Congratulations Graduates!

In your honor, the departments of Government & Politics and History will be hosting a reception immediately after commencement on Saturday, May 17, 2008.

Your friends and family are invited to join faculty and staff in the courtyard of Founders Hall for conversation and refreshments.

Hope to see you there!

Free Activism Training for Students

Seventh Generation and Greenpeace are partnering to train and empower student activists to become the next generation of leaders in the global movement for change.

We will provide 200 passionate students with full scholarships to Change It 2007, an intensive, all-expenses-paid week of grassroots training, led by the experts at Greenpeace.

Apply before May 15 at http://www.changeit07.org.

All expenses, including travel to Washington, DC, room and board, and the training itself, will be covered for 200 bold and visionary full- or part-time students.

To apply, go to http://www.ChangeIt07.org

Excellence Awards for Model United Nations Teams

In its first year, the HSU Department of Government and Politics’ Model United Nations program garnered three Meritorious Delegation awards at the 2007 Model United Nations of the Far West conference in San Francisco last weekend. The Meritorious Delegation Award recognizes academic excellence in preparation and participation at the conference. The three awards earned by HSU placed it in the conference’s top three performers.

In the five day conference, students represented four countries: Belgium, Costa Rica, South Africa, and Thailand. They debated contemporary international policies and politics with more than 40 schools and 450 delegates from the Western United States, the Philippines, Russia, and Canada.

Students participating in the Model UN program were: Michael Echeveste, Sebastian Ligeti, Michael Mariscal, Patrick Sullivan, and Patricia Whelan (representing Belgium), Carol Hurley, Erika Madison, Nick Raisch, Jason Robo, and Desiree Woods (representing Costa Rica), Lladira Baez, Skye Frison, Morrissa Hudson, Dominic Lether, Greg Paoli, and Tobin Steiskal (representing South Africa), Kristine Crow, Jed D’Abravnel, Elaine Hogan, Margot Hottmann, Paul Moss, and Red Rochte (representing Thailand). Participation in the conference was organized through Professor Noah Zerbe’s Model United Nations course, which will be offered again in spring, 2008.

For more information, please contact Noah Zerbe at 707-826-3911 or noah.zerbe@humboldt.edu.

Summer Internship Opportunity

ANNOUNCING SEVERAL SUMMER POSITIONS in Non-Profit Organizing, Sustainable Housing Construction, and Youth and Sustainable Agriculture Education in the San Juan Islands of Western Washington:

The Lopez Community Land Trust (LCLT) is looking for interns for its programs. www.lopezclt.org. LCLT requires a 35 hours per week commitment and offers a $100 per week stipend and housing on Lopez Island, Washington. Choices include: Sustainable agriculture with Kids Summer Workshops (see SARD program on website), Construction of 11 zero net energy straw bale homes of affordable housing (construction training provided), Office/web work, and combination of organic strawberry farming and any of the preceding. The LCLT needs interns for no less than two months and up to a 12 month commitment between now and March 2008.

Please contact Rhea Miller at turtle@rockisland.com for more information or send resume and email explaining areas of personal interest and experience. We are seeking to hire for summer a.s.a.p.

Note: Short term summer employment as the Youth in Sustainable Agriculture intern may transition to an exciting well-paid position in Lopez Island’s cutting edge Farm-to-School Program, as curriculum developer/environmental educator in Lopez Island Public School.

*Lisa Murgatroyd, 2005 HSU Alumni, C.C.A.T. employee, and former L.E.A.P. director currently works for the Land Trust in the public school Farm-to-School program. Feel free to contact me, at (360)468-4101 or lnm1@humboldt.edu for any place or position based questions.

HSU Fulbright Day

Kalb Award

Fall 2007 Schedule

Justin Williams wins international environmental politics essay competition

Congratulations to Justin Williams, a student in John Meyer's "Environmental Political Theory" course in Spring 2006. Justin recently won first place in an international essay competition sponsored by Keele University in the U.K. The competition required students to write a 1500 word essay in response to the following prompt: “Governments have failed us. It is now down to individuals to halt climate change.” Here's more information from the Keele website.

Stephanie Burkhalter hired as new Assistant Professor

We are very pleased to announce that Stephanie Burkhalter, from the University of Washington, will join our department this fall. Stephanie will be teaching PSCI 210, Introduction to U.S. Politics, as well as PSCI 350, The President and Congress, in the fall semester. Stephanie has both practical and academic experience in American politics, and is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation, in which she studies communication of political messages by members of Congress and interest groups. She also has a background in political theory, including feminist and democratic theory. Welcome, Stephanie!

Professor Sonntag Wins Fulbright Research Chair

Professor Sam Sonntag has just been awarded a Fulbright grant to Canada. She will be appointed as Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for the 2007-2008 academic year. Her research project, entitled "Global English and Linguistic Autonomy," will examine the possibility--and desirability--of countries and peoples withstanding the global spread of English. Part of her research will be to compare Canadian attitudes toward the proliferation of call centers, both in Canada and in offshore locations such as India, with American attitudes. Sam will be accompanied by her husband, Professor Emeritus Bob White, on her year-long sojourn in Canada. Sam has previously been a Fulbright grantee in South Asia (1993-94). She is sure her Canadian experience will be quite different, especially in terms of winter weather!

Internship opportunity

Students, this looks like a couple pretty cool internship opportunities. A brief description is below, but they also emailed me a couple flyers/position descriptions. Just come by my office or send me a note if you'd like a copy (they're too big to post here). John Meyer

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Dear friends and colleagues,

The Center for Community Change is looking for interns for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Please see the attached descriptions. The first is our general call for interns --- looking to hire over 25 interns to place with CCC staff and partner community organizations in Washington, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee. This is a great opportunity to learn about community organizing first-hand with some amazing leaders and organizations. (For instance, one lucky intern will get to work with the Movement Vision Project!) Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.

The second attachment is information on a film internship at the Movement Vision Project, where we’re looking to find creative film students to help us create live action and/or animated films exploring some of the visionary ideas coming from our work. It’s perfect for those looking to combine creative work with political action. Please forward this one around to anyone who might be interested as well.

Thanks for your help!
Sally

Field Coordinator positions

Students: here's an ad that was just forwarded to me and may be of interest:
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National Wildlife Federation


National Wildlife Federation is excited to announce that we are hiring Two New Campus Field Coordinators!

These positions will be exciting opportunities for someone who wants to join our campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on college campuses. Please help us get this announcement into the right hands by spreading the word.

NWF Campus Field Coordinator - Ann Arbor, MI and Austin, TX National Wildlife Federation is seeking a national Campus Field Coordinator who desires to work at the leading edge of a movement for campus climate action. This person will be responsible for:

· Campus Outreach: Recruiting, cultivating, and supporting campus climate champions who commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent by 2020.

· Organizing regional gatherings and networks to support campus climate action.

· Orchestrating a Web based community to support climate action.

· Providing administrative and logistical support to the field director=

Opportunity to work with Greenpeace

Below is an announcement I recently received.  John Meyer

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Students,

I am writing to alert you about an exciting opportunity: the
Greenpeace Organizing Term, an action-packed semester of travel and
training. It’s a hands-on training program that gives you the
skills to be an environmental leader. You’ll learn about current
environmental issues and solutions and you’ll get trained by the
experts in grassroots organizing, leadership, media, and campaign
strategy. You’ll travel abroad with Greenpeace to work with
international activists. Many students are also able to receive class
credit for the semester.

ACTION * TRAVEL * TRAINING

Spend a Semester with Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/got

Summer and Fall 2007 programs are filling up, and early applications
are due Feb 28th. Apply at http://www.greenpeace.org/got.

The semester is based in both the Washington D.C. and San Francisco
Greenpeace offices. Contact program staff with questions at
got@wdc.greenpeace.org or 415-255-9221 x342.

For a green and peaceful future,

Diana Silbergeld

Greenpeace USA

got@wdc.greenpeace.org

Agricultural Biotechnology in an Era of Global Capitalism: February 22

Deadline for Capital Fellowships: February 28

Learn more about these fellowships at Monday's informational meeting (2/19, 5:30pm, FH 125)

Internships and Fellowships in Sacramento or DC

Do you want to work in Sacramento or Washington D.C.? Whether you are a continuing student or a graduating senior, these are opportunities for you to gain valuable political experience! Find out more:

INFORMATIONAL MEETING

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19^th, 5:30pm

FH 125

Presentations and discussion with:

Trish Gill, Capital Fellow in Sacramento; HSU graduate
Michelle Woo, Panetta Congressional Intern; HSU student
Rebecca Anderson, HSU Career Center
Bill Daniel, HSU Department of Government and Politics

Fellowships and Internships are available via:

Capital Fellows Program * Panetta Institute Congressional Internship Program * Sacramento Semester Program * Emerson National Hunger Fellowship * NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates * Carnegie Endowment Jr. Fellow Program * U.S. Department of State Internship Program * and more

Welcome to the Department's Blog!

So, this is an experiment... our department's first attempt (and mine) at a blog. The idea here is that you can look to this blog as a convenient place to learn about upcoming department events, find announcements about internship or job opportunities, and perhaps learn a bit about the activities and accomplishments of students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Government and Politics at Humboldt.... we'll just have to see how it develops!

Please email me with your thoughts or suggestions, as well as any material to post here (all faculty should have already received information on how to post material directly).