Your forest needs you!

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Join the Green Seattle Partnership on Saturday, November 8th, as we kick off planting season and celebrate Seattle’s urban forest and all it does for us with a day of volunteerism in 21 parks throughout the City. The 9th Annual Green Seattle Day is a perfect time for you to roll up your sleeves and have a lasting impact on your community. Volunteering empowers youth to civic engagement through learning about our urban forests and how they impact our city’s success. Our biggest event of the year, Green Seattle Day is a great chance for first-time and long-time volunteers to help grow the forest in their own city by planting trees and other plants in city parks.

This year our main site will meet at the Rainier Beach Community Center (lunch included after planting), but there are 17 other locations around Seattle that need volunteers, including Magnuson Park and the Burke-Gilman at Sand Point, so check out the full list here, pick your lucky park, and sign up now so that we can plan the best event for everyone. To join us at the main site, sign up to volunteer at the East Duwamish Greenbelt, Kubota Gardens, Lakeridge Park, or Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands, and meet at the Rainier Beach Community Center at 9am.

Green Seattle Day is great for all ages. We’ll bring the gloves, tools, and all of the plants, you bring the helping hands! Coffee and snacks provided at all sites, so register early so that we can have enough for everyone. Please dress for the weather, and wear sturdy shoes that can get wet and a little dirty. This is our biggest party of the year and we want you there! More information available at www.greenseattle.org. Please contact Norah Kates at  info@greenseattle.org, or call (206) 905-6943 with any questions.        

UW Career Center Info Session, TOMORROW!

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Seattle Pacific University offers a game-changing, 11-month Master of Arts in Management (MAM) with an emphasis in Social and Sustainable Management to help you complete for the jobs you WANT.  If you are looking to increase your marketability and potential impact while learning to use business as a tool to serve others, this is the program for you!  With this degree you will learn core business fundamentals, as well as build your skills in areas such as leadership, ethics, responsible stewardship and sustainability.

SPU 11-Month Business Master of Arts in Social and Sustainable Management

The Law School Fair!

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Happy November! Is going to Law School part of your plan? Don’t miss the annual Law School Fair, sponsored by The Career Center and the Pre-Law Society (PLS). Representatives of more than 70 law schools from across the country will be on the UW campus looking for potential new students-like you! At the Law School Fair, you can interact and talk to admissions staff, pick up brochures and applications, ask questions and learn more about the schools which interest you. You may make a lasting impression on a representative from the school of your dreams or discover that the perfect school for you is one that you hadn’t considered.

2014 UW LAW SCHOOL FAIR

When: Thursday, November 13th, 2014, 10-2pm

Where: HUB (South Ballroom)

Who: All are welcome!

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For a complete list of attending law schools, please visit: http://careers.uw.edu/Students/Law-Fair

Questions? Please email careerevents@uw.edu or call 206-543-0535

We hope to see you at the Law School Fair on November 13th

[perspectives and experiences]

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With registration looming, we wanted to remind you how the perspectives and experiences portion of the Environmental Studies major works.  30 credits of perspectives must be completed for the Environmental Studies major in total.  5 of these credits may be a 200 level course.  The remainder of these credits must be 300 or 400 level courses. 

The perspectives list is not an exhaustive list.   Want to take a course that is not on the perspectives list?  Taking a course currently that you think may count for the major but aren’t sure?   Submit a petition via the poe.washington.edu website.  The link to the course petition is here. 

Exploring Environmental Careers Career Skills Workshop

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Register now for:
Environmental Studies Career Skills Workshop
Exploring Environmental Careers

Tuesday, November 18
5:30 -7:00 PM
Program on the Environment Commons, Wallace Hall
Food provided by Pagliacci
Free; Registration required; Open to all UW undergrads: [registration link]

  • What kind of jobs can I get with an Environmental Studies major?
  • How can I start making career connections?
  • What classes/experiences will best prepare me for an environmental career?

Explore different career pathways in Environmental Studies through this one-hour workshop co-facilitated by Joe Kobayashi (Program on the Environment) and Kimberly Petersen (UW Career Center). Learn strategies to explore environmental career pathways (What are they? How much do jobs in this field pay? Who can I ask questions to?). Hear from environmental professionals on a panel of alumni applying their skills in a variety of fields. The workshop will be followed by a chance to informally network with the panel members and other students over pizza.

Alumni Panel

Kathryn Davis (2011) Stewardship Coordinator, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
Cory Arce Gessert (2007) Project Manager, Senior Consultant, DNV GL
Megan Parker (2010) Associate, Ross Strategic
Alison Sienkiewicz (2014) Staff Scientist, SoundEarth Strategies, Inc.
Shane Sobotka (2011) Manager, Project Development, OneEnergy Renewables, Inc.
Jamie Stroble (2010) WILD (Wilderness Inner-City leadership Development) Program Manager, InterIm Community Development Association
Questions? E-mail Joe Kobayashi at: jkob@uw.edu

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The Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) is a granting organization at UW that supports on-campus, student-led sustainability projects. There are two funding cycles throughout the academic school year and the first round of due dates have been determined. Please submit your Letters of Intent by November 18th and full proposals byJanuary 20, 2015. You can apply online at csf.washington.edu and please send all inquiries to uwcsf@uw.edu.

[volunteer]: Student rep for University Disciplinary Committee

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The UDC is critical to ensuring the rights of student to a fair hearing an academic misconduct. Volunteering for this can provide an important service for the community, can be good on your resume, and would be a great idea if you have any interest in law in general. -joe

Greetings, UW Students-

The Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct is currently seeking new student members for the University Disciplinary Committee (UDC).  The University Disciplinary Committee is comprised of students and faculty who hear disciplinary cases on behalf of the University. Students who have allegedly violated the Student Conduct Code can appear before the University Disciplinary Committee or may choose to have an informal hearing with a Community Standards and Student Conduct Hearing Officer.  Additionally, the UDC hears appeals of cases in which a student may have been found responsible for a violation of the code but the student disagrees with the initial finding or sanctions.

 

New student members will begin their one-year term in January 2015 and will complete their term at the end of December 2015. In order to serve on the University Disciplinary Committee, students must be enrolled full-time (either undergraduate or graduate) and be in good academic standing. Additionally, students must be able to commit to meeting as a committee 5-7 hours per month and should be interested in gaining leadership skills through serving on this University Wide Committee.

Students are selected at random from those students who identify an interest in the University Disciplinary Committee and then training is provided for those selected. This year’s first required training for all new UDC members will be held at the beginning of Winter quarter in January and details will be provided to selected students.

If you are interested in submitting your name for random selection of students to serve on the UDC, please email me directly at jadraper@uw.edu. In your email, please include your name, major, college or school, and year in school. This is the only information I need prior to randomly selecting students. The deadline to submit your name for random selection is 5pm on Monday, November 10th. Students will be notified via email whether or not they have been selected by Tuesday, November 18th.

Thank you and best wishes for the end of the term.

 

Julie A. Draper Davis, PhD
Associate Director
Community Standards and Student Conduct

Box 355836, Seattle, WA 98195-5836
Schmitz Hall Room 447
206-685-6194 office  
www.depts.washington.edu/cssc

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Friday Harbor Labs is one of the many great things about the UW College of the Environment. It’s located in a stunning portion of the world, and undergrads get a chance to learn marine biology in a unique educational setting. Think of this as an opportunity to ‘study abroad’ closer to home -you spend a full quarter in the San Juan Islands living and studying with a small group of students.

The autumn quarter ‘Marine Biology Quarter’ fits the best with our students and our major requirements. Ask Joe or Julie if you have any questions, and click the image for the full flyer.

Veterans Day 2014 at PoE

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Hi all,

Veterans day is approaching, and we want to take this opportunity to share and celebrate the experiences of all who serve (before or after their time in PoE programs). Last year we put an open call out to students and alumni to share either their own, or their family’s experience serving. [read last year’s profiles] We are broadly defining the community here, so we want to hear from you even if you aren’t a veteran, but have experience or family experience with the armed services.
I’d love to do the same thing this year. If you are interested, please send individual messages to my e-mail account (don’t respond to this message) at jkob@uw.edu. Sending any profile info and/or pictures (which are welcome and appreciated!) should be sent with the understanding that we are sharing your writing and status as a UW Environmental Studies student with the public (via a Tumblr blog and simultaneous postings on twitter and our Facebook page).

Joe Kobayashi

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Program on the Environment
University of Washington
Wallace Hall 012 [map]
Schedule an advising appointment
E: jkob@uw.edu T: 206.616.2461
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