GRADUATE SCHOOL WEEK, Nov. 3-6, 2008

Is there an MBA in Your Future?
Monday, Nov. 3, 3:00-4:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

GMAT Strategy Session
Monday, Nov. 3, 4:00-5:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

Applying to Law School
Monday, Nov. 3, 5:00-6:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

LAST Strategy Session
Monday, Nov. 3, 6:00-7:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

Grad School & Career Options in Counseling & Psychology
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 3:00-4:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

Writing a Great Statement of Purpose
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 4:00-5:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

GRE Strategy Session
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 5:00-6:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

MCAT Strategy Session
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 6:00-7:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

ADMISSIONS PANELS:

Teaching & Higher Education Admissions Panel
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 3:00-4:30 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

Psych & Social Work Admissions Panel
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 5:00-6:30 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

MBA Admissions Panel
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2:30-4:00 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

International Graduate Degree Programs
Thursday, Nov. 6, 4:00-5:30 p.m. @ Career Services, Room 1109

Law School Admissions Panel
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2:30-4:00 p.m. @ Student Resource Building, Multipurpose Room.

Health Professions Admissions Panel
Thursday, Nov. 6, 4:00-5:30 p.m. @ Student Resource Building, Multipurpose Room.

GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL DAY

Thursday, Nov. 6, 10:00 a.m. -- 2:00 p.m. @ Arbor Mall, in front of the main library. Over 100 schools from various academic fields of study are represented, including health, business, law, education, engineering, psychology, sports management, biomedical & biological sciences, policy & urban planning, and many more... Come and ask questions about admissions criteria, the curriculum, etc. To see a list of the participating schools, visit the website at http://career.ucsb.edu/grad_school_day/index.html.

Demystifying Graduate School:
An Application Preparation Workshop Series

Please join us to learn more about graduate school application.
All majors welcome!

Refreshments and snacks provided.

Workshop 1: What is Graduate School?
Oct. 16, SRB Multi-Purpose Room, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Explore the different kinds of programs and degrees that will best support your career goals.

Workshop 2: Financing Graduate School
Oct. 20, SRB 1st-floor SRB Muliti-Purpose Room, 3:30PM - 5:30PM Learn how to locate and identify graduate funding sources.
Sponsored by UCSB Chicana/o Studies Department , EOP, McNair Scholars Program and the UCSB Office of Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention For more information please contact Harold Salas-Kennedy at Harold.Kennedy@sa.ucsb.edu or 893-4758 www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/diversityoutreach/

Workshop 3: The Personal Statement
Nov. 3, SRB Multi-Purpose Room, 3:30PM - 5:30PM This workshop focuses on how to write your personal statement, an essential component of your graduate program application.

Workshop 4: Graduate School panel
Nov. 13, SRB Multi-Purpose Room, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Your questions about the grad school experience answered by the experts:
a panel of UCSB faculty and grad students.

SAVE THE DATE!
UCSB Graduate
& Professional School Day
Thursday November 6, 2008

UC Washington Center Program (UCDC) Informational Meetings

The Campus UCDC Office will be hosting an informational meeting before the October application deadline for the Winter 2009 program.

Thursday, October 2, 5:00 p.m., 1110 North Hall

Questions? Please contact the UCDC peer advisors at ucdc@Ltsc.ucsb.edu or 389-3090.

Annual Undergraduate Honors Colloquia
And
Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
10 am - 2 pm in the Dolores Huerta Gathering Room
South Hall 1623
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The First Annual Guerilla Digital Video Festival brought to you by:
Chicano Studies 162 & the Guerilla Video Collective
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Multicultural Center (MCC) Lounge 7:30pm
FREE EVENT

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The Acequia Institute, Instituto de la Acequia, is a private non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative research and education for environmental resilience and social justice in acequia farming communities of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion. The Institute exists to protect and promote the acequia institution as one of the oldest forms of local democratic self-government and to nurture traditional forms of regenerative agriculture. Acequia is offering three research fellowships for 08-09 at $2000 per fellow. Graduate students can download the application form at: www.acequiainstitute.org

UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program (AAP) – a multiracial, recruitment and retention program for undergraduates - honored 35 distinguished alumni as part of their 35th Anniversary Celebration (February 28, 2008).  The winners were recognized for their personal and professional achievements, their contributions to the community, and for exemplifying the values and philosophy of AAP: academic excellence and achievement.

Congratulations to two of our own faculty for receiving the honor: Horacio Roque Ramirez (1992 graduate) and Tara Yosso (1995 graduate)!

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Several of our graduate students are taking their show on the road!

2008 Ethnic Studies in California/Crossing Borders Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Berkeley (March 7-9, 2008)

Francisco Fuentes, “Theology from the Streets: Border Politics and the Racialization of Evangelicalism”

2008 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas (April 19-22, 2008)

William Calvo, “Driving the Streets of Aztlan: Lowriders and the Politics of
Chicana/o Cultural Production.”

Tomas Madrigal, “Forgotten Geographies: On Advancing the Collective Oral Histories, Personal Narratives And Memories Of The ‘Other’ United States and Mexico.”

Adrianna Santos, “Representations of Violence in Chicana Cultural Production: Alternative Spaces for Discourse, Cultural Implications and Potentials for Healing in Ana Castillo's So Far From God.”

Cristina Serna, “Museum Controversies and the Politics of Culture: Activist Art in the Public Museum.”

Undergraduate Luciana Gonzalez will make her academic debut, “Mother/Daughter Communication: Sexual Education and the Understanding of the Human Papillomavirus Among the Chicana/Latina Community.”