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business today, and the third generation — Harris’ daugh- ter, Jordan Dawson, a Customer Services Rep, and Cox’s son, Payton Cox, Project Engineer — have also found re- warding careers at the family company. From there, at- tendees toured the new Greif CorrChoice facility which will be supplying large format boxes up to triple wall. Next up was an inspirational visit to the University of Texas-Arlington for lunch and a program with presenta- tions on cyber security (Steve Jarmon, Stambaugh Ness), the regional economy (Mariam Yousuf, an economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), internships (Caitlin Salaverria, President of the International Corrugated Pack- aging Foundation (ICPF), and Ben Dolezal, Associate Pro- fessor of Design, UTA), followed by a tour of UTA’s packag- ing program facilities.
Salaverria said the ICPF is working to increase student awareness of the industry and create resources for those in the corrugated packaging industry through programs, outreach, industry exposure and impactful partnerships. Jenise Cox, CFO of Harris Packaging, moderated the program at UTA during the AICC SW Summit.
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“We want you to be as successful as possible. We want to give you tools to help make that happen,” she said. ICPF has donated equipment to col- leges and universities and helped develop curricula to support packaging faculty and expand course offerings. UTA is a great ex- ample. Salaverria said that ICPF, with sup- port from Harris Packaging, sponsored the upstart of UTA’s packaging design lab and helped develop some of their curricula.
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“We do this through our university awards program,” she said. “We allow schools to submit requests for funding ev- ery year.” Educating students at earlier ages about careers in the corrugated packaging industry is also part of ICPF’s mission. “One of our main issues is that students don’t know about us. They don’t know that we offer the opportunity for lifelong ca- reers. We’re currently working to expand this outreach beyond colleges and univer- sities to also target community colleges, trade and vocational schools, high school and middle school students,” she said.
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