MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

Education/Experience: Requires full-time enrollment in a degree-granting graduate program for Spring 2021 & Fall 2021 semesters at a USM institution; Requires experience in customer service; Requires excellent communication skills; Requires the ability to work independently and manage priorities from various audiences.

Availability: Requires 12-month availability (December 2020 – December 2021); 20 hours per week; Approximate start date: 11/30/2020 (Contract is eligible for renewal beyond December 2021)

APPLICATION: For best consideration, submit a cover letter and resume as a single PDF file by October 16, 2020 to cscheid1@umbc.edu. Your PDF file should be named as follows: “LastName_FirstName.PDF”

Listen to this Saturday's podcast, MindShift, that will feature LLC's Dr. Ramon Goings as one its guests. The topic will be, "How to talk about racism in schools and how to advocate for change."

(No promo code is required.)

MindShift explores the future of learning and how we raise our kids. It reports on how teaching is evolving to better meet the needs of students and how caregivers can better guide their children. This means examining the role of technology, discoveries about the brain, racial and gender bias in education, social and emotional learning, inequities, mental health and many other issues that affect students. It reports on shifts in how educators teach as they apply innovative ideas to help students learn.

From Sept. 30 to Oct. 14th, 2020, the Presidential Management Fellows application for the program’s Class of 2021 will be posted. The entire initial application process, including submission of all necessary documents, must be completed by October 14th.

The PMF Program was established by Executive Order in 1977 and amended by Executive Order in 2003 to attract to the Federal service outstanding citizen-scholars from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs. Program regulations were amended again in December 2010 by Executive Order[5] establishing the PMF Program as one of the three student Pathways to federal employment. By drawing graduate students from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, the PMF Program provides a continuing source of trained men and women to meet the future challenges of public service.

The PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry level for advanced degree candidates. It was created more than three decades ago by Executive Order and has gone through many changes over the years.

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What Do You Want to Change About Government?

What Will You Give?

You will give the best you have to give to a cause greater than yourself. You will bring fresh, new ideas and a willingness to take on challenges never dreamed possible.  Your zeal for the position will serve to spark new energy and excitement in your co-workers. As part of the PMF “fraternal order,” you will portray your elite status through the quality of your work and service to your country. You will need to demonstrate leadership, foster teamwork, set goals and, in the end, deliver something of value to the American people.  See Notable PMF Graduates at the end of this article from Wikipedia.

In All Transparency focuses on getting out the vote during the pandemic, the history of voting rights, racial oppression in voting, and the United States Postal Service. The USPS has become a nexus for these issues leading up to the general election in 2020. Through an open call, artists and activists create mail art aiming to shed light on these histories and our current moment.

The artists use translucent materials to create mail art that will be sent in transparent vellum envelopes; when illuminated on a light table, various messages and perspectives of the makers will be transparent.

The mail art messages will be photographed and then projected large scale in a loop outside Gallery CA at 440 E Oliver Street in Baltimore, MD and read by people passing by as we approach the general election. Once documented, the mail art will then be sent to a person of the maker's choosing to encourage voter participation and demand fair elections. These luminous messages might be sent to a targeted voter in a swing state, a family member or politician, for example. In All Transparency engages with the history of mail art during this time of physical isolation and social solidarity.

Tactical Media and Critical Design: Rap, Robots, Games, and Poetic Gestures
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 12:40 to 1:45 EST/18:40 to 19:45 GMT
Zoom panel: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/96501025299?pwd=N0p0dzFDTUh3OUFzUkVmdEZGajFOUT09

This panel features artists, activists, and researchers working the borders of practice/theory, technology/society, Black/White, Mexico/US, and Palestine/Israel:

Critical race rap, robots for protestors, apps and games, and poetic gestures of electronic civil disobedience have all emerged as activist media practices over the past 20 years. These media complement new alliances and modes of organizing, including ACT-UP, BLM, #metoo, and Climate School Strike, as well as the emergence of critical design.

This public event is part of Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media (ENGL 4705/INFO 4940/COML 4231), whose four critical design teams work with Black Farmers Fund and Labor Ready (serving Latinx farmers) through Cornell’s Small Farms Program and, through the Cornell Law Clinic, Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre and The Alice Project on Gender and Extreme Sentencing.

The course is part of a multi-year Civic Storytelling project funded by the Society for the Humanities’ Mellon Rural Humanities Initiative, a Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, and an Engaged Cornell Opportunity Grant, with support from the Department of English and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

For more information, contact Jon McKenzie, Professor of Practice, Department of English, Cornell University at jvm62@cornell.edu