Civil Liberties & Public Policy's Summer 2015 Paid Undergrad Internship Program

Internship stipend is $3300

Application deadline: January 15, 2015

From: Johanna Fernández [jfernandez@hampshire.edu]

To: David J Sousa

Subject: Civil Liberties and Public Policy's Summer 2015 Paid Undergraduate Internship Program

Dear Professor Sousa,

We'd love for you to share this opportunity with undergraduate students you work with in the Politics & Government department.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you!

The Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) is a 10-week paid summer internship program sponsored by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program<http://clpp.hampshire.edu> at Hampshire College. Undergraduate students intern at reproductive rights and social justice organizations around the country. Organizations work on a wide array of issues from reproductive health, economic justice, immigrant rights, rights of indigenous peoples, LGBTQ rights, human rights, intimate partner abuse, and mass incarceration.

Some of the participating organizations include: Advocates for Youth, Justice Now, the Audre Lorde Project, Stonewall Youth, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, HealthRight International, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, Tewa Women United, Aid to Inmate Mothers, Prison Birth Project, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Locations include: New York, NY, Boston, MA, San Francisco/Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, Montgomery, AL, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, Santa Fe, NM, Denver, CO, Lake Andes, SD, Amherst, MA, Burlington, VT

Internship stipend is $3300.

Eligibility requirements

 *   Must currently be an undergraduate student at a US college/university

 *   Must not be graduating in Spring/Summer 2015

 *   Must be able to attend the CLPP Conference<http://clpp.hampshire.edu/conference/2015-conference> in Amherst, MA, April 10-12, 2015 (CLPP will cover all travel costs for students who live outside of Western Massachusetts)

More information and an application is available at: http://clpp.hampshire.edu/internship

Fellowships at the Hertog Foundation

Visit www.hertogfoundation.org to learn more and apply

The application deadline is Monday, February 9, 2015.

                                                            

Political Studies Program

• Eligibility: Undergraduates and very recent graduates
• Location: Washington, DC
• Duration: 6-week program, June 21–August 1, 2015
• Stipend: Provides housing and meals plus $3,000 stipend

Hertog Fellows study classic texts in political thought and some of the seminal documents of American politics with an outstanding faculty. In addition, students study selected public policy issues with some of those who helped formulate and implement those policies.

War Studies Program

• Eligibility: Rising college juniors, seniors and very recent graduates
• Location: Washington, DC
• Duration: 2-week program, July 25–August 7, 2015
• Stipend: Provides housing and meals plus $1,500 stipend

The War Studies Program, run by the Institute for the Study of War, aims to educate undergraduate students about the theory, practice, organization, and control of war and military forces. Over the course of the program, students will learn from and interact with distinguished senior leaders in the national security and military communities, including retired generals and leading intellectuals.

Economic Policy Studies Program

• Eligibility: Undergraduates and very recent graduates
• Location: Washington, DC
• Duration: 2-week program, August 2–August 15, 2015
• Stipend: Provides housing and meals plus $1,500 stipend

Led by Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs, this seminar aims to educate undergraduate students about the intersection of theory and practice in our national politics. Students will learn from and interact with distinguished experts in various arenas of public policy and leading elected officials in Washington.

Advanced Institutes

• Eligibility: Undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals
• Location: Washington, DC and New York City
• Duration: 1-week seminars include $750 stipend plus housing and meals

The 2015 Advanced Institutes include:

• The Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln with Allen C. Guelzo
• August 2–7, 2015, New York Historical Society

• The Lessons of the Iraq War with Vance Serchuk
• August 9–15, Washington, DC

Please contact Lily Reeder with any questions:
lily@hertogfoundation.org

202-407-7270.

Post Grad Job Opportunities with the Fund for the Public Interest

As background, I work with the Fund for the Public Interest. As you may know, we're a nationwide nonprofit that runs grassroots campaigns that work on behalf of leading social change groups like U.S. PIRG and Environment America.

We're hiring graduating seniors to help run our campaign offices next year as Citizen Outreach Directors.  It's a lot of responsibility, mainly focused on hiring, training and managing a staff that goes out into communities to build grassroots support for the above organizations and their campaigns. We’re looking for students who might be up for this challenge and would be passionate about working on environmental, consumer protection and social change campaigns. We know that many University of Puget Sound students who would be interested in this work don’t necessarily know how to find jobs like ours.

**Post-Graduation 2015 Job Opportunities Making Social Change**

We’re looking for smart, hard-working students who work well in a team and are eager to make real change after graduation.

The Fund for the Public Interest (­“the Fund”) partners with leading nonprofit groups from around the country, providing the kind of people power it takes to build organizations for the long-term, win hard-fought campaigns, and make real change on some of the most important issues of our day. And we’re hiring!

Specifically, we're hiring Citizen Outreach Directors to run our grassroots campaign offices across the country next fall -- working on behalf of groups like Environment America and US PIRG.

We are looking for smart, motivated students who want to get their hands dirty and make a real impact on some of the most critical issues facing our society.
 
If you are interested in applying, visit our website at www.fundjobs.org, or contact me directly at jobs@fundstaff.org 

Winter Break: Take a Logger to Work Day!

A PG alum is among the great opportunities--

http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices-services/ces/career-events/take-a-logger-to-work/tlwd-hosts

11/20 Council on Foreign Relations Conference Call: US-China Relations

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you to participate in the next session of the Fall 2014 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Thursday, November 20, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM in WY 326.

Elizabeth C. Economy, CFR's C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies, will discuss U.S.-China relations in light of President Obama's recent visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC summit in Beijing.

 Dr. Economy has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, coauthored with Michael Levi, is "By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World." Dr. Economy is also the author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future," which was named one of the top fifty sustainability books in 2008 by the University of Cambridge, won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars Award for the best social sciences book published on Asia, and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2004 by the "Globalist" as well as one of the best business books of 2010 by Booz Allen Hamilton's "strategy+business" magazine.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Agenda Council on the United States and served as a member and then vice chair of WEF's Global Agenda Council on the Future of China from 2008 to 2014. Dr. Economy writes about topics involving China on CFR's Asia Program blog, "Asia Unbound."

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

 1) Elizabeth C. Economy, "China's Imperial President: Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142201/elizabeth-c-economy/chinas-imperial-president?gp=139361:ddd2c71f54887ad5&cid=emc-ACC-FA-112014

2) Elizabeth C. Economy, "Is China Committed to Rule of Law?," Interview, CFR.org, October 29, 2014. http://www.cfr.org/china/china-committed-rule-law/p33688?cid=emc-ACC-Interview-112014

3) "U.S.-China Relations," Asia Unbound, Blog, Council on Foreign Relations. http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/category/china/u-s-china-relations-china/?cid=emc-ACC-Asia_Unbound-112014

4) "Timeline: U.S.-Relations with China," Interactive, Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/china/us-relations-china-1949---present/p17698?cid=emc-ACC-Timeline-112014

5) "China's Maritime Disputes," Interactive, Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/asia-and-pacific/chinas-maritime-disputes/p31345#!/?cid=emc-ACC-InfoGuide-112014

 Please RSVP to Professor Seth Weinberger at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu ASAP if you'd like to attend. I look forward to seeing you there!      Seth Weinberger

Match Corps looking for Seniors interested in teaching

My name is Cassandra Marcelin and I’m a Recruitment Manager at Match Education, an education non-profit organization based in Boston, MA.  Match is searching for elite college graduates from top colleges and universities in America to apply for Match Corps and the Sposato Graduate School of Education in Boston, MA.

These programs are highly selective, with an 8% hire rate.  Match Corps members and students at Sposato Graduate School of Education are high-achievers with a relentless work ethic.  Match Corps members span a wide range of career interests from medicine and law to education administration, teaching, and policy.

The Match Corps is a one-year urban education fellowship program that pairs recent college graduates from top universities with a small caseload of Match students whom they work with in small group or 1-on-1 tutorials over the course of each day, providing close academic support and building relationships to guarantee the academic success of their Match students. The Sposato Graduate School of Education is a two-year graduate program where members participate in a teacher training program that prepares them to teach in “No Excuses” urban classrooms.  Those who successfully complete this program, will earn their license to teach and a Master’s in Effective Teaching (MET).

 Candidates for the Match Corps or the Sposato Graduate School of Education usually fall into one of these categories of students who want to:

1)      Be highly effective educators in urban schools.

2)      Devote a year to service before grad school, law school, or medical school.

3)      Get involved in education reform or public policy and want a one-year opportunity to experience life in the schools in an authentic and meaningful way.

4)      Transition into a career in the non-profit or education sector.

 

Contact Cassandra Marcelin for more information.

Cassandra Marcelin

Recruitment Manager

Match Education

www.matcheducation.org

Phone: 617-935-7578

Email: cassandra.marcelin@matcheducation.org

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