The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers for the students and schools who need them most. It is open to individuals—college seniors, recent graduates, and career changers—with undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences. Fellows will attend enriched, school-based master’s-level teacher education programs, complemented by intensive mentoring during the first three years of teaching at high-need urban and rural schools. The Fellowships focus on four goals: transforming teacher education; getting strong teachers into high-need schools; attracting the very best candidates to the teaching profession; and cutting teacher attrition by retaining top teachers.

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The following programs are offered by the Institute for Humane Studies, an organization founded in 1961 that supports students who share an interest in liberty. Master of Fine Arts IHS Film & Fiction Scholarships are awards of up to $10,000 for students pursuing a full time Master of Fine Arts degree in filmmaking, fiction or literary nonfiction writing, or playwriting, and who share an appreciation for the potential and promise of a free society. Apply by January 15. www.TheIHS.org/filmandfiction

The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, a project of the Congressional Hunger Center, is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty. Each year 20 participants are selected for this eleven-month program. Fellows are placed for half their term of service with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as grass roots organizing groups, food banks, economic development agencies, local advocacy groups and faith-based organizations. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with national organizations involved in the anti-hunger and poverty movement, including national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and federal agencies. Through this unique program, the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program develops effective leaders with a deep understanding of hunger and poverty at both the local and national level that enables them to find innovative solutions and create the political will to end hunger.

For more information visit: http://www.hungercenter.org/national/national.cfm

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This prestigious, highly competitive program is designed to expose a select group of Ohio's brightest students to the leaders and ideas that will make Ohio prosperous again.

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Application Deadline: January 31, 2011

Purposes and Goals of the JPSM Junior  Fellow Internship Program

As the United States moves closer and closer to a full information society, there are enormous career opportunities for those who have the knowledge and skills to design, collect, and analyze large scale data bases.  All that the country knows about its population growth and migration, its health, criminal victimization, traffic patterns, educational performance, labor and job markets, prices of daily goods, agricultural production, air and water quality, and income distributions is based on sample surveys and censuses, as well as administrative data systems. 

Staff who create and control these information systems literally determine what the country knows about itself.  Their work leads to information that moves billions of dollars in the stock market, shapes public opinion about what challenges are faced by the country, and determines what issues state and Federal governments tackle.  In addition, the staff of Federal statistical agencies have the assurance that their work is of public service.  Their efforts help serve the country and the people of the United States, supplying the information that an informed electorate uses to shape its future. 

The knowledge they need is not found in a single academic discipline, but rather a mix of substantive fields, including statistics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, and psychology.  The work involves the use of statistics, to guide the design of data collection efforts and ways to summarize the information obtained; psychology, to construct survey questions so that they are comprehended as intended for the information system; and computer science, to aid in the collection, processing, and analysis of data. 

Because the field is a mix of various traditional disciplines undergraduates rarely learn about this career path.  The JPSM junior fellow program is a chance to learn about the career opportunity at a time when you can still shape your undergraduate curriculum.

A Highly Competitive Program for a Select Few

The JPSM junior fellow program is a cooperative venture of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.  The Joint Program in Survey Methodology is funded primarily by the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to provide graduate educational programs for the next generation of technical staff in the Federal Statistical System.  Its graduate faculty devote their teaching careers to teaching the multidisciplinary tools that are needed for large scale surveys and censuses. 

This is a unique internship experience that gives you a paid research assistantship, plus educational benefits that can expand your horizons of what you can do in your career.
The Work Experience

During the day you will work as an intern in one of the Federal statistical agencies below: 

Bureau of the Census
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Economic Research Service
Energy Information Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
Internal Revenue Service, Surveys of Income
National Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
National Science Foundation, Science Resources Studies

You'll work with staff whose job it is to report to the nation about its health and welfare.  You'll watch how they do it and you'll learn about what's needed to devise modern complex information systems.

The Educational Experience

The JPSM will mount a junior fellow seminar during the summer months.  It will provide you an introduction to how large scale surveys are designed, collected, and analyzed.  You'll have contact with graduate faculty who direct the programs of the Joint Program as well as be enrolled in mini-courses about key components of complex surveys.  In addition, you'll have contact with key technical leaders of the Federal statistical system, to provide you a sense of what work goes on in various agencies of the system.  Finally, you'll participate in discussions about which undergraduate courses offer strong preparation for a career in the field and for graduate programs.

Do you have the "Right Stuff"?

The JPSM junior fellow internship is not for everyone.  As you think about applying, answer the following questions:   

• Do you like to learn things about current trends in what people are thinking, what problems they face, how employers grow over time, how retail sales vary over time, and a host of other topics?
• Are you good in math?  Do you like to play with numbers as a way of learning about the world?
• Do you have a strong academic record so far in college?
• Would you like to learn more about a career in survey methodology and large social and economic information systems?

If you've answered "yes" to these questions, then the internship may be for you!

Application Requirements

Applicants must:

 1. Have assembled sufficient college credits to have completed your sophomore or junior year as of June (or the end of the last term of the academic year).  Students completing their undergraduate degree on or before June are ineligible for this internship program. 

 2. Have achieved a GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4 point system.  

 3. Submit an academic transcript to:

JPSM Junior Fellow Program
1218 Lefrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

   Please indicate you are applying for the JPSM Junior Fellow Program when mailing in transcripts. 

 4. Complete a 500 word essay on why you want to be a JPSM junior fellow. 

 5. Provide grades on mathematics, statistics, or other quantitative courses in your college curriculum. 

 6. Obtain a letter of recommendation from one faculty member. Send all recommendations to jpsm@survey.umd.edu. Please include "JPSM Junior Fellow Program" in the subject line.

 7. Be a U.S. citizen

Selection Process

A national selection board, consisting of JPSM faculty, undergraduate faculty from colleges and universities across the country, and staff from Federal statistical agencies will review applications and make selections of the junior fellows.

Program Dates

Although specific program dates are not yet set, the program usually runs for 10 weeks starting at the end of May / beginning of June and goes through the first week of August. Specific dates will be posted in the spring.

Salary Information

A salary of at least $24,000 (full-time annual equivalent) will be paid.

Housing

Double rooms in dormitories at the George Washington University will be provided at no cost to the Junior Fellows. Members of the JPSM Fellows group will be housed together in suites with kitchens.

Transportation

Employment will be at one of several Federal agencies. Students can bring cars, or rely on the Washington D.C. metro system.