Beauty Beneath the Dirt Film Screening & Leadership Workshop

Katherine Imp, a University of Illinois College of Law alum, will be hosting a leadership workshop on campus Thursday, Oct. 18. Katherine will also be on campus that day to screen her award-winning documentary feature, Beauty Beneath the Dirt.

Before coming to Illinois, Katherine worked as a door-to-door fundraiser for a number of nationally-recognized, non-profit organizations and was consistently ranked as one of the best fundraisers in the country.  She then went on to work for Outward Bound, leading 30-day canoeing trips for at-risk youth. Though Katherine’s formal education is in law, her background, entrepreneurial skills and creative interests led her to produce, market, and distribute the feature film, Beauty Beneath the Dirt, while simultaneously practicing law at the prestigious Chicago law firm, Segal, McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.. These endeavors prompted her to launch http://ringleaderkate.com, a blog dedicated to providing its audience with tools and tips to succeed, both personally and professionally.

Leadership Workshop (Free)
When: Thurs, Oct. 18, 5:30pm
Where: ARC Auditorium
Pre-Registration: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5940392

Katherine’s workshop on Thursday will focus on the following:

How to be a Ringleader: Leadership in 6 Essential Steps
Regardless of whether you hold a leadership position, leadership skills are essential to day-to-day life. They can be the difference between you getting a job, keeping a job, or losing a job to a competitor. This 1-hour workshop will provide tools to improve your leadership skills in the following areas:

• Elected Positions: how-to effectively manage people that are your age…or older
• Networking: how-to expand your ‘inner circle’ and stand out
• Sales: how-to sell … anything, from donation requests to ideas to films
• Public Speaking: how-to, um, talk better

Film Screenings (Free)
When: Thurs, Oct. 18, Noon & 7pm
Where: ARC Auditorium
Details: http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/

Check out the Buzz on Kate Imp and Beauty Beneath the Dirt:

http://blog.brazencareerist.com/2012/08/22/how-to-accomplish-your-big-dreams-even-if-theyre-as-crazy-as-making-a-movie/

Participants will study two semesters worth of Spanish plus shadow teachers in Lima.  The program will also feature guest lectures from Peru’s private and public education systems. Extra role-playing Spanish classes allow practicing of classroom conversations and parental meetings.

Sign up for program updates here.

Proficiency in Spanish is not required, however we encourage students below intermediate to come a few weeks early.

2013  Program Dates

Spanish & Education

Lima, Peru, May 26, 2013 – July 6, 2013  (six weeks)  Max 30 students.

At this point we do not have the exact prices set, however we expect program cost (Spanish course, education component, and administration fees) to be about $2,200 for the summer session.

We will be accepting applications in a few weeks.

Register for updates

To keep programs affordable we rely on word-of-mouth help.  Please forward this message to appropriate student groups.

Please direct any questions to education@ecela.com and we will respond promptly.  You may also phone us at 1 (347) 329 5506.

IPRH Inside Scoop Series:

  Creative Inquiry in the Humanities,

a Conversation

Date:                         Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time:                         5:00 p.m.

Location:      Honors Commons Lounge, Room 2034

Lincoln Hall, second floor (up SW Stairwell, turn left, pass through double doors, room on right)                                

About this event:

Curious about the work your humanities professors do outside the classroom? Come get the inside scoop from some of the U of I’s most dynamic professors in a relaxed and informal setting. Join us for a conversation and learn about the thrilling discoveries that fuel creative inquiry and work in humanities research. This session offers an opportunity for all interested undergraduates, no matter their majors, to share in the excitement of the great breadth of research performed daily on our campus. Pizza and, of course, ice cream (scoops!) will be served.

About the speakers:

Jane Desmond has worked professionally as a modern dancer, a choreographer, a humanities professor, a social science professor, on a Hollywood film, and on a PBS documentary in Senegal. She has spoken, published, or conducted research in East Asia, South Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Latin America, and throughout Eastern, Western, and Central Europe. She has written and edited several academic books, in the areas of tourism studies, performance studies, and animal studies, and co-founded the International Forum for U.S. Studies, a center for the transnational Study of the U.S.  She holds degrees from Brown, Sarah Lawrence, and Yale, and has served on the faculties of Cornell, Duke, the University of Iowa, and since 2007 has been a professor in the Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies departments at UIUC.

Jonathan Ebel is an associate professor in the Department of Religion specializing in the religious history of the United States. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004 and has been teaching at the University of Illinois since August of 2006. Professor Ebel is the author of Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Solider in the Great War (Princeton, 2010) and the co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California, 2012). He is currently working on two books. One focuses on the place of soldiers and war in American civil religion; the other is a religious history of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migration.

Tara McGovern is a senior in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology with minors in Spanish and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  A recipient of the Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), she is entering her third year of studying Quechua, a native Andean language. She has conducted ethnographic research in El Salvador and Ecuador, as well as Maya archaeology in Belize. She has worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and currently at the Spurlock Museum on campus. This past summer, she was the Web Content Intern at the Chicago Humanities Festival, and completed the manuscript of her first novel.

HDFS Spring 2013 courses list

Hello Fellow Seniors,

On October 13, Student Education Association will be hosting a professional development conference for ALL education students at the University of Illinois! For attending this conference you will receive 5 certified professional development hours to add to your resume and portfolio!

Our sessions are led by prominent teachers, administrators, and education advocates all across the state of Illinois. Topics include: Response To Intervention, Student-Led Conferences, Technology in the Classroom, How Can Unions Help You?, Common Core Review, and Popular Special Education Topics!

The cost is only $5.00 for Student Education Association members and $10.00 for nonmembers. Not only will you gain experience you can’t get in the classroom, but you will also be entered in raffles for a Kindle 3G, themed teacher baskets, gift cards, and more!

This is the only conference for pre-service teachers on campus!

Help us “Harvest a Great Crop of Teachers”! Registration is now available!

Register at: www.tinyurl.com/conferenceregistration2012

If you have any questions, please contact Kelley Sullivan, SEA Vice President, at sulliv60@illinois.edu or Samantha Kocher, SEA President, at kocher1@illinois.edu

Attend LeaderShape! 

Attached you will find an application for the upcoming 2013 LEADERSHAPE INSTITUTE® to be held January 6-11, 2013 at beautiful Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois.  The Illinois LeaderShape® Institute is a six-day, five-night program where you experience a leadership process that teaches visioning, the importance of developing relationships, and leading with integrity.  This will be a great experience for you to add to your life portfolio to discuss with graduate schools and future employers!

The College of Education will be sponsoring 2 students to attend LeaderShape.  All undergraduate students in the College of Education are invited to apply.  The College of Education makes this experience possible at no cost to the student.

If you are interested in learning more about leadership and creating positive social change, I urge you to apply.  It is a tremendous opportunity for students. I have received fabulous reviews from students who have attended in the past.

Interested in finding out more?  Attend an info sessions:

Thursday, October 4th at 7:00 pm in 209 Illini Union

If you have any questions feel free to email Michael Henry, the LeaderShape Graf Intern at henry23@illinois.edu or stop by the Illinois Leadership Center at 290 Illini Union.

The deadline to apply is Monday, October 29^th.  Please submit completed applications to 120 Education.

Kathy Ryan
Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
College of Education
120 Education Building, MC-708
1310 South Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217/333-2800
kmryan@illinois.edu

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NCSA is looking for Illinois undergraduate students who have big ideas and the creativity, skill, and drive needed to bring them to life.

Join NCSA from 4 to 6 pm Oct. 24 for NCSA SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation). Meet with NCSA staff and learn more about their research and areas of expertise, such as high-performance computational modeling, big data, 3D visualization, and more. Participating organizations and projects include: Blue Waters, XSEDE, the Illinois Informatics Institute, eDream, and the Illinois Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science. Free snacks will be provided.

NCSA offering up to 15 paid innovation fellowships—selected students will work with NCSA mentors during the Spring 2013 semester on projects related to the center’s interests and areas of expertise. Fellowship proposals are due Nov. 9.

For more information, see http://go.illinois.edu/opportunities.

Questions? Contact spin@ncsa.illinois.edu.

The Counseling Center offers a weekly psychoeducational support group for students who identify with concerns common to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. The group meets for six sessions every Wednesday from 1:00-2:30pm. Students who are interested in participating are asked to please call the Counseling Center at 217.333.3704 to register for the group, as spots are limited. An informational flyer is attached to this email. Please feel free to share this information with your advising staff and students with whom you work. Questions can be directed to Jodi Thomas at 217.333.3704 or jmthomas@illinois.edu.

Regards,
Jodi Thomas

Jodi Thomas, PsyD
Practicum Training Chair
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Counseling Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
206 Student Services Building, MC-306
610 E. John Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.3704
jmthomas@illinois.edu

$20,000 Scholarships to Study Abroad?!

The University of Illinois National and International Scholarships Program will be hosting an information session on National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren undergraduate study abroad scholarships on Friday, October 5 at 2:00 in room 514 at 807 S. Wright Street. Sarah Gleisner, a Boren Program Manager, will be providing participants with information about the program and tips on filling out competitive applications. The campus application deadline is January 16 for any study between May 2013 and May 2014 (all students are eligible for semester or year-long programs while some students may be eligible for summer intensive language programs as well). Students are encouraged to begin writing application drafts this fall.

The Boren provides study abroad scholarships of $6,000-$20,000 for a full academic year or $4,000-$10,000 for a semester for U.S. citizens to study in Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East on almost any study abroad program. These are merit-based scholarships (approximately 1 in 5 eligible applicants receive awards including multiple University of Illinois students every year). In order to receive the scholarship, award winners must enter into a service agreement requiring that they attempt to work in a paid position for the federal government in an area related to national security—generally the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, or the Intelligence Community within three years of graduation (deferrals possible/encouraged for graduate study). Winners also receive priority-hiring status. Further information is available at http://www.topscholars.illinois.edu/prestigious/nsep.html

Please direct questions to David Schug by email at topscholars@illinois.edu or at the fifth floor, Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 South Wright Street.

David Schug and Laura Hastings, Directors
National and International Scholarships Program  |  University of Illinois
Illini Union Bookstore, 5th Floor, MC-317  |  807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ph: (217) 333-4710  |  fax: (217) 244-4851  |  topscholars@illinois.edu
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