March 2016 - Sociology

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UC Santa Cruz Mail - Sociology Undergraduate Newsletter at UCS...
Tina Nikfarjam <tnikfarj@ucsc.edu>
Sociology Undergraduate Newsletter at UCSC - March 2016
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Tina Nikfarjam <tnikfarj@ucsc.edu>
Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM
In This Newsletter:
1. Important Winter and Spring Dates and Deadlines
2. Sociology Instructor and TA Online Evaluations - Due by March 13
3. Sociology Wait List Information
4. Sociology Summer Session Offerings
5. SOCY 176A Work and Society Enrollment Information & Application - Due by March 11
6. Working for Dignity Art Exhibit Open Now Through March 12
7. Deans', Chancellor's and Steck Undergraduate Awards - Due by April 5
8. Activist Training Workshop - March 7
9. FILM 171H: Zero Waste, A Collaborative Documentary Workshop - Apply by March 7 4pm
10. Call for Papers: Global Societies Journal
11. Call for Papers: Women of Color Collaboration and Conflict Working Group - Witnessing and Testimony: Hurt,
Healing and Herstories
12. Internship Opportunity: Meals on Wheels of SCC & 2-unit Field Study - Due March 10
13. Internship Opportunity: Walnut Avenue Family & Women's Center Domestic Violence Training
14. Internship Opportunity: City Internships
15. Student Leadership Opportunity: Coaching Corps
16. Summer Research Program: University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences
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1. IMPORTANT WINTER & SPRING DATES AND DEADLINES
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2. SOCIOLOGY INSTRUCTOR AND TA ONLINE EVALUATIONS - DUE BY MARCH 13
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If you are enrolled in a Sociology course for Winter quarter, please remember to complete your online instructor evaluation
and TA evaluation (if applicable) by 11:59pm Sunday, March 13th. Evaluations can be accessed through eCommons.
eCommons sends automated email reminders to complete available evaluations. Once you complete the evaluations, these
emails will stop. Evaluations are very important to departments, instructors and TAs. Please take the time to complete your
available online evaluations.
Due to an issue currently being resolved with IT, the evaluation email notification may have gone into your Spam
Folder. Please be sure to check your Spam Folder.
3. SOCIOLOGY WAIT LIST INFORMATION
If you have any questions about wait lists, please contact the undergraduate advisor, do not contact the instructor.
Useful Guides:
Wait List Advising Flow Chart
Registrar's FAQs
How to Swap Onto Wait List (Use if you are already enrolled in 15 or more units or have a time conflict)
How to Add to a Wait List
How to Drop From a Wait List
How to Avoid Common Wait List Mistakes
Wait List Information and Best Practices:
Check your wait list enrollment appointment. The wait list appointment is listed along with your other enrollment
appointment(s) and has a "10.00" listed under "Max Wait List Units" column. You may only wait list for a course if you
meet the restriction and prerequisite on the course.
The last day to add yourself to a wait list is April 5th by 11:59pm. Wait lists are purged April 6th. Wait list enrollment
is available before the 8th day of instruction. Note: if you enroll onto a wait list after the first day of instruction, and
you did not attend the first day of instruction, it is up to the instructor if they will consider you for a seat in the course.
Please check-in with the instructor if you have added yourself to the wait list after the first day of instruction.
All Sociology wait lists are set to "auto-enroll," until the first day of instruction. Auto-enroll means that as a seat
becomes available, the next eligible student on the wait list will be automatically enrolled. Reg FAQ.:"When signing
up for the wait list it is important to make sure you do not have any time conflicts and you have indicated the swap
you would like to take place if enrolled from the wait list. If there is one of these errors, the process will fail to enroll
you, and move on to the next person on the wait list. The wait-list position number may not be the order in which
students enroll."
For the Sociology department, auto-enrollment will stop the morning of the first day of instruction (March 28th). From
that point on it is up to the instructor who gets into the course with a permission code. Instructors have their own
processes and may not follow the wait list position numbers.
If you are not auto-enrolled by the first day of instruction, attend the first day to determine if you will be able to enroll.
Attendance in the first class meeting is mandatory. Students who do not attend the first class meeting, the instructor
may drop from the course/wait list.
How to Avoid Common Wait List Mistakes:
The course you wish to wait list for will put you over the 19 unit limit:
Students can not enroll in more than 19 units until the first day of instruction. You will not be auto-enrolled into
the course if you are attempting to enroll in more than 19 units.
Best Practice: Swap yourself on to a wait list. Using the "swap" tab in your MyUCSC enrollment page will
allow you to choose the course you want to drop from your schedule if you are auto-enrolled into the wait
listed course. If you are skipped on the wait list please refer to the email you will receive at the end of the day
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from the registrar with directions on how to resolve the issue.
If you have a time conflict:
If the course you wish to wait list has a time conflict with a course you are already enrolled in, you will be
skipped on the wait list.
Best Practice: Swap yourself on to a wait list. "Swap" to indicate the course you want to drop that has a time
conflict. Or adjust your schedule prior to your wait list enrollment appointment time to prevent time conflicts. If
you are skipped on the wait list please refer to the email you will receive at the end of the day from the
registrar with directions on how to resolve the issue.
Choosing section:
For courses that have a lecture and section, when you initially add/swap yourself on to a wait list you will need
to choose one section to wait list under.
Best Practice: Choose a section that fits with your schedule, still has seats available, has the lowest number
of students wait listed, and/or sections that are listed at the bottom or are unpopular sections (usually Friday
or night sections). It is difficult to predict which section might have a seat become available, so if you have
followed the best practices as much as possible, it is ok if you remain in the section you chose. The registrar
will NOT send an email to you to inform you that you were skipped for this reason. Please keep an eye on the
schedule of classes to see if it would be beneficial to change the section you have wait listed for. To change
your section selection without losing your spot on the wait list, you must contact the office of registrar for help.
Otherwise, you may drop from the wait list and enroll again to the bottom of the wait list.
4. SOCIOLOGY SUMMER SESSION OFFERINGS
General Summer Session Information:
Summer courses are posted - 280+ courses UCSC undergrads need to graduate
(super small - average size was 29 last)
Courses by gen ed code and past summer syllabi
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Online courses - 14 fully online
Tuition and fee info - all students pay in-state rates! And $500 off 15+ units!
Summer Financial Aid - ask for your grants and loans estimate
Summer Calendar
Contact us with any questions.
5. SOCY 176A WORK AND SOCIETY ENROLLMENT INFORMATION & APPLICATION - DUE BY MARCH 11
Spring 2016
Sociology 176a Work & Society:
Origins & Impacts of the Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz
Tues and Thurs 10 – 11:45am
Physical Sciences Rm 130
Prof. Steve McKay
The Center for Labor Studies, Dept. of Sociology, and Critical Sustainabilities Project, along with the Community Action
Board of Santa Cruz County, are launching a community-based research project on the rental housing crisis in Santa Cruz,
and we invite undergraduates to participate. Santa Cruz, renowned for its sustainability, is now the least affordable small
city and the city with the highest per capita homelessness in the U.S.. How can we make sense of this contradiction, both
socially and ecologically? What are its origins and impacts? How is it experienced? What solutions are being proposed?
This course is the second in a two-course sequence – focusing on conducting field research (surveys/interviews) in the
Santa Cruz community (focusing on Beach Flats and Lower Ocean neighborhoods). Priority for this second course will be
given to those that enrolled in the first course in W16: Socy 177e EcoMetropolis – (which explored the roots and major
drivers of the local housing crisis, and its impacts for our community and ecosystem). This second course focuses on
collecting data on how community members experience the housing crisis locally, examining such issues as rent burdens,
overcrowding, evictions, displacement and increased commute times. We will be organizing research teams to help with the
following: conduct door-to-door surveys (in English and Spanish), in-depth interviews (in English and Spanish), conduct
survey and interview data analysis (SPSS and qualitative coding), do visual/audio documentation of the housing crisis and
renters, create digital stories, create digital maps, and build a website to showcase the research as well as provide access
to resources related to housing. Priority for entry in SOCY 176a will go to those who have taken SOCY 177e but spots for
new students to the project will be available.
If you are interested in the course, you must fill out an application. The last day to submit the questionnaire is Friday, March
11th, however, permission codes will be sent to eligible students on a rolling basis. The sooner you complete the form, the
better. To fill out an application, please go to: http://goo.gl/forms/USOTeMN8cV (You must be signed into your UCSC
email to have access).
If you have any questions, please direct them to Professor Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu).
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6. WORKING FOR DIGNITY ART EXHIBIT AND OPENING RECEPTION - FEB. 11- MARCH 12
Available Feb 11, 2016 - March 12, 2016
Mary Porter Sesnon Faculty Art Gallery, UCSC
Exhibit Information: http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/working-dignity
Exhibit artists include:
Natalie Alas (junior, Sociology and Economics)
Christine Petersen (graduate in Sociology 2015)
Edward Ramirez (graduate in Fine Art and Sociology 2015)
Steve McKay (Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, UCSC Center for Labor Studies)
The explosion of low-wage jobs in our "new economy" too often leave workers struggling in poverty, exhausted or hurt,
harassed and demeaned, and with few ways out or up. The shift toward more precarious work prompts us to ask: is there
still dignity in work? Taking inspiration from a variety of social documentary traditions, this exhibit explores low-wage work
and workers across Santa Cruz County. The art is part of the larger Working for Dignity research project carried out by
UCSC students, the Center for Labor Studies and the Chicano Latino Research Center. We use a range of media photography, lithography, digital story-telling, video, wheat-paste public art, and sculpture - to represent and reflect on
working people in our community and honor those whose work often goes unseen.
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7. THE DEANS', CHANCELLOR'S, AND STECK AWARDS - DUE APRIL 5
The Deans and Chancellor wish to encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate
students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of 2015-2016 academic activity at UCSC.
Click here to see previous winning projects.
Completed applications must be submitted by April 5, 2016.
DEANS' UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Fifty undergraduate projects, 10 from each of the academic divisions, will receive a Dean’s Award of $100 for outstanding
achievement in their division.
CHANCELLOR'S UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Fifteen Chancellor’s Awardees, three from each division, will be selected from the Deans' Award recipients to receive the
Chancellor’s Award of an additional $500.
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STECK AWARD
The Steck Award will recognize the most outstanding research project chosen from the fifteen Chancellor’s Awardees. This
student (or team) will receive (or share) an additional $1000. In addition, the winning research project will be bound and
copies given to the student(s), the research supervisor, the UC Santa Cruz Library, and the Steck Family whose generous
contributions have made this award possible.
Winners of the Deans', Chancellor's and Steck awards will be honored during Undergraduate Student Achievement Week,
May 28 – June 3, 2016. The names of the winners will also be acknowledged at college commencement.
GUIDELINES
All submissions must include one supporting statement by the faculty sponsor, who will be emailed a link to submit
the letter of recommendation online.
All submissions must include either an attachment of a thesis or a URL to the project or performance.
Foreign language projects must be accompanied by appropriate translation.
Technical papers must include an abstract in non-technical language.
Projects completed in spring 2015 (but not submitted in last year’s competition) are eligible for the 2015-16
competition, even if the student has already graduated. Students who graduated in spring 2015 must activate their
UCSC email forwarding option (UCSC email accounts deactivate 12 months after graduation).
Previous award winners are eligible only for projects in a completely different area.
The deadline to submit the online application is April 5, 2016.
Apply for the Deans', Chancellor's and Steck Awards <- Click here!
Application requires use of your CruzID Blue password.
Questions regarding the guidelines can be directed to ugrdhnrs@ucsc.edu.
8. ACTIVIST TRAINING WORKSHOP - MARCH 7
Are there issues you care about, but aren't sure how to go about changing them?
Join Green Corps for a grassroots organizing workshop.
Activist Training Workshop
Monday, March 7th
5-6:30pm
Red Room, College 8
At this workshop, you will learn invaluable grassroots organizing skills that are important both on and off campus. By
coming to this workshop, you can leave with new knowledge of organizing skills that could include topics such as:
- how to run effective meetings
- how to make your issue visible/how to get your issue out there
- how to plan a campaign from start to finish
- how to work with the media
- and more!
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11kGtYpEKCU_SVVkrH_nrqPefT927vo37fay4xKkmcHI/viewform
9. FILM 171H: ZERO WASTE, A COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP - APPLY BY MARCH 7 4PM
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The Film & Digital Media Department is offering a special, one-time only class next quarter - FILM 171H: Zero Waste, A
Collaborative Documentary Workshop. We would ideally like to choose teams of students with a variety of backgrounds to
create their own documentary. No production experience is required! Students will each bring their own strengths and
perspectives to the team. An application is necessary and can be found here - https://slugfilm.ucsc.edu/secure/production_
applications/
The deadline to apply is Monday, March 7th at 4:00pm.
10. CALL FOR PAPERS: GLOBAL SOCIETIES JOURNAL
Please see the document attached to this newsletter for details of call.
Call for Graduate and Undergraduate Submissions
Cash prizes for the top graduate and top undergraduate essays!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE 18 MARCH 2016
http://www.global.ucsb.edu/globalsocieties/
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Global Societies Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal seeking graduate and undergraduate research
essays oriented around global themes and processes, conceived broadly. Our journal showcases student research from
across the University of California system in hopes of facilitating an exchange of ideas that will increase critical awareness
of global issues as they impact people, places and ideas.
Submissions should be critical reflections on how the world operates as an interconnected and interactive set of processes
and relationships that operate across social, political, economic, cultural, religious, environmental, legal, technological,
scientific and subjective spheres of human experience. Given that, we welcome submissions on a wide variety of pressing
global issues and topics, such as:
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Organizations and issues in global governance (NGOs, WTO, IMF, etc.)
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Interactions between legal systems and cultures (International law, stateless people, etc.)
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Climate change and environmental challenges and disasters
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Global sociopolitical and economic processes and inequalities
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Transnational flows of people, capital, information, culture, etc.
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Challenges to human rights
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Technological development and transnational effects)
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Religion in transnational perspective
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Gender/sexuality/identity/racial politics across the globe
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The legacy and ongoing effects of colonial practices
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Other issues that examine the dynamics of globalization, relations between the “local” and “global,” and the
challenges these issues present to ongoing equality and prosperity
In order to ensure the utmost integrity of our journal, all articles are subjected to a blind review process by an editorial board
based in the Global Studies department at UCSB.
Submitted research may not have been published elsewhere.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
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Maximum length: 4000 words for undergraduate submissions; 5000 for graduate submissions (excluding
abstract, keywords and reference pages)
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Must include a 200 word (max) abstract and 5-7 keywords
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Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date citations
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Submissions should be MS Word docs, single spaced using a 12 point font
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Any charts, tables, images, and/or figures should appear in text at appropriate points, rather than gathered at
the end (as an appendix)
Send submissions to: GlobalSocietiesUCSB@gmail.com
For past examples see our eScholarship page
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS MARCH 18, 2016
Please email any questions or concerns to: GlobalSocietiesUCSB@gmail.com
Like our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/GlobalSocietiesJournal
Follow us on Twitter at: @GlobalSocieties
Follow our blog: https://globalsocietiesjournalucsb.wordpress.com/
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11. CALL FOR PAPERS: WOMEN OF COLOR COLLABORATION AND CONFLICT WORKING GROUP - WITNESSING
AND TESTIMONY: HURT, HEALING AND HERSTORIES
Please see the document attached to this newsletter for details of call.
The Women of Color Collaboration and Conflict invite submissions on the theme of Witnessing and Testimony: Hurt,
Healing, and Herstories from self-identified women/womyn of color undergraduate and graduate students at UC Santa
Cruz, UC Davis and UC Berkeley, to be published in an upcoming journal produced by the WOC multi-campus working
group and presented at a one day conference at UC Santa Cruz in Spring 2017. We will be collaboratively mentoring and
supporting each other as writers, editors, students, teachers, and learners through an editing workshop which will be held in
the Summer of 2016 at UC Santa Cruz.
The WOC Working Group looks forward to receiving submissions in
response to the call, and we are happy to respond to inquiries from
interested parties. All submissions and inquiries can be directed
to WOC’s co-editors at:
ucscwocresearchcluster@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions: April 15th, 2016.
12. INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY: MEALS ON WHEELS OF SCC & 2-UNIT FIELD STUDY - DUE MARCH 10
Background
Meals on Wheels for Santa Cruz County, is a non-profit organization that serves meals to seniors who have trouble meeting
their own nutritional needs. The mission of the program is to help enhance the lives of older adults by offering quality meals
and caring human contact. Meals on Wheels has been providing meals in Santa Cruz County for over 35 years, serving
roughly 600 meals to senior every weekday, with the number of people in need growing almost daily. Despite this growing
need, funding for the program has been dramatically cut. In the past decade alone, Meals on Wheels has lost $500,000 in
annual funding, representing a loss of 25% of program revenue.
The internship program in collaboration with the Sociology department at UCSC, will be affording student interns an
opportunity to assist Meals on Wheels with required program activities while providing students meaningful contact with the
elderly community in Santa Cruz County. Student interns will be engaging in activities that provide opportunities to directly
observe the challenges and issues of aging in our society.
Internship Position & Eligibility
The (unpaid) internship positions will begin at the start of each quarter, and will last the full 10 weeks of the quarter. Eligible
applicants will be interviewed (phone) by the Meals on Wheels of Santa Cruz program manager prior the start of the
quarter. Students must be available via email and phone. The majority of communications will be done via email. Chosen
interns will also need to go through the background check, which generally takes about 10 processing days.
Applicants must have a car, a valid CA driver's license, and car insurance as you will be making home visits with the
members in Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Ben Lomond, or Live Oak. Students must be in good standing, be a Junior or Senior,
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commit to about 6 hours of work/tasks a week, complete the academic portion of the 2-unit internship, and have interest or
previous experience working with the elderly community, health care, food, or social work.
Duties of the positions may include:
Four home visits per week, using health and nutrition screening tools
Working in the dining center for at least two lunches per week at Louden Nelson Center
Meals on Wheels office work
Apply:
If you meet the eligibility criteria, please submit the following items to the Undergraduate Sociology Advisor,
tnikfarj@ucsc.edu, or in person in College 8 Rm 224 or 226 (slide under the door if advisor is not available). Deadline to
apply: By 5pm on Thursday, March 10th
1.
Meals on Wheels Application Checklist (Open, then download for a fillable PDF form)
2.
Resume (cover letter optional)
13. INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY: WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
TRAINING
Walnut Avenue Family & Women's Center is a strength based family center with four core programs; Early Childhood
Education, Services for Children & Youth, Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Community Relations. Our
Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence Department is gearing up for our annual internship training. The
training and Internship provide students with the opportunity to connect their theoretical knowledge with practical
experience; gaining professional skills to safely and compassionately support survivors of Domestic Violence and their
families.
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14. INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY: CITY INTERNSHIPS
City Internships runs immersive career training programs for college students and recent graduates. They’re designed to
expand participants’ horizons and get them job-ready. For each program, on top of hard and soft skill building at weekly
career seminars, workshops and networking events, participants undertake an internship placement at one of our partner
companies.
Students and graduates develop real-world skills, build their professional network and fast-track their career.
Your students can apply here: http://city-internships.com/apply/
What’s included?
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An eight week placement with a leading company
Career seminars, skills workshops & networking events
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Social events & weekend excursions
Local mentorship & 24/7 support
Optional accommodation package.
Industry choices
Placements are available in the following industries; Banking and Financial Services, Art, Fashion and Design, Marketing,
Advertising and PR, Consulting and Professional Services, Entertainment, Media and Journalism, Law and Politics and
lastly, Technology and Engineering.
Program update: Sydney launch
The Global Internship Program is launching in Sydney this summer. The program will be limited to 50 places.
Students interested in spending their summer in Sydney this year may add themselves to our waiting list by emailing
sydney@city-internships.com. We will contact those on the waiting list by mid-March.
Global Internship Program, Summer 2016 deadline approaches
The application process for the Global Internship Program in London, Los Angeles and New York is due to close by April
this year.
Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested students are advised to apply ASAP to secure a spot.
Students and recent graduates may apply via www.city-internships.com/apply/
We find the program gallery is a popular resource to help students visualize the program in action.
Scholarships: March 14th deadline
City Internships is offering four full scholarships to the Global Internship Program this coming summer to competition
winners.
Each of the four competitions offers a different way for students to develop and showcase their skills in the fields of Banking
& Financial Markets; Marketing, Advertising & PR; Business & Entrepreneurship; Art & Design.
A full description of each of the competitions, including directions on how to participate, can be found here: http://cityinternships.com/news-and-press/2016-scholarships-competitions-announcement/
Entries must be emailed to competitions@city-internships.com by midnight on Monday, March 14th.
Academic partnerships launch
Lastly, I am pleased to announce the launch of City Internships’ academic partnership initiative. We are dedicated to
changing the way that graduate talent develops and ultimately, is discovered and nurtured. Partnering with City Internships
gives your students the opportunity to participate in intensive career training that will prepare them for post-graduation life,
as well as aid their existing studies.
For more information on becoming a Global Education Partner to City Internships and the Global Internship Program,
please contact our Global Head of Marketing, Alex Townley. Alex can be contacted on alex@city-internships.com.
15. STUDENT LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY: COACHING CORPS
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We are a youth development based nonprofit organization which harnesses the power of sports and service to provide low
income youth with role models and the opportunity to learn beneficial life lessons on and off the field. The main way that
we do this is by partnering with community based organizations to make sure each sports program has access to quality,
trained coaches who are passionate about sports and child development. We currently partner with over 120 organizations
ranging from YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girls on the Run, SCORES, etc. and since 2002, our coaches have coached
over 75,000 kids. We recruit and train motivated college students and community members who serve as volunteer
coaches, mentors and role models in afterschool sports programs serving girls and boys who live in some of our most
under-resourced communities. We promote positive peer relationships, inspire leadership in kids and ensure the emotional
and physical safety of all our athletes. Without our volunteer coaches, many of our program partners wouldn’t be able to
offer quality sports and mentors to their kids.
We are an established student organization here at UCSC and we are still looking for enthusiastic students to serve as
team captains and volunteer sport coaches. In this position, they will have the opportunity to not only make a mark at
UCSC, but in the Greater Santa Cruz community as well. If you have an opportunity, please check out this short video of
who we are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdH2KMOer4
Here is the application: http://www.coachingcorps.org/sign-up/
16. SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
The University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences invites students from underrepresented populations to apply to
the 2016 i3 summer research program
Application Deadline: March 25, 2016
www.ischool-inclusion.org
What is i3?
The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) is an undergraduate research and leadership development program that prepares
students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in the information sciences. Only 25 students
from across the country are selected each year to become i3 Scholars. Those students undertake a yearlong experience
that includes two summer institutes hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and a research
project spanning the year.
Introductory Institute: June 12-July 9, 2016
Held on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh
Participate in special-topic workshops that highlight the many specialties and research areas in the information
sciences
Take part in professional development seminars led by industry and research experts that focus on graduate school
applications, mentoring, résumé building, and networking
Complete training modules in research design and programming (beginner and advanced sessions) taught by PhD
teaching fellows from top-tier iSchools
Form research teams and work with advisors to design a yearlong research project
Team Research Project
i3 Scholars return home and work with team members remotely to complete a yearlong project
Each team is supported by a research advisor
Students gain experience with project management tools and collaborative technology
Interdisciplinary project topics blend social and technical aspects
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Concluding Institute: Summer 2017, Two Weeks
i3 Scholars return to the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh to complete the program
Develop a research poster and copresent your team’s project
Learn about submitting your project to the iConference and other leading research conferences
Network with the new cohort of i3 Scholars and join the i3 Alumni Association
Program Funding and Benefits
Receive full funding for program expenses, including transportation to and from Pittsburgh, campus housing, and
meals
Earn a stipend while you complete the program: $1,200 for the Introductory Institute | $600 for the Concluding
Institute
Prepare for the GRE with free training sessions
What are the Information Sciences?
People. Information. Technology.
The information sciences focus on helping people to discover better information, design and use better technology, and
make better decisions to solve problems. Whether those problems are in business, medicine, education, the arts, or any
number of other fields, information professionals are able to grapple with the challenges and opportunities of the digital age.
i3 welcomes students from all majors and academic disciplines. The information sciences are incredibly diverse and
interdisciplinary. With so many different specializations, students can find a program that meets their interests.
Past Research Projects
Information Occupation: Using Information Science to Explore the Occupy Wall Street Social Movement
#ReproHealth: A State-Based Investigation of Reproductive Health Rights Policy and Social Media Activity
To Give or Not to Give: How Does Emotion Evoked from Crowdfunding Videos Influence Donations
The Customer Is Always Right: Analyzing Existing Market Feedback to Improve TVs
iGo Green: A Life Cycle Assessment of Apple's iPhone
Entering the Boys' Club: An Analysis of Female Representation in Video Game Culture
Social Network Identity: Facebook, Twitter, and Identity Negotiation Theory
Tweet for Democracy: Examining the Monitorial Citizen
"Our Experiences Are Not Unique": An Exploratory Study of Common Motivators and Inhibitors for Latinas in STEM
Fields
Hacked: A Qualitative Analysis of Media Coverage of the Sony Breach
Who Should Apply?
Undergraduate students enrolled in, or have recently graduated from, an accredited college or university in the US
Students enrolled in any academic major
Students who have an interest in graduate school and research opportunities
Students who are open to exploring the information sciences and its many interdisciplinary fields
Individuals that are committed to diversity and increasing opportunities for underrepresented populations
U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents
How to Apply
Submit an online application with responses to three short essay questions
Two letters of recommendation must be submitted online by your references
Upload your undergraduate transcripts as part of your online application
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Early applications are encouraged and will receive priority consideration.
Applicants will be notified of an admissions decision within 30 days of submission of a complete application.
Application deadline: March 25, 2016
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Tina Nikfarjam
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Sociology Department, College 8 Rm 224
UC Santa Cruz
831.459.4497
831.459.3518 fax
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