Daily Archives: September 7, 2022

UTNY Summer 2023 Application Deadline & Upcoming Info. Sessions

Hope your fall semester is off to a good start…We are currently recruiting for the Summer 2023 UTNY program, and I’m hoping you can help share some information with your undergraduate students.

The deadline to submit an application for participation during the Summer 2023 semester is on October 1, 2022.

In conjunction, we are holding a few in-person info. sessions/panels this week for any student (or advisor) who would like to learn more about the UTNY program. To learn more (and RSVP to attend), visit here.

As a reminder, UTNY is open to ALL UT majors. If possible, please consider sharing the informational snippet below and/or the attached .jpeg with your students—via email, newsletter, social media, blog, etc..

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about UTNY, be sure to check out our website, and don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly.

Best,

JEFFREY MARSH, M.A. | Assistant Director for UTLA & UTNY Recruitment and Admissions

Moody College of Communication | The University of Texas at Austin

jmarsh@austin.utexas.edu

 

Interested in spending next summer living and working in NYC? The UT in New York (UTNY) program will be holding a few upcoming information sessions for students interested in participating during the Summer 2023 semester and beyond.

General Information Session

Wednesday, September 7, 5:00PM central, DMC 1.202

Internships & Careers in NYC: UTNY Student Alumni Panel

Thursday, September 8, 5:00PM central, DMC 5.102

These sessions will be general in nature and intended for anyone with questions about the program, online application, costs, internships, classes, etc. To RSVP, go here. Walk-ins also welcome. As a reminder, UTNY is open to ALL UT majors.

The deadline to APPLY online for UTNY Summer 2023 is October 1, 2022.

For more information about UTNY, visit here.

 

Teach for America

Explore Teach for America – UT Alumni Panel

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:00pm – 5:00pm CDT

 

Interested in becoming a teacher? Want to learn more about post-graduation opportunities to serve youth across America as a corp. member? Join Texas Career Engagement for a panel with Teach For America recruiters and alumni. Hear their service stories, gain application advice, and learn valuable insight into the program and recruitment timeline. There will be a Q&A to follow the panel. Pizza is provided for first attendees!

Check it out here

 

Black Queer Studies Student Awards!

The UT Libraries is thrilled to announce the inaugural Black Queer Studies Student Awards. This an annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it.

  • The Richardson Award honors graduate student work, $1,200 (pre-tax).
  • The Hogan/Schell honors undergraduate work, $800 (pre-tax).

To apply: See Instructions, Eligibility and Criteria on this guide: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/awards

Submissions are due Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.

About the Awards:

These awards are named for Professor Matt Richardson and former UT Librarians Kristen Hogan and Lindsey Schell, who founded the Black Queer Studies Collection in 2009-2010. The prize money is dispersed through the UT Libraries, and primarily draws from the Black Queer Studies Collection Endowment, originally funded through a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign in 2021.

Learn more about the UT Libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection, including the story of its founding: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/

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.

Uwem Akpan: Author Reading and Book Signing

Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 6 pm CST
Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center 

Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan (New York, My Village and Say You’re One of Them) will read from his latest work in this talk co-sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center. Akpan’s fiction and autobiographical pieces have appeared in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. His collection, Say You’re One of Them, was published by Little, Brown in 2008 and has been translated into twelve languages. It won the Commonwealth Prize (Africa Region), the Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was the 2009 Oprah Book Club selection.

Akpan, who teaches in the University of Florida’s MFA program, was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. His first book, Say You’re One of Them made the “Best of the Year” on a number of lists, including those in People magazine and The Wall Street Journal. In his second book and first novel, New York, My Village, Akpan writes with the same promise and pain about New York City as he did about African cities in Say You’re One of Them.

New York, My Village will be available to purchase and a book signing will follow the reading.

Seating is limited, please RSVP. This program is in-person only and will not be available online.

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

Develop Your Leadership Skills!

Hello!

Texas Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) is happy to announce that we are starting our Pathways to Leadership series starting next week, and you can REGISTER TODAY! Are you interested in developing your skills as a leader? Do you want to step into leadership roles will more confidence and competence? Then the Pathways to Leadership program is perfect for you! We offer five separate areas of specialization, allowing you to focus on the precise aspect of leadership that you want to improve. Take a look at the options below:

  • Strength Based Leadership (Every Tuesday at 11:00am):

Use the Clifton StrenthsQuest Assessment to identify your personal leadership strengths, and create strategies on how to best utilize them. This is the perfect series for students who are eager to identify the individual qualities that will make them great leaders!

  • Inclusive Leadership (Every Tuesday at 3:30pm):

The best leaders make sure that everyone has a seat at the table. This series will help students recognize common leadership challenges, while ensuring that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are at the forefront of the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.

  • Building Leadership Confidence (Every Wednesday at 11:00am):

Confidence doesn’t always come naturally to everyone, but we can all make a strategy to help us feel confident as we step into leadership roles. This series focuses on developing a practical toolkit to help build our own confidence, while simultaneously building the confidence of those around us!

  • Impactful Team Leadership (Every Wednesday at 3:30pm):

How do we motivate our teams? How do we navigate conflict? These are some of the biggest questions that face new leaders. This series investigates these questions, focusing on the big-impact strategies we can use to ensure we are becoming impactful leaders, with impactful teams.

  • Everyday Leadership (Every Thursday at 3:30pm):

Sometimes it’s the small subtle actions leaders take that end up being the most impactful. This series allows students to investigate these small actions and create big strategies to overcome leadership challenges. Using the 4 P Process, students will learn about the small, but important, moments of leadership.

Pathways to Leadership is a 3-week program, meeting for 50 minutes a week. Take the next step on your leadership journey with Texas LEAD. Improve your skills, build your confidence, and create new strategies. Register now by follow THIS LINK!

See you there!

MARC PEREIRA (he/him) Assistant Director, Texas Leadership Education and Development

The University of Texas at Austin | Texas Leadership Education and Development in the Office of the Dean of Students

(512)232-2866 | deanofstudents.utexas.edu/leadership

Career Fair!

Are you ready to discover the world of opportunity available to you? Attend the College of Liberal Arts Fall 2022 Career & Internship Fair.

What is a career fair?

A career fair is a way to connect with organizations from a variety of industries; explore career, internship, research and experiential learning opportunities.

FALL CAREER & INTERNSHIP FAIR, October 4th

Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST

Who: Any Liberal Arts student, or current UT student or alumni may attend

Location: Union Ballroom UNB 3.202

RSVP in your Handshake account and follow our instagram for the latest updates on all things career fair!

Normandy Scholar Program

Dear prospective Normandy Scholar Program student:

This letter is to invite you to consider the Frank Denius Normandy Scholar Program on World War II (NSP) as a part of your educational experience at The University of Texas at Austin. The Normandy Scholar Program, which is entering its 32 th year, is open to all majors on campus and does not require a foreign language. It offers one-semester (Spring 2023) of intensive study of the causes, course, and impact of World War Two followed by a nearly month-long faculty-led trip to the most important World War Two sites in London, Normandy, Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw. Students who meet the program requirements and are looking for an extraordinary educational opportunity are invited to apply.
We would like to encourage you to come to the NSP table at the Study Abroad Fair to talk to former Normandy Scholars about their experiences in the program and come to an Information Session about the program.

Study Abroad Fair: Thursday, September 8, Gregory Gym Plaza, 10:00-3:00.

Information Session on the Normandy Scholar Program and the History Honors
Program: Tuesday, September 13 at 5:00 in GAR 1.102

If you would like to acquaint yourself with the program, please view the NSP web site.
There you will see testimonials from past Liberal Arts Honors students, such as this one from one of last year’s students Katherine DeBerry: “The Normandy Scholar Program is the defining experience of my time at UT Austin. I learned how to balance a challenging workload while improving my writing and critical thinking skills in a fun and thought-provoking environment. There is also significant internal development that occurs among Normandy Scholars. The program taught me how to think about WWII and the world with a thoughtful and empathetic mindset. I don’t think that I will ever look at history the same. The professors also challenge students tremendously, and their support and encouragement made me feel that any challenge, academic or not, was possible. Not only is the program a transformative educational experience, but it also fosters lifelong friendships and memories. I know that many of my classmates will be my friends for life, and being able to travel to Europe with them was a priceless opportunity. I am so grateful for the program and highly encourage anyone interested to reach out and apply.”

For further information, please contact the Director of the Normandy Scholar Program, Dr. Charters Wynn at wynn@utexas.edu, or you can visit the History Department's Undergraduate Advising Office, Garrison Hall, Room 1.140, 471-7670.

NSP Application Deadline: Monday, October 12. The application

Sincerely,

Charters Wynn
Director
Frank Denius Normandy Scholar Program on World War II