The Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) is the recipient of the prestigious 1995 Nathaniel Stinson
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Award in the Special Recognition
category. NRL was cited for its recruitment of women and
minorities.
CAPT Bruce W. Buckley, NRL Commanding
Officer, and Ms. Deborah Erwin, NRL Deputy Equal Employment Opportunity
Officer, accepted the award at a Pentagon ceremony April 3.
According to the citation, "NRL
is recognized for special recognition of support and leadership
of the SECNAV 'One Navy' Recruiting Program. During fiscal year
1995, NRL developed recruitment plans to host a joint recruitment
effort at the Rio Grande High Technology Minority and Women Career
Fair, which will be held in Albuquerque, N.M, during 1996 and
1997. NRL made contact with several universities in the southwest
region of the United States through Project Uplift, to sponsor
the Navy's first High Tech Recruitment event. NRL, in its leadership
role for the 'One Navy' Recruiting Program, coordinated participation
of other Navy activities; financed the advertisement of vacancies;
and presented workshops at the Career Fairs. NRL recruitment
initiatives resulted in a total of 320 employees hired during
fiscal 1995 (49 percent were minorities and female); employed
283 employees with disabilities (56 were targeted disabled);
36 of the total hired in their Cooperative Education Program
were minorities and females; 68 percent of the total hired under
the 1040 hours authority were minorities and females; 51 percent
of the total participation in their Science and Engineering Apprentice
Program were minorities and females; and of those hired in the
NRL's Summer Employment Program, 49 percent were minorities and
females. As a result of its Summer Employment Program success,
the Laboratory was asked to provide program coordination for
the 1996 Federal Recruitment Program for Persons with
Disabilities."
The Stinson award is named for
Nathaniel Stinson, who served 20 years as a Navy civilian engineer
and became the first principal EEO Officer for the former Naval
Material Command. The Naval Material Command's civilian population,
represented 75 percent of the total civilian work force at the
Department of the Navy (DON) at the time. Mr. Stinson distinguished
himself in both the engineering and the EEO career fields. He
received the Superior Civilian Service Award in 1974, and in
1980, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service
Award, posthumously. The Nathaniel Stinson EEO Award, the highest
EEO award within the DON, was originally established in 1989
by the Chief of Naval Operations to honor dedication, commitment,
and achievements towards advancing EEO. The award recognizes
exemplary achievements of commands and activities to further
the Navy's EEO objectives and initiatives.
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