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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Hagedorn Awards for First Generation College Students!! - APPLICATION & DEADLINE
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Dear All, The Urban Studies Department is pleased to announce our annual Hagedorn Award competition for First Generation College Students!! ********Deadline: April 23rd, 2018, by 5 p.m.******** These awards of $1,500 are available to Urban and Environmental Studies Majors who are among the first generation in their family to attend a four-year college in the United States. Students whose parents attended college in a country other than the United States ARE eligible for this award. Students must have junior standing or higher and must have already declared an Urban or Environmental Studies major. Students may apply for the Hagedorn Award multiple times, but can only receive it once. Therefore, if you apply one year and are rejected, you may continue to apply in subsequent years. This is a competitive application given to only two students per year. Please craft your essays accordingly. PLEASE USE THIS LINK FOR APPLICATION <http://qcurban.org/calevent/hagedorn-awards-for-first-generation-college-st…> OR CONTACT Jeanne.Chan(a)qc.cuny.edu

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Call for Proposals: Funded Student Activities on Diversity
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Call for Proposals Faculty and students are encouraged to apply for funding support during Summer 2018 for projects related to the subject of diversity, broadly understood, thanks to the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Please go to https://goo.gl/forms/yziXvuzA4D240h903 to submit proposals. Contact Michael Wolfe mwolfe(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:mwolfe@qc.cuny.edu> or Janice Smith Janice.Smith(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Janice.Smith@qc.cuny.edu> if you have any questions. Deadline for submissions is April 25, 2018. Michael Wolfe, Ph.D. Dean of Faculty Division of Social Sciences 335 Powdermaker Hall Queens College-CUNY Queens, NY 11367 (718) 997-5211 mwolfe(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:mwolfe@qc.cuny.edu>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Of Poetry, Protest, and the People in Curriculum Studies -- 4/12 @ 6:30 pm
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Free, and Open to the Public! *From ‘Hood’ to ‘High Line’: Of Poetry, Protest, and the People in Curriculum Studies* PERFORMANCE by Epic NEXT (and, really, the youth performance is what it's all about! http://www. epictheatreensemble.org/epic-next/) KEYNOTES Peter Taubman (Brooklyn College) and Limarys Caraballo (Queens College) Thursday, April 12th Cooper Union, Great Hall 6:30-8:30 pm http://www.aaacs.org/conferences.html

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Two new oral history workshops from Queens Memory!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Queens Memory will hold two free oral history training workshops this month! The first will be held this Thursday, April 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the St. Albans Community Library<http://www.queenslibrary.org/branch/St. Albans?filters=ev_loc:95200000>. The workshop will cover such topics as interviewing techniques, recording technology and the creation of timecode outlines, and will offer some time to practice your skills. A special focus of this session will be our "Collecting Memories of the Civil Rights Movement" initiative, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. The second workshop will take place on Thursday, April 19, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at LaGuardia Community College<http://laguardia.edu> (C Building, room 431D). This session will also feature a discussion of our Queens LGBTQ Oral History project (see flyer attached). Both workshops are free and open to the public; please email Lori.Wallach(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Lori.Wallach@qc.cuny.edu> to RSVP or for further information. We'd love to see you there! Thanks! Lori Lori Wallach Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator queensmemory.org Center for Teaching and Learning, Razran 346 Queens College Lori.Wallach(a)qc.cuny.edu?<mailto:Lori.Wallach@qc.cuny.edu> (718) 990-8532 _______________________________________________

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Hagedorn Awards for First Generation College Students!! - PLEASE READ!!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Dear All, The Urban Studies Department is pleased to announce our annual Hagedorn Award competition for First Generation College Students!! These awards of $1,500 are available to Urban and Environmental Studies Majors who are among the first generation in their family to attend a four-year college in the United States. Students whose parents attended college in a country other than the United States ARE eligible for this award. Students must have junior standing or higher and must have already declared an Urban or Environmental Studies major. Students may apply for the Hagedorn Award multiple times, but can only receive it once. Therefore, if you apply one year and are rejected, you may continue to apply in subsequent years. This is a competitive application given to only two students per year. Please craft your essays accordingly. Award winners will be notified by May 7, 2018. APPLICATION AND FURTHER DETAILS ATTACHED!!

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