Opportunities and Information for Honors Students
January 25, 2021
Message from Honors Director, Anne Dotter
Dear Honors students,
What better way to unite across differences than to learn about others to overcome our differences? This is what we are here for in the classroom, as I suggested last week, but not only! Much of your learning and growth will happen as you take on leadership roles and contribute to changing our campus by being actively engaged in one or more student groups.
This week is particularly rich in events giving you the opportunity to learn about clubs and organization you may not have known about (the Involvement Fair is on Wednesday!), learn from Prof. Easley-Giraldo about engaging in productive disagreement (Wednesday as well) and join us in pondering what our society may look like without violence (I will lead the discussion on Security Without Violence in America on Thursday).
In replacement of our Honors Hangout, I suggest that you hop on to the conversation with your peers in honors across the United States and make new friends of honors students in the Netherlands. The conversation will center on Global Leadership and Unsustainable Development Goals: if nothing else, this intriguing title promises a rich exchange!
Amanda Gorman’s inspirational words are an invitation to seize the many opportunities JCCC makes available to you be it in or out of the classroom. In The Hill we Climb, the poem she read at last week’s Presidential Inauguration, Gorman says:
We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man.
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us,
but what stands before us.
I hope that this week you will find many ways to get involved on campus and join forces with your peers to face what stands before us, united.
Be well and stay strong,
Anne
This Week in Honors:
- Student Sustainability Committee
The SSC has a few open spots! If you are enrolled in 6 credit hours you are eligible to join. This is a great opportunity to make our campus more environmentally sustainable. Click here for more details.
- Cavalier Leadership Program—2/2 @ 2:00 PM
Cavalier Leadership is a leadership program designed to empower students to be people of influence in their professional, academic, and personal lives. This is powered by a comprehensive curriculum, Collegiate Leadership Challenge. The Cavalier Leadership Program is through Canvas with weekly zoom meetings.
The first session will be held 2/2 at 2:00 PM. Click here to register. Contact Cassie Fulk at cfulk4@jccc.edu for questions.
- Welcome Center Now Hiring for Admissions Ambassador Positions
Are you interested in a position that would allow you to utilize and improve your public speaking, time management, and leadership skills? The Welcome Center is looking for students to join the Admissions Ambassadors team! Information regarding the positions and the application is available at careers.jccc.edu.
- Internship Opportunity: Mentor Coordinator-Global FC
Global FC is looking for a stipend-paid intern to help coordinate community service projects in Northeast KC. Click here for more details.
Mark your Calendars:
- Productive Disagreements: How to Have Civil Conversations—1/27 @ 2:00 PM
The International Education Office is hosting the Explore the World Global Speaker Series again this semester. Join in online as speakers from around the world discuss the hidden gems of various countries, present on changing landscapes of travel, and discuss what it means to be an international student.
RSVP to receive the link to this presentation.
- 1/27: Productive Disagreements: How to Have Civil Conversations
Dr. Terri Easley-Giraldo, professor of Communication Studies
With an incredibly polarized American society, disagreements can often lead to uncivil conversations and arguments. It is important to recognize people will not always agree with each other, but can still communicate respectfully and meaningfully.
- 2/3: JCCC Travelers: Hidden Gems in the Americas (Colombia, Canada, Jamaica)
- 2/17: JCCC Travelers: Hidden Gems in Europe (France, Switzerland, Germany)
- 2/24: Don’t Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: Finding Courage in Climate Crises
- 3/3: JCCC Travelers: Hidden Gems in Asia (Japan, Pakistan, India)
- 3/24: International Student Panel
- 4/7: JCCC Travelers: Hidden Gems in the Americas (Brazil, Mexico, Peru)
- 4/21: JCCC Travelers: Hidden Gems in Europe (Iceland, Russia, Albania)
- Security without Violence in America: A Roundtable Discussion—1/28 @ 12:30 PM
What does America look like when there is Security without Violence? How can we achieve this? Can we achieve this? Join us for a panel discussion on January 28th at 12:30 pm via zoom. This conversation will include such topics as the training of police officers, racial bias, white privilege, and security without violence, or what our societies may look like without the police as we know it. RSVP to receive the online link.
- Discussion on Global Leadership & the Unsustainable Development Goals—1/28 @ 3:00 PM
Hogeschool van Amsterdam is hosting a global online event as part of the Knowledge Café Global Leadership 2021 program and will include student participants from around the world. To participate, scan the QR code in the flyer below.
What is a Knowledge Café? “The Knowledge Café is a conversational process that brings a group of people together to share experiences, learn from each other, build relationships and make a better sense of a rapidly changing, complex, less predictable world to improve decision making, innovation, and the ways in which we work together.” David Gurteen, founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Café, http://knowledge.cafe/david-gurteen/.