The Endless School Year
By Laura Pappano
New York Times Education Supplement
July 27, 2008
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As students pack more into their degrees (double majors, job-getting minors, internships and study abroad), summer helps maximize grade point averages and sanity. Do physics in summer, and the year is more manageable.
“I basically see it as, I am going to be working toward [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Public Policy Student in The New York Times
July 25, 2008
U.S. Secretary of Labor Coming to Tech!
U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao will be speaking at the Georgia Tech College of Management LeCraw Auditorium on Wednesday, July 30 from 5:30-7:30. Doors close at 6pm but seats are limited. RSVP at www.naaapatlanta.org.
Secretary Chao will discuss the Department’s ongoing workforce and career development initiatives. These programs include the Opportunity Conference, the APA Federal [...]
July 25, 2008
Become a Court Ambassador for Fulton County
The Fulton County Superior Court is looking for volunteers for their Court Ambassador program. Ambassadors can serve as greeters who assist court visitors, tour guides who host tours for foreign delegations and school and community groups, and mock trial coordinators who work with local schools to stage mock trials with a Superior Court Judge.
Ambassadors volunteer [...]
July 15, 2008
The Course/Instructor Opinion Surveys (CIOS)
For all of you taking summer courses (in any department), the online instructor and course evaluation is now open for both short and long summer semester classes. Please take a few moments to complete the survey. Your instructors do read them and find them very helpful! The survey is completely anonymous and instructors do not [...]
July 15, 2008
Lieutenant Governor-Fall Internship
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor is looking for a qualified and self-motivated student interested in Georgia state politics to fill their intern position for Fall 2008. The intern should live in Georgia (sorry out of state students!) and be committed to working 40+ hours/week for pay. The internship term will run concurrent [...]
July 15, 2008
Fall 2008 Course Descriptions
School of Public Policy
Georgia Tech
Fall 2008 Course List and Descriptions
Be sure to sign up for the correct section number (as listed on OSCAR) for courses with multiple sections!
CLICK THE LINK TO VIEW THE ENTIRE LIST OF FALL 08 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS!
July 9, 2008
Expanded Description of Fall08 Environmental Policy & Politics Course
Environmental Policy & Politics – PUBP 3315A
CRN 87238
MW 11-12:30
Somewhere around the time “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, caring about the environment went from the fringe to the mainstream. “Climate change”, “deforestation”, “biodiversity loss”, and “water scarcity” went from being technical terms in the pages of scientific journals to the front pages of the major papers. [...]
July 8, 2008
Kudos Opportunity-Under 20yrs old
Atlanta INTown is putting together a list of Atlanta’s top 20 residents
under the age of 20. The magazine is looking for accomplished young men
and women living in Atlanta (students who are not permanent residents
in Atlanta are included in this designation) who are doing something to
benefit their community (and beyond).
If you would like [...]
July 7, 2008
Student Grants for Servant Leadership
Georgia Tech’s Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship would like to inform you of a grant program for student servant leadership development.
ILE’s Cowan-Turner Program in Servant Leadership invites applications from students seeking co-curricular experiences consistent with increasing capacity for servant leadership.
The primary purpose of the Bradley-Turner Servant Leadership funds is to expand the practice and understanding [...]
