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Funded Internships Available!

The Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement invites you to apply to our Signature Funded Internships which provide a $5,000 award and include experiences at:

  • Merit School of Music: The main focus of the Merit School internship will be to help and support the Merit library staff. Additionally, the internship will include a number of hours each week providing support in the student services area.
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago: This internship will provide the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in preparation for Lyric’s 2018/19 season. This position will assist all major areas of Development, including Donor Reporting, Annual and Planned Giving, Individual Giving, Institutional Partnerships, Women’s Board, Chapters Executive Board/Chapters, Guild Board, Ryan Opera Center Board, and Lyric Young Professionals.
  • Ensemble Español Dance Company: For the summer of 2019 this internship will cover a broad area of non profit arts management including educational outreach, community workshops, arts administration, development and the annual American Spanish Dance and Music Festival.  Start date is approximately June 10th.
  • The Center for Deep Listening: The student intern will work at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. The internship will include work as a teaching assistant for a course on Deep Listening, working in the Center’s extensive archives, and bringing Deep Listening practice into schools.
  • New York Jazz Academy: Alumnus Javier Arau ’98 will integrate the student directly into his administration and engage the intern in strategic planning for his expanding organization. Pending faculty approval, the intern may have the opportunity to work in a teaching capacity during summer workshops for younger age groups.
  • Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute: This position is to provide general assistance and administrative support for one of the programming teams in the Weill Music Institute (WMI), the education and social impact arm of Carnegie Hall, one of the leading music presenters in the world. The student intern will work with a dedicated staff to help prepare for the upcoming season of programming.
  • Bread for the World: Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. The Institute educates opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public about hunger in the U.S. and abroad. The primary objective for the internships is to provide legislative and administrative support to the GR policy analyst(s) responsible for international humanitarian and poverty-focused development assistance issues.

Apply online here! Deadline for the application is March 25, 2019.

Annual Academy of Music Raffle

The Academy of Music is holding its annual raffle to benefit the Tutti Scholarship Fund, which provides tuition assistance to students who would otherwise be unable to afford music instruction. Tickets are only $5 each and can be purchased at the Academy office (100 West Water St.) as well as from any Academy student or teacher.

Prizes:

·         $500 Visa Gift Card or Academy tuition credit (winner’s choice)

·         Shiny Car Fast Pass (good for one car wash per week for one year)

·         Two 2019-20 Lawrence University Jazz Series season tickets

·         Four Float Light passes

The drawing will be held March 23, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. following the Academy Girl Choir concert at the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. Winners need not be present to win.

More information: go.lawrence.edu/academy-giving

Thank you for helping us provide access to the joy of music-making in our community!

Climate change, the environment and federal policy: A panel discussion with Congressman Mike Gallagher

When: Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 11:10am – 12:20pm

Where: Warch Campus Cinema

Join us this Friday for an exciting discussion with Rep. Gallagher on the climate change and environmental issues in Wisconsin. Professors from the Environmental Studies Program will be on a panel discussing climate change issues and translating the best available science and data into meaningful action. This is an opportunity for your voice to be heard by your federal representative on issues of climate, the environment and new policy. There will be an audience Q&A with the representative and the faculty panel. We encourage you to submit your question beforehand using this Google form to make sure your question gets asked.

Due to limited space, attendance to the event is open to members of the LU community only.

POC Empowerment Week

  • Monday 2/18, 6 p.m., Cinema
    • Movie Screening: The Hate U Give
  • Tuesday 2/19, 7 p.m., Sankofa
    • Sankofa Open Sessions
  • Wednesday 2/20, 7 p.m., Pusey Room
    • Vision
  • Thursday 2/21, 7 p.m., Mead Witter
    • Sin Color
  • Friday 2/22, 7 p.m., Diversity Center
    • Brown Girl Recovery
  • Saturday 2/23, 7 p.m., Esch Hurvis
    • Cultural Expressions
Please Come Join Us At 1 Or All Of These Great Events

Experiential Learning Funding Application

Calling all students! Lawrence has the resources you need to secure cutting edge internships, volunteer experiences or design your own unique project.

The Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement is excited to announce the launch of a “common application” for experiential learning funding. We have worked with partners from across campus to consolidate several funds available to students for internships, service projects, volunteer experience, and self-designed projects to one application to ensure equity and access by all students to the funding available.

Additionally, within the same application you can apply to our Signature Funded Internships which include the Conservatory Squared internships and the Leota Ester Research Fellow at Bread for the World.

Apply online here! Deadline for the application is March 25, 2019.

Please visit the CLC for help with your application materials and good luck!

2019 Multicultural Calendar “The Power of Inclusion” – Download Available

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is providing an electronic multicultural calendar to all faculty, staff and students. You can add the multicultural calendar to your personal Outlook calendar. This calendar includes:

  • Dates with explanations for each of the world’s twelve major religions and the cultural festivals of most ethnic groups in North America.
  • Religions of Aboriginal Peoples, Bahai, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islam, Jain, Jewish, Shinto, Sikh, Wicca and Zoroastrian.
  • Cultural Festivals of over 140 countries including Afro-Canadian/American, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Caribbean, China, Denmark, United Kingdom, Egypt and many more.
  • Heritage Months for USA, Canada and UK

Click here to get your 2019 Multicultural Calendar “The Power of Inclusion.”

Spring Break Return Shuttle Seats Are Still Available

The Office of Student Life is offering one-way coach bus transportation back to campus from Chicago (with a pick-up in Milwaukee) and from Minneapolis – St. Paul (with a possible pick-up in Wausau) on the day before classes begin at the end of winter and spring breaks. The motor coach will depart from a central location in each of the cities – not from the airport. The cost is $20 – space is limited and seats will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis and must be reserved. Total cost of the coach bus will be subsidized by the Office of Student Life to make the trip affordable to students. Additional information will be sent to all students. Please contact the Office of Student Life with any questions and to reserve a seat on the bus.

Departure Times and Locations:

  • Depart Chicago (Rosemont Park & Ride, 5801 N. River Road, Rosemont, IL): 12 noon
  • Depart Milwaukee (Target Store, 1501 Miller Parkway, Milwaukee): 2 p.m.
  • Arrive at Lawrence University at approximately 4:30 p.m.
  • Depart Minneapolis/St. Paul (Target SuperStore, 1300 University Avenue W., St. Paul): 12 noon
  • Depart Wausau (Emma Krumbees, 2101 N. Mountain Rd., Wausau): 2:45 p.m.
  • Arrive at Lawrence University at approximately 5 p.m.

To Reserve A Seat Please Email: deanofstudents@Lawrence.edu