ISSS WEEKLY UPDATE FOR 9/2/2003

NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. CHANGE IN ADVISING WALK-IN SCHEDULE
   
2. ADDITIONAL CPT/OPT WORKSHOP: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
   
3. SMALL WORLD COFFEE HOUR: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
   
4. ATTENTION NATIVE NORWEGIAN-SPEAKING STUDENTS
   
5. ATTENTION NON-ROMANCE AND NON-GERMANIC LANGUAGE STUDENTS

REPEATED ANNOUNCEMENTS:

These are announcements from previous ISSS Weekly Updates. They are current and relevant to this week. To read the full text of each repeated announcement, please refer to the dates indicated below on the ISSS Weekly Update web page.

1. DIVERSITY LOTTERY (FOR U.S. PERMANENT RESIDENCE) (8/26/2003)
   
2. CHANGE IN WALK-IN HOURS FOR F-1 DOCUMENT SPECIALIST (8/19/2003)
   
3. ATTENTION GERMAN SPEAKING STUDENTS (8/19/2003)
   
4. J-DOCUMENT SPECIALIST WALK-INS ARE FINALLY BACK!!! (8/12/2003)
   
5. J-1s: NEW MINIMUM EXPENSES EXTENSIONS AND NEW DEPENDENT APPLICATIONS (8/5/2003)
   
6. J-1s: EARLY DEPARTURE (8/5/2003)NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. CHANGE IN ADVISING WALK-IN SCHEDULE

The fall 2003 semester F-1 and J-1 Advising Walk-in schedule is now available on the ISSS web site. Please refer to this schedule before coming to ISSS:

2. ADDITIONAL CPT/OPT WORKSHOP: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

An additional CPT/OPT Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, September 4, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in HHH 289. Attend one of these workshops to find out everything you need to know about Curricular and Optional Practical Training! Pick up the forms that you need, ask questions, and learn from your fellow students’ questions as well. Please see the ISSS career series web site for additional dates and workshop details.

3. SMALL WORLD COFFEE HOUR: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Welcome to new students and scholars! Welcome back to returning students and scholars!!! Small World Coffee Hour is a great opportunity to relax, see your old friends and meet new ones!

DO NOT miss our New Academic Year kick off event this Friday!!! ISSS and MISA will join efforts to put on a great outdoor Coffee Hour at Coffman Union. We will have delicious Mediterranean foods, coffee, tea, and we will celebrate rhythms and songs from around the world!!

We will also give away some terrific prizes, and have tons of info on how to make the best of your academic experience!! You CANNOT miss it!! Come join us this Friday!! Don’t forget to invite your friends!!
WHEN: Friday, September 5, 2003
TIME: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Fountain Terrace, 1st Floor of Coffman Union, Minneapolis, East Bank Campus

4. ATTENTION NATIVE NORWEGIAN-SPEAKING STUDENTS

A Culture Corps opportunity is now available to native Norwegian-speaking students to help compile a learners' dictionary for English-speaking students of Norwegian. Mature undergraduate or graduate students from Norway who are interested in helping develop and refine definitions and usage examples of Norwegian (preferably bokmål) words. An interest in linguistics or lexicography is preferred but by no means required. Contact Louis Janus, Coordinator, Less Commonly Taught Languages Project, CARLA,or 612-624-9016. Average time commitment 1-3 hours a week.

5. ATTENTION NON-ROMANCE AND NON-GERMANIC LANGUAGE STUDENTS

A Culture Corps opportunity is now available to an undergraduate who can work 20 hours per week during Fall Semester as a Teaching Assistant in Anthropology 3005: Language and Sociocultural Analysis. Applicants must speak, read and write a language that is non-Romance and non-Germanic. Command of a creole such as Sierra Leone, Cameroon Pidgin or Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin is particularly desirable, but not required. The job involves working individually and in small groups with students as they learn how to obtain and use linguistic data for social and cultural research. Contact Professor Tim Dunnigan, Department of Anthropology, 366 Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 612-624-0879.

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