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The Office of New Student Orientation is hiring 4 NSO Summer Interns and 35 Orientation Leaders to assist in the planning and implementation of New Student Orientation for the incoming class of 2020. Students in the classes of 2019, 2018 and 2017 are eligible for these positions.

Job descriptions and Applications are available using the links below:

NSO Summer Internship Application due January 29, 2016.

http://wesleyan.edu/orientation/internapplication.html

Orientation Leader Application due February 5, 2016

http://wesleyan.edu/orientation/olapplication.html

If you have any questions please e-mail orientation@wesleyan.edu.

Allbritton Talks ORGANIZING

Dear students,

I am eager to meet you all. Please stop by the Dean’s Office for a brief Welcome Reception on: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, 6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M., North College, 2nd Floor.

By now, you should have finalized your pre-registration schedules with your faculty advisors. Adjustment period begins Wednesday, Nov. 18  and ends on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

Also, please keep in mind the final date to withdraw from full semester and second quarter classes will be Friday, Dec. 4, 2015.

Please let me know how I may be of assistance to you for a healthy and successful semester. 

Your new class dean,

Renee Johnson-Thornton

Drop-in hours:  Mon. 2-3 p.m., Tues. 3-4 p.m., Wed. 5-7 p.m., Thurs. 11 a.m.-noon, Fri. 2-4 p.m.

http://classof2018.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

Interested in Winter Session? Don’t miss your opportunity to participate! Registration for classes, housing, and dining closes December 2 – at noon – right after we return from Thanksgiving break. You can find the form for Winter Session, as well as links to sign up for dining and housing, in your Eportfolio Winter Session bucket or online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/enroll/index.html. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, your advisor, or the Winter Session office at winter@wesleyan.edu.

Information Session: Summer 2016 in Oaxaca, Mexico
With Professor of Anthropology, Anu Sharma and Associate Director of Study Abroad, Emily Gorlewski

Tuesday, November 17, 2015
South College B2/B3
12-1 p.m.
Pizza will be served
RSVP to study abroad@wesleyan.edu

Course Information
Credits: 2
Dates: May 25-Jun 3: Wesleyan Campus/Jun 5-Jun 24: Oaxaca, Mexico
Description: This course will focus on how indigenous communities are challenging the mainstream growth-oriented development logic promoted by international organizations, and articulating and living radical alternatives to development.

Wesleyan University

Emily Gorlewski / Associate Director, Study Abroad
Office of Study Abroad / Center for Global Studies

Wesleyan University
+1 (860) 685-3007
105 Fisk Hall, 262 High St. Middletown, CT 06457
wesleyan.edu/studyabroad

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Study Abroad Stories for Prospective Study Abroad Students 11/12

The Deans’ Office and the Office of Study Abroad are hosting an event for prospective study abroad students featuring students who have recently returned from study abroad. These students have great pictures to show and stories to tell about their experiences, and if you are planning to study abroad, we’re sure you have great interest and questions for them.
Daniel Family Commons
Thursday, November 12, 6:30-8:00pm.
Light refreshments will be served
Please use this form to RSVP.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there! And while we have you reading this, please like the Office of Study Abroad’s new Facebook page.

You’re invited to the Fall
WHY AMERICAN STUDIES?!
FESTIVE GATHERING

Music to your ears
AMST DJ

Food
Typhoon Thai food, Lyman’s Orchard Cider, Lucibello’s Almond Cookies

Food for Thought
Some AMST majors & faculty will for one minute each say something about
interdisciplinary & postdisciplinary knowledge without borders
questioning the givens & imagining what can be
unlearning as well as learning
what are you involved in & what can you do about it?

Where
the lovely Center for the Americas (yellow house opposite Fisk)

When
this Wednesday Nov. 11, 6:00-7:00

What can you “do” with American Studies? A lot for the rest of your life: you can develop the critical and creative skills to step back from and question the “givens” thrown at you and imagine how the world–or whatever enterprise you become involved in (government, business, law, revolution)–can be made otherwise.

Want a sample of this? This TODAY, Nov. 5, 4:30-6:00, Downey 113 we have a really special panel that explores how three American Studies alums working in media are putting American Studies into action, thinking through what they’re involved in and what they can do about it. Among other things, we’ll explore not just social critique but popularizing social analysis and critique. And we’ll consider the importance not just of exposing systemic social contradictions but putting the spotlight on Americans who are trying to find solutions. It features Emmy-winning, Peabody award-winning, and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize-winning ABC news producer and documentary-maker Claire Weinraub ’93, labor and continuing editor of the progressive and exciting weblog Daily Kos: News, Community, Action Dr. Laura Clawson ’98, and literary agent Grace Ross ’12. Check it out! Treats/reception will follow.

Joel Pfister
Chair, American Studies Department

The Tour Guide position is an opportunity for students to support the recruitment efforts of the Office of Admission. We seek diligent workers who are mature, dependable, energetic, and eager to share their Wesleyan experience. The position is open to students in the class of 2017, 2018 and 2019 who are in good academic standing. Tour guide responsibilities include leading campus tours and attending meetings and trainings periodically throughout the year. This position starts in January 2016.
More information is available here:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/finaid/employment/job-postings/Admission/Tour%20Guide%20-%20ADM59.html
Best,
Dean Wood