Positions Available with the Office of Institutional Diversity

The Office of Institutional Diversity is Currently Accepting Applications for Two On-Campus Positions.

The Office of Institutional Diversity is looking to hire a Peer Coach & Student Assistant for the office’s Launchpad for Success Program.

Launchpad was created by the OID to address equity gaps in mentoring, career development, and experiential learning among freshmen and sophomores (especially African American, Latino/a, Asian, and Native American) at the College of Charleston. After a two-year building process, the program is welcoming its first cohort of students (led by peer coaches) this fall.

Both positions pay $10 per hour and applications are due this Friday (09/23).

Please check out the job descriptions for the Peer Coach & Student Assistant and reach out to the Office of Institutional Diversity for any additional information.

Want to Make a Difference? Apply to Become an Honors Engaged Liaison for 2022-2023

Join the Honors Engaged Peer Liaison team and guide first-year students through the Honors Engaged Program.

As an Honors Engaged Liaison, you will address critical issues such as literacy, affordable housing, food security, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Liaisons serve for a full academic year beginning in the fall semester and earn 3 credit hours, satisfying the Honors Immersed requirement.

  • Explore your leadership style
  • Develop professional and mentoring skills
  • Build relationships with CHS organizations
  • Pursue, develop, and educate others on social justice initiatives
  • Benefit from individual mentoring from Honors First Year Experience faculty
  • Complete Honors Immersed credit

Want to learn more? A full description of the position can be found here.

Ready to apply? You can do so using this online application. For full consideration, please apply by the extended deadline: Monday, April 18. Questions can be addressed to Dr. Cavalli (cavallija@cofc.edu).

Internship Available at the Gibbes Museum of Art

The Gibbes Museum of Art is currently offering summer internships to students interested in working for the Gibbes Museum of Art Summer Camp. This is a great opportunity for any student interested in working with art, children, or both!

The starting pay for this position is $15 per hour.

Interested students may learn more and apply here!

There is no set deadline, but students are encouraged to apply by early April.

U.S. Department of State: CLS SPARK

The U.S Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Spark Program is a pilot initiative providing virtual opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world.

CLS Spark provides American students the access and opportunity to start their language learning journeys, even when these critical languages may not be offered on their campuses. Selected participants will spend an academic year learning either Arabic, Chinese, or Russian through online classes and activities facilitated by native speakers at a host institution abroad.

Key Benefits:

  • $300 stipend
  • Online language instruction and cultural enrichment experiences over the course of two 11-week terms
  • Language gains certified with the widely recognized ACTFL OPI test
  • Automatic consideration as CLS Program semifinalists for the summer overseas 2023 CLS Program to continue their language study

Students may learn more at https://clscholarship.org/spark

Make a Difference while Making a Profit: Impact X Fall 2022 Cohort

Impact X is one of the most prestigious experiences at the College of Charleston. It is team-taught with Stuart Williams, The College of Charleston’s Social and Environmental Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Impact X is a 3 credit class – ENTR 320 – focused on solving social and environmental problems by creating for-profit new ventures. All students learn to:

  • Form and lead a team of 3 students
  • Apply creative problem solving skills focused on the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Become outstanding presenters

1 minute to apply and a lifetime of experiences: Apply below for the Fall 2022 class of 20 students here!

  • Location:                           Impact X room (Beatty 120)
  • Timing:                              12:15 to 1:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
  • Students:                          All majors – diversity actively encouraged – recommended minimum GPA of 3.0
  • Applications:                    Students are accepted on a first come, first served basis

Local hospitality company offering paid internship

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

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

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 TIDALNBCLatina 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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