Dickinson College Division of Student Life

Syracuse University is offering Paris Noir, a 5 week seminar course investigating the African American presence in Paris , France . Undergraduate and graduate students will explore 18 th and 20 th century literature, art and life of African Americans while residing in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Discussion will focus around expatriation, colonialism, gender, racism, immigration, deportation, and the African Diaspora. Tuition grants are available.

Syracuse University also offers many other summer study abroad opportunities which can be found at http://suabroad.syr.edu

For more information visit: http://suabroad.syr.edu/programs/summer/view/244 or pick up a flyer in the Office of Diversity Initiatives located in the Lower Level of the HUB inside the Leadership Development Center (LDC).

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission & The Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations are offering a 12 week paid (Stipend of $4,000) internship to upper level undergraduates and graduate students to be placed in positions at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission facilities throughout the Commonwealth as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia . Interns will participate in fieldtrips and travel to museums and cultural institutions in the region.

For more information and application materials visit: www.phmc.state.pa.us and follow links to Internship Programs.

American Bar Foundation/Kenneth F. & Harle G Montogomery Foundation/Solon E. Summerfield Foundation .

The American Bar Foundation is accepting application from undergraduate minority students (racial minorities) interested in participating in a Summer Research Diversity Fellowship and who are interested in later pursuing graduate study in the area of social sciences. Participants will work under a Research Fellow in designing and conducting their Fellow's project. In addition students will participate in seminars and field visits to further explore the facets of scoiolegal research. Housing is provided and additional living expenses may be covered through a $3,600.00 stipend.

Glamour Magazine is on the look out for any woman who is a full time junior during the 2006-2007 academic year to enter in their 2007 Top 10 College Women Competition. Applicants must be able to demonstrate leadership experience, involvement in campus and community service, academic excellence in within their chosen field of study and who are striving for unique and inspiring goals. Winners of the competition receive a CASH PRIZE of $2,000.00, a trip to New York City , the opportunity to meet with top female professionals, a featured spot in Glamour's 2007 October issue along with an invitation to the gala luncheon awards ceremony.

Community Studies Center
The Community Studies Center fosters inter-disciplinary, hands-on learning in the social sciences and humanities. The Center coordinates ongoing student and faculty research in American Studies, policy studies, education, history, economics, environmental science, psychology, and sociology, and serves as a repository for taped interviews, surveys, videotapes, and transcripts produced by students and faculty engaged in field work. The Center is also a central resource for students and faculty interested in developing professional skills through field work research.

The Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Contemporary Issues
The Clarke Center's primary objective is to enrich the curriculum by connecting the world of ideas to the world of action. It regularly brings nationally and internationally prominent figures to campus for lectures, conferences, and symposia on topics relating to important issues of the day. Much of the day-to-day operation and program implementation is in the hands of its Student Project Managers. Project managers are trained to design, plan, produce programs, and broadcast Clarke Center events. These project managers then mentor students from other campus organizations and juniors and seniors at the local high school.

Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC)
The mission of the Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) is to assure and advance the general quality and the intellectual vitality of the member colleges. This is achieved primarily through opportunities for interaction and mutual support among the colleges' faculty, students, and administrators.

Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is an interdisciplinary domestic and foreign study program for students interested in studying racial diversity through immersion in communities in the U.S. and Cameroon. This innovative and successful year long program brings together students from Xavier, Dillard, and Dickinson to study in Cameroon in the summer, Dickinson in the fall, and one of the Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCU’s) in the spring.

Women's Center
The Zatae Longsdorff Center for Women of Dickinson College is a feminist organization grounded in an ideology that supports the strength of sisterhood, the value of women's diversity, and the need to progressively educate the campus community by challenging the patriarchal prescriptions of our society. The center is comprised of a Women's Center Board (elected student members), active members, and all those who support women's issues in this community. The Board will represent the general Women's Center membership and assume administrative duties while maintaining an egalitarian style of leadership.

Religious Life and Community Services
The Office of Religious Life and Community Services facilitates Dickinson College's commitment to engaging the world through service in the larger community, to provide access to and information about community service, to assist volunteers in reflection upon and integration of the transformation that results from the process of service to others both personally and on a larger scale.

Admissions
The Office of Admissions promotes Dickinson's distinctiveness so as to attract and enroll the most diverse, talented, interesting and engaging class possible.through relationship building with secondary schools and counselors, foundations and organizations as well as individual students and their families, the admissions staff seeks to recruit a deep and talented applicant pool. From that pool, candidates are selected for admission who meet the goals of the College and contribute to the diversity and character of its community.

Global Education
Dickinson College's Office of Global Education is a leader in study abroad research. The Office hosts the leading academic journal, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, and serves as the host for the web site of Abroad View Magazine, the leading publication of student study abroad writing and research. In addition, Brian Whalen, the founding editor of Frontiers, serves on the Advisory Council of the Forum on Education Abroad, working on the study abroad outcomes assessment subcommittee. Dickinson was one of eight institutions that participated in the American Council of Education's Promising Practices assessment of comprehensive internationalization, which developed ways to assess the internationalization of higher education institutions.

Mosaic Program
The Mosaic program is a semester-long community study with extensive fieldwork, which engages students and faculty in an intensive, first-hand examination of the history, sociology, ethnography, and culture of a community. Students in the Mosaic semester programs concentrate on this project throughout the semester, integrating three courses as well as an independent study for a total of four courses. The independent study is based on the fieldwork and under the direction of contributing faculty.

Campus Academic Life- Learning Communities
Learning Communities are student centered, interdisciplinary, theme-based, collaborative, active learning environments that build community -- both academic and social -- and provide students who have common interests an opportunity to develop close relationships with their faculty and other students.

Division of Student Life
The mission of Student Life is to enhance the educational objectives of the college. The office's goals include helping students see beyond themselves to their roles as citizen leaders in a community of inquiry. We teach, model and expect civility and respect for self and others, and affirm the diversity of persons, ideas, and circumstance.

Residential Life
The Office of Residential Life is an active participant in establishing an environment in the residence halls that fosters the freedom of inquiry and action, as well as a respect for diversity. Programs, policies, and procedures reflect the importance and acceptance of diversity. As educators, the Office of Residential Life staff members will be purposeful in supporting and challenging residents to understand themselves and other members of their community. The office and its staff are committed to supporting the mission of the College and aiding in the development of an outstanding and comprehensive student life program. Residential Life’s efforts will be pivotal in fostering a community of inquiry and developing citizen leaders.

Student Activities
The mission of the office of Student Activities and Greek Life is to provide diverse and challenging opportunities that enhance the educational experience and support students in their development as citizens, scholars, and leaders within the college the College, thus helping them to become citizen leaders in the larger global community. It is through Student Activities and Greek Life that students have access to over 120 different student organizations and countless other involvement opportunities.

Asbell Center
The Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life is at the heart of the Jewish experience at Dickinson College. The center brings together students, faculty and members of the community to celebrate the richness and diversity of Judaic Studies.