This newsletter contains information about the following
opportunities:
Scholarships:
Employment
Opportunities (current and post-baccalaureate):
Scholarships
Opportunities:
1. 2013 Goldwater
Scholarships
·
You must be a current sophomore or junior
·
You must be planning a research career in
mathematics, natural sciences, or engineering
·
You must be a U.S. citizen, resident alien, or
U.S. national
·
Successful nominees have had a minimum College
of Arts and Sciences GPA of 3.900
*** $7,500 per
student per year ***
for tuition, fees,
books, and room and board
To apply: Pick up registration and
important application information from Ms. Kristin McCormick in Kirkwood Hall
012. Call 855-1647 to arrange a time to pick up a packet.
Deadline for submission of all required materials is: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 4:00
p.m.
IMPORTANT: THE GOLDWATER ORGANIZATION ONLY ACCEPTS NOMINATIONS FROM THE
UNIVERSITY. INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST GO THROUGH THE COLLEGE’S INTERNAL COMPETITION
FOR NOMINATION TO THE GOLDWATER ORGANIZATION.
2. 2013 Truman
Scholarship
INTERESTED IN GRADUATE SCHOOL AND
A CAREER IN PUBLIC SERVICE?
For current “juniors” interested in the 2013
Truman Scholarship competition
The IU deadline for the 2013
Truman Scholarship competition is THURSDAY, Nov. 15, 2012
The
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation is expected to award 60-65 merit-based
scholarships to students across the nation who will be “juniors” in the
2012-2013 academic year and who plan to attend graduate or professional school
in preparation for careers in government or other public service. (See
Eligibility section below for the Truman Foundation’s definition of “juniors.”)
Each scholarship is worth up to $30,000 and the Foundation assists Truman
Scholars “with career counseling, internship placement, graduate school
admissions, and professional development.” To compete for the award, students
must be nominated by their undergraduate institutions. The IU Truman Selection/Nomination
Committee has set 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov.
15, 2012 as the campus deadline for students who wish to be considered
for the 2013 competition. In the past, Truman scholars have come from
such diverse fields as history, political science, international relations,
journalism, economics, education, law, public administration, nonprofit
management, physical and social sciences, and technology policy.
The
Truman Scholarship seeks to promote public service, which the foundation
defines “as employment in government at any level, uniformed services,
public-interest organization, non-governmental research and/or educational
organizations, public and private schools, and public-service oriented
nonprofit organizations such as those whose primary purposes are to help needy
or disadvantaged persons or to protect the environment.” Scholars are
required to work in public service for three of the seven years following
completion of a graduate degree program funded by the Truman.
Eligibility: To be eligible for consideration
for the Truman Scholarship, a student must have a clear commitment to a career
in public service, be a U.S. Citizen or National, and be nominated by his/her
university. The student must also be a “junior-level student”. (Residents
of Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Pacific Islands
must have senior-level academic standing.) See http://www.truman.gov for official eligibility
criteria.
Nomination
and Selection Standards:
Because Truman Scholarship attracts the interest of top candidates around the
country, IU only nominates students with outstanding credentials. The
foundation chooses scholars on the basis of their excellent academic performance
and communication skills, potential for leadership, extensive records of public
and community service, and commitment to careers in government or elsewhere in
public service. (See the Truman Foundation’s definition of “public
service” above.) IU’s nominating committee and the Truman Foundation
selectors are looking for candidates who show promise of making a difference in
the world through their public service.
IU
Nomination Process: The
IU committee will select up to four nominees for the national 2013 Truman
competition. To be considered by the IU committee, IU students must submit a
completed Truman Scholarship application, including a 500-word policy proposal
on a significant issue related to the candidate’s intended area of public
service, by 4 p.m., Nov. 15, 2012, to Elaine Hehner in the Hutton Honors
College, 811 E. Seventh Street, Room 210E, Bloomington, IN 47405. Students
seeking consideration should also arrange to have ALL three letters of
recommendation described in the Truman application material sent directly to
Ms. Hehner by Nov. 15. Application materials being used for the fall
process at IU are available from Ms. Hehner and can be downloaded from the
Truman website: http://truman.gov/for-candidates/2013-competition/sample-landing. For additional
information on the scholarship and guidance on the application, including the
500-word policy proposal, see the Truman website: http://www.truman.gov/home. For additional information on
the scholarship and the IU nomination process, contact IU’s Truman faculty
representative Judy Failer, jfailer@indiana.edu, or Elaine Hehner at ehehner@indiana.edu.
Employment Opportunities:
3. Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace: Junior Fellows Program
IU Bloomington
will nominate up to 2 students for this prestigious program, and each year we
hold an internal competition to select our nominees. To be eligible, you must
have senior standing and intend to graduate in May, 2013 or, if you have
graduated within the past academic year you must not have begun a program of
graduate studies.
Applicants should have completed a significant amount of
course work in international affairs, political science, economics, history,
Russian, Chinese, India or Middle East Studies, have an excellent academic
record (minimum cumulative College GPA 3.750), in addition to strong research
and writing skills. Specific language and other skills may be required for
certain assignments. Nominees do not necessarily have to be U.S. citizens if
they attend a University located in the United States. However, all applicants
must be eligible to work in the United States for a full 12 months from August
1 through July 31 following graduation. Students on F-1 visas who are eligible
to work in the US for the full year (August 1 through July 31) may apply for
the program.
Junior Fellows work at the Carnegie Endowment in
Washington, DC for a period of one year beginning on August 1, 2013. The
monthly salary is $3,000 (equivalent to $36,000 annually), subject to federal,
state, and local taxes. A generous benefits package is provided, including
medical, dental, and life insurance as well as vacation leave. Junior Fellows
are responsible for their own housing arrangements.
Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for
books, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to
congressional testimony and organize briefings attended by scholars, activists,
journalists and government officials.
Deadline for submission of all materials to the College of Arts and
Sciences:
Friday,
November 9, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
All
materials (including letters of recommendation)
must
be submitted to:
Dean
Terri Greenslade, College of Arts and Sciences
Undergraduate
Academic Affairs Office, Kirkwood Hall 012
The
Carnegie Endowment does not accept direct student applications for this award. The
IUB internal competition will be held by early December. After this internal
competition, winners will be notified and IUB will forward the names of up to
two successful nominees to the Carnegie Endowment. Finalists selected by the
Carnegie Endowment are invited for personal interviews in February and early
March. Those not selected for interviews will be notified in the month of
February. Selection decisions will be made by the Carnegie Endowment no later
than March 31st.
4. Indianapolis
Teaching Fellows (ITF)
The
first deadline for applying to the Indianapolis Teaching Fellows program is December 10, 2012. We are
recruiting teachers to serve in several subject areas, with a particular focus
in English, special education, math, science, Spanish, and French.
As
I’m sure you know, the need for knowledgeable and effective teachers is
extremely high in Indianapolis and Northwest Indiana. Our students need
effective teachers NOW!
We
take recent graduates and career changers who have strong content knowledge in
high demand subject areas and prepare them to teach in high needs communities
in Indianapolis and Northwest Indiana.
Connect
with us on social media. We’re on Facebook, Linked In, and Twitter . We regularly add posts about our
Fellows and the work we’re doing to close the achievement gap.
If
you are planning to relocate after graduation, ITF is part of TNTP’s national
network of teacher recruitment and certification programs and has locations in:
Arizona - Baltimore - Charlotte - Chicago - DC - Fort Worth - Georgia - Indiana - Memphis - Nashville - New Orleans - New York City - Rhode Island
For additional information contact:
Erika
Haskins
Recruitment
Ambassador
Indianapolis
and Northwest Indiana
Teaching
Fellows Programs
TNTP
5. College of Arts
and Sciences Part-time, Hourly Position
The Office of
Undergraduate Academic Affairs is looking for one or two highly motivated,
reliable and mature student workers. We ask our student workers to work 10-12
hours per week between the hours of 8am-12pm and 1pm-4pm. We are looking for
dependable, flexible students with the ability to maintain confidentiality of
records and who are detail oriented. Proficiency with Microsoft Office and
Adobe Suite is preferred. Primary duties consist of: filing, data entry,
preparing computer work, copying, sorting mail, maintenance of website(s),
running errands and miscellaneous tasks. This is not a work-study position. For
consideration, please submit your résumé and cover letter directly to Kirkwood
Hall 012.
