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News for Politics students - 1-24-2022

January 24, 2022

  1. Politics Department Spring Welcome, Jan. 28. This Friday the 28th at 4:00pm the Politics Department is hosting our Spring Welcome event. Join us for some fun games and trivia to celebrate the new semester and to get to know your peers and faculty! Click here for the link! Email politics@humboldt.edu for the password.
  2. Open House: Graduate Programs in Public Affairs, Jan. 25. 1-2pm. The Programs of Public Affairs (Master of Public Policy, Master of Public Administration, and M.S. International Affairs & Global Enterprise) at the University of Utah are hosting an Open House (via Zoom) on January 25 where prospective students can learn more about our programs. With a 95% job placement within six months of graduation, University of Utah's Master of Public Policy program is a great investment. Register on the PPA page. Utah is a great place to live and is currently the fastest-growing state in the U.S. Learn more about living in Salt Lake City.  
  3. Reminder: $500 Politics Department Scholarship. Applications due January 31. Submit a personal statement, either as a one-page document or a 3-5-minute video, discussing how pursuing your degree in Politics has shaped you and what you hope to do with this degree in the future. Email politics@humboldt.edu for details on how to apply.
  4. 2022 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties & the Constitution, Jan. 27. This year's Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties event will take place via zoom on Thursday, January 27, from 3-4:30pm. Keynote speaker Stan Yogi is the coauthor of Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He is the co-editor of two books, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley (1996) and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1988). His essays have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and academic journals and anthologies. He co-curated the traveling exhibits Art of Survival: Enduring the Turmoil of Tule Lake and Wherever There’s a Fight: A History of Civil Liberties in California. He is a co-chair of Okaeri, a group of LGBTQ+ identified Japanese Americans, and he is also a co-curator of Seen and Unseen: Queering JA History Before 1945 online exhibit about LGBTQ+ Japanese American history. See here for more info and a registration link.
  5. Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Jan. 27. “Why do government agencies allow environmental inequalities to persist?” 5:30pm. Presented by Dr. Jill Lindsey Harrison, who presents key findings from her book, From the Inside Out, which lifts the veil on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other environmental regulatory agencies to offer new insights into why they fail to reduce harmful toxics and other hazards in our nation’s most environmentally overburdened and vulnerable communities. Find more details and a registration link here.
  6. Labor Summer Internship Program, Jan. 30. Applications are now open for the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Labor Summer Internship Program, a full-time, paid, intensive eight-week educational internship program. This is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about social and economic justice and reflecting on the intersections of race, class, gender, and immigration in the labor movement. Students learn from and work with labor and community organizations in Northern and Central California, applying their skills in real-world settings on issues vital to the state’s working people. We are planning for an in-person program this year, pending any new COVID constraints. Applications are due on January 30, 2022. To learn more about the program, see our website and FAQ page. Questions? Contact Kirsten Bottles Willer at kwiller@berkeley.edu or Clementina Jara at zenaida@berkeley.edu. 
  7. Sustainability Leadership Training, March 5. The C2C Fellows Network, offered through the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College in New York, is an international program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive, interactive skills-based virtual workshops teach skills they don't teach at university, skills to change the future. There is no cost to attend. Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C training focuses on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds. Apply here. Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities. Questions? Contact vn7229@bard.edu.
  8. Internship in Building Community, Feb. 6. Columbia University (Morningside Campus) is hiring over 100 Program & Residential Life Assistants who will be working as Ras for a summer program for high school students. There is no GPA requirement. This is a paid opportunity that comes with room and board in New York City. $18/hr, approximately 35 hours/week. Application deadline is Feb. 6. Learn more and apply here.
  9. Humboldt's Climate Action Plan seeks your input. The Climate Action Plan 2.0 is a roadmap to guide the university towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 and building resilience to climate change impacts. We greatly value your ideas and suggestions to make this plan even better! Please go to the Climate Action Planning webpage. There you can download a copy of the draft CAP 2.0 and submit your ideas via an online comment form.  Comments will be accepted until February 10.
  10. Call for Undergraduate Research Abstracts: Scholarship & Social Justice Research Conference. Organizers of the Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference, scheduled for April 14 - 15, invite students to present their research projects addressing issues of equity and access for under-represented or marginalized groups in areas of health, education, political engagement and immigration. The deadline to submit an abstract is Feb. 11. This year, the conference will be hosted through the Whova platform. More details about the conference and how to apply can be found here.