Opportunity for Qualified College Students

Summer Institute
June 16-July 25, 2008

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have created the Mellon-Schomburg Humanities Summer Institute to encourage minority students and others with an interest in African-American and African Diaspora Studies to pursue graduate degrees in the humanities. The program, open to U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents, offers a six-week session for ten rising seniors (juniors in 2008, graduating in 2009). Five will be selected from New York City and five from Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the nation. The Institute, with the help of renowned scholars, will develop and nurture the students' interest in the appropriate disciplines, and provide them with the requisite basic intellectual challenges and orientations needed to pursue humanities careers and to reach their full potential.

Program Details

Divided into morning and afternoon sessions, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Seminars by distinguished scholars in a humanities field
Independent research and group interaction
Assigned readings from scholarly texts
Viewings and discussions of relevant documentaries under the guidance of two graduate mentors
Development of a research prospectus
Content development for a Web site
Signed certificate by Schomburg Center Director Howard Dodson and Institute Director Sylviane A. Diouf upon completion of the program citing them as Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Scholars.

Each participant will receive a $2,000 stipend* for the six-week session. In addition, the program will cover the travel expenses of students from out of state and all students -including those residing in New York City-will be lodged, free of charge, in the vicinity of the Schomburg Center. Two graduate students will serve as on-site residence counselors.

*For more information, see http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/humanities/index

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Thank you for your continual support in our efforts to recruit seniors. The information below is a great internship opportunity for non-seniors. I will be in touch soon.
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2008 Summer Internships- Help us Find Great Operations Coordinators - from Institutestaff@teachforamerica.org
Do you know any great college students who might be interested in a summer internship opportunity? Teach For America is seeking talented undergraduates to work as operations coordinators at each of our six summer institutes in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and Phoenix.
We are looking for people who are highly organized and personally responsible, who are good at working with others, and would be excited to work behind the scenes to ensure that our institutes run smoothly. Each year, we have a particularly difficult time finding technology OCs, so if you know of anyone with a tech background, please send them our way as well. Salaries range from $2,500 - $3,000 with opportunities for additional overtime pay.
If you know of any students who might be a good match for this position, please encourage them to apply at the link below, and please send their names and schools along to institutestaff@teachforamerica.org.
The application deadline is Monday, January 21, 2008. To apply, or for more information, prospects should go to http://www.teachforamerica.org/careers/cm_alum/institut...ordinator/about.html. They can also e-mail institutestaff@teachforamerica.org with any questions.
Thank you for your help,


Delano Brissett
Recruitment Director
Teach For America
office: (212) 279-2080 x 725
mobile: (646) 438-0017

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FINAL application deadline for the 2008 corps: February 15, 2008.

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