TakingITGlobal: Inspira, Informa, Incluye

The mission of INROADS is to develop and place talented minority youth in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. INROADS recruits outstanding students of color with 3.0 or better grade point averages.

Since INROADS started in Chicago in 1970 with 25 college student interns and 17 sponsoring corporation, the organization has grown to 52 affiliates, including Mexico City, Mexico, Toronto, Canada, more than 6,000 high school and college students, and over 932 client corporations in 36 states and...
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Since INROADS started in Chicago in 1970 with 25 college student interns and 17 sponsoring corporation, the organization has grown to 52 affiliates, including Mexico City, Mexico, Toronto, Canada, more than 6,000 high school and college students, and over 932 client corporations in 36 states and the District of Columbia. INROADS has received the U.S. Department of Labor LIFT Award in recognition of initiatives to enhance the quality of the American work force and been selected as one of "America's Top 100 Internships" by the Princeton Review annually since 1994.

Over 8,000 graduates are pursuing professional and managerial careers. More than two dozen are corporate vice presidents, many are assistant vice presidents, others hold senior financial positions in city government, and several are successful entrepreneurs. Hundreds are at middle and upper management levels in engineering, retailing, banking, accounting, manufacturing and telecommunications.

For high school students, it combines intensive instruction in basic academic skills (math, science, English) with career counseling. The 7 INROADS Pre-College Components work with 18 host universities and 700 high school students.
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