Dear Colleagues, Please share this opportunity with your students and encourage them to become a CUNY Service Corps member of Queens College. This university initiative will link our students to educational, environmental, and sustainability projects with city agencies and will compensate those selected for their work. The application closes on June 1. ( please post on your FBs, blogs, listservs, blackboard announcements as well) Information is below, thank you!---- yasemin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QC Undergraduate or Masters Level students: We are proud to announce that Queens College has been selected as a CUNY Service Corps Campus for Fall 2013. This exciting new university wide initiative creates opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to work on projects to improve the city’s civic, economic and environmental sustainability by working directly with community agencies. Most Service Corps placements for QC students will last twenty-four weeks over two semesters; students will work an average of 12 hours per week and be paid $12-15 per hour. 1. Students must apply online to participate in the CUNY Service Corps. Applications will open this spring and close on June 1, 2013. Finalists will be interviewed in June and July, and students who are accepted into the Service Corps will be notified in July or August. 2. Eligibility criteria includes: full time status, minimum 24 credits completed, 2.5 min GPA. 3. All Service Corps members will undergo a training program before their placements begin, most likely in September. 4. Apply directly for consideration by registering here: cuny.edu/service corps<applewebdata://212F6198-F55E-44EE-A18B-DDF27036AB25/cuny.edu/servicecorps> Please direct all questions to mailto:CUNYServiceCorps@qc.cuny.edu