Hi School of Social Work, as part of the Social Justice/Diversity Film Series at the Ethnic Cultural Center we are showing the award winning documentary A River Changes Course on Nov 13. Doors will open at 6:00 pm and the movie will start at 6:30 p.m.

The film focuses on the effects of globalization on three young Cambodians from diferent ethnic groups,  and how they begin to navigate these changes.  There will be discussion following the viewing.

Please come out and show some social work support! : ) Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Tey Thach

GRDSCH 630: Teaching in Learning in Higher Education Winter 2014 Wednesdays, 1:30-3:20

(2 credits) CR/NC

Co-instructors:  Calla Chancellor & Karen Freisem, Instructional Consultants at the Center for Teaching and Learning Class description This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in becoming college or university professors. Activities and readings will revolve around evidence-based pedagogies and practices in higher education, focusing on effective course design and assessment as well as promoting active learning and an inclusive classroom. Students will produce a teaching statement and become familiar with expectations for an academic teaching portfolio.

Student learning goals:

*   Build skills in promoting and assessing student learning, using technology effectively, and teaching inclusively.

*   Assess one’s own teaching and plan for future development as a teacher.

*   Develop materials for a teaching portfolio as a means to reflect on and document one’s work as a teacher.

Please see below for information about Winter 2014 writing studios for GRADUATE STUDENTS who are non-native English Speakers.  This course is run through Professional and Continuing Education, so there is an additional charge not covered by regular tuition.

ENGL 492 (2 credits) “Graduate Writing Studio”

21022    ENGL 492 A        M W 0830-0920                 MGH 278

21023    ENGL 492 B         T TH 0830-0920                  MGH 278

In this course, students develop strategies they can apply to graduate writing tasks from their chosen disciplines, or to completing papers for publication and other professional purposes.

Upon completion students will have a better understanding about the conventions of writing in their academic fields. Students will analyze and report on writing in terms of:

– Structure and layout of a successful article or paper written in their field or for their department courses

– Vocabulary and rhetorical/grammatical style

– Guidelines for department papers or for journal submissions

– Citation style Read more

The FLAS Fellowship is available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.  FLAS Fellowships support study of the following languages and their world regions:

-Arabic -Bangla -Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian -Bulgarian -Burmese -Canadian First Nations -Chinese -Czech -Danish -Estonian -Filipino/Tagalog -Finnish -French -German -Hebrew -Hindi -Indonesian/Malay -Italian -Japanese -Kazakh -Khmer -Korean -Latvian -Lithuanian -Norwegian -Persian -Polish -Portuguese -Russian -Slovenian -Spanish -Swahili -Swedish -Tajik -Thai -Turkish -Uighur -Urdu -Uzbek -Vietnamese

UW students from all departments may apply at: http://www.jsis.washington.edu/advise/flas/

FLAS Fellowships provide:

Academic Year Graduate:                  $18,000 tuition, $15,000 living stipend

Academic Year Undergraduate:         $10,000 tuition, $5,000 living stipend

Summer Graduate/Undergraduate:        $5,000 tuition, $2,500 living stipend

FLAS Information Sessions covering FLAS benefits and requirements, the application process, and the use of FLAS awards abroad, will be held at the following dates and times:

a. Denny 213: Wed Nov 13, 3:30-4:30

b. UW Bothell 1-103, Nov 14, 3:30-5

c. Parrington 313: Wed Dec 4, 2:30-3:30

Applications due January 15, 2014.  Questions: email flas@uw.edu

Undocumented and Unafraid: Stories from the Front Lines of the Fight for Migrant Justice
w/Youth activists Claudia Muñoz and Luis Leon

6:30pm-8:30pm. UW Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Room, 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

Claudia Muñoz and Luis Leon, members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance and DreamActivist.org, on a national speaking tour, will be visiting the University of Washington to speak about their cutting edge work around immigration and the use of direct action by undocumented immigrants. Both organizations were recently featured in the June 21st episode of This American Life (listen here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/498/the-one-thing-youre-not-supposed-to-do ).

Claudia Muñoz was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico until the age of 16. Due to economic hardship and increased drug cartel activity in her hometown of Santa Catarina, Claudia was forced to relocate to Austin, TX with her older sister in 2001. In Texas, Claudia attended high school and eventually college at Prairie View A&M University from where she graduated in 2009. Claudia was involved with in-state tuition fights and other local and national issues affecting her and her community since roughly 2004. In early 2013, Claudia co-founded the Texas Undocumented Youth Alliance, which focuses on fighting deportations and working on other issues that affect the local undocumented community. In 2012, Claudia’s nephew was placed in deportation proceedings. After seeing her own family almost torn apart, Claudia decided to participate in the NIYA infiltration of Calhoun County Jail, where roughly 150 immigrants are housed. During the 19 days that she was detained, Claudia found many issues, including lack of proper medical attention for detainees, intimidation tactics used by ICE and jail officers to get detainees to sign Voluntary Departure, violation of the Morton low-priority memo, among many others. Claudia is non-DACA eligible but was eventually released thanks to community pressure. She now lives in Texas where she continues organizing with the TUYA and NIYA.  Read more

Did you know?

• The US comprises less than five percent of the world      population, but has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners (New York      Times, 2008)
• Approximately 75% of state prison inmates did not      graduate high school (Teachers College, 2005)
• Prisoners who go to college while incarcerated are 45%      less likely to return to prison than those who do not (Institute for      Higher Education Policy, 2005)

Want to know more?

On Tuesday, November 12th, from 5-6pm we will be holding a Prison Higher Education Volunteer Information Session in the Communications Building, room 202.

There are volunteer opportunities to teach credit and non-credit classes, tutor and present one-time seminars. We will discuss the steps to becoming a volunteer, hear from current volunteers about their experience teaching in prison and have time for Q&A. Refreshments provided. Read more

Dear Chancellors, Deans, Directors, Chairs, GPA’s and GPC’s:

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2014 call for nominations for the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.  To initiate the nomination process, please email a nomination letter or letter of intent c/o graddean@uw.edu by 5 pm PST December 2, 2013.  No hardcopy letters will be accepted.

Please note that this is a firm deadline, and in fairness to all nominators, no exceptions or extensions will be granted.

Information and full nomination procedures are attached.LANDOLT 2014 final

Yours sincerely,

The Graduate School

206.543.7468 | fax: 206.685.3234

graddean@uw.edu| www.grad.washington.edu

 

 

The ASUW is still hiring for the 2013-2014 academic year! We are currently seeking applicants for our Computer Administrator position with experience with Linux/Unix software, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Windows Domains, SSH, and other Linux based server upkeep. Are you familiar with PHP code & WordPress and interested in helping redesign the ASUW website? Apply to be one of our Webmasters! Applications for both positions are now available at www.jobs.asuw.org 

Winter Quarter TA position available

Program on the Environment has an outstanding opportunity for a Teaching Assistant for ENVIR 439: Attaining a Sustainable Society

The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Program on the Environment (PoE) is an interdisciplinary program emphasizing undergraduate education in environmental studies.  ENVIR 439 is a new elective course – designed for upper level undergraduates.   Our goal in this course is to explore the dimensions of sustainability through the lenses of anthropology, science and culture. Course Information: Instructor:  Elizabeth Wheat, Program on the Environment

Course Schedule: MW,3:30-4:50 PM – in OUGL 141

Course Description: A significant feature of this course – and of POE in general – is the interdisciplinary approach to thinking about sustainability.  This course will draw from a range of natural and social science disciplines to address the question of how can we move toward a more sustainable society.  Building a sustainable future depends on restructuring the global economy, major shifts in human
 reproductive behavior, and dramatic changes in values and lifestyles.   Can our society become more sustainable?  What does will sustianability require of us as individuals?   What does it require of us collectively?    What lessons can we learn from other cultures?   In this class students will examine these questions and explore in depth some of the major impediments to sustainability.  Having identified and explored impediments to sustainability students will work in groups to explore one of 4 areas of hopeful developments in sustainability. Read more

Greetings UW Students-

The Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct is currently seeking new student members for the University Disciplinary Committee (UDC).  The University Disciplinary Committee is comprised of students and faculty who hear disciplinary cases on behalf of the University. Students who have allegedly violated the Student Conduct Code can appear before the University Disciplinary Committee or may choose to have an informal hearing with a Community Standards and Student Conduct Hearing Officer.  Additionally, the UDC hears appeals of cases in which a student may have been found responsible for a violation of the code but the student disagrees with the initial finding or sanctions.

New student members will begin their one-year term in January 2014 and will complete their term at the end of December 2014. In order to serve on the University Disciplinary Committee, students must be enrolled full-time (either undergraduate or graduate) and be in good academic standing. Additionally, students must be able to commit to meeting as a committee 3-5 hours per month and should be interested in gaining leadership skills through serving on this University Wide Committee.

Students are selected at random from those students who identify an interest in the University Disciplinary Committee and then training is provided for those selected. This year’s first required training for all new UDC members will be held at the beginning of Winter quarter in January and details will be provided to selected students. Read more

http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship

Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.

Boren Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further their study of Akan/Twi, French, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu. For a complete list of languages, visit our website.

Graduate students can receive up to $30,000 for language study and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year. Read more

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Hello SSW Students,

In collaboration with the UW school of Pharmacy the School of Social work is hosting a lecture and meet & greet with visiting U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers (COs), including the Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, this Thursday, November 7th. Students interested in public health and current issues in the field will have the unique chance to meet with and hear from several renowned COs.  This is an excellent opportunity to become involved and/or prepare for a career in public health. If you would like to attend please RSVP at the link below, and reply to this email with a confirmation. Feel free to reply with any questions as well.

Light refreshments will be served!

Thursday, November 7

Walker Ames Room—Kane Hall

4:15   Meet at the Galley in the School of Social work with Kevin Haggerty to walk  to Kane Hall

4:30 – 5:00 PM         Meet & Greet

5:00 – 5:50 PM          Remarks

RSVP
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/flemingm/216628 Read more

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