UTC Again Tops List For Minority Internships
United Technologies Corp. is the largest provider of corporate internships for the fourth year in a row, according to INROADS, the nation’s largest non-profit source of salaried corporate internships.
In 2010, UTC hired 207 INROADS Interns in a variety of fields, including engineering, finance, legal, and human resources. UTC’s Sikorsky Aircraft company was awarded the 2010 INROADS Conversion and Corporate Plus Award in the New England Region. Also, UTC’s Hamilton Sundstrand unit was honored by the Pacific Southwest Region and Hamilton contractor Dwight Mitchell was recognized with INROADSˆ’ Business Coordinator of the Year Award.
There were a number of firms with Connecticut ties among INROADS’ top 10:
1. United Technologies Corp.
2. Deloitte
3. MetLife
4. Qwest Communications International
5. PricewaterhouseCoopers
6. Kaiser Permanente
7. Boeing Company
8. KPMG International
9. Lockheed Martin Corporation
10. Travelers Companies
INROADS Interns do “real work, not make-work,” as one former Intern put it. They are mentored throughout their assignments by INROADS advisors and employees of each participating company. In the end, many of the Interns go on to become successful business leaders.
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Aetna Foundation Honored
Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut has honored the Aetna Foundation with its Corporate Leadership Award, celebrating the corporation for its financial assistance, in-kind services and employee engagement.
The Aetna Foundation “has created a great legacy of caring and has demonstrated strong corporate responsibility through its support of our programs and services,” said John M. Jezowski, chairman of the board of trustees at Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut.
Aetna Inc. and the Aetna Foundation began its long history of supporting Easter Seals in 1991 by giving to the Capital Campaign and continues with the support of the Easter Seals Crystal Ball, Volleyball Marathon and Softball Tournament.
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Scalzi Joins Board
The Americans with Disabilities Act Coalition of Connecticut has appointed William Scalzi, president and CEO of Metro Taxi and Metropolitan Livery, to its Board of Directors. Metro Taxi in West Haven is one of Connecticut’s largest providers of non-emergency medical transportation and launched the state’s first wheelchair-accessible taxi.
“Pending DOT approval, Metro Taxi and The Yellow Cab Company of Hartford hope to substantially expand wheelchair-accessible taxi service in Hartford, New Haven, Middlesex and Fairfield counties, Scalzi said.
In October, Scalzi was awarded the Americans with Disabilities Act Coalition of Connecticut’s 2010 Spirit of ADA Award for “demonstrating the essence of the ADACC consistently day to day” and received the International Taxicab, Limousine, and Paratransit Association’s 2010 Taxicab Operator of the Year Award for “most effectively serving local public transportation needs.” Also last Oct., Metro Taxi received the Green Fleet Award from the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project.
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