Shyrl Orrego Scalice Joins NTID Center On Employment

From: NTID - Oct 25, 2006

Contact: Karen E. M. Black
karen.black@rit.edu
(585) 475-6840 voice/TTY

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 24—Shyrl Orrego Scalice of Penfield has joined the Center on Employment at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, as an employment advisor.

She will assist students seeking co-op and permanent positions, collaborate with faculty members to identify workplace trends, and encourage employers locally and nationally to hire deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Scalice has a Master of Science degree in Education from Nazareth College and a bachelor’s degree in Biology/Chemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She previously worked as a career consultant and trainer at Lee Hecht Harrison in Rochester and as a corporate recruiter and staffing manager at Eastman Kodak Company.

NTID is the first and largest technological college in the world for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. One of eight colleges of RIT, NTID offers educational programs and access and support services to the 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students from around the world who study, live, and socialize with 14,400 undergraduate hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, N.Y., campus. Web address: www.rit.edu/NTID.

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