SALES AND SERVICE INFORMATON FOR ORGANIZATIONAL USERS



WHO WE ARE
AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE

A strong and committed consortium of educational institutions and organizations came together to create the Hispanic Experts Database/Minority Experts Database and to address THE PROBLEM of effectively recruiting minority professionals for jobs or getting information to them about opportunities of all kinds. The following organizations pooled their resources to address this problem:

Arizona State University · Eastern Michigan University ·
Educational Testing Service · Hispanic Association of Colleges and
Universities · Michigan State University · University of Michigan
· Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees · Project 1000

The information that follows tells you how we have set up the Hispanic Experts Database/Minority Experts Database to help solve this problem and how, we can make our services available to you at a very low cost that will permit our nonprofit
consortium to operate permanently on your behalf.



WHAT WE ARE OFFERING

Organizations that are interested in contacting minority professionals for a variety of reasons will find our database extremely valuable. We have designed a system to get information to our database members either via computer or hard copy, including the following illustrative examples:


We are offering an immediate, up-to-date, economical and continuously maintained computerized service to get your information into the hands of people to whom you truly wish to communicate. We began actual operation in 1992 and since September
1992 have made our services available to agencies, institutions and organizations.2The Hispanic Experts Database/Minority Experts Database currently has over 26,500 units of expertise (since most experts qualify in multiple areas, there are fewer individuals than units of expertise in the Database) and we are increasing by approximately 1,000 units of expertise each month.

In order to become a participant in the Hispanic Experts Database/Minority Experts Database, an individual must have at least a baccalaureate or equivalent experience in one or more relevant fields of expertise. Individuals participating
in the Database can be described or grouped for informational purposes over dozens of dimensions including gender, ethnicity, geographic area of residence or job preference, current job, level of education, language abilities, consulting or research interests, and other similar variables. When individuals join the Database they agree to make their names available to organizations interested in sharing valuable educational, career and employment, professional, technological, cultural, artistic, or similar information with them.

This service is not available for non-educational or non-career purposes such as direct mail or telemarketing of goods, services, insurance, real estate, etc.



We have entered and are continuing to enter the professional credentials of Hispanic and other minority experts from thousands of separate organizations and disciplines including the following:

· All of the community college, college and university disciplines
are represented including art, humanities, social sciences, natural
and physical sciences, education, and all of the professional
disciplines

· All of the practicing professions are represented, including education, law, engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine, forestry, social work, business, architecture, public health, library and archival science,
information science, computer science, and criminology and the
justice system

· Government; schools and school districts; educational, scientific,
business, trade, and policy board; foundations and philanthropy;
trade, commerce, and business services are all represented

There is no cost for individuals to become participants and users of the Database. The Hispanic Experts Database/Minority Experts Database is charging institutions a price that is very economical compared to other means of transmission. Your money goes directly to maintaining and expanding this nonprofit, consortially-
administered database. Depending on the type of information you need to communicate or the type of services required, the information on our Database is available to you in a variety of forms described on the next page.