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Fall 2024 Volunteer Opportunity with the State’s Attorney’s Office

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The Truancy Prevention Program (TPP) is currently recruiting volunteers for the Fall Semester!

As a part of the crime prevention initiatives established by the State’s Attorney’s Office, TPP works to improve attendance in Montgomery County by discovering the root causes of truancy and assisting students and their families with issues that impact attendance.  The program currently serves in 26 MCPS schools and is looking to expand to every middle school in Montgomery County. Volunteers are needed to make it happen!

Serving as a volunteer Mentor or Facilitator is a rewarding way to utilize your expertise in education. The program entails a ten week commitment of 2-3 hours a week. Volunteers meet with students who are chronically absent as a Mentor or a Facilitator helping students set goals to improve their attendance. Students who complete the program successfully are invited to a graduation ceremony at the end of the semester. You can see the difference it makes to students and their proud families as they gather to celebrate their success.

For more information please contact Rebecca Marcolini at 240-777-7370 or Rebecca.Marcolini@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov.

More information can also be found at the links below:

TPP Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcXqmFrKha8&t=1s

TPP website

Fox 5 News Coverage

Career Closet

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The Center for Career Development and Macklin Center for Leadership & Communication have collaborated and launched the “Career Closet.“
The Career Closet provides FREE professional attire (blazers, suits, button down shirts, blouses, dresses, skirts) to USG students for their summer internships, interviews, job fairs, post-graduation careers, leadership opportunities, and class presentations.
This Career Closet is a pop-up event and donations will be accepted until May 22, 2024.

Affordable Graduation Frames with FREE Customization

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ON SALE are AFFORDABLE diploma frames that YOU can custom engrave and choose custom colors for. Get engraved frames for your MC, UMD, UMBC, or any school diploma! This is a perfect gift for yourself or a loved one.
 
Students and alumni now have an AFFORDABLE ALTERNATIVE to the sky high diploma frame prices you may find online today. Our UMD Undergraduate Communication Association Students are in-state, taking orders, and ready to help YOU display the degrees you worked so hard to earn. Thank you for supporting the UCA on this fundraiser — our Terps at Shady Grove cannot thank you enough!
Please see attached flyer for more info and how to order. For any questions or concerns, please email sgcomm.uca@gmail.com.
 
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Online summer course: Black Theatre and Performance I

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Looking for an online 6-week summer course? 

Looking to fulfill DS or DV general education requirements?

THET-293: Black Theatre and Performance I

Online Summer Session I: May 28-July 5, 2024

General Education: DSHU, DSSP, DVUP

Instructor: Kristopher Pourzal (PhD Candidate)

This course is an introduction to African American-authored dramatic texts and performances of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. We will study the works of playwrights, choreographers, musicians, performers, and other cultural producers, with particular attention to the political and social impacts of their works. Given that this course covers the antebellum period through Black Power, our timeframe includes histories of white supremacist violence as well as African American flourishing. We will trace how texts/performances demonstrate strategies that African Americans have used to do something in the world. Whether that “doing” was forging a sense of self, protesting slavery, cultivating joy, or something else entirely, we ultimately consider how the color line in America has fundamentally shaped—and been shaped by—theatre and performance.

 

Meets virtually Mon, Tues, Wed; 10:00am-12:15pm ET

 

Reach out with any questions! kpourzal@umd.edu

Uniformed Division Focused Career Event: May 7th 9am-2pm

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The Secret Service will be hosting an exclusive event focused on highlighting Secret Service Uniformed Division career opportunities. This event will take place at the James J. Rowley Training Center in Beltsville, MD, on May 7th, 2024, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.

 

Students will gain firsthand experience through engagements with Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers, have the opportunity to meet with our recruiters and apply while at our training center. The participating students will tour our state-of-the-art facility and witness tactical demonstrations, visit our weapons lab, tour historic Secret Service armored vehicles, and observe a driving demonstration. We will also host a panel discussion/Q&A allowing students the opportunity to intimately engage with Uniformed Division Officers and USSS executives.

 

This event offers a unique and valuable learning experience to those interested in a law enforcement career with the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.

Paid Tutoring Position Opportunity for CCJS Students

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The Academic Achievement Program (AAP) is currently hiring for new course-based tutors for two different programs:
– Academic Achievement Program (AAP): Typically offers tutorial support for social science and humanities courses and serves specifically AAP students. This tutoring role would require weekly sessions with the same group of AAP students (typically first-years).
– Academic Success & Tutorial Services (ASTS): Targets historically difficult courses in areas such as biology, business, chemistry, economics, and mathematics/statistics and serves the general UMD student body. This tutoring role would be appointment-based.
For AAP Tutors, We’re hiring for both Summer 2024 (specifically for July 2024 – August 2024) and Fall 2024. For ASTS Tutors, We’re hiring specifically for Fall 2024. The application deadline for all positions would be April 30th, 2024.
For the CCJS program, I’d like to highlight that we are recruiting these specific courses:
– CCJS100, CCJS105
Here are application and related recruitment flyers below (Additional information about the role can be found in these links as well):

Info Sessions: 2/12, 2/13, and 2/16

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Learn about the UMD-Summer study abroad program in South Africa! 

Information sessions will be on:

Monday, February 12th at 2pm (UMD College Park – Chincoteague 1117)
Tuesday, February 13th at 2pm (USG Building III, Rm 4219)
Friday, February 16th at 3pm (ZOOM)

See flyer for more details