When the Cedar Falls Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CF CAPS) launched its Business Communication and Design program at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, it was located in downtown Cedar Falls.
The University of Northern Iowa has been an integral part of the Cuddeback family.
Today’s college students appear much less enamored with “big business as usual” than their immediate predecessors. Students today are faced with a job market requiring nimbleness, as large corporations no long offer lifetime employment that Americans of the past experienced.
Jamal White (Marketing & Management ’18) has faced the stereotypes before. White, who started working at Procter & Gamble in July, is part of Generation Z, a cohort of individuals born between approximately 1995 and 2010.
Starting as an intern in 1994 — the company’s second cohort in its well-regarded internship program — Underwood was hired full time in 1995. She’s been there ever since, outlasting her peers in the first and second internship groups. That initial experience was invaluable for Underwood.
Opportunity Zones (OZ), created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, were designed to spur private investment in distressed communities by providing significant tax benefits to investors with large capital gains or longtime horizons.