The Social Justice Advocacy Training offers students the chance to learn effective campaigning for issues they’re passionate about, to engage with the local community, and to build strategies that will last throughout the year.
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Step #1 to a successful job and internship search: Know the recruitment timeline for your industry of choice. Every industry has its own application and hiring cycle.
If you’re looking for a job or internship in consulting, finance or engineering, the application and recruitment period is happening now. Other industries, like journalism, education and government, pick up in October and November.
This summer, more than 350 Northwestern students are receiving grants of at least $3,000 to participate in unpaid internships through the Northwestern Career Advancement (NCA) Summer Internship Grant Program (SIGP). This funding is donated from many sources throughout the Northwestern community, such as alumni networks, staff and administration, and friends of the University, and is given
For students who want to get valuable experience from an unpaid internship but need financial support, NCA’s Summer Internship Grant Program (SIGP) can help. Since 2007, SIGP has offered grants to NU undergraduate students to pursue summer experiences in fields that do not typically offer paid internships, ranging from $2,000 in its first year to now more than $3,000. A record-breaking 255 students received grants in 2015. Currently, NCA is accepting applications for its 10th SIGP class through April 5, 2016.
From a tour of Medill facilities to a presentation on filmmaking, students in Medill Media Teens were welcomed to Northwestern University’s Evanston campus for the first time ever.
On Saturday, Nov. 21, the Communications Residential College (CRC) hosted 26 teens and their 18 mentors, giving them presentations about creating film and working for news outlets in college. The students also had lunch with CRC residents and other students studying journalism and film.
Whether you’re graduating soon and looking for a full-time position or a sophomore or junior looking to gain some experience over the summer, you’ll find a variety of career opportunities at the annual Winter Internship & Job Fair this January, hosted by Northwestern Career Advancement (NCA).
Employers from Shedd Aquarium, Macy’s, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Colgate-Palmolive, and Deloitte, along with approximately 100 other companies in a wide range of industries, are expected to be in attendance over the two days, spanning marketing and education to non-profits and consulting. Each day will feature a different set of employers and a new opportunity for both undergraduate students and graduate students to make connections and take those first steps forward into the professional world.
Join Religious & Spiritual Life to celebrate spiritual diversity at Northwestern with thoughtful conversation, great music, and free dinner at Fall Faith Fest. Mark your calendars for Fall Faith Fest at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 5 at Parkes Hall 122.
The program will feature reflection, service recognition, and remarks from President Morton Schapiro and keynote speaker Rami Nashashibi. Nashashibi is executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, an organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. Nashashibi has worked with several leading scholars in the area of globalization, African American studies, and urban sociology.
Thursday, November 5 is the year’s first Northwestern Night at the Art Institute sponsored by Northwestern Campus Life. Students, faculty, and staff may show a valid Wildcard at the check-in table at the museum’s modern wing entrance (Monroe Street), in exchange for free tickets for themselves and as many guests as they like. For this special event, Campus Life is providing complimentary round-trip transportation via charter bus for students between the museum and the Evanston campus. Other guests are encouraged to take public transportation.
From surviving 2013–14’s “Polar Vortex” and Evanston’s regularly below-freezing weather, to lamenting expensive textbooks and extracurricular workloads, Northwestern students bond — and commiserate — over a variety of experiences during their four years.
For some students, however, there is an added reality — whether they can afford the gear that makes these winters bearable, the textbooks they need almost immediately in the quarter system, and dues for all the clubs and interests they want to explore like any other student.
This Sunday marked the 25th anniversary since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal civil rights law that protects against employment discrimination and mandates accessible public spaces, transportation, government facilities, and telecommunication systems.
One-fifth of the U.S. population, or 56.7 million Americans, have physical or mental disabilities, and have historically fought a number of civil rights battles from recognition as a very present and important population to challenging negative medical labels and ideas of disability.