Category: Opportunity

Success Coaching is an interactive process that empowers students to get from where they are now to where they want to be. The Success Coach is a peer who students can visit to help build more general skills for success. Even if you are not sure why you’re struggling to meet academic goals, the Success Coach can help identify and overcome challenges to create a foundation for success in college.

The ASP Success Coach meets with students one-on-one to help them develop skills in:
– Effective study strategies
– Time management skills
– Setting and working towards goals
– Finding campus resources
– Motivation

http://webster.uaa.washington.edu/asp/website/get-help/academic-success-coach/

Meet the Coach!

Idera Adagun, Master of Public Administration
Quarter: Summer (June 18-August 31, 2018)
Hours: Tuesdays 4:30-6:30pm, Thursdays 11am-1:00pm
Location: Mary Gates Hall (MGH) 161H, Advising suite
Sign up for appointment with Idera: https://meetme.so/IderaAdagun

Intern for Skagit County! ~$15.00/hr. We are looking for a student to help with our County’s Annual Capital Facility Planning either this summer or fall. This will be a great hands on professional intern experience. We have plenty of other interesting projects coming up as well.

If you are interested, please reach out to Hal Hart, AICP: HHart@co.skagit.wa.us

Summer Internships Available with Community Alliance for Global Justice

Community Alliance for Global Justice is currently seeking Food Justice Event Interns for Summer 2018. We are happy to work with students to fulfill requirements for academic credit. Time-frame flexible. Potential volunteers also welcomed to get involved! We require a minimum of 5 hours per week.

To apply, please send an introductory email explaining your interest and availability to Mollie at slee@cagj.org. Thank you!

Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) is a Seattle-based, grassroots, volunteer-run organization whose mission is to strengthen the global food sovereignty movement.

CAGJ’s 12th annual Strengthening Local EconomiesEverywhere! (SLEE!) Dinner will take place on September 29th, 2018 at the University Christian Church in Seattle’s University District.

SLEE! is much more than a delicious, locally sourced, Fair Trade meal, it is a powerful community event where we inspire people to take action. Edgar Franks will deliver the keynote, “The Legacy We Inherit: Luchando por una Vida AgroEcológica,” reflecting on agroecology as a way of life. Edgar organizes farmworkers with Community to Community Development in Bellingham, WA.

Join our team of interns to contribute to the vision and make it even more spectacular than past years! Learn valuable skills in the areas of nonprofit development and fundraising, community engagement and outreach, communications, and event planning. The following positions are available. We also create political education opportunities for all interns and volunteers.

Dessert & Silent Auction Outreach and Coordinators: Contact supportive businesses, non-profit organizations and CAGJ members to solicit silent auction packages and dessert auction. Need to be able to make day-time calls. Coordinators organize all donations for the day of the event, working with a group of volunteers and interns.

Publicity: Help create promotional materials and conduct outreach to our Community Partners to publicize the event.

Food & Farm Outreach: Contact the many farmers, fisherfolks, creameries, wineries, breweries, and others who support CAGJ with their amazing goods to see if they can help out this year.

Table Captain Outreach: This essential role follows up with our valued CAGJ membership requesting that they become Table Captains to provide an extra level of financial support at our dinner.

See fliers below for one paid and one volunteer opportunity!

See flier below!

The UW Livable City Year program is hiring two part-time editors (job posting attached). The position runs through mid-September 2018, with an opportunity for rehire in the 2018 – 2019 academic year. Full consideration will be given to applications received on or before June 6, 2018.

LCY Editor – Job Description

The Nature Conservancy in Washington and City Habitats are excited to announce the release of Request for Proposals for projects that support tree planting in urban areas to support water quality, air quality, human well-being and more.  We are looking to fund projects in cities and towns throughout the Puget Sound region.

This is part of a larger project to bring visibility to and invest in the benefits trees provide to reducing the impact of stormwater.  We will be accepting proposals through June 18, 2018.  Funding for selected projects will be available by August 2018. Please share far and wide!

Check out the short blog post about the effort as well as the full Request for Proposals.  Spread the word!

Please contact Hannah Kett at Hannah.kett@tnc.org or (206) 436-6208 ​with any questions.

We are pleased to announce that the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has been selected to host the 2019 EcoCity World Summit, www.ecocity2019.com, the week of October 7, 2019. An academic portion including workshops and field trips is scheduled for October 7 and 8^th, and the main summit program will be held October 9^th to 11^th. Below you will find a link to a short informative video about the conference and our winning bid. We are honored and excited to be the hosts for EcoCity 2019!

Since 1990, this globally focused conference has run every two years in such diverse locations as Melbourne, Australia and Abu Dhabi, UAE, and we are delighted to bring it to Vancouver in 2019. These conferences bring together over 1,000 delegates from more than 75 countries to discuss issues of urban sustainability. Our theme will be ‘Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Cities’.

The conference welcomes everyone who is passionate about living in ecologically sustainable cities including innovators and pioneers, designers and planners, policy makers and administrators, professionals and business people, real estate developers and green building experts, environmentalists and developers, and students and teachers.

There are several ways to get involved. You may want to register and attend as a delegate or submit an abstract to present. Our website offers details about registration, the Program at a Glance, and details on the sub-themes: Climate Action, Circular Economy and Solutions for Informal Development. Our call for abstracts will be opening September 2018. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn, or Instagram to join the conversation, #Ecocity2019.

Are you interested in being an exhibitor or sponsor at the summit? You can find out details at http://www.ecocity2019.com/sponsorship/sponsorship-and-exhibit/. Morning and afternoon networking breaks will be in the Exhibit Hall, giving you great opportunities to meet and talk with delegates. We also have a variety of sponsorship options to increase your visibility and organization’s profile.

To speak with me about your ideas for participating in the conference, or to be added to our mailing list for updates, please email me at Sarah_Campbell@bcit.ca, and we’ll see you in Vancouver in 2019!

ESRM 320, Marketing & Management from a Sustainability Perspective, is a course that:

• Gives NW and I&S and 5 credits.
• Has NO prerequisites.
• Is an ‘introduction to business’ course designed for non-business majors.
• Is a hybrid online course, meaning there are some scheduled live online and in-person events (e.g., two mandatory in person exams on 11.6 and 12.4, 4:30-6:50 pm, online quizzes starting at 6 pm).

Overview. In ESRM 320 we explore two of the four primary business dimensions, marketing and management (companion course ESRM 321 explores finance and accounting) from a sustainability perspective. Marketing involves promoting, pricing, and distributing new and existing products that are aimed at satisfying consumers’ needs and wants. Management refers to developing, motivating, leading, and managing employees and resources. Sustainability refers to meeting the needs of people today without compromising Earth’s capacity to provide for future generations. Integrating corporate profitability, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility is triple bottom line sustainability.

Learning Objectives. ESRM 320 offers students the opportunity to: 1) learn marketing and management business concepts and strategies, and 2) gain hands-on experience assessing corporate sustainability performance. The business learning objectives, below in italics, are achieved through watching to recorded lectures online and reading the required textbook. The sustainability learning objectives, below in bold, are realized via live, online conferences where the professor mentors students in assessing current, real-world performance using corporate sustainability report information.

• Explain marketing, management, and corporate social responsibility.
• Describe how markets are segmented, targeted, and products positioned to satisfy individual and business consumers’ needs.
• Compare techniques for creating value-added products; valuing environmental and social externalities and managing traditional pricing; developing distribution strategies and “greening” the supply chain; and creating and implementing promotion campaigns.
• Define managerial and leadership styles and theories of motivation.
• Summarize the human resource process of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, motivating, and evaluating employees.
• Discuss sustainability concepts and how a commitment to sustainability can enhance customer and employee satisfaction.
• Describe the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for sustainability reporting.
• Assess human rights, labor practices, product responsibility, and society sustainability performance practices and impacts.
• Analyze real-world sustainability performance using info and data in corporate sustainability reports.
• Compare and interpret the sustainability performance of three case study companies.