Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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Carolina MPA Calendar
- July 21: *UPDATED* Registration opens for online September term
- July 26: Last Day of May term
- August 4: Summer graduation degree date
- August 10: Fall on-campus courses start *UPDATED*
- September 7: September term online courses start
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For the MPA Program, online learning is nothing new. Many of our students thrive in this environment, while for others, it is a challenge. Whether you are an old pro at online classes in the online format, or are taking your first classes online,
this list
from the Daily Tar Heel contains many helpful ideas. The biggest thing to remember is that you're not alone, even if we are apart. Please contact your academic advisor to discuss what will work best for you!
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Congratulations to MPA Faculty members
Dr. Leisha Dehart-Davis
and
Dr. Kimberly Nelson
for their upcoming publication
Gender Imbalance in Public Sector Leadership: The Glass Cliff in Public Service Careers
, part of the Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration Series. They collaborated with Deneen Hatmaker of the University of Conneticut, Sanjay K. Pandey of George Washington University, Sheela Pandey of Penn State Harrisburg, and Amy E. Smith of the University of Massachusetts, Boston on the publication.
You can learn from them directly this fall! Dr. Dehart-Davis is teaching PUBA 744, Immersion: Diversity in Public Service Leadership, and Dr. Nelson is teaching PUBA 751, City & County Management. Both are being offered online.
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University & Beyond Events
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- Virtual Opportunities to engage:
- July 17: UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz speaks to the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club
- July 20: How to Be an Anti-racist discussion with Ibram X. Kendi
- Starting July 20: Playmakers presentsThe Stuck Monologues
- July 20-24: Camp Carolina FREE Virtual Camp for Tar Heel Kids & Teens
- Through July 26: Toriawase: A Special Installation of Modern Japanese Art and Ceramics at the Ackland Art Museum
- July 27-August 7: UNC Students Invited to Virtually "Visit" with Story Corps' Military Voices Initiative
- Ongoing: UNC Students invited to join Peer2Peer for Mental Health Support
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Participate in a Research Study about Intra-Group Storytelling among Black People during a time of Racial Tension
- Find an Internship with NC COVID-19 Student Response Corps
- Apply for Duke’s Bass Connections Initiative, Regenerative Grazing to Mitigate Climate Change
- Opportunities to Get Outside
- Highlighted Social Distancing Opportunity: The NC Museum of Art Park
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Friday, July 17, 1 p.m.
The Rotary Club of East Chapel Hill cordially invites you attend a virtual conversation with UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz that specifically is for our local community leaders like you. Please register
here
to receive the Zoom link for this event.
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2019 Guggenheim Fellow and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi will discuss his renowned book “How to Be an Antiracist” on Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. with Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College.
The event is free online; you just have to register at the link below.
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As early quarantine days had us feeling “stuck,” we called upon some of our favorite local playwrights to turn that feeling into art. Then members of your favorite acting company, past and present, worked their magic in bringing those monologues to life. Now we get to share those monologues with some of our favorite people—YOU!We gave our playwright friends a “recipe” to turn our common moment of being stuck into something creative:
- It must have at least one local reference
- It must contain at least one joke.
- It must contain the work “stuck” somewhere.
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With so many camps and activities canceled this summer, Tar Heels Together is here to provide your children and grandchildren with some unique summer learning opportunities and a little fun!
Join us for
Camp Carolina
, a free week-long virtual camp designed for Tar Heel kids and teens! Each day we will focus on a new topic – STEM, arts, astronomy and more – with high-quality activities and programs brought to you by the experts at BeAM@CAROLINA, Morehead Planetarium & Science Center, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Ackland Art Museum, and the North Carolina Botanical Garden. On Friday, we will cap off the week with a live one-of-a-kind Carolina “Pep Rally,” where you’ll learn more about The Marching Tar Heels and the Carolina Cheer Team.
Camp Carolina runs from July 20-24 – join us for a day or the entire week! The virtual camp has three tracks – elementary school, middle school and high school/adults – and includes a combination of live events and self-paced activities.
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StoryCorps is planning their first ever virtual visit to WUNC this summer. Their
Military Voices Initiative
will “visit” the station to facilitate approximately 50 virtual recording sessions from
July 27-August 7.
This project provides a platform for veterans, service members, and their families to preserve their stories for their families and at the Library of Congress (at no cost to the participants).
- Storytellers will be interviewed by a friend or family member. A member of the StoryCorps team will facilitate the interview, but will not ask questions unless prompted.
- Storytellers do not have to specifically discuss their experience with the military. StoryCorps offers pages of discussion topics.
- Storytellers do not have to reside in WUNC’s listening area as long as the person planning to interview them does.
- Storytellers do not have to be veterans, they can be active duty service members, military spouses, or the children of veterans/active duty service members.
In preparation for the project, WUNC is reaching out to veterans organizations in our listening area to potentially schedule interviews with their constituents. If you, or a veteran in your organization, would like to participate in the project, please
sign-up here
. Also, if you have any questions about the sign-up process or the project in general, please feel free to give me a call on my cell (803-730-4865) or send me an email (
kburnie@wunc.org
).
Also, please feel free to share this email and/or our posts on social media with veterans in your life. These last few weeks/months have been difficult for so many people, we’re thankful to have an additional opportunity to bring people together through stories.
Thank you for your time!
Kate
Kate Burnie
Grants & Major Gifts Officer
O: 919.445.9134| C: 803.730.4865
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Peer2Peer is a student-led group that advocates for the mental well-being of the members within our community through peer support. We offer free one-to-one sessions to talk with a peer responder with the option of remaining anonymous. Our organization is open to any graduate and undergraduate students across the country. Students can talk via Zoom, text, or phone.
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Hello, and thank you for reading the invitation below.
Over the past few years and in the past few weeks, we have experienced a climate of elevated attention to racial issues at the University. From battles over the confederate monument and the names of campus buildings, to the presence of white supremacists’ groups and litigation over admissions policies – issues of race and racism have been difficult to ignore. Black and African American individuals along with other minoritized groups have been central to these issues and discussions. No doubt, we have confided in each other and among each other about our experiences during these times.
I invite you to participate in a research study about storytelling experiences with the racial tensions on campus with between Black students, faculty and administrators. Specifically, this study is about storytelling among Black people – and the recounting of events or circumstances - related to racial issues on campus. The study will be part of my doctoral dissertation exploring the experience of intragroup storytelling among and between Black students and personnel during a time of racial tension at an HWCU – a historically white campus or university. I am particularly interested in how and what you have shared, why you have shared, and with whom you have shared. Your participation will contribute to what is known about the potential for storytelling for Black resilience and resistance during times of elevated racial tension at historically white colleges and universities. Due to COVID-19 social distancing regulations, all interactions for this research study will be conducted via Zoom, email, or telephone.
If you are interested, please complete this
form
. Please contact me, Candice Powell – Principal Investigator – at
candice_powell@unc.edu
with any questions. Thank you for your consideration.
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Check out this
Airtable
for internship opportunities around North Carolina. Please email
Caroline Tervo
with any questions.
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Apply for Duke’s Bass Connections Initiative, Regenerative Grazing to Mitigate Climate Change
The Duke’s Bass Connections Initiative, Regenerative Grazing to Mitigate Climate Change, has been approved for another year of funding! As a result, we are now recruiting students for enrollment. Although we do hope to be able to gather in-person in small groups during the fall semester, conduct some site visits, and perhaps even attend a conference in November, much of the course content and work will be conducted via remote access.
Our leadership team - which includes faculty from the law school, Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative - hopes this will allow us to more easily incorporate students from other universities in the area. As I told some faculty at UNC’s law school, we successfully incorporated 2 students who were studying at UNC last semester – one a Robertson scholar and one doing a joint degree with UNC’s business school, so there is precedent. ☺
To that end, I would appreciate your help spreading the word among your students and encouraging them to apply. We hope to assemble an interdisciplinary, intercollegiate team of about 10-12 students from different learning levels (undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students) to work with us on the second phase of the project. The Link to the website last year’s students created about their work is here:
https://www.regenerativegrazingnc.org/
. The application link for the coming academic year is
https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2ugJqcMTrJiXEdT
.
Thank you very much for your assistance. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Take good care –
Michelle
Michelle B. Nowlin
(she/her)
Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director
Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
210 Science Drive, Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360
Ph: (919) 613-8502
Fax: (919) 613-7262
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In the Raleigh area this summer? Check out
the NCMA park
. Free and open to the public dawn to dusk.
The Museum Park art program facilitates collaborations among artists, designers, and environmental scientists to create works of art inspired by the natural world. Artists are commissioned to create site-specific temporary and permanent works that directly engage the landscape and present new perspectives on the natural world, exploring our relationship to the environment and the role of nature in contemporary society.
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