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Local hospitality company offering paid internship

by plasmatinc

The Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits is looking for an intern to support their growing series of cooking classes. An ideal opportunity for students interested in marketing and hospitality.

The ideal candidate will have technical and writing skills, a strong visual sense, and an interest in food. This is a paid internship with an estimated workload of ~40 hours per semester.

For more details and to apply, contact Suzanne Pollak (suzanne@charlestonacademy.com). Be sure to mention that you are a College of Charleston Honors student in your inquiry message!

How We Want to Learn! — Call For Abstracts for Edited Volume

by chamberslm
Are you a student who is frustrated with your education?

Do you feel disengaged? Unsatisfied with PowerPoint lectures and hungry for more community in your classes? Passionate about social movements on campus? Are you feeling anxious in the face of climate change and angry about ongoing structural racism and other forms of inequality? Are you troubled by the pandemic’s unprecedented technological transformation of education? Looking for a way to process and deal with school functioning more like a business focused on the bottom line rather than on providing you with an enriching education

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Submit an abstract to our edited volume – “How We Want to Learn!”: Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World. This edited volume explores the rarely heard radical voices of graduate and undergraduate students expressing in critical and heartfelt ways how YOU want to learn, as opposed to how ‘we’ in the academy want to teach. This is your opportunity to dream about what school would look like in an ideal world. Write about your frustrations, your personal experience of pain or of success in an academic or other learning setting. Write about the learning that has set you on fire – or your longing for such an experience.

We seek academic works that can take any form such as theoretical, autoethnography, ethnography, or other styles that enable you to document your experiences and / or those of other students. Creative submissions are strongly encouraged – including poems, prose, art, photography, personal narrative – whatever form of expression you are passionate about, we are interested in!

Accepted submissions will become part of a diverse community of passionate students. As we work together to craft this edited volume, we will dream together about transformation of education and of society.

Submission Guidelines:
• Last date of Abstract Submissions – January 15, 2022
• Abstracts should be approximately 500 words
• Include a short bio/introduction in your email ·Submit via email to cara.cancelmo@uconn.edu & phoebe.godfrey@uconn.edu

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Johns Hopkins Macksey Symposium Applications Now Open

by chamberslm
Gather To Disseminate Your Humanities And Interdisciplinary Research On A National Scale

Johns Hopkins University’s third annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium was designed to offer students across the country the chance to gather together and disseminate their humanities and interdisciplinary research on a national scale. COVID forced us to adapt to a virtual event, but that in turn was a great success with close to 1,000 participants and more than 25,000 visits to the conference site to date. This year’s event will be virtual as well, held live April 8th-10th, 2022, and our application portal is now open. The submission deadline is February 15, 2022.

Students can email mackseysymposium@jhu.edu to indicate their interest in drop-in hours.

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The 2022 Macksey Symposium will feature the following:

  • A robust national student audience: undergraduate students from any two or four-year college or university who would like to present their original humanities and/or interdisciplinary scholarship.
  • Multiple panels of student papers and original creative works.
  • A keynote delivered by the contemporary poet Elisabet Velasquez, who recently released When We Make It and whose poetry has been featured in TIDAL, NBC, Latina Magazine, and more. Elisabet Velasquez will share in a fireside chat with students about creative inspiration and her research process.
  • Multiple professional development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty as well as JHU Press editors.

Following the conference, student participants will also have the opportunity to work with our peer editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length publication for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal. Student feedback about Macksey has been overwhelming positive, with 93% of students saying that they were very or highly likely to recommend Macksey to a friend or colleague and over 90% rating their experience at the conference as satisfied or highly satisfied.

Registration will be $175; late registration will be $205. You can learn more at our conference site: https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. We would also be glad to answer any questions you might have. We are also holding virtual drop-in hours for students to ask questions about the symposium, the application, and creating an abstract. Those hours are:

  • November 10, 2021: 1:00-2:00pm eastern
  • November 18, 2021: 5:00-6:00pm eastern
  • January 27, 2022: 5:00-6:00pm eastern
  • February 9, 2022: 1:00-2:00pm eastern

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Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice

by chamberslm

Work for Social, Economic and Racial Justice

DART will hold an online info session on Wednesday, September 29 at 7pm EST to discuss careers in community organizing. All CofC students and alumni welcome, particularly those graduating before August 2022.

RSVP at www.thedartcenter.org/rsvp

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DART trains professional organizers and community organizations how to work for social, economic and racial justice, including:

* Holding police departments accountable
* Shutting down the school-to-prison pipeline
* Reining in predatory lenders
* Expanding access to primary health and dental care
* Prioritizing funding for affordable housing and job training
* Fighting for immigrants’ rights

 

Associate Community Organizer starting salary $40,500/year + benefits.

Positions begin on January 10, May 9, and August 8, 2022 in:

Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Manatee County, Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tampa
Kansas: Lawrence, Wyandotte County, Johnson County
Kentucky: Lexington
South Carolina: Charleston, Columbia
Virginia: Charlottesville, Richmond

 

Lead Community Organizer / Executive Director positions begin Fall 2021 in:

Florida: Brevard County, Sarasota
Kansas: Wyandotte County

DART organizations are diverse coalitions that include communities of color, low-to-moderate-income communities and immigrant communities. We strongly encourage people from these backgrounds, as well as fluent Spanish speakers and DACA recipients, to apply.

To apply or learn more about DART, visit www.thedartcenter.org or find us on instagram and facebook @theDARTcenter. Still have questions? Contact justin@thedartcenter.org or (614) 517.9586

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Applications are open for the 2022 Critical Language Scholarship

by plasmatinc
Learn a new language!  Study Abroad! The CLS Program is now open! 

Interested in learning a new language? Want an immersive study abroad experience? The CLS Program is an intensive, overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Selected students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Internal:  November 1st
National:  November 16th

To Apply: https://clscholarship.org/apply

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CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century’s globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.

Eligibility: Students enrolled in any degree-seeking program are eligible to apply. The CLS Program actively seeks applicants whose study of a critical language relates to their academic field of interest and future career goals. Students  in diverse fields of study, including STEM fields, law, medicine, international studies, and the humanities are encouraged to apply.

Languages Offered: 

No Previous Study Required: Azerbaijani, Bangla, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian, Punjabi, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu 

One Year of Study Required: Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian 

Two Years of Study Required: Chinese and Japanese

Application Deadlines:
Internal:  November 1st
National:  November 16th

Application available online at: https://www.clscholarship.org/apply

Questions or application help? Contact the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, nationalawards@cofc.edu.

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Charleston Miracle is Looking for Future Student Leaders

by plasmatinc
New leadership program will help student leaders enhance their skills

Charleston Miracle is excited to announce their newest program, the Legacy Leadership Program. The Legacy Leadership Program (LLP) strives to create an authentic experience for first year students at The College of Charleston through the demonstration and cultivation of being a leader on campus. This program is intended for new or incoming students who want to create change in their campus and local community and are passionate future leaders looking to enhance their skills in philanthropic/non-profit organizations management, fundraising, and health promotion.

Read more below to learn how to apply. The Deadline is September 6.

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Students apart of this program will be required to attend weekly meetings, Thursdays at 6:00 pm starting September 23. The Legacy Leadership Program will be limited to 20 students to ensure a personal and valuable experience. During these meetings, students will learn from various directors, student leaders, and staff from The College community.

Students will work on developing leadership skills with special focuses on purpose, time management & organization, branding & social media, fundraising, event planning, and relationship building. Each student will have unique hands-on experience working with Charleston Miracle staff and advisors to complete tasks. Advisors will monitor students progress to ensure a valuable experience. After the completion of the Legacy Leadership Program students will have the opportunity to be considered for a committee position with Charleston Miracle. However, it is not required for students to join Charleston Miracle at the completion of LLP. The Legacy Leadership Program is intended to give emerging student leaders skills in a philanthropic organization, a non-profit, skills in fundraising, and health promotion.

Deadline for applying: September 6th, so apply today!

If you are interested in applying or learning more:

https://cougarconnect.cofc.edu/submitter/form/start/496132 

charlestonmiracleeducation@gmail.com

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Technology Workshops now Available to Help Students Prepare for the Semester

by plasmatinc

Honors students, make sure you’re prepared for the upcoming year and ready to take advantage of all the technology resources the College has available. Check out the workshops offered by the Student Instructional Technology Services (SITS) and fine tune your skills in everything from Google suite to AppsAnywhere to LinkedIn Learning. Workshops are free and open to all CofC students. Check out the schedule below:

http://blogs.charleston.edu/sits/technology-workshops/

Gain Research Experience The Department of Computer Science

by jamesar

Are you a Honors student interested in computational linguistics, software engineering cybersecurity, or systems biology? The Department of Computer Science are offering students the opportunity to gain research experience and to complete an essay in these topics in the fall.

If you are interested, please contact Kris Ghosh by email at ghoshk@cofc.edu.