Paid Internship Opportunity in Olympia. Applications due 10/16/2015

From: Rehwaldt, Paula <Paula.Rehwaldt@leg.wa.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 3:26 PM
To: Karl Fields
Subject: Internship Opportunity in Olympia for Your Students

Professor Fields,

The Washington State Legislative Intern Program is currently accepting applications for the 2016 Legislative Session (January – March 2016). We are including a link to our new Internship video. It gives a great explanation of the program and features several interns from the 2015 Legislative Session. We encourage you to share the video with your students, forward to other faculty, and post on your websites. We purposely kept it at four minutes so that it can easily be shown at the beginning or end of class. 

The Washington State Legislative Intern Program is a great opportunity for undergraduate juniors and seniors from all majors to learn the legislative process while gaining professional work experience. Interns are placed in offices with similar interests. Several interns per year are assigned to the Republican and Democrat caucus communication departments where they assist in the writing of floor speeches, op-ed pieces, talking points, and newsletters. This is a paid internship

Please encourage anyone interested in the program to visit our web page or contact us with their questions. They can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook 

Applications for the 2016 Legislative Session are due October 16. Information on the application process is available on our website. 

Thank you for your help in promoting this opportunity to your students

Paula Rehwaldt
House Civic Education & Intern Coordinator

Emily McCartan
Senate Civic Education & Intern Coordinator

Sep 9 Wednesday Noon Brown Bag: Debating the Iranian Nuclear Deal

CFR Conference Call – African Peacekeeping - Wednesday, 9/9/2015

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you to participate in the first session of the Fall 2015 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Wednesday, September 9, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM in WY 226. (ET). Paul D. Williams, associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University, will discuss conducting effective peace operations in Africa and offer policy recommendations for U.S. support of a stable and prosperous continent.

For those students who haven't done these or heard about them, these calls are an excellent opportunity to learn more about particular topics, listen to and ask questions of a national policy expert, and hear how students across the US and the world think about international relations. They are always very interesting, and I hope that you'll join me!

As background for the discussion, you may wish to review the following materials:

1) Paul D. Williams, “Four questions—and answers—about U.S. support of peacekeeping in Africa,” Monkey Cage, Blog, Washington Post, May 15, 2015.

2) Paul D. Williams, Enhancing U.S. Support for Peace Operations in Africa, Council Special Report No. 73, Council on Foreign Relations Press, May 2015.

3) John Campbell, Africa in Transition, Blog, Council on Foreign Relations.

Please RSVP to Professor Seth Weinberger at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu ASAP if you're interested in attending!

Hope to see you there...

Seth Weinberger

Associate Professor

Department of Politics & Government

Congratulations to Grace Libby '13

Grace Libby (PG graduate, 2013) has been accepted into the MA in International Development at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.  She’ll start this fall and we wish her well.

Don Share
Professor
Department of Politics and Government
University of Puget Sound

I wanted to make you aware of a FREE event that the Seattle University Institute of Public Service is hosting on Monday, May 11^th from 6:00pm to 7:45pm. Please spread the word!

 

 

A Conversation with U.S. Representatives Adam Smith and Dave Reichert

Monday, May 11, 6-7:45 p.m.

Seattle University Pigott Auditorium

 

Come hear two members of Washington’s Congressional delegation, Representatives Dave Reichert and Adam Smith, discuss economics and income inequality issues, immigration and public service. The interview will be led by Master of Public Administration Director, Larry Hubbell and multimedia journalist Joni Balter. Following the interview, attendees will have time to ask questions.

 

A networking reception will take place in the lobby of the PACCAR Atrium from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Current and prospective students, alumni, and community members will learn more about internships, jobs and service in government. The interview will start in the Seattle University Pigott Auditorium at 6:30pm and end at 7:45pm.

 

RSVP HERE. This event is sponsored by the Seattle University Master of Public Administration and undergraduate public affairs programs.

PG Grad Update: Ellie Page, '13

Ellie Page (PG major, 2013 grad) is attending law school at University of Washington.  She has just been accepted into the University of Washington’s Masters of Public Health Services program.  Ellie will working this summer in Olympia at the Office of Program Research for the Washington State House of Representatives, working on health-related legislation.  Congrats to Ellie for all of these accomplishments!

Don Share

Professor

Department of Politics and Government

University of Puget Sound

News and an offer to help alums from Cead Nardie-Warner '11

Since leaving Congressman Smith's district office and campaign, I moved home to St. Louis, Mo. Because I was hesitant to jump back into politics here (for a myriad of reasons), and I was unable to head to DC to pursue policy work for family reasons, I began looking for opportunities that would push me to continue developing critical thinking, writing and strategic planning skills. Fortunately, St. Louis is the global headquarters for FleishmanHillard (FH) and I was able to get a job with their Public Affairs team. The adjustment to mid-western corporate life has been interesting, but the quality of the people I work with is amazing and I am learning a lot about our country - politically, economically and socially. I consistently work on policy analysis and strategic planning for issues, crises, reputation and public awareness across many industries and levels of government including health care, agriculture, and energy to name a few. 

Recently, I helped a former UPS grad and friend find a position with our Sacramento office working with our food and agriculture group. Through this process I was reminded about how little I considered or even knew about positions with companies like FH when I was in school. And, that we rarely see students in our intern programs that come from schools like Puget Sound. That said, I think the liberal arts education model and the creativity of the students at UPS translates really well to this profession and I have seen some success. I simply want to open the door to anyone who may be interested in learning more about public affairs, agency consulting, PR etc... FH has operations in most major cities in the country.

Alex McNeil Wins Summer Research Award

Congratulations to P&G major Alex McNeil, who won a university summer research grant of $3250 for his project, "Fifty Shades of Green: A Comparative Study of Alternative Energy Policies in the United States."  Alex plans to examine states' efforts to cultivate wind, solar, and hydroelectric power with an eye toward assessing the efficacy of different approaches.

It has been a good couple of weeks for Alex.  In addition to this award, he recently won a social sciences writing prize for a paper on political parties and polarization he wrote in Professor Sousa's P&G 312, "Parties, Campaigns, and Elections."  

PG Grad Update- Natalie Nakamine, 2011

At last week’s WPSA meeting, alumna Natalie Nakamine, class of 2011, presented “Does Political Power Affect Policies? Immigrant Political Incorporation and State Immigrant Laws.”  She is getting ready to start her dissertation at UC Irvine.

Natalie posed with two Vegas street people after lunch.

Congratulations Samantha Tigner!

Congratulations to PG major Samantha Tigner who reports:

I am very excited to have been accepted to Beginning Persian program at the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Language Immersion Institute (APTLII) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. For two months this summer (June to August) I will be living and learning in a Persian-immersion environment. I will have around 5 hours of formal language classes every day, and then cultural lessons and activities during the evenings. I will be living on campus where I will have to continue speaking my target language with my fellow students outside of the classroom. This will be a challenge, but I sincerely believe that it will be an extremely rewarding experience!

They have programs for beginning, advanced-beginning, intermediate and advanced Persian, Turkish, and Arabic students. If you know anyone else who might be interested in studying these languages, have them check it out: http://aptlii.global.wisc.edu/.