Monthly Archives: March 2012

Summer Travel Grants to Europe

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The European Union Center of Excellence at UT Austin is pleased to offer grants to three UT Austin undergraduate students to travel to Brussels in the summer of 2012 through the EUCE Brussels Program. The trip is funded through the support of the European Commission and organized by the Network of European Union Centers in the U.S.

All UT undergraduate students may apply and may be from any discipline. Special consideration will be given to those in a program or major that study some aspect of the European Union.

Funding includes round-trip airfare to/from Brussels, five nights of hotel and some meals.

The 2012 trip will be June 17-June 22 (arrive June 17, depart June 22). The agenda is currently being organized but should be similar to previous years (see agenda on website).

Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on April 20, 2012. No late applications will be accepted.

Students must provide a UT transcript (can be unofficial) and one letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member. More information is printed on the application forms.

To download the application, please go here: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/european_studies/Outreach/Brussels.php

ACE: A Community fo Education

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ACE is looking to hire 80 full-time tutors.  All tutors for ACE are Americorps members, so if you are a graduating Senior and looking a productive way to spend the next year, this is a great opportunity!

With ACE, you will work in Austin teaching children to read and give back to the community, gaining experience and benefits during your service year.

Benefits:

Pursue alternative teaching certification

Eligible for student loan forbearance

Earn education award

Receive modest living allowance

Gain leadership skills and experience in education

 

What else is involved?

Commit to one year of service

Option to tutor in Spanish

Teach and learn using a research based curriculum

Receive ongoing training and professional development

Tutor 10 children one-on-one daily for 30 minutes

Participate in a monthly Saturday service project

For more information or to apply – www.aceaustin.org

Also, if you are interested, I have contact information for a ACE leader that met with advisers this morning.

“What is Fair? What is Just? A Public Dialogue”

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You are invited to a Humanities Institute Public Dialogue

 

“What is Fair? What is Just? A Public Dialogue”

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012, 7-9 pm

 

Concerned about the accessibility and cost of education and health  care?

Come participate in a discussion  with scholars and community activists working on these issues.

A presentation of the Difficult Dialogues program of The Humanities Institute.

Avaya Auditorium, ACE Building, 24th and Speedway

Panelists include:

Dr. Dana Cloud

UT College of Communication

Deliana García

Migrant Clinicians Network and HI Community Scholar, Austin, Texas

Dr. Robert Hummer

UT Department of Sociology

Laurie Posner

Intercultural Development Research Association, San Antonio, Texas

Free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be provided.  We hope to see you there!

Events for honors students (plus free books!)

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Panel on War Photography – Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. 

Three distinguished photojournalists will visit the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) on Thursday, April 5, to participate in a panel entitled “Picturing Crisis: Engaging the Viewer.” Photographers Mimi Chakarova, Scott Dalton and Stephen Ferry will show slides from their award-winning work in Colombia, Mexico, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere, and discuss the methodologies and ethics of their profession. This event is free and open to everybody. Light refreshments will be served. (See flyer, attached, for more information.)

 

A reading by the award-winning poet Marie Howe – Friday, April 13, 7 p.m. 

On Friday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007), poet Marie Howe will read from her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do and The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. Howe has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches poetry at Columbia University, New York University, and Sarah Lawrence College. The Joynes Reading Room will give away free copies of Marie’s Howe’s books (to honors students only) in advance of her visit. Supplies are limited. Inquire at the front desk in the Joynes Room.

For more information, call 512-471-5787 or write to mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu.

Applications Available for Peers for Pride

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Students: Applications Available for Peers for Pride

Are you interested in learning more about LGBTQA identities? Do you want to make a difference for LGBTQA people at UT and beyond? Are you interesting in learning more about how to have conversations on topics we are often socialized not to discuss?

Then you may be interested in joining Peers for Pride!! It is a peer facilitation program offered through the year for academic credit. Students write a monologue during the first semester and during the second semester students perform the monologues and facilitate conversations in character.

If you are interested in applying or have questions, please email the GSC Education Coordinator, Shane Whalley, at swhalley@austin.utexas.edu.

Registration is just around the corner! Tips and Hints from Stacey and Linda

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Registration for both summer and fall begins Monday, April 16 – Friday, April 27.

The Summer schedule is out now and the Fall schedule will be online Tuesday, April 3. If you want to be advised for summer and/or fall, just call 471-3458 to set up an appointment with either Stacey or Linda.

There will be a sign up list for the lower-division honors courses in the office by  Friday, April 6.

For any upper-division LAH 350 courses you can just register (no sign up necessary). Unless, you are a Dual degree student (e.g. Government and Communication major) you must contact Stacey or Linda during your registration time to be added in to your desired LAH 350 course (as long as it is open).

Registration hint: If the upper-divison LAH course is cross-listed with your major department, you should register for it under your department. It will still apply towards College Honors. Many departments have sign up sheets in their offices (I know Government does) and this guarantees you a seat.

Also, don’t forget to claim any needed AP credits. This can move you up a classification and move up your registration time.

Here is the web-site for the Center for Teaching and Learning to claim your AP: http://ctl.utexas.edu/programs-and-services/student-testing-services/

And if you still need to take that pesky TX GOV only test to pair with your AP GOV, here is the link for the test and a link for an additional online textbook on Texas Politics

http://ctl.utexas.edu/programs-and-services/student-testing-services/exam-details?examID=155

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

If you are planning on taking classes somewhere else this summer, please check the Automated Texas Equivalency site (and check with Stacey or Linda too)

ATE web-site: http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/

See you all soon!

Mentors Needed for Latino Mentorship Program

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The Latino Leadership Council created P.O.D.E.R. (Peer outreach for Dedication, Education, and Respect), a new latino-wide mentorship program that will begin next academic year, in order to help young Latinas/os succeed in college.

YET, WE NEED MENTORS AND THIS COULD BE YOU. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE ATTEND ONE OF OUR FOLLOWING INFORMATION SESSIONS:

March 26: 5pm in PAR 204

March 28: 8pm in MEZ 1.202

March 29: 7pm in MEZ 1.120

*Attendance to one session is required to be a mentor.

Any questions email utpoder@gmail.com.

Like our FB page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UT-Poder/342876412420643

Pre-Grad Internships

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Dear UT Undergraduates:

With registration for next semester coming up in a few weeks, let me tell

you about an exciting internship course.

Are you thinking about whether graduate school is in your future?  Are

you uncertain about what it would be like to be a graduate student and what

academic program may be suited best to your interests and career goals?

If your answer to these questions is yes, you may wish to consider

undertaking the Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) “Pre-Graduate School

Internship.”  This internship is open to students in all UT

colleges/schools and departments.  You may earn one, two or three hours

of academic credit (CMS 164M/264M/364M) by participating in the internship.

You may read more about this program (including FAQ’s, examples

of internship activities and an easy to complete internship contract) on

the web: http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/

A wonderful UT web feature about this program is at:

http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/ie-2/

If after examining these materials you have questions, please feel free

to contact me at: spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu

NOTE: Because of the generosity of several UT deans, undergraduates who

do their pre-grad internship in programs in the following colleges will be

eligible to receive travel grants to help cover part of the cost of

attending an academic conference (with their grad mentor)– Law, Public

Affairs, Communication, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Business,

Social Work, Education, Natural Sciences, Fine Arts.

 

Sincerely,

Rick Cherwitz

Professor and IE Director

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Richard A. Cherwitz, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE)

A Cross-Disciplinary Consortium: “Educating Citizen-Scholars”

Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/

Department of Communication Studies

The University of Texas 1 University Station A1105

Austin, Texas 78712

VOICE: (512) 471-1939   FAX: (512) 471-3504

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/

spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu