Showing posts with label info session. Show all posts
Showing posts with label info session. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Teach For America Info Session - TODAY September 10, 2008, 7:00pm

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INFORMATION SESSION

Featuring Columbia and Barnard Alums:
Jenny Johns (Columbia, NYC '06)
Regan Kelly (Barnard, Los Angeles '99)

TODAY September 10, 2008, 7:00pm

The Broadway Room - Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway - New York, NY - 10027

Please join Teach For America for an Information Session regarding our employment opportunities. This is an opportunity to learn more about the organization and a chance to speak with representatives from Teach For America, including some recent Columbia and Barnard alums who are participating in the program. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 10th, at 7 pm in the Broadway Room of Lerner Hall.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and working professionals - of all academic majors, backgrounds and career interests - who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity for all children.

Each year, Teach For America selects a diverse corps of individuals who have the skills and commitment to make a real impact on the academic prospects of students growing up today in low-income communities, and to exert long term leadership in the effort to eliminate educational inequity. Teach For America corps members receive extensive training, a full salary and benefits, as well as continual support through a two-year professional development program to ensure their success as teachers and beyond.

Today there are more than 14,000 Teach For America alumni working in a variety of sectors, including business, education, law, medicine, and public policy. Please visit our website to learn more about our graduate school and employer partnerships:

www.teachforamerica.org/grad

www.teachforamerica.org/corporate

Refreshments will be served.

We invite all seniors and interested students to attend.

Please visit www.teachforamerica.org for additional information.


Crystal Tang
Recruitment Associate
Teach For America
315 West 36th St. 6F
New York, NY 10018
(800) 832-1230 ex. 611

One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.


First application deadline for the 2009 corps:
September 19, 2008
Visit:
www.teachforamerica.org

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR IN CREATIVE WRITING: INFO SESSION

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Anyone who is curious about the new Undergraduate Major in Creative Writing If you're already a Major but could stand for some clarification

WHEN: Wednesday, November 28th, 7pm
WHERE: On Campus, Dodge Hall, room 413
WHY: Why not?

Come to the Undergraduate Creative Writing Major Info Session on November 28th, and get yourself some perspective.

Monday, November 19, 2007

2009 Premedical Advisory Committee (PAC) Evaluation Process MANDATORY Info Sessions

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For CC & SEAS Premed Juniors and Seniors:

Thursday , November 29th

6:00pm to 7:30pm
310 Fayerweather

or

Monday, December 3rd
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
301 Fayerweather

Planning to apply to medical, dental, or veterinary school this summer for entrance in 2009? If so, you must attend one of the MANDATORY meetings regarding the Premedical Advisory Committee Evaluation Process.

If you have attended this meeting in the past and decided to delay your application for some reason, we still would like you to attend. If you have completed a PAC application in the past, you will be required to complete an UPDATE application. You will learn more about this at the meeting.

TO RSVP, PLEASE REGISTER AT:
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/events.php

If you cannot attend either of these meetings because of class conflicts, or because you are out of the NYC area, you should email preprofessional@columbia.edu and include your name, conflict, UNI and email.

The information session will cover the following:

*assignment of premedical advisor
*distribution of important application materials
*explanation of the committee process and procedures
*outline of application timeline
*registration with the Office of Preprofessional Advising


Applicants for 2009 admission must submit the Committee Evaluation Pre-Application (distributed at the meeting) by 5 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2008.

This session is only for Columbia College and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science students and alumni/ae.