From a recent email I received from The Washington Center:
By now you may be familiar with our Washington, D.C.-London Program, but we’d like to introduce you to another opportunity you have to intern and study abroad this summer. Through the newly-announced Washington, D.C.-Monterrey Program you could complete a full-time internship in Mexico, take an academic course, develop your language skills and gain a new perspective on the effects of globalization.
The program will begin with a 10-day seminar in the U.S. capital, after which you would spend 8 weeks in Monterrey, Mexico. This location will afford students many internship options, as has distinguished itself as one of the most industrialized cities in the country. While many positions known to be available are related to Business, Information Technology and Communications, we will welcome applicants in all fields. Appropriate placements will be explored on an individual basis for all students interested in participating.
Our deadline for this program is March 15, 2007.
To view details about eligibility, application procedures, dates, and cost, please visit: www.twc.edu/students/monterrey.shtml
If you have questions about any of our other program offerings, feel free to contact us or explore our website for prospective students at: www.twc.edu/students/default.shtml
Andrew McMichael in his FacultyAll email has a good suggestion:
Are there any WKU-sponsored web pages that detail some spring break alternatives for students? I’m looking to provide a web page where students can see their options
Do any of you have any good suggestions for English majors? Visit Faulker’s Yoknapatopha (sp?)? Poetry slam circuit? Get some writings ready for publication? Your suggestions?
Brought to my attention by my esteemed colleague, Dr. Kelly Reames:
Summer Session: May 29-August 3, 2007
Application deadline: February 20, 2007
We hope the new semester is off to a great start! As you know, 2007 is an exciting year for women in Washington, DC with a record number of women being elected to Congress and, for the first time in U.S. history, a woman is leading the House of Representatives. PLEN would like to offer your women college students the opportunity to come live and work in Washington, DC this summer as part of our Women and Public Policy Internship Semester.
PLEN’s internship program is unique because PLEN offers small, women-centered programs that focus on connecting students with talented and successful women leaders here in Washington. PLEN offers support and encouragement to students throughout their time in Washington, acting as an advocate and resource for PLEN interns.
We give each participant individualized attention from the very start, carefully placing her in a challenging internship that matches her skills and interests. Throughout their semester in Washington, PLEN interns meet in weekly seminar sessions where they examine the internship experience, build professional skills, and meet prominent women leaders eager to share their experiences, advice, as well as ongoing support and mentorship. After students leave, we help them maintain contact with other PLEN alumnae – an invaluable resource for those who continue into careers in the public sector.
Please encourage your students to apply soon, the application deadline for the summer semester is February 20, 2007. Interested students can download a Women and Public Policy Internship Semester application form.
As always, if you or your students have any questions about the Internship Semester please do not hesitate to contact the PLEN office by phone at (202) 872-1585 or by email at plen@plen.org. The PLEN staff is always happy to answer questions about our programs.
The Cultural Enhancement Committee is delighted to present the 2006-2007 Cultural Enhancement Series.
Who: Azar Nafisi, author of/ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
When: Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Van Meter Auditorium
Azar Nafisi’s national bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Random House, 2003), electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in
Iran.
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Alumnist Michael Croley is hard at work on a long project and will have a story, “Promises” appearing in the next issue of Narrative, which should come out in late April or early May. He will finish his MFA at the University of Memphis in May where Richard Bausch serves as his major professor.
Here is the link for Narrative Magazine.
Also, you can read his short piece, “Two Lives” here.
Another alum brag from Dale Rigby.
Dear All–another success for one of our talented alumni–Cindy Childress. She
graduated around 2000 and is finishing up her doctorate in English at the U of Louisiana-Lafayette.
I thought you’d be happy to know that I had a poem accepted for publication in Touchstone: A Literary Arts Magazine,
which is published out of Kansas State university. I had submitted the poem for a contest of graduate student poetry (so competition must have been steep!), and while my poem didn’t win, they are putting it in the spring ‘07 issue. So this is my first pub of the year!
Ciao,
Cindy Childress
You can read her poem when you click on the “more” link below (Bloggers usually say, “More on the jump.”). You can read more of her writings here and here and here.
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Submission forms and guidelines are available in the English Office
for the 2007 Zephyrus!
Information and sample issues are also available online.
The deadline for submission this year is Wednesday, Feb. 21.
Dr. Rigby layeth out more opportunities to publish from his always interesting creative-writing-listserv:
Thought some of you might take advantage of this submission opportunity–it’s free, which are the only kind I’ll share on the list! BTW, for an interesting if less competitive online site, check out 400words.com
More information on the “more” jump below.
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