Lots of UHPers work as house staff at GWU, and we hear it’s one of the most fun jobs on campus! If you have what it takes, make sure you attend a mandatory info session.
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Sustainability Minor Advise-a-Palooza
With Spring 2014 registration around the corner, are you thinking about your academic path?
Curious about GW’s first interdisciplinary undergraduate minor? Check out this FREE informational lunch!
Sustainability Minor Advise-a-Palooza
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
11:00 AM – 1:00 PMDuques Hall Room 451
2201 G St. NW,
Washington, DC 20052.
Lunch will be served.
RSVP Here!
Meet with faculty, advisers and students! Learn about new Green Leaf courses, and hear about opportunities for cool culminating experiences:
- Internships Search with GW Career Center
- Service Learning with Center for Civic Engagement & Public Service
- Entrepreneurship with GW Biz Plan Competition & GW UpStart
- Directed Research with Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research
- Field Studies with Office of Study Abroad
Receive on-the-spot advising, and declare the Sustainability Minor!
Tell your friends!! See you there!!
Apply to be a 2014 CI Staffer
Do you enjoy working with kids and want to be a part of 2014 Colonial Inauguration? We are currently looking for this summer’s CI Staffers!
CI Staffers work for the Siblings Program during Colonial Inauguration. The Siblings Program allows younger siblings to learn more about GW and gives them insight on where their older brothers and sisters will be spending the next four years. Duties range from guiding the siblings around DC throughout CI to interacting with and providing information to incoming first-year students and their families.
This is a unique opportunity where you will gain professional work experience, personal connections with fellow staff and administrators, and have fun while welcoming new families into the GW community. Training will start in the spring and the position will run through early July.
Come learn more about the CI Siblings Program and how to apply at an information session, which will be held November 4-8th. You must attend an information session to apply.
The dates and times of the information sessions are:
- Monday, November 4: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Multicultural Student Services Center 209
- Tuesday, November 5: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Marvin Center 309
- Wednesday, November 6: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Mount Vernon Campus (MVC) West Hall B108B
- Thursday, November 7: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Marvin Center 407
- Friday, November 8: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Thurston Piano Lounge
Applications due November 15th.
Please contact Siblings Program Coordinator, Melissa Mogollon, at staffers@gwu.edu or (202) 994-GWCI (4924) if you are unable to attend any of the information sessions or if you have any questions.
Extreme Makeover: Honors Edition
If you’ve ever heard from one of your friends, “I wish I was in the Honors Program!” then you should:
- tell them to sign up for sophomore application information for the Honors Program;
- stop rubbing your registration date in your friends’ faces.
When your friends sign up at go.gwu.edu/apply2uhp they’ll automatically receive the application when it’s available. Students can only apply to join the UHP during the second semester of their freshman year, and the UHP only accepts 15 students to start in the UHP as sophomores. Competition is tough, but it’s definitely worth it!
Tell your friends to sign up at go.gwu.edu/apply2uhp for information on sophomore admission to the Honors Program.
John Cage Exhibition at Gallery 102!
“Caged In: DC Painters Explore the Aesthetic Influences of John Cage,” curated by UHPer Roxanne Goldberg, opens with a reception this Thursday, September 19 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at Gallery 102 in Smith Hall of Art, 801 22nd St. NW.
Stop by for some free food and a fantastic opportunity to meet the DC-based artists who created these exceptional works of art based on a recording of the John Cage 25-Year Retrospective, famously performed at the NYC Town Hall in 1958.
The exhibition is open until October 4 and features a panel discussion (in addition to Thursday’s reception) on Wednesday, October 2 at 6:30 PM. UHP student Roxanne Goldberg will be moderating this panel discussion with Executive Director of the John Cage Trust Laura Kuhn, Co-Director of the Centennial John Cage Festival Washington, DC Steve Antosca and Black Mountain College Scholar Kate Markoski.
A full color catalog has been published along with this exhibition and may be viewed in the gallery.
"Reality Is Broken" Keynote Address
Jane McGonigal presents a keynote address on her new book, Reality is Broken on Friday, October 4th at 7pm.
The event is free, but space is limited so RSVP now for tickets.
RSVP on EventBrite now!
The event is hosted by the University Writing Program at the George Washington University.
Didn’t read the book? Check out the author’s TED Talk video!
Presidential War Powers Debate
You are cordially invited to join
Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va)
and
former Governor Gerald Baliles of Virginia
for an important and timely conversation and debate on
Presidential War Powers
to be held on Tuesday, September 10, at 6:00pm
in the Jack Morton Auditorium (MPA Building).
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Brought to you by the GW University Writing Program,
as part of our series on “Democracy and Public Argument,”
this event is co-sponsored by
the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
and
the national collegiate Cross Examination Debate Association.
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Following opening remarks by Senator Kaine, there will be a lively and
provocative debate on the topic, moderated by Gov. Baliles,
and featuring members of the undergraduate Policy Debate teams from
GW, Georgetown, the US Naval Academy, the University of Pittsburgh
the University of Mary Washington, and James Madison University.
The event will end with a Q&A discussion with the audience.
DOORS OPEN AT 5:30pm – EVENT BEGINS AT 6:00pm
Free and Open to the Public
Hey, You Should Really Be In Honors!
If you’ve got friends that would make a good fit for the University Honors Program, be a friend to them and let them know about sophomore admission to the UHP!
Students can apply to the UHP during the second semester of their freshmen year. Make sure they don’t miss the application by having them sign up for an information request at our website.
Signing up for that list will get you one or two emails in the early spring semester notifying when the internal application to the Honors Program is available. We won’t abuse any emails and promise not to sell it to spammers.
When it comes time to apply, second-semester students will need a letter of rec from GWU faculty and a writing sample among other things. Some good advice for prospective applicants: build a relationship with a professor, and do some excellent writing.
And of course, signing up for the sophomore admit info request list is a sure fire way to make sure the application doesn’t get missed.
Should School Go All Year?
Check out this post at the New York Times that argues that summer vacation makes inequality in America worse.
From the article:
The entire issue tends to vanish from public debate, because the educated, affluent people who run the debate don’t particularly suffer from it. Summer vacation costs money, but prosperous parents are happy to spend it on their kids. And of course there’s the sentimentality factor.
What do you think? School is important — should it go for all 12 months a year?
$2500 Stipend to Research GWU Diversity
Win a $2500 stipend to research diversity at GWU through the University Archives Diversity Research Fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year!
Specify your own area of research interest, which may include (but is not limited to) themes such as the history of women, African Americans, Latino/a students, religious life, veterans, disability and LGBT individuals on campus throughout GW’s history.
Sounds cool, right? Read the full description and find out how to apply.
You’ve only got until September 2nd, 2013 to apply, so act now!
