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Classes begin
Deadline to apply for December and
winter degree candidacy
No classes/campus closed (Labor Day)
Last day to add classes without
instructor’s signature
Last day to drop classes without
notation on transcript
No classes (Veteran’s Day)
No classes (Thanksgiving Break)
Last Day of Classes
Reading Day
Final Exams
Reminders 3
SGPP Events 4-7
Campus Event 8
Club Events 9-10
Internship Opportunities 11-12
Job Opportunity 13
Announcements 14-19
Academic Advising 20
If you are graduating this December, you can still apply for degree candidacy, but a $50.00 late candidacy application fee will now be assessed. For detailed instructions on how to initiate your paperwork, please visit our degree check page.
SGPP Students: Mark your calendars for these
upcoming events with our peer mentors!
Graduate School Day
Over 6,000 University of Arizona students received bachelor's de-grees last year and a substantial number indicated an interest in continuing their education through graduate studies. This is your chance to "Make the Connection" to these highly motivated and eminently qualified UA students at our institution's Graduate School Day on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 in the Student Union Me-morial Center's Grand Ballroom.
We've welcomed Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Creighton, North-western, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley, Boston College, Dartmouth College, NYU, Purdue and University of Illinois (Chicago) to this event over the last five years. This year? We hope YOU'LL be there.
Find out more and sign up today at http://career.arizona.edu/employer/career-fairs-events/ua-graduate-school-day, or visit our website at www.career.arizona.edu.
We hope you'll join us! Please call 520-621-1408 for further infor-mation..
Senator Flake’s Office
Spring and Summer Internship Program
Senator Jeff Flake’s Tucson office is currently accepting applica-tions for their 2014 spring and summer internship program.
Interns will have the opportunity to experience firsthand how a state office of a United States Senator operates. Interns will as-sist the Senator and his staff with a variety of tasks including in-teracting with constituents, assisting people who need help with federal agencies, and working on a variety of research pro-jects. Students will also have the opportunity to regularly attend meetings and community events with staff.
This is a highly competitive program and only two interns are se-lected each semester. Successful candidates will demonstrate an eagerness to learn about federal public policy and how it affects local communities. Upperclassmen with at least a 3.0 grade point average are given priority.
The office is located at 6840 N. Oracle Road. Students are ex-
pected to complete at least 135 hours during the semester to
receive 3 units of credit. The University of Arizona offers intern-
ship credit in several departments. Interested applicants should
send an email to:
Check out our SGPP
Internships page for a comprehensive list of
internships, instructions on how to enroll, and
more!
FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN LATIN AMERICA:
The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona and the Center for Mesoamerican Research (CIRMA) invite you to participate in a study abroad program in Antigua, Guatemala. This is a summer, spring and/or fall semester program. Stu-dents receive a University of Arizona transcript. Most courses can be taken for honors credit, and some can be taken for graduate credit. The real uniqueness of Study Abroad at CIRMA is our commitment to a transforma-tional pedagogy. Our program weaves together rigorous theoretical engagement in themes such as human rights, development, climate change, and indigeneity with on-going reflection of current events, home stay experiences, top/notch language train-ing and profound encounters with Guatemalan activists, artists, students and schol-ars.
https://www.facebook.com/StudyAbroadCirma Program highlights include: a variety of Latin American Studies, History, Anthropology, Politics, Environmental
Studies and Spanish classes, taught by professors, scholars, and practitioners from Central America. Students can also study a Mayan language.
classes give an in-depth and on-the-ground view of the history of revolution in Central America and contemporary social justice, peace and development issues, and ethnic relations.
engaging field trips throughout Guatemala related to course material. opportunities to travel on your own (Guatemala is incredibly beautiful, complex
and fascinating!) a home stay with a Guatemalan family. for-credit internships at CIRMA and use of CIRMA's extensive research library. CIR-
MA is located in a stunningly beautiful colonial mansion in the center of Antigua, Guatemala.
internships and volunteer opportunities in the surrounding community, organized according to student interests.
study abroad students are also doing internships at Safe Passage/Camino Seguro(www.safepassage.org) in Guatemala City. Safe Passage provides life-transforming aid to children of families who live in a barrio marginal.
Study abroad students have found that lending a hand to this incredible organization not only makes a real difference in the world, but that it changes their own lives as well. This internship can be accompanied by a directed reading in Latin American urban history or urban anthropology. a colloquium series that brings in renowned political, social and cultural leaders to
dialogue with the study abroad students. In both Fall and Spring, CIRMA offers an optional, 2-credit field learning experiences. We team you with top experts and bring you to places tourists never see, into direct contact with Mayan or other Central American communities who have risen from the ashes of the civil wars and are doing amazing grassroots projects, recovering historical memory and/or promoting sustainable development. Students say that these trips, like their CIR-MA experience in general, change their lives. Deadline to apply for Spring 2014 is Oct. 15. For deadlines for summer and fall 2014, please click on the U of A study abroad link below. For more information about the application process, contact Jill Calderon at the UA Study Abroad office: [email protected].
For questions about CIRMA and Guatemala, contact Jennifer Casolo, CIRMA study abroad director: [email protected]
For program information, including price, see: http://global.arizona.edu/study-abroad/program/center-mesoamerican-research-cirma-guatemala
or visit http://cirma.org.gt
Dear Students,
Healthyouth (pronounced Healthy Youth) is a non-profit 501(c)3 or-ganization that works globally on projects related to youth. We are offering a winter program for volunteers interested in clinical medi-cine, public health, and education in Peru and Thailand. We also provide 2 annual scholarships to cover all program and in country costs to exceptional candidates and invite you to apply. Only 20 par-ticipants will be accepted in each country to maintain a quality pro-gram.
Applications are due on October 25th for the 2013 winter cy-cle. Please apply at http://www.healthyouth.org/join-us/
About Healthyouth:
Healthyouth has worked with more than 400 volunteers from Univer-sity of Illinois, Arizona State University, and University of Arizona, University of Maryland, Yale University, University of New Mexico, Michigan State, University of Michigan, Dartmouth University and more to work on meaningful projects abroad. Our alumni network ranges from physicians and educators, to public health practitioners, many of whom cite their experience with Healthyouth as a key part of their professional growth.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.healthyouth.org
Brittany Brown, Recruitment Lead
The Master of Planning degree at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy will offer up to five full-tuition diversity fel-lowships for our 2014 entering class. Students should apply by December 15, 2013 and they should complete the fel-lowship application to be considered for these diversity fel-lowships.
Our program is among the oldest, most highly ranked, and most innovative planning programs nationally. We will host open houses for interested students on:
October 14, 2013 (Los Angeles)
November 5, 2013 (New York City)
November 6, 2013 (Washington, D.C.)
November 20, 2013 (Los Angeles)
Students can RSVP to the information sessions here: http://priceschool.usc.edu/admission/info-sessions/. Please visit our web page, priceschool.usc.edu/mpl. For further ques-tions, contact Sarah Esquivel, Assistant Director of Recruit-ment and Admission, at [email protected].
* Please see flyer on the following page
