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Apply to be a Student Peer Advisor!
Student Peer Advisors (SPA) are dedicated to serving the UHP community by planning events, actively engaging with current and prospective UHP students, and representing the UHP as a whole. If you’re interested in taking control of your UHP experience and helping others succeed, consider applying to become a SPA! SPA members help fellow students with course selection, conflict resolution, time management and extracurriculars as well as provide a student perspective of the UHP to prospective students and parents.
New applicants should use this form
Returner applicants should use this form
Think you’re interested? Make sure to apply soon! The application deadline is this Friday, February 8th at 5:00pm. Applications should be submitted by email to uhpspa@gwu.edu with the subject line “SPA Application.” Please forward all questions regarding the application process to Eleanor Aldous (ealdous@gwmail.gwu.edu.). Decisions will be announced on March 4th.
Vermeer believes in you even if you don’t have a pearl earring. Apply for SPA today!
(Freshmen) Apply to the UHP!
The UHP is now accepting applications from freshmen to join the UHP! The deadline to apply is this Friday, February 8, 2013, at 5pm.
If you’ll be a second-semester freshman next semester (and you’re not already in the UHP) you can apply to join the UHP! Download the (.doc) application directly from this link.
Current UHPers: do you have friends that have what it takes? Share this post with them and encourage them to apply!
Brown Bag Lunches w/ the UHP
We’re trying something new this semester: Brown Bag Lunches with the UHP!
Any staff, faculty, and students in the UHP are welcome to come join us for lunch in the UHP club room this Thursday (2/7/13) at noon. Remember though, it’s bring your own lunch!
The concept is simple: we’re having lunch. Have lunch with us! We’ll chat. Maybe about UHP stuff, maybe about JJ Abrams and Star Wars, maybe about the pros and cons of making your own yogurt and mustards, maybe about existential angst. You know, whatever. It’s lunch. We’re shooting to do these regularly on the first Thursdays of the month, but check our events calendar (or add it right into your own calendar) to make sure we’re still on.
Remember this is BYOB — Bring Your Own Brown-Bag (with food in it.) (That means bring your own lunch.) (If you don’t have your own lunch, you can’t have mine.) (I will not trade you my PB&J for your tuna fish. I will never trade you anything for your tuna fish.)
Addicted to Books? [Good Article]
Check out this post from Michael Dirda as he talks about the problems of a particular kind of addiction — books! Are you one of those notorious book hoarders too?
From the American Scholar article:
Now this is bad, very bad. These days I can hardly step away from this desk and not find myself gravitating to a used-book store and pulling out my credit card. I can almost always justify my purchases as sensible, reasonable courses of action. All addicts do this.
Incidentally, Michael Dirda will be visiting GWU soon for his UHP-sponsored talk on Sherlock Holmes.
Is there an Inspired Teacher in you?
Earn your teaching license while making a difference in the classroom
The Inspired Teacher Certification Program is now accepting applications for the 2013 cohort of Inspired Teaching Fellows. Grounded in the belief that teaching is an intellectually rigorous and demanding profession, the Inspired Teacher Certification Program uses the unique structure of the residency model to prepare new teachers. Participants in our residency program have a full year to develop the skills of engaging diverse students, managing classrooms, and planning effective lessons by working alongside an experienced Lead Teacher. Instead of being fast-tracked into the teaching profession, our Fellows are better prepared for the challenges of teaching in an urban, high-poverty classroom. Continue reading “Is there an Inspired Teacher in you?”
Enter the Strasser Writing Prize
The UHP is now accepting your entries for the 2013 Strasser Writing Prize!
The Strasser prize awards a grand prize of $100 and two runner-ups of $50 to the best papers written in any Honors course over the past year. You can only enter one paper, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year). This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, March 1st, 2013.
You’ve already written the paper, now submit!
Graduating? Let us know!
Seniors, this is our last call: if you’re graduating this spring you must complete this form. You have until 5pm on February 1st to fill it out.
Free Trip to the Newseum [SPA Event]
FREE TRIP TO THE NEWSEUM!
Join SPA members Breanna Browne and Jess Burnell as they adventure to the Newseum. Meet them along with Liz and Professor Ralkowski on Friday, Feburary 8th @ 1:00pm at the Honors Townhouse to walk over to the Newseum. Tickets are normally $17.95 for students, so seize the opportunity to go for free! Click HERE to sign up.
Last Call for Honors Contract [Deadline]
If you’re taking a contract course, make sure to get your Honors Contract complete.
This line is where the jokes normally go, but the deadline is this Friday! Ain’t nobody got time for that. Hurry up and get your contract submitted.
How do you know if you need to complete an Honors Contract? Keep reading to find out.
Continue reading “Last Call for Honors Contract [Deadline]”
