in person and online through Adelphi’s eight distinguished schools and programs—the College of Arts and Sciences, the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, the College of Nursing and Public Health and the School of Social Work. Chartered in 1896, Adelphi is known for offering a personalized education—one is which students are mentored by talented and committed faculty members and readily find opportunities to initiate, innovate, explore and understand. With dynamic learning hubs on Long Island, in Manhattan and in the Hudson Valley, Adelphi serves communities, both regionally and globally, through the research and practice of its faculty, the collaborative initiatives undertaken by its centers and programs, the staging of distinguished cultural events and, most essentially, the education of future leaders and informed citizens. End
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