October is Relationship Violence Awareness Month

For this year's Relationship Violence Awareness Month at UMBC, we're honoring the the experiences and stories of survivors of interpersonal violence through signature events like the Clothesline Project but also focusing on how to create healthy relationships. After all, how can we work to reduce abusive relationships if we're not having conversations about what healthy relationships are?

This October, the Women's Center and University Health Services invite you to join one or more of our many events in recognition of Relationship Violence Awareness Month. Click on the link below to download the calendar of events, workshops and a new video contest. 

A UMBC graduate working for U.S. Rep. William L. Enyart shared the following announcement. You are welcome to apply even if you are not from Illinois.

Fall Internship with Illinois Congressional Office

Democratic Member of Congress from Illinois is seeking interns for Fall 2013. Applicants should be motivated, organized, and reliable individuals. Responsibilities will include assisting legislative and administrative staff with various projects and tasks, including legislative research, answering and directing phone calls, leading tours of the Capitol Building, attending legislative briefings and other duties. Applicants must be proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel and be currently enrolled in an academic program. Interns can work part-time or full-time and academic credit can be secured for this internship. Applicants with Illinois ties are preferred.

Please send cover letter and resume to il12internship@gmail.com with “Fall 2013 Internship” in the subject line.

The Political Science Department invites applications from eligible students for its Spring 2014 Internship Programs: the Legal Internship Program and the Policy, Politics, and Public Administration Internship Program. Program information, eligibility criteria, and application instructions are available at http://www.umbc.edu/politicalsci/internships/.

Keep in mind that the application requires two recommendations from faculty, so please plan accordingly. Students specifically interested in interning with Maryland’s legislature, the General Assembly, should try to meet the priority application deadline of Tuesday, Oct. 22. The deadline to apply for all other internships is Friday, November 8. PLEASE NOTE: Students interested in internships relevant to international affairs should be looking into possible placements NOW and should apply to the Policy, Politics, and Public Administration Internship Program as soon as possible. Many placements of interest require applications before POLI’s deadline.

The Political Science Department is currently looking for two students to represent UMBC at the Student Conference on US Affairs. This annual four-day conference takes place at West Point October 30 - November 2. The theme for this year is: Navigating Demographic Flows: Populations, Power and Policy.

The Department will cover the registration fees and travel costs for the two participants, and the conference hosts will provide lodging and meals. For those of you interested in foreign affairs, in particular, this is an excellent opportunity.

I am pasting information from the organizers below. While their site has not been updated with the current announcement, more information from last year's conference can be found at:

http://www.usma.edu/sosh/sitepages/scusa.aspx

If you are interested, please email Dr. Grodsky (bgrodsky@umbc.edu) with a one paragraph statement of interest (in the email body), describing your motivation and qualifications. Please also include your GPA.

The deadline is September 20.

Information from organizers: 

"West Point hosts SCUSA every fall. It is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious undergraduate conference of its type in the world. Approximately 200 undergraduate students from over 100 colleges and universities worldwide attend SCUSA. Throughout the conference, the student delegates and cadets debate and formulate policy recommendations that realistically model American strategic responses to significant national and global challenges.  The highlights of the four-day conference include the opening senior panel discussion on the evening of October 30th, an evening keynote banquet address, four roundtable sessions, and a closing-report session on November 2nd.  Recent keynote speakers have included Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Dr. Leslie Gelb, Admiral James Stavridis, Dr. Rajiv Shah, and Ms. Susan Eisenhower.

"Our organizing theme this year is 'Navigating Demographic Flows: Populations, Power and Policy.'  Our goal is to have the cadets and undergraduate delegates consider the current direction and velocity of demographic trends across regions and topics, and then determine how US policy might manage these trends into the future to best advance US interests." 

Dean John Jeffries is retiring at the end of June after forty years of service to UMBC. In recognition of his profound impact on UMBC, we are delighted to announce the establishment of the John Jeffries International Fellowship.

The Fellowship fund honors John’s commitment to building a strong and distinctive undergraduate curriculum and to educating students to become informed and engaged global citizens. The Fellowship will provide faculty with resources to create, or redesign, and teach a course in their fields in order to add or enhance an explicit international or transnational focus. Our expectation is that the resulting courses will be taught regularly and will broaden the intellectual scope of the curriculum in the College of Arts, Humanities, and  Social Sciences.

In a matter of weeks, current and former Department Chairs, Program Directors, and Associate Deans in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences have contributed more than $25,000 to endow the John Jeffries Fellowship. Since then, others have contributed towards the goal of $200,000, which will enable the campus to support two Jeffries Fellows each year.

If you are interested in making a gift to the John Jeffries International Fellowship Program or have any questions, please contact Marjoleine Kars, Jason Loviglio, or Carole McCann.