Applications for the McNair Scholars Program are still open for the 2024-2025 academic year! Just click the link here to apply.
Publish Your Humanities Research!
The Searcher is a new academic journal sponsored by the Department of English that provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to publish scholarly work in the humanities. By offering a broad platform for multiple disciplines, we hope to highlight how meaningful themes emerge and span across the humanities. Any and all research is welcome, but we especially encourage English literature research.
We are currently open to submissions and would love to showcase the outstanding research students have accomplished, whether for class or independently. We accept works under 2,000 words for our e-journal and works over 2,000 words for our print journal—a copy of which will be provided for free to contributors! Submit to the print journal by April 24th, 11:59 PM via the link here!
Project Advance Austin Info Sessions
Texas Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) is pleased to announce that applications to be a Team Manager with Project Advance Austin for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are now open! Team Managers play a vital role in Project Advance Austin, leading a team of like-minded students as they complete a high-impact project with a local Austin non-profit over the course of the 2023-2024 academic year! Team Managers ensure the success of their project by delegating tasks, setting team agendas, and acting as the main point of contact for their non-profit Community Partners. Team Managers will gain valuable experience in Project Management having completed a resumé-worthy project by the end of the academic year.
Team Managers can feel confident stepping into this role knowing they’ll have the support of Texas LEAD staff, their Community Partners, and a strong team following their lead. Team Managers will also gain valuable skills by participating in a 2-week virtual training program (multiple dates available), to ensure you can start your project with a suite of new skills to effectively lead your team.
Want to learn more? Join us for an info session during one of the dates listed below:
- Tuesday, 4/9 (2:00-3:00pm) WCP 2.122
- Thursday, 4/11 (10:00-11:00am) WCP 2.122
- Monday, 4/15 (1:00-2:00pm) WCP 2.122
- Wednesday, 4/17 (2:00-3:00pm) WCP 2.122
Feel ready to apply? Just click the link here!
AKA Scholars Black Diaspora Archive Internship
Established in 2018, the AKA Scholars Black Diaspora Archive Internship is supported by the Delta Xi Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Black Studies, and the Black Diaspora Archive (BDA) at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. The program offers one paid internship (September 2024 – May 2025) working with archival material and digital platforms from the BDA. The internship is open to any undergraduate student who has completed a minimum of one AFR course. A $3,300 stipend will be disbursed in two payments of $1,650 at the beginning of each semester.
For more information on position responsibilities, qualifications, and how to apply, simply click the link here! Please submit all application materials by May 15th, 2024.
Texas Career Engagement is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Summer 2024 TCE Internship Fund! Our goal is to reduce financial barriers to internship participation. Students in an eligible unpaid internship can receive funding of $20 per hour up to a maximum amount of $2,400 (based on the number of internship hours they work during Summer 2024).
For more information on funding, eligibility, and application requirements, please click the link here! The deadline to apply is May 15th, 2024.
From Passion to Action: Teach For America’s Ignite Fellowship and Corps Positions
Join us to spark change and inspire future generations! Get connected with ways to make an impact and grow your leadership with Teach For America.
Click the link to see paid employment opportunities and professional development events for all majors.
Sign up here to get in contact with us and stay in touch with TFA!
Immigration Clinic Internship Opportunity
Attached here is an Internship Posting for the 2024-2025 academic year via the University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic. For internship requirements, eligibility, and how to apply, simply click the link above! The deadline to apply is April 15th, 2024.
Peers for Pride: Attend our Final Performance and Apply!
Using theatre-for-dialogue, Peers for Pride is creating space to ask: What do thriving queer communities look like? in a two-semester long course that culminates in a community-building Final Performance. This year, the 17th Cohort of PFP invites you to a performance where characters will tell their stories in monologues based in LGBTQIA+ experiences and engages audiences in meaningful dialogue about how to support them.
Peers for Pride’s final performance will be Thursday, April 11 at 4PM-6PM at WCP 1.106, so don’t miss out! We will have light refreshments.
Apply now! Be a part of a year-long cohort that takes consists of two courses—one in each of the Fall and Spring semesters. The Fall semester is spent learning about history, content, and theory about intersectional LGBTQIA+ topics including experiences of oppression, and the second semester consists of applied theater-for-dialogue techniques to host performances that invite audiences into conversations about supporting a world where queer people thrive!