Daily Archives: October 29, 2015

Athletics Mentor and Tutor Positions

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intercollegiate Athletics Department is looking for graduate students to fill Academic Mentor and Tutor positions. Descriptions for the positions are provided below, along with links to the UT Athletics job postings with instructions on how to apply.

Academic Mentors work with students in a structured environment to assist in the development of each student’s ability to effectively transition from high school to college and to develop study skills they will be able to use throughout their college experience. The Academic Mentor works to oversee each student’s daily academic preparation, which includes monitoring individual class progress and attendance in addition to teaching study skills and time management. Ideal Mentor candidates will have prior teaching experience or career goals in education.

Tutors work with students on mastering course specific content and are hired according to the subject area needs of the Intercollegiate Athletics Department. Ideal Tutor candidates will have prior teaching or tutoring experience at the university level as well as a strong and complete working knowledge of the applicable field of study.

If interested in applying, please follow the following links to the job descriptions and application process:

Academic Mentor

Tutor

Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) Information Session at UT

Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS)

Information Session at UT

Wed, Nov. 4th at 2:00pm in BUR 231

Join us next week to hear more about the program from UT students who are alumni of the Summer 2015 CLS Russian language program! See the promotional flier for the CLS Program HERE

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The Critical Language Scholarship is a prestigious and intensive language program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Please visit the CLS language specific pages for more information:

The deadline to submit a CLS application this year is November 23rd, 2015 at 7:59 EST, which is only about a month away.