Category Archives: Organization

Liberal Arts Honors Music Ensemble Recruiting New Leaders

The Liberal Arts Honors Music Ensemble has vacancies for President (Spring 2023), Secretary (Spring 2023), and Treasurer (Spring 2023). These are great opportunities to learn how to lead rehearsals and performances, encourage participation, manage repertoire and instruments, and manage a bank account, all in a low-stress and flexible environment. Key takeaways include improved leadership, communication, organization, and teamwork skills. Consider these positions valuable additions to your resume, for any field. Please contact gauravagrawal@utexas.edu by 11/18/2022 if you are interested in holding one of these positions. Prior music experience, as well as experience composing pieces, is preferred but not required.

Refugee Student Mentor Program – Call for volunteers!

Don’t miss the chance to help refugees right here in Austin!

The Refugee Student Mentor Program (RSMP) brings members of the UT community who speak various languages into Austin public schools, where they mentor refugee and asylee students. The program has been running continuously since 2015, beginning in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Our other partners on campus include the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies; The South Asia Institute; and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Please contact Erin Kelleher at ekell@utexas.edu as soon as possible if you are interested in volunteering. We will be holding an orientation on Zoom this coming week, time and date TBD.

Partners in Health Recruitment

Dear Professor,

My name is Izzy Richards, and I am a third-year student at UT Austin. I am also a student organizer with Partners in Health, a UT student organization.

Partners in Health (PIH) is a nonprofit that seeks to bring high quality, sustainable healthcare to vulnerable populations by hiring from within local communities and establishing training hospitals. PIH Engage members work to educate themselves and their community about the impact of historical oppression on access to healthcare, raise money for PIH, and advocate for equitable legislation. We are open to all undergraduate and graduate students from all majors and backgrounds.

I would really appreciate any help finding passionate and motivated individuals to apply as PIH Engage at UT is currently recruiting student organizers for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here is the link to a video (1.5 minutes in length) about PIH Engage at UT Austin, and a graphic with a QR code linking important information is attached.

If you would be willing to share this information with your students, we would be very grateful for the exposure. If you have any questions, or would like a student organizer to visit your class to present the information themselves, please feel free to reach out!

Thank you in advance for any support,

Izzy Richards

Liberal Arts Pre Med Society

Liberal Arts Pre Med Society is an organization that focuses on helping and guiding members through the confusing pre-med process. Our officers are all pre meds following the non-traditional route of pre meds as liberal arts majors.  We cover aspects of pre med life such as courses to take, med school/career choices, MCAT prep and advice, study materials, volunteer opportunities, social opportunities, mentorship and interaction with other fellow pre-med students.  

Our focus is on the non-traditional liberal arts majors but we also help all pre-meds, both traditional and non-traditional. 

We have around 20 members with 5 officers. 

Our next meeting is August 31st from 6pm to 7pm in RLP 0.120

Here is our Hornslink link: https://utexas.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/liberalartspremedsociety

Peers for Pride 22-23 Applications and Final Performance

Join Peers for Pride

Apply here

Peers for Pride (PfP) is a peer facilitation program of the Gender and Sexuality Center. Students will take two courses during the academic year in partnership with the Center for Women’s Gender Studies.

Learn about queer histories and create queer futures!
Facilitate workshops around allyship with the GSC!
Make new friends & work toward creating thriving LGBTQIA+ communities at UT.

Who Can Apply?
The program and course are open to UT undergraduate and graduate students from all majors and disciplines. Courses will count for a total of six hours of upper-division credit in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), Social Work (SW), or Theatre and Dance (TD). Additionally, students will receive credit for Cultural Diversity in the United States, and Ethics course flag requirements.

No experience in theatre and/or performance is required to apply and participate in the program. After students have completed the program, they are eligible to be invited for a paid opportunity to facilitate any Peers for Pride requested workshop for the campus and/or local Austin community!
Students of the Peers for Pride Program are required to take one class in the fall semester and one in the spring semester in their respective order.

  • Fall Semester: Confronting LGBTQIA+ Oppression: Exploring the Issues and Learning the Skills to Communicate Them 
    • Part I of the Peers for Pride Program
    • Course Code: WGS335, TD357, or SW360K
    • Course Description: Learn basic facilitation skills while taking an in-depth look at some issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.
  • Spring Semester: Facilitating Dialogues on LGBTQIA+ Oppression: Peers for Pride in Action 
    • Part II of the Peers for Pride Program
    • Course Code: WGS 335-2, T D 357T, or SW 360K
    • Course Description: Students will continue in the program to become peer facilitators and have the opportunity to fine-tune their facilitation skills and lead workshops across campus. Students must complete the prerequisite course Confronting LGBTQIA+ Oppression: Exploring the Issues and Learning the Skills to Communicate Them to be able to enroll in this course.

 

Additionally, our students have been working diligently for the past year in the Peers for Pride course to curate a final performance taking place on Thursday, April 28th from 2pm-3:30pm at the San Jacinto Amphitheater. You can attend to show support for our students who are promoting messages through theatre around allyship, inclusive LGBTQIA+ communities, intersectionality, and experiences of being queer and trans on a college campus!

TexPIRG Remote and In Person Internships

Sign up to find out more about the Student PIRGs remote and in-person internships. 

The Student PIRGs are an organization that trains students to run strategic campaigns. We have remote and in person internships and volunteer opportunities where students can learn valuable organizing and activist skills to make a difference on issues that they care about on their campuses. This semester we’re working on America’s plastic problem, food and housing insecurity on and off campus, getting the campus vote ready for the 2022 midterms, making Austin a more pollinator friendly city, and more! Learn more about our internships here. 

Colleges and Universities offer great classes to learn about all of these problems, and the impacts they have on our country and communities. However, it’s often hard to know how you can put that knowledge into action. That’s where we come in. TEXPIRG Campus Action is based on a model that has been helping students make positive change for almost 50 years. 

Across the country, our campus clubs have come together in big ways: 

·  We helped register hundreds of thousands of students to vote and increased early voting in the 2020 election.

·  Throughout the US we’ve gotten hundreds of professors to pledge to keep affordability in mind when they assign their course materials. And we’ve saved students over $40,000,000 by working with dozens of campuses in 10 states to create open source textbook programs.

·  And, more than 12 campuses across the country have already pledged to eliminate unnecessary single use plastics. 

As an intern you will spend 10-15 hours a week attending trainings, recruiting volunteers, and working on projects and campaigns that will make your community better. You’ll attend weekly trainings and run campaign events.

Too busy for an internship? Check “volunteering” on the interest form!

Learn skills, build your resume, and work with issues that matter. Apply today.

Women in STEM

What is WiSTEM?
Women in STEM, is an initiative launched by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement  (DDCE) in 2021. WiSTEM connects students, educators, and professionals to the worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) through recruitment initiatives, supportive structures, and educational services designed to promote the success and advancement of women, girls, and gender minorities in STEM fields. WiSTEM strives to recruit and retain women and gender minority STEM students and to provide a supportive community that encourages the success of women and gender minorities at The University of Texas at Austin. All students are welcome to join in!

WiSTEM Focus
WiSTEM will work to fulfill the critical need to educate and expose students to transdisciplinary, holistic experiences that increase the sense of belonging, STEM identity, and STEM self-efficacy and will engage our university community of over 12,000 current undergraduate and graduate women and gender minority students in STEM majors with career and leadership programming and role model and mentor engagements. Women in STEM (WiSTEM) will also focus on K12 outreach and STEM education reaching 12,000 K12 students plus 12,000 families, educators, and community partners annually.  Initiatives under the WiSTEM umbrella include:

WiSTEM Canvas Community

Each academic year, WiSTEM creates an online community in Canvas. STEM students will be automatically invited to this community and it will appear in your Canvas dashboard once you accept the invitation. This is a really convenient online portal for information, announcements, and opportunities. Take some time to browse Canvas and connect with others in your field of study! The WiSTEM Canvas Community serves as a way to connect students with opportunities, information, and ways to engage in their communities of support. Weekly posts on Mental Health Mondays, Wellness Wednesdays, and Thankful Thursdays serve as regular reminders on the importance of self-care. Anyone can join our community through this link! If you have accepted the invitation and decide you no longer want to be a part of the community, email wistem@utexas.edu to be removed.

Opportunities for campus and community programs/events/initiatives:
Company Opportunities & Workshops
Research & Graduate School Opportunities
Student Orgs, Scholarships, & Leadership Opportunities

WiSTEM Social Media

WiSTEM Launch Party

January 2022
More details coming soon!

Invite Others to Join the WiSTEM Canvas Community:
Share the link for others to join in: https://utexas.instructure.com/enroll/9YWEBG. All STEM students, all genders, welcome!

More Questions?
Feel free to reach out to wistem@utexas.edu with questions or connect with WiSTEM Student Programs Director, Ana Dison, anadison@utexas.edu

Research Student Advisory Council applications open

RSAC’s mission is to represent students by advising and providing feedback to the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR); to raise awareness of research opportunities and foster relationships between students and faculty; and to facilitate the effective communication of opinions, ideas, and knowledge regarding undergraduate research between the OUR, the Undergraduate Research Committee (URC) within the Senate of College Councils, the college councils, and the research-based organizations and programs across campus. This fall RSAC is one of the three student organizations that is organizing the Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference.

To apply, please go to https://forms.gle/Hmkk2iLZ52VLDYxe7.