Vol. 5, No. 23, April 25, 2008
 

 
 
 
 
 

The CEL E-Newsletter is published each Friday to inform students of events and opportunities available through the Center for Experiential Learning and its four programs: Career Connections, Internships, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurship. It is published online at http://www.stolaf.edu/services/cel/ and sent by email to the CEL_Yourself alias.

INTERNSHIPS

Art Education / Studio Assistant / Highpoint Center for Printmaking
The Highpoint Center for Printmaking is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking seeking an Art Education Intern, and a Studio Assistant Intern. Its goals are to provide educational programs, community access, and collaborative publishing opportunities to engage the community and increase the appreciation and understanding of the printmaking arts. For internship postings, visit the Highpoint Center for Printmaking Website.

 

Marketing Intern / Gateway Music Festivals and Tours
Gateway Music Festivals and Tours is a travel company for music ensembles. They arrange concert tours for high school, college and church groups traveling domestically and internationally. Alumna Kate Pearce ’01 and the rest of their staff are seeking a summer 2008 intern to work with all three areas of the company, the operations, sales and marketing departments. Gateway's sales team works with clients in the early stages of planning a tour; writing tour proposals, itineraries, pricing and researching destinations.

 

International Communications PR Intern / Dr. Yogi Reppmann
Dr. Joachim (Yogi) Reppmann is a former St. Olaf and Carleton professor and current newspaper journalist, historian and consultant. He co-founded deus, Inc. International Connections in order to facilitate and incubate new business connections between the Baltic Sea region and America’s Midwest. Dr. Reppmann seeks a St. Olaf student to work with him on his professional international communications and public relations projects. Duties will include providing support for the development of a German-American Conference which will take place in Denison, IA, in Indian Summer 2009 . The selected student will be supported should (s)he choose to complete this as an academic internship. Questions about the position? Contact Yogi with any questions about the position.

Teaching Assistant Internship / HECUA’s Scandinavian Programs, Oslo, Norway
Application deadline is 15 May 2008—This is a unique opportunity to work and live abroad in Oslo, Norway, and to participate in and contribute to HECUA’s exciting Scandinavian programs, which critically engage contemporary issues of social justice in both the Scandinavian and the wider European context from fall 2008 to spring 2009.  Bachelor’s degree in social sciences is required. For program information and recent syllabi, visit www.hecua.org/norway.php and www.hecua.org/scand_dse.php.To apply, send a letter of interest (outlining appropriateness for the position) and a resume to HECUA, Director of Operations, 2233 University Avenue W, Suite 210, St. Paul, MN 55114-1698, Fax 651/659-9421, email: pmulvihill@hecua.org. Complete job details can be found on the HECUA Website.

Early Childhood Assistant Internship / Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE), Northfield
No applications for the fall will be considered later than September 5— ECFE is looking for a student who is interested in early childhood development, parent education, literacy, and experiences which enhance their cultural competence. Academic Credit for this internship will be supported. For more information or if you have any questions, contact Mary Loven, ECFE Program Coordinator, , 507-664-3754 -OR- Sandy Malecha, Assistant Director of the Internships Program in the Center for Experiential Learning: x3268, or

For further details on internships and careers, visit OleRecruiting.  

CAREERS

The English Opens Doors Volunteer Summer Program
May 24-August 5 / June 14-August 26 —This is organized by the Chilean Ministry of Education in connection with the United Nations Development Program—Chile. This program runs for 10 weeks and offers two sessions: May 24th - August 5th and June 14th - August 26th.  Please note: These are volunteer positions but there are no program or placement fees. Participants are responsible for their own airfare to Santiago de Chile, but once in Chile accommodations and meals with a host family will be paid for. Participants will also receive a $170 a month living stipend. Anyone interested in applying for the summer program, please contact Samantha Thomson.  Visit the Programa Ingles Abre Puertas Website for more information.

              
Science and Environmental Careers Alias
Interested in science, the environment, or just like being outside? By joining Professor's Mike Swift's jobs alias, you will be the first one to hear about great summer job, internship, and/or research opportunities from all around the world that have a ecology, environmental or biology focus. Professor Swift sends out information on a myriad of opportunities so there are sure to be some that interest you! To join this alias, email Mike Swift and ask to be added. Below are a few position titles that came out just recently!
Examples of Career Opportunities: Research Technician (Idaho), Field Assistant (Yellowstone National Park), Field Technician (Las Cruces, New Mexico).


2008-09 Executive Positions with Ole Ventures (campus entrepreneurial club)
Applications due Wednesday, April 30— Interested in bringing speakers to campus?  Planning and coordinating Entrepreneurship Week?  Want to start a business on campus? Apply to become an Ole Ventures Executive Today! Available Positions include: Marketing Executive, Business Executive, Events Executive, CEO Ole Gear, VP Finance. To apply, visit Ole Ventures website and fill out an application. Next, go to Ole Recruiting and login. Upload your resume. In the Keywords search field for Jobs & Internships, type Ole Ventures. From the results, select Ole Ventures Executive Positions and follow the directions from there. NOTE: While the application form on this site does not require a resume, the OleRecruiting application does. For more information contact Carlos Llanes, Ole Ventures President, 612-860-2265.


Summer Program Assistant / Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)
Applications will be reviewed beginning May 7, 2008, until the position is filled —The ACM seeks a Summer Program Assistant to help administer off-campus study programs. Summers are a time of preparation for the ACM’s four Chicago programs and eight international programs. The Program Assistant will assist the Program Associate in preparations for student orientations, student handbooks, student departures and other activities related to the ACM programs, as well as gathering data related to off-campus study in the ACM. This is a full-time, temporary summer position in Chicago, IL, starting as soon as possible. Salary dependent on experience.  Position posted at the ACM Website. Please send a letter explaining your interest in the position, the qualifications you would bring and how you would contribute to ACM  goals.  Include a resume and list of references.  Please submit materials electronically as attachments, in MS Word or PDF format, to acm@acm.edu.

 

WORKSHOPS

Law School Quick Stop Walk-In Hours
Thursday, May 8, 11:30–12:45 pm & 4–5 pm CEL Seminar Room (Modular Village)—Have individual questions or concerns on the law school application process? Stop by the CEL to talk to Kirsten Cahoon, one of the pre-law advisors on campus.

Law Internship Advising Drop-In Hours
Tuesdays 3–5 pm , Fridays 9 am–1 pm, CEL Seminar Room (Modular Village)—Need help finding a law-related internship? Stop by the CEL to talk to one of our pre-law peer advisors about law related internships and jobs.

Graduate School Quick Stop Walk-in Hours
Thursdays 9 –11 am , Fridays 3 – 5 pm, CEL (Modular Village)


For more information on the video workshops, visit the CEL Webpage

EVENTS

Graduate School Admissions Fair
Thursday, May 8, 5–7 pm, Humphrey Center Atrium—The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) admissions directors will be hosting a graduate admissions fair at the Humphrey Institute.  Each year, APSIA sponsors forums where potential and prospective graduate students can learn about programs from officers of APSIA member schools.  Come meet admissions officers from the professional schools of international affairs at leading universities to discuss admissions requirements, common curricula, financial aid packages, joint degree programs, and career opportunities; collect application information on programs of interest. Many of these schools also offer domestic policy programs, search the APSIA Website for more information.  Click here to get directions to the Humphrey Center Atrium.

Biomedical Studies Concentrator Senior Capstone
Monday, April 28, 7pm, BC 144— Senior Biomedical Studies Concentrator Amy Phillips warmly invites you to an informational session: learn more about the Make-A-Wish foundation and how you can make a positive impact as a volunteer.
-Katie Reilly, Make-A-Wish Volunteer Coordinator
Dr. Cynthia Wetmore, Mayo Clinic Pediatric Oncologist and Make-A-Wish Board Member
Victor Wong ‘08, St. Olaf Volunteer Network Coordinator
Amy Phillips ‘08, Biomedical Studies Concentrator and Make-A-Wish Volunteer

SCHOLARSHIPS

TYLENOL Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 15, 2008 — The makers of TYLENOL realize that education costs are rising steeply, making it difficult for students and parents to keep up. That's why, in 2009, they will be awarding a total of $250,000 in scholarship money to outstanding students who are pursuing health-related studies. Go to the TYLENOL website and type in the access key TYLN for an application and information. They understand that while medicine may treat the condition, it takes dedicated people to treat the patient.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Summer of Solutions (Twin Cities)
Priority Deadlines: April 1, April 15 or April 29 — From June 1st to August 1st, The Summer of Solutions offers experiential training and a community organizing program sponsored by Global Exchange and run by college students who are pioneering systemic and transformative solutions to global warming. They will engage with many communities around the Twin Cities and foster a strong network of new leaders around the country.   With the help of mentors who know the situation on the ground and the support of other participants like yourself, you’ll get to shape and engage the course of the Summer of Solutions as you work in it. You get to choose your own commitments, identify the help, skills, and connections you need to make, and then together we’ll figure out how you can do the same when you leave the Summer of Solutions in your own community. Check out the following pages to learn more about the Summer of Solutions program: the Grand Aspirations website and the Youth Climate Movement website. Send application materials to Summer of Solutions.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) Program
Deadline: Friday, May 9 — Spend a week at Harvard Business School for this week-long MBA experience. This program targets rising seniors who are members of minority groups typically underrepresented in business school and corporate America (African American, Latino, Native American, Lesbian, Gay, etc.). HBS covers on-site expenses, and other costs are covered by the corporate sponsors. For more information, see the Harvard Business School Website.




STUDENT SPOTLIGHT



DANIELLE STOERMER & KATIE GODFREY
SUSTAINABLE COOKBOOK
FINSTAD GRANT VENTURE

1. Where and when did you get the idea for the cookbook?
We got the idea for the cookbook separately.  Katie did an independent study first semester called The Ethics of Eating.  She wrote many creative essays on American food culture and the emerging alternatives.  These essays are included in the cookbook.  She wanted to create something that would make people more aware of where their food comes from in a way that would make them feel excited about cooking, gardening and eating with friends and family.  Danielle was also thinking about creating a cookbook at the same time.  Danielle work for the Wellness Center and did a program last year in May for seniors on how to cook and realized that it is pretty much impossible to teach someone how to cook in half an hour.  She thought making a cookbook with recipes from St. Olaf faculty and staff would be a great way to help students learn how to cook and would give them another connection to St. Olaf after they had graduated.  Professor Jim Farrell told us that we should talk to each other and work on a Finstad Grant proposal together.

2. What was the Finstad Grant application process like?
The Finstad Grant application process was not all that difficult but still took quite a bit of time and effort.  Neither of us have much of a business background, so we had to learn what a business plan even entailed first, but once we had done that, we were able to apply that to our cookbook idea relatively easily, especially since it isn't a complicated business or anything.  It was actually a pretty fun process to go through; we had to think through some things we hadn't before, like a risk assessment, which was a little tricky at first, but was helpful in the end.  It was also fun to present our idea to the Finstad board since we were so enthusiastic and excited about our idea.  And we were of course very excited when we heard we had gotten it!

3. How did you compile the recipes?
Danielle emailed all the St. Olaf faculty and staff last fall asking them for recipes for my cookbook idea.  She set up a separate St. Olaf account for the recipes to be sent to and then actually had them automatically forwarded to a gmail account since it is easier to keep track of emails in gmail (and I would never have to worry about running out of space in my inbox).  About half the recipes came from faculty and staff from this request.  Unfortunately, since she hadn't talked with Katie yet about having the cookbook be focused on local food, Danielle didn't specify in my email to the faculty/staff that the recipes should include mostly whole, local/seasonal food, so I wasn't able to use all the recipes some faculty/staff had sent me.  We also tried to use recipes from as many faculty/staff as we could, so we often had to limit the number of recipes from a single person to just a few recipes.  We also gathered recipes from students who we knew or who had heard about the project and wanted to submit a recipe.  We talked with Nathan Soland in Alumni and Parent Relations and he was able to send out an email to St. Olaf alumni asking for recipes for our cookbook, so several alumni submitted recipes, which was awesome!
The part that took the longest was collecting all the recipes and choosing with ones we could use in which season and then formatting the recipes so they all looked the same.  It would have been very nice to have an editor (or several) to do that part for us!!! 

4. Was this just a fun undergrad project or do you see yourselves doing work like this in the future?
This was way more than just a fun undergrad project.  We have devoted most of our time to this project in order to make sure that it is professional and successful.  We both see ourselves working with food in the future since we both think the local food movement is extremely important.  I (Katie) personally would like to go into urban agriculture in order to grow healthy affordable food for people of all backgrounds. I (Danielle) am interested in agroecology (essentially sustainable agriculture) and would like to do both international and domestic work associated with developing and maintaining sustainable food systems.  Thus, this cookbook is a direct outcropping of our interests and passions--and we hope it becomes an annual tradition that generations of Oles can look forward to and enjoy!

 

JOB HUMOR

IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME A LITTLE LONGER TO ANSWER MY E-MAILS NOW...


 

  
 
     

 

  

Editor Natalie Neal
Staff Supervisor: Paula Schanilec
Student Spotlight Coordinator: Leslie Abell
Resource of the Week Coordinator: Hannah Clark