Did you know that the Texas Language Center offers language proficiency testing? If you’re a UT student who speaks a language *not taught at UT*, we can help you fulfill your language requirement! For instructions about registering for a test and a list of languages with available exams, visit the Student Resources section of the Texas Language Center website!
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WiSTEM Winter Externship
The WiSTEM Externship is a virtual learning experience for STEM undergraduate students to gain career skills and earn digital badges or microcredentials during the winter or summer break. The WiSTEM Externship is designed to give you credentialed accomplishments for your resume, talking points for interviews, confidence in your professional skills, and training/knowledge/learning to advance your STEM skillset.
WiSTEM offers two Externship learning plan options…
- Externship: STEM Career Success Skills with 5 learning modules:
- Explorations in Mindfulness
- Design Thinking Practitioner
- Data Science 101
- Professional Skills
- Job Application Essentials
2. Externship: Artificial Intelligence and Semiconductors with 3 learning modules:
- Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
- Agile Explorer
- Semiconductor 101
Interested in what the WiSTEM Externship has to offer? Consider registering here!
GRE/LSAT Prep
Are you preparing to take the GRE or LSAT exams?
Join Strive Grad Prep Academy with Sanger Learning to provide an overview and resources!
GRE Overview
- October 8
- 5:30 pm
- JES A309
LSAT Overview
- October 15
- 5:30 pm
- JES A309
For more information on Strive Grad Prep Academy, please click the link here!
Digital Badge Opportunity
The Assessment and Data Analytics Team, within the Division of Student Affairs, is proud to offer Longhorns the opportunity to earn a digital badge in survey design with the new Survey Design: Foundations course. This unique skill will be valuable throughout your educational journey and beyond, across a spectrum of career fields, including but not limited to marketing, data analytics, user experience research and more! Enhance your research skills and impress future employers by adding this badge to your LinkedIn profile.
This foundational badge provides information on survey purpose, institutional review board requirements, informed consent, security/confidentiality, and will provide earners the opportunity to practice identifying and writing different types of survey questions.
To earn your badge:
- Follow this link to access the Canvas course.
- Complete the five Canvas modules by watching each video and scoring at least 80% on the corresponding quiz.
- This robust course will take approximately 2 hours to complete, however you can navigate the modules at your own pace and are not required to finish all modules in one session.
For questions, please email vpsa-assessdata@austin.utexas.edu.
Grad Fair 101
Longhorn SHARE Project
Looking for alternative mental health support options or just craving genuine connection with peers? Check out the Longhorn SHARE Project (Support, Healing, Active listening, Reciprocity, Empowerment), a peer support program focused on mental health and social connection! A team of trained peer ‘SHARE Support Specialists’ facilitate non-clinical, non-hierarchical opportunities for students to open up and find validation around shared struggles and exchange support and resources using the combined wisdom of their lived experiences. The following are open to all UT undergraduate and graduate students:
- SHARE Communities: Weekly peer-led communities for support & connection around specific concerns or identities.
- SHARE Circles: An impactful group activity for student orgs, classes, and res halls! Increase community, empathy, and understanding in your group with a turn-taking structure that ensures everyone’s voices are heard.
Check out our website for more information or consider filling out a no-commitment interest form for the SHARE Communities!
Walker Fellowship
The Walker Fellowship is excited to announce that the application for the Fall 2024 Fellows has opened. Guided by student and advisory board members, including Professor Lee Walker (first president of Dell Technologies), the Fellowship exists to provide UT students with a holistic set of tools to collaborate alongside community leaders and develop comprehensive solutions for sustainable social impact. Fellows collaborate as a cohort on initiatives of their choice and receive personalized resources, including interactive sessions with experts in civic engagement, group tours and volunteering events with local Austin organizations, and personalized mentorship relationships with renowned UT faculty and other community leaders.
Check out the Fellowship’s website (linked here) or Instagram for more information (@thewalkerfellowship). The application is due Wednesday, September 25th at 5pm and can be accessed here! Please email the Fellowship if you have any questions.
For more information on the program, eligibility, or the application process, please visit the website linked here!
LAH-Humanities Email
The LAH Office is shifting from the old email (liberalartshonors@utexas.edu) to a new one supported by Microsoft Outlook! To support us in this transition, please aim to use lah-hmn@austin.utexas.edu in all future correspondence with us. We will still be monitoring the old inbox as we begin to phase it out but we appreciate your efforts during this time :) Thank you!