Monthly Archives: April 2018

INSPIRE Program for Freshman Women

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The Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at UT Austin invites you to apply to this amazing women’s leadership program.

Visit our website HERE to learn more about INSPIRE.
View our You Tube video HERE.
Find our application HERE
* Application deadline is May 8.
* All applicants will be notified in July 2018 on the status of their application.
* Your INSPIRE experience will begin in September.

 

INSPIRE is a three-year program (sophomore to senior) that encourages undergraduates to think not only about their own future, but also about the future of their communities and what tools are necessary for social change.

Opportunities:

• Community service/leadership development
• Mentoring and networking
• Internship/career assistance
• Attending leadership conferences

Four primary criteria guide the competitive selection process:

• Individual leadership potential;
• Maturity, the ability to deal with challenges, and the capacity to reflect on one’s own personal strengths and weaknesses;
• Special interests, unique characteristics and/or diverse experiences, which contribute to the INSPIRE program;
• Willingness to commit to three years of the program.

Apply NOW!

Meet Writer Sarah Manguso

Writer and poet Sarah Manguso will be visiting the Joynes Reading Room on April 10th at 7 pm. She is the author of the nonfiction books 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay; the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape; and the poetry collections Sister Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Her books have been translated into five languages, and her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches at CalArts.

There are copies of her books available for free in the Joynes Reading Room, but supplies are limited so please pick up your copy soon.

Intellectual Entrepreneurship Class and Award

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.

Attached is a flyer describing the Pre-Graduate School Internship. In addition, 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/

 You may also be eligible for a Kuhn Intellectual Entrepreneurship Award.  This award is designed to encourage both first generation and economically disadvantaged undergraduate students to pursue their academic passions and to seriously consider graduate study.

The awards will be in the form of $1,000 stipends offered to a select number of qualified undergraduate interns. The award is intended to support and encourage students to pursue opportunities that further enrich the Pre-Graduate School Internship experience. (e.g., traveling to conferences, potential graduate school visits, research endeavors, supplies, books etc.)

In addition, each intern’s graduate mentor will be awarded a matching $1,000 stipend through the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.  For more information about this award, please go to:

http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/kuhn-ie-award

A wonderful video about IE is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWx0qNZERI0

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, Information, Nursing, Architecture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Business, Social Work, Information, Nursing, Architecture, Education, Natural Sciences, Fine Arts.