Monthly Archives: November 2019

LBJ School Open House

It’s not too late to register for LBJ Open House in Austin, Texas on Nov. 14-15. Take a class, meet students, faculty and alumni, and find out how the LBJ School can help you harness your passion and build the future. In fact, Global Policy Studies student Sam Lee said his visit sold him on coming to the school.

 The LBJ Washington Center will also host two November Open Houses and Info Sessions. Meet students and alumni and learn more about the 18-month D.C. Concentration, including its federal policy focus and D.C.-based policy apprenticeships.

o    Register for Nov. 12

Can’t make an Open House? Join one of LBJ School’s info sessions. We’ll host three more sessions in Austin before the Dec. 15 deadline: Nov. 8, Nov. 21 and Dec. 6.

LBJ Admissions Applications for Fall 2020 entry are now open! Learn more.

Longhorn Advocate Mentorship Program

Student Government and the Texas Exes Advocacy Department are co-sponsoring the Longhorn Advocate Mentorship Program (LAMP), which pairs a student, alumni, and State Senator from key State Senate Districts in order to foster civic engagement and connect current and former students from the same area of Texas. The goals of the program are to champion policies and issues benefitting UT and higher education​, empower student-alumni pairs to tackle higher education policies​, and develop relationships with alumni mentors and legislators​. We are looking for students from Senate Districts 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 30. The application for LAMP can be found here. Interested students with any questions can contact me at Alyssa.Ashcraft@texasexes.org.

 

Recruiting Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Individuals for Dissertation Survey on Stress and Family Experiences

Billy Table, a fourth year Doctoral Candidate in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, is looking for participants for their dissertation research. The study is survey-based, and contains questions about stress, resilience, family conflict, and family support experiences of transgender/gender non-conforming individuals.

If you are over 18, are trans/GNC, are out to at least one member of your family, and communicate with that member at least once a month, you are eligible for the study. The survey takes about 20-25 minutes, and there is an optional Visa gift card drawing you may enter at the end (odds of winning = 1 out of 50). Also – if you would be willing to share the survey link with a group, listserv, or colleagues who may be interested, that would be greatly appreciated.

To read more information and to take the survey, click here.

This research is IRB approved #2018-11-0059. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at Billy.Table@austin.utexas.edu.