Corps! Corps! Corps! Peace Corps Response – The Peace Corps has introduced a new program, the Peace Corps Response. Peace Corps Response provides qualified professionals the opportunity to serve in rewarding, short-term assignments in various programs around the world. When you serve as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, you bring your skills and experience to projects in places where you are needed most. For more information please visit: http://www.peacecorps.gov/response/ Student Conservation Association (SCA) – Live and work with like-minded individuals who share a connection to the land and the people who live there. Corps members are usually based on a team experience, are supervised by an on-site SCA staff member, and will gain critical skills, training, and field experience to set them on a path towards careers as conservation leaders. For more information please visit: http://www.thesca.org/serve/conservation-corps SCA AmeriCorps Members who serve in SCA’s Conservation Internships and Conservation Corps programs have the option of joining AmeriCorps for their term of service. When you join AmeriCorps as part of your SCA experience, you’re joining tens of thousands of Americans each year who dedicate themselves to service to make our country a better place. For more information please visit: http://www.thesca.org/serve/special-programs/sca-americorps
Scholarship Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools (TRIALS) – is a residential scholarship program that helps talented and motivated college students of modest means gain admission to the nation’s leading law schools. This rigorous fiveweek summer course enhances opportunities for students of underrepresented backgrounds by bolstering their skills and focusing their goals. For more information please visit: http://trials.atfoundation.org/index
LOOMING DEADLINES! December 2: Projects for Peace proposal deadline, noon, in Career Services office. December 16: Braziel/Lynn Pre-med or Bio-med Scholarship application deadline. December 16: Pathways Fellowship application deadline, noon, in Career Services office. December 16: Thorne Endowment Pre-med Scholarship application deadline.
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