Opportunities for Students

Internships

Community Organizing Recruitment & Experience (CORE) Internship

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center is offering internship opportunities for KU students with at least 21 credit hours in sociology and a 3.0 GPA or higher. Interns can receive up to 3 credit hours and gain experience in:
· Personnel Management in Nonprofits
· Grassroots Community Organization
· Grant Writing & Development

The DART Center has built community organizations throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues
including:
· Education reform in low-performing public schools,
· Fair immigration policies
· Access to quality healthcare for all
· Living wage campaigns & job training
· Affordable housing, etc.

Responsibilities:
CORE Interns will work alongside DART’s Recruitment Director in Lawrence, Kansas to plan and execute a recruitment search for the best potential community organizers in the country. This will include identifying and potentially screening student activists and leaders from Historically Black and Hispanic Colleges and Universities (HBCU/HHCU), seminaries, and other schools for this elite, paid training program.
Also, CORE interns may also be exposed to grant writing and development and grassroots organizing training models.

Qualifications:
CORE Interns must have 21 credits in the sociology major and a 3.0 minimum GPA. Also, s/he must be adept at computers and the internet, be able to pay close attention to detail, have a commitment to social and economic justice, act professionally, respect cultural and ethnic diversity, be willing to be held accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting.

Benefits:
The primary benefit to the CORE internship will be to make a tremendous impact toward social and economic justice by identifying a new generation of community leaders who will go on to win numerous issue campaigns over their careers. Also, CORE Interns will be able to network with student leaders from up-to 150 different campuses, and have an insiders look at managing a grassroots, community organization.

To Receive College Credit:
Interns may receive up to 3 credit hours for successfully fulfilling the internship requirements. To apply, contact Ben MacConnell, the DART Center Recruitment Director at: (785) 841-2680 or Tricia Zerger, Advising Specialist at (785) 864-3500. The DART Center will work with CORE interns to submit a basic internship proposal before the end of fall semester to Professor David Smith or Professor Joey Sprague.

Jobs

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Teach for America

Teach for America is looking for highly motivated, organized leaders who are excited about impacting educational inequity now by driving an ambitious awareness and networking campaign at KU. The Campus Campaign Manager, in collaboration with Teach For America recruitment staff, will develop and execute a detailed strategic plan aimed at inspiring top students to apply for the 2008 corps. The average time commitment is approximately 7 - 10 hours per week but may vary throughout the recruitment season. If you would like to know more about this position, contact LesLee Bickford, National Recruitment Director, Email: leslee.bickford@teachforamerica.org, Teach For America, Work phone: (267) 234-0251, Voicemail: 1-800-832-1230 x 263, www.teachforamerica.org.

Volunteer

Watkins Community Museum of History in downtown Lawrence, 1047 Massachusetts, is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with cataloging and data entry of their collections. There are opportunities in both the archival and 3-D departments of the museum as well as exhibit installations. Please contact them at (785) 841-4109 and fill out a volunteer form found on their website: http://www.watkinsmuseum.org/ under the Become a Volunteer tab.

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Summer Research Institute for Undergraduates

The Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware is again offering a Summer Research Institute for undergraduate students to provide hands-on research training and mentoring on the social science aspects of disasters.  Each summer, ten students from a wide variety of social science disciplines are selected to participate in the nine-week Summer Institute.  All transportation and lodging expenses are covered for the student participants, who also receive a generous stipend for the summer.  All students who will be entering their junior or senior year in the Fall, 2008, are invited to apply.  Students who are underrepresented in graduate schools–minority students, women, students from poorer regions of the country, and students from institutions with limited graduate programs–are especially encouraged to apply.  The application deadline is February 1 and students will be notified of their acceptance into the program by March 1.  Program details, guidelines, and application materials can be found online at:  http://www.udel.edu/DRC/REU.  The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and the US Department of Defense.

Scholarships and Competitions

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