Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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Carolina MPA Calendar
- July 20: *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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TBD: Upcoming Commencement Ceremonies. Details will follow university announcement.***
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The School of Government Diversity Gazette has moved online as folks are not in Knapp-Sanders.
The July Issue features MPA Professor
Dr. Ricardo Morse discussing his ongoing understanding of systemic racism, resources he has used to learn more, and what he can do within his sphere of influence to combat systemic racism.
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Dear Colleagues:
I hope this message finds you well.
The Graduate School is preparing for the fall semester. As you can likely imagine, this fall semester will be very different, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve prepared a list of frequently asked questions to highlight adaptations we’ve made in light of the pandemic that you can access at this
link
. This is a living document that will be updated as we develop additional processes, respond to new challenges, etc. In that spirit, I invite you to send additional questions that we can address and add to the FAQ.
Thanks for your support and collegiality during this challenging time. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.
Best,
Suzanne
Suzanne E. Barbour ▪ Dean
The Graduate School ▪ The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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University & Beyond Events
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- Virtual Opportunities to engage:
- Open Call for Creative Opportunities in the Fall Semester from Carolina Collective
- Toriawase: A Special Installation of Modern Japanese Art and Ceramics at the Ackland Art Museum
- UNC Students Invited to Virtually "Visit" with Story Corps' Military Voices Initiative
- UNC Students invited to join Peer2Peer for Mental Health Support
- Brainstorm a Paper Topic with a UNC Writing Center Coach on Zoom
- July 7: Chapel Hill Young Professionals Virtual Networking Event
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Find an Internship with NC COVID-19 Student Response Corps
- Opportunities to Get Outside
- Our State Magazine highlights NC waterfall hikes
- North Carolina Botanical Garden Trails are open!
- 4th of July Outdoors & Socially-Distant Opportunities
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Dear Carolina Community,
Are you concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on the UNC fall semester? Do you have creative ideas to inform the fall semester that could be translated into action? The Carolina Collective wants to hear from you. We have launched an open call for creative ideas on re-opening with the goal to identify and implement exceptional ideas. You can find details and submit your ideas on our website:
https://carolinacollective.web.unc.edu/
We are accepting idea submissions now through
July 16
th
, 2020
. All students, alumni, staff, faculty, and anyone who cares about Carolina are invited to participate in this call. We have $20,000 in prizes to award for submissions, including awards for exceptional ideas and participation prizes for a random 5% of all submissions.
We strongly believe that your collective ideas can make a difference. Please join us in amplifying voices from behind the masks!
Sincerely,
Suzanne Day and Joe Tucker on behalf of the Carolina Collective
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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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Check out our handout on
brainstorming
to get a head start on your apers. Our coaches can help you develop your ideas.
You can make a Zoom appointment with a writing coach, or you can submit a draft to get feedback asynchronously.
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The Chapel Hill Young Professionals (CHYP pronounced "chip") is a group of fun professionals under 40 that meets monthly for networking, professional development, and community service.
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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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Our State Magazine
recently outlined
waterfall hikes for various abilities
around North Carolina. If you're in need of a place to get outside and socially distance, check out the beauty of North Carolina waterfalls!
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PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS MOORS
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In the Chapel Hill area this summer? Take advantage of the
trails at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, located on our very own campus. While the display gardens are closed, the trails are open. The Botanical Garden Land Managers discuss social distancing on the trails and things you'll see on the trails in the video below.
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Check out options from Triangle on the Cheap, including food trucks, rebroadcasts of past events, Drive-in Movies, fireworks, and readings of
Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July." All the details can be found
here
.
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