Monthly Archives: April 2011

Rousseau Reading Group Leaders Wanted

LAH is looking for leaders for Rousseau’s Reading Groups 2011. Rousseau’s Reading Groups are book discussions led by LAH students. You may choose any book to discuss. We will ask freshmen LAH students to sign up for discussion groups during summer orientation. Rousseau’s Reading Groups are held during the first three weeks of the Fall semester at any location the leader chooses. Please fill out the application and send it in by May 10th.

Rousseau’s Application

LAH Needs Volunteers for Orientation Advising

Help new LAHers pick out their fall classes during summer orientation!

From the week of June 6th through July 11th, we will need volunteers to help out all day on Tuesdays, when students are selecting their classes and on Wednesday mornings, from 9 am – noon in the MEZ computer lab when students are registering.

You can provide valuable insight about professors, classes and workload!

We don’t need you every single week – just sign up for what time you can spare by Wednesday, May 4.  There is a sign up sheet at the LAH front desk.

We will have a training session on Monday, May 9 3:30 – 5 pm, with PIZZA, location TBD.

Glamour Magazine’s 2012 Top 10 College Women Scholarship Competition

Glamour magazine would love to invite your students to apply for our 2012 Top 10 College Women Competition. The contest is open to any woman who will be a full-time junior at an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada for the 2011-2012 academic year.

We’re looking for dynamic young women with leadership experience, excellent grades and inspiring goals. We’ll award one grand prize of $20,000 and nine $3,000 prizes. All winners will receive a trip to New York City and recognition in Glamour.

Students can read more and apply on our website: http://www.glamour.com/about/top-10-college-women

Early deadline for applications: July 15, 2011.

Thank you for helping us pass this opportunity along to your students!

Glamour’s Top 10 College Women Competition

Volunteer for the LAH Fall Semester Orientation Bike Ride

Like to cycle?

Want to introduce first year LAHers to Austin?

We are planning a new LAH event to kick off the fall semester: an Orientation Bike Ride.  To introduce our first year LAHers to Austin and to the LAH community, we would like to offer them a chance to take a bike ride around town right before classes start on Monday, August 22.

I need LAH volunteers to lead these bikes rides! Design a plan for a bike ride around Austin – any distance or level of difficulty is fine.  We will need a mix of all different levels – some for experts and some for beginners.

Use google maps: http://maps.google.com/ to plan your route and calculate mileage.  Send me your plan by Friday, May 6. Along with your route, please include 1- estimated ride time, 2- difficulty level, and 3 – departure time.

A few requirements:

1-  All rides should depart from Gebauer

2-  Departure time should be sometime in the morning

3-  Return to Gebauer by 1 pm (for ice cream!)

Want to lead a group on foot?  Those proposals are welcome too!

Contact Linda Mayhew lmayhew@austin.utexas.edu with questions.

Get Involved with the Student Journal of Latin American Studies

We are having a recruitment meeting in The Joynes Reading Room on Monday, April 25th, at 3:00 p.m. I am the chief editor of the journal now, and its a great opportunity for students to get involved in academic literature about Latin America. And at the end of the project you feel like you have done something tangible that you’re proud of. We are also looking to publish bi-annually now. A LAS major is totally unnecessary. Were just looking for dedicated workers who want to grow with the organization as many of its members, myself included, are leaving soon.

Limited Number of Stipends available for students participating in Unpaid Internships

If you are participating in an unpaid internship this summer, the LAH office has a small number of stipends available. Offered on a first-come-first serve basis.

Email Dr. Carver (carver@austin.utexas.edu)  Include your name and eid. Let him know the name of the organization you will be working with. What your job duties will be,  and how long the internship will last (i.e. June -August  for 40 hours).

If you have questions, please feel free to ask Stacey or Linda.

Inspire Application Deadline May 1

This is a reminder that the application deadline for Inspire is May 1. Applications will be accepted from any female student from any major who will be a sophomore in the fall.

Inspire is a three-year program (sophomore to senior) sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. When at full capacity, we will have three cohorts simultaneously developing skills necessary to become leaders so that they will achieve the highest levels of attainment in their chosen fields.

To apply and for more information, Please visit the Inspire webpage: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/Leadership/INSPIREEmpoweringTexasWomenLeaders.php

Please feel free to call if you have any questions – 471-5765.

Sociological Insight Conference

It is with great pleasure that we invite undergraduate students to attend the first annual Sociological Insight conference at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sociological Insight is a fully refereed national undergraduate research journal aimed at promoting undergraduate research in the social sciences. Insight provides an opportunity for undergraduates all over the U.S. and abroad to publish their best academic work, and to reap the benefits of subjecting their research to a rigorous peer review process.

We will be hosting our first annual research conference, Insight: A Conference on Undergraduate Sociology, on Saturday, May 7th at The University of Texas at Austin in SAC 2.302. They will have the opportunity to attend presentations from published undergraduates, panels by grad students about life after the B.A., and a special guest speaker, Sociology professor Dr. Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Admission is free and lunch will be provided.

Students should RSVP by April 29th at www.socinsight.org

Thanks,

Sociological Insight Staff

Book Drive

Sigma Tau Delta, the English honors society, is conducting a book drive now until finals season through Better World Books. All books will either be sold, donated, or recycled, NOT thrown in a landfill. Proceeds from books that are able to be sold will support National Center for Family Literacy and Sigma Tau Delta. National Center for Family Literacy’s mission is to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and parents through the economic and educational empowerment that comes through literacy. For more info: www.famlit.org

Link to our Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=155614154502815

Just drop your books by our box at PAR 114! Wondering what to bring?

GOOD:

– College textbooks and study guides in good condition with copyright dates from the past TEN YEARS (that’s right people, this means you can donate those old textbooks that the Co-op won’t take back!)

– ANY book used in a college classroom

BAD:

– Any books in poor condition (missing parts, water damage, etc.)

– Course packets

Handy Web-links

Course Instructor Surveys: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/ctl/ecis/results/search.WBX

Course description database: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/resources/syllabi/index.php

Declare your Liberal Arts Major: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Academic-Planning/Majors-and-Degrees/Declare-a-Major.php

Student Testing Services: (new link)

http://ctl.utexas.edu/programs-and-services/student-testing-services/

Interactive Degree Audit: http://registrar.utexas.edu/students/degrees/ida/index.html

Final Exam Schedule: http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/112/finals/

The Automated Transfer Equivalency

taking classes over the summer? note: make sure to double check with Stacey or Linda to verify degree applicability

http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/

Need to take the TX Government test to pair with AP US GOV?

Online text-book to help you prepare

http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/

Look up fall courses

http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/119/

* registration hint: if classes are closed under one section look to see if it’s cross-listed and try to register under the cross-listing.

When to register, add-drop, and pay for Fall

http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/119/whentoregister/

Check course descriptions

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/resources/syllabi/index.php

Check on Professors’ Course-Instructor Surveys

https://utdirect.utexas.edu/ctl/ecis/results/search.WBX

Schedule Construction and professor reviews for free

theclasspoint.com

Check your Credit by Examination, Claim, or sign up to take placement tests  (from SAT II, AP, etc)

http://ctl.utexas.edu/programs-and-services/student-testing-services/

If by claiming your Credit by Exam/AP/CLEP tests puts you in a higher classification (i.e. Sophomore standing 30 hrs, Junior 60 hours, Senior 90 hours of completed coursework). Talk with Stacey or Linda first. Claim your hours and go to MAI 16, Registration Supervision to have your Registration Record re-set to the higher classification to allow you to register earlier

Need to take the TX Government Only test to pair with your AP Government? Here’s a supplemental online text-book on Texas Politics

texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/

Update your personal information include your cell number! (email, address etc.)

https://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/index.WBX

UT Calendar for 2011-12

http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/11-12/

Figure out your gpa

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affai…